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From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: RuneQuest(tm) Cults Wanted
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It's pretty easy to design your own.  Cults of Prax is rather
Glorantha-specific anyway.  You do not need to write up a cult in as
detailed a fashion as recommended in order to play it, particularly since
beginning characters will be only lay members.  The proverbial "half a page
of scribbled lines" will do for a start.  This gives you plenty of time to
flesh a religion out as you go along.  It is also easy to use real-world
religions that you know about as RQ religions.

The most common problem in designing a religion for RQ is excessive
complexity, with tons of different grades and offices and so on.  Real
religions do have this complexity, but it makes for bad play.  If you do a
complete write-up on a cult, try to cut it to two-thirds size or less after
you finish.
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Tim Maroney, Software Designer, CMU Center for Art and Technology
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