Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site ttds.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!enea!ttds!euren From: euren@ttds.UUCP (Leif Euren) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: PCs vs Gods (reposted) Message-ID: <820@ttds.UUCP> Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 09:16:00 EST Article-I.D.: ttds.820 Posted: Wed Jan 30 09:16:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Feb-85 03:17:23 EST References: <2400083@uokvax.UUCP> <3429@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: euren@ttds.UUCP (Leif Euren) Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm Lines: 29 Summary: In article <3429@ucla-cs.ARPA> srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner) writes: : > You may decide to base your Ghods' powers on their number of worshippers, >their place in the pantheon or something like that. But the moment you >limit their powers they are no longer gods in the traditional sense. They're >just powerful monsters people happen to worship. Might as well worship the >toughest NPC wizard for that matter. He can provide the same benefits. I >think you lose something from your game with this approach. I think You are very wrong here. Of course I can have mistaken Your meaning of 'traditional'. Surely there are traditions about JHV, God and Allah, and they (or is it just one and same?) are all-powerful, as we know them. But to the me there are also the tradition of the Asa-gods (i.e. the Norse mythos), the belive in which this country was converted from just some 1000 years ago. Now, this mythos contain among others the story about Balder, how he accidently was killed by a human with an non-magical arrow (though with some 'help' from Loke). And Thor was NOT immune to the simple illusions cast on him by Trym, the giant. I would say that these gods were not all-powerful but are indeed traditional. The best way to handle PC's killing gods, is to have them sucked into the 'vacuum' thus created on the outer plane. There they have to take up the gods fallen mantle, or die because of lack of worshippers, and also risk the wrath of other gods (who then are on their home-ground). Leif Euren euren@ttds!enea!mcvax!seismo...