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Re: Is the Book of Unlife "canon" for Cidri?
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In order from low to high, we ranked these self-aware Mana beings as: Elementals, Lesser Demons, Greater Demons, Lesser Gods, and Greater Gods in that order. Only a couple of the Lesser Gods made cameo appearances as NPCs -- we kept the Greater Gods pretty far in the background. The Greater Gods could be entreated by the pious to grant small blessings (+1 on a roll if the prayer was successful) or small curses (-1 on a roll if the prayer was successful). Piety itself was a 1 point talent. Priests and particularly the High Priest of any given Greater God could invoke bigger "favors" -- they could cast divinely powered "spells" paid for out of the deity's own Mana. This required a 4d6 roll against the cleric's Karma stat (KA), with the penalty for each missed roll being a cumulative -1 KA adjustment on all future KA rolls until certain rituals or penance had been performed to lift the penalty. And some of the Greater Gods were jealous of each other. If you had more worshipers than the next god (the larger "standing wave" re-enforcing that spirit), then you had more power (the larger Mana stat). This of course gave a couple of these Greater Gods the motive to order their followers to eliminate the worshipers of their competition, which was a starting point for many of the adventures our PCs had to play out and survive. Damn, those were good times!
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05-21-2022, 04:09 PM | #22 |
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Re: Is the Book of Unlife "canon" for Cidri?
And to answer the question directly, yes, it is canon.
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