[Discuss] Another Take on Religion

[Lyman Stone]

> Maybe we should just abandon it.
>
> I'll tell you why. It's not a gameplay reason, it's psychology.  
> Very few
> of us can really "feel" what religion meant to someone of the time.
> We've grown up and live in a post-enlightenment world, and the view on
> religion is _the_ major difference.
>
>
> So, instead of badly simulating something that we can't really relate
> to, maybe we should go one step further into the "fantasy"  
> direction and
> postulate that the BM world is post-enlightenment as well?

Most people can't really grasp the feudal structure either, but that  
doesn't mean we should abandon it.

I have personally found at least three characters out there with  
players behind them who REALLY seem to get the religion feature. I  
dunno who their players are, and they're not the only ones I've had  
contact with, just the most frequent. Maladek Arn, the leader of the  
Way of the Warrior Saints in Eston does an excellent job. I keep  
Onliana in that religion partly just for the sheer pleasure of  
reading Maladek's proclamations. Also, the character Plagueis, from  
Heen, seems to really get it, as do the characters Sendan and Renan  
(played by the same player). To me, it seems that, if every religion  
has even ONE person who really gets it, really RPs it and understands  
it, and really enjoys it... it's worth keeping.


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