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[Rifts] Religion in the kitchen sink

Started by Bloody Stupid Johnson, July 12, 2012, 08:28:44 PM

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Panzerkraken

#30
July 18, 2012, 06:16:31 PM
Quote from: James Gillen;560594I don't think RIFTS mixes well with Christianity anyway.  If Jesus was a Mega-Damage creature he couldn't have been crucified.

JG

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Dan Davenport

#31
July 20, 2012, 10:44:54 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;559959Outside of In Nomine and CoC, how many RPGs have really tackled modern day religions?

The Judeo-Christian God is a literal reality in the WitchCraft/Armageddon setting. (Granted, so are the pagan deities, but they are lesser entities than the capital-G God.)

Seventh Seal goes a step further and presents an explicitly Christian cosmology.

Just a couple of examples. The fact that there are so few examples illustrates your point, of course.
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Opaopajr

#32
July 21, 2012, 10:11:59 AM Last Edit: July 21, 2012, 10:17:42 AM by Opaopajr
Ones I have that I know deal with this subject: Seventh Seal, In Nomine, Heaven & Hell, (entertainingly) Fantasy Imperium

Freebies, or used to be: Children of Fire (this one interests me, can't attest for the rest), Claymore (set in the 41st century!), Spiritual Warfare: the RPG (available via RPGNow, Golgotha press, IIRC)

An intriguing self-published one, Orthodox perspective?: The Minstrel's Song

Apparently an established one from Sweden, used in Youth Groups?: The Way
closest website I can get right now...
http://www.rollspel.com/engelsk/way.htm

as reviewed on the big purple (apparently one of the more prominent up & comers): Holy Lands RPG
and it has a big NPC random table supplement! shweet! I think I'll use this, actually.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98073280/Holy-Lands-RPG-Random-Things

And the great granddaddy of them all: Dragonraid
http://www.dragonraid.net/info

Collecting subculture/parallel culture is sort of a hobby of mine, so this was sorta simmering on the back burner. Currently I'm curious in Islamic or other religious sub/parallel culture RPGs. Found quite a few Islamic comics already, along with a Native American manga/comic, so one day too I will find this as well.

Enjoy!

Edit: I also own Kult, but that's sorta like Gnosticism in a blender RPG. Kinda sorta works, kinda sorta doesn't.
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James Gillen

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July 22, 2012, 01:50:41 AM
Quote from: Panzerkraken;561624It wasn't a MD world then, it was before the nuclear war.  On the Second Coming now...

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