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Originally Posted by DAlillama
I've had the opposite problem: When I explained the premise to some of my gamer acquaintances, I was told "But I'm not a Christian, why would I want to play something like that?"
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Well, that was how it turned out for me. A very well-regarded and generally excellent GM offered to run
In Nomine for a group of my friends. We bought the rules, generated characters, played. But it all seemed a bit strange and pointless.
The GM seemed to think that it mattered that our characters were
angels, and that our superior were archangels and servants of
God, and that it ought to be shocking that the angels had disagreements about how to go about opposing their enemies, and that some of them were pretty hard-core. The creepy multi-eyed police-state guy was supposed to be particularly...something. The rather low contrast was supposed to be...something. But we couldn't tell what. Just couldn't tell what the difference was supposed to be between our characters and superheros. We tried to find out. Couldn't. I think that doubting God's Plan, and doubting that angels are serving it was supposed to be...something. But if angels are just something you see on Christmas cards while you are trying to get lunch in a crowd of frenzied shoppers it doesn't work.
Suppose I ran a game in which the
Bosatu and the
Oni were represented as rather like rival
yakuza, and not so different as all that. It wouldn't be exciting and edgy. It'd just be weird and pointless.
I think that perhaps all the angel and demon stuff doesn't resonate right for non-Abrahamic players.