@Strange
Yes this is trying to model bigotry and faith clash. it does a very good job I think. It's trying to answer the questions just like in game 'what happens if a Hindu priest blesses a devout Catholic', 'what happens if the recipient is an atheist'...
Step1: Priest invokes Miracle
Step2: Receipiant chooses to accept miracle or not
Step3: Faith is used. The Priests if the recipient hasn't got any, otherwise the recipients
Step4: If there is spiritual conflict we resolve it as spiritual damage
In the example of the blessing IC, here is one way you can RP what happens. There are other ways you can describe the game play: rather like the classic story of blind people trying to describe an elephant that they have felt one part of
Faith of recipient | What they do | Result |
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Catholic | Follow the precept of their religion and reject the blessing | Nothing |
Catholic | Go against the precepts of their religion and accept the blessing | Their God Smites them, but they are blessed |
Polytheist | Accept the blessing | They are blessed |
Polytheist | Reject the blessing | Social only: The same as slapping away a hand that had been offered to help them |
Atheist | Reject the blessing | They piss off the god. He blesses them to prove he exists, and their brain can't handle it |
Agnostic (no faith) | Reject the blessing | Social only: The same as slapping away a hand that had been offered to help them |
Agnostic (no faith) | Accept the blessing | The priest uses his own faith (at minuses). If the result is spectacular, the religious experience is so intense that perhaps the Agnostic realises that God is real |
This message was last edited by the player at 05:43, Sat 11 July 2020.