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From: jmbay@Stanford.EDU
TedJMill@Mindspring.com (Theodore Jay Miller) writes:
>"Thore \"Tocis\" Schmechtig" wrote in message
news:<2oqro7Fddm4oU7@uni-berlin.de>...
>> Harlan Osier wrote:
>>
>> > character points should He have ? Does He have 1000 points ???
>> > Probably the Apostles should have 200 and the Roman soldiers 50...
>>
>> as one prime disadvantage.
>> After all, lies _are_ the core of christian belief and doctrine.
>If that's what you believe, that's your business, however it's
>a rather pointless comment in the context of a game write-up.
>The idea would be to write up Jesus as portrayed in Christian
>religion, regardless of whether someone believes that portrayal
>is true in the real world, the same way one would write up a
>fictional or mythological character as portrayed in the fiction
>or mythology.
Actually it might be as interesting, if not more so, to leave
it an open question, choosing for game mechanic purposes either
Divine Favor or a bunch of psi or magic powers (plus an appropriate
Delusion -- if other people think it's untrue and react negatively,
it should still be worth points whether or not it's true). Let
the player be unsure of his success, or even of his actual role:
is he supposed to drive Rome out of Judea? Convert Gentiles?
Reform the practice of Judaism? Build good quality furniture
and observe religious laws? Who knows? It should be tough, though.
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