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 Was rereading my copy of RQ6 when it struck  me the rules for animism would work very well for an Exorcist in a late Medieval to modern game. Granted an Exorcist will not often bind evil demons for future use but he could ask Angels and good spirits for favors. Was wondering if idea has occurred to anyone else or maybe even tried it.

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The Merrie England book has Christainity portrayed quite well. It is currently available as a BRP edition, although the earlier one was for MRQ so porting to RQ6 from that is simple. Even so, the BRP version is pretty easy to convert.

If just using RQ6 corebook, yes I think you could easily build a medieval priest using a mixture of Theism and Animism. The majority of clergy would just be scribes, with a few having access to blessings through Theisism, but perhaps specialists called 'Spiritualists' may use Animism to deal with spirits. 

The concept of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit almost ties Theism to Animism, rather than having distinct segregations.

 

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 I was thinking of how an Exorcist would use the trance skill( perhaps called prayer or ritual  ) skill to find out if Demons are present. And then using binding skill to enter spirit combat to exorcise the Demon. Im looking at exorcism as a good example of what spirit combat would look like, instead of two guys rolling dice.

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19 hours ago, Mankcam said:

The Merrie England book has Christainity portrayed quite well. It is currently available as a BRP edition, although the earlier one was for MRQ so porting to RQ6 from that is simple. Even so, the BRP version is pretty easy to convert.

 

Unfortunately, it is not currently available for BRP, or so I believe/ It will be available for Revolution D100, though.

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22 hours ago, Mankcam said:

The concept of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit almost ties Theism to Animism, rather than having distinct segregations.

This is a gross misunderstanding of the Trinity. Not to get into a trolling fight over religion but the dogma of the Trinity has nothing even close to do with Animism.

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3 hours ago, auyl said:

This is a gross misunderstanding of the Trinity. Not to get into a trolling fight over religion but the dogma of the Trinity has nothing even close to do with Animism.

Purely from a roleplaying pseudo-mythological point of view, I thought the Holy Trinity concept could be portrayed as the Divinity being distilled into separate conceptual avatars, the Father (Divine), Son (Mortal Bond through The Savior), and Holy Spirit (Essence). That's very broad brush strokes.

Conceptually one could possibly view Essence akin to Animism (without the pagan trappings) just for purposes of explaining miracles associated with dealing with Spirits and the like. I'm still sitting on the fence whether it would be a good fit rather than just having Theism explain the whole concept, as it is a very loose interpretation of Animism. Personally I wouldn't make the distinction myself, and I would just use Theism to explain it all.

With the Holy Trinity concept currently existing in contemporary Catholic theology, it may be best to steer clear of such discussions in case of inadvertently offending someone who feels that their current belief system is being trivialised or bastardised for the sake of gaming purposes.

Sorry if I may have already done so; it was not my intention.

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3 minutes ago, Mankcam said:

Purely from a roleplaying pseudo-mythological point of view, I thought the Holy Trinity concept could be portrayed as the Divinity being distilled into separate conceptual avatars, the Father (Divine), Son (Mortal Bond through The Savior), and Holy Spirit (Essence). That's very broad brush strokes.

Conceptually one could possibly view Essence akin to Animism (without the pagan trappings) just for purposes of explaining miracles associated with dealing with Spirits and the like. I'm still sitting on the fence whether it would be a good fit rather than just having Theism explain the whole concept, as it is a very loose interpretation of Animism. Personally I wouldn't make the distinction myself, and I would just use Theism to explain it all.

With the Holy Trinity concept currently existing in the contemporary Catholic theology, it may be best to steer clear of such discussions in case of inadvertently offending someone who feels that their current belief system is being trivialised or bastardised for the sake of gaming purposes.

Sorry if I may have already done so, it was not my intention.

I don't get offended by such statements I just am quick to try and correct some ideas brought up about the Christian faith. They way its been handled as Theism is ok for me and so I usually just leave it at that.

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