Excellent video and discussion! I feel in a very similar way as due to my Christian worldview. In regards to clerics, with the game I run all of my PC clerics are based off of the various monastic orders of the Catholic Church...complete with the obligations of oath, tithes, penance confession and etc. failure to play along these lines will result in the loss of the PCs "God Given" powers until one does due penance and goes back to the good ol' straight and narrow. Also, I don't do clerical "spells" as such....I refer to them as prayers. The cleric has access to every one listed in the book appropriate for their level. I use a point system....the idea of spells/prayers being memorized x amount of times never made much sense to me. Anyhooze before I get too much off base, I feel that very real "good and evil" should be present in games as it is in the real world.
@@stevefugatt7075 Cleric "spells" for my flavor are sort of like reading Scripture or Creeds, especially if they find a Clerical spell scroll in the dungeon or something along those lines. Typically, I only establish one in game religion, and it'll typically be a very broad synopsis of universal Christian doctrine, minus the Holy Trinity (I'm not willing to attempt to trivialize such a wonderous, mysterious, and Holy doctrine to game mechanics). My favorite thing is to come up with fictional saints for the religion. St Thomes Dery is a recurring saint in my games. I typically let the players draft their own religion if they wish not to use The Church of Hevrion, but I usually let them know that it is the dominant religion, since almost all humans are believers. But, that's an aside. I LOVE the concept of Clerics being specialized warriors against demons, devils, and death. This is an OBVIOUSLY Holy-themed concept, and such a person would be classified as a Lawful or Good individual if such things existed IRL.
First, Bro, you're exactly right...100%! Being both well-read and well-grounded in your Biblical worldview is really cool to hear! And, this also goes hand-in-hand with the fact that there are evil monsters/races in gaming, or should be. And without that, what in the dadgum world are you even doing! Great video by the way! 👊🤓☝️
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Excellent video and discussion! I feel in a very similar way as due to my Christian worldview. In regards to clerics, with the game I run all of my PC clerics are based off of the various monastic orders of the Catholic Church...complete with the obligations of oath, tithes, penance confession and etc. failure to play along these lines will result in the loss of the PCs "God Given" powers until one does due penance and goes back to the good ol' straight and narrow. Also, I don't do clerical "spells" as such....I refer to them as prayers. The cleric has access to every one listed in the book appropriate for their level. I use a point system....the idea of spells/prayers being memorized x amount of times never made much sense to me. Anyhooze before I get too much off base, I feel that very real "good and evil" should be present in games as it is in the real world.
@@stevefugatt7075 Cleric "spells" for my flavor are sort of like reading Scripture or Creeds, especially if they find a Clerical spell scroll in the dungeon or something along those lines. Typically, I only establish one in game religion, and it'll typically be a very broad synopsis of universal Christian doctrine, minus the Holy Trinity (I'm not willing to attempt to trivialize such a wonderous, mysterious, and Holy doctrine to game mechanics). My favorite thing is to come up with fictional saints for the religion. St Thomes Dery is a recurring saint in my games. I typically let the players draft their own religion if they wish not to use The Church of Hevrion, but I usually let them know that it is the dominant religion, since almost all humans are believers. But, that's an aside.
I LOVE the concept of Clerics being specialized warriors against demons, devils, and death. This is an OBVIOUSLY Holy-themed concept, and such a person would be classified as a Lawful or Good individual if such things existed IRL.
@@007ohboy outta here with your evil worldview. Rapists pleasure themselves in the suffering of others. Touch grass, dimwit.
First, Bro, you're exactly right...100%! Being both well-read and well-grounded in your Biblical worldview is really cool to hear!
And, this also goes hand-in-hand with the fact that there are evil monsters/races in gaming, or should be. And without that, what in the dadgum world are you even doing!
Great video by the way! 👊🤓☝️