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What about channeling options?

I mean instead of saying you get this ability X times per day, you could say that you get this ability spell if you burn a X level spell on it....

Fabio_MP wrote:What about channeling options?

I mean instead of saying you get this ability X times per day, you could say that you get this ability spell if you burn a X level spell on it....

Too distant from classic sources for my own tastes, plus I'd like to keep reference to other supplemens at a minimum.

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Bumping: did anyone else try this out?
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artikid

I haven't had a chance to use it yet, and I'm not likely to (because of late I've sort of settled on the idea that henotheism is not something that tends to actually happen very much in polytheist religions, their priesthood tend to be priests of all the gods, even those affiliated mainly with one), but I have given it a look through and it seems entirely solid to me for people that go that route and if I were to give henotheist clerics another shot, or introduce clerics that represent different religious traditions entirely, I'd definitely keep this on the back burner for that purpose.

In fact I'd say that, barring any sudden mathematical problems, it's ready for primetime entirely and Solo should speedily add it to the main downloads page.

Just as a point of passing interest... in my original, oldest campaign, the theory that each cleric is devoted to one god was pretty much standard. That's how the game materials of the time were written... I just, um, took it on faith that they were right.

Of course, I learned later in life about the more common nature of pantheistic religions. We still play in that world, though I've allowed the original campaign group to pass into legend; somewhere along the line, followers of the various gods in the most civilized region got together and had a convention, and from that was born the Triune Church, which does in fact venerate all the gods of the pantheon, but places three, the gods of Life, Justice, and Wisdom at the top.

There are still many who follow other traditions, which makes for some interesting situations sometimes, especially when they know they are worshiping the same gods but in different fashions.

I was just thinking about this on my way home from work.

Within a single pantheon system, the lay people more often than not would worship the lot - or at least ask all of them for blessings related to their divine portfolios.

That does not preclude a system where each deity has a dedicated temple/priesthood. A Pantheonic system could easily support deity-specific priests. Likewise, mortals may favor (or be favored) by specific gods - and spurned by others. Greek mythology contains some of these aspects.

Now while specific temples may be dedicated to one deity, that does not preclude a a common high temple of the pantheon (something like.. oh, a parthenon?). It may also be more pragmatic to have adventuring priests be for the whole pantheon, while temple priests are deity specific.


That said, this would still be useful for creating different flavors of cleric to fit different settings, or for different cultures in your campaign.

Hi, sorry for the thread necromancy.
As this has not received any comments would anybody object to my moving it to the showcase?
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artikid

artikid wrote:Hi, sorry for the thread necromancy.
As this has not received any comments would anybody object to my moving it to the showcase?
cheers
artikid

The intent of the Showcase Section is that the more prolific writers/developers (such as yourself) can self-publish on the BFRPG site. Since Solomoriah gave you such permissions, if you feel it should be there, then so be it.

And it's up!