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[wallish]

Well hey Toady, if you want a nice resource for various religions (better than wikipedia, anyways) go to godchecker.com

They've got almost EVERYTHING.

[Fenrir]

quote:Originally posted by Keilden:
<STRONG>Oh holy carp. Just thougt if dwarfs will start declaring random objects as holy and if somthing happens to their holy object everyone will go tantrum.</STRONG>

Worse, your god tantrums!

[TheSilverHammer]

I think it would be really cool if you could choose a god for your fort, and that religion might be more important to other civs then race is.   IE:  If you worship the same god as the goblins, they might like you (even trade), where as some Dwarf cities might hate you as a heretic.  It would be even more interesting that if your city was evil aligned and prospered that it would really boost other evil cities in the area, ie: goblin armies equipped with fine dwarven weapons and armor.

Regions can have a 'god influence' factor instead of just 'haunted' or 'calm'.  If the undead god has a strong hold then that might be what 'haunted' is now.   So when picking a fort location you have to take into consideration the deity influences (there can be more then one).   A strong fort of an opposing religion will lessen the opposing influence and improve the favorable one.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

quote:Originally posted by Balathustrius:
<STRONG>

A world with demonstrable gods would probably be pretty short on atheists, and a world in which multiple gods made their presence known would probably be short on monotheists.  Right?

</STRONG>

You'd think that, right?

But I guess that would suggest that, in a world where no god made its presence explicity known, there wouldn't be any sort of religious presence.

Oops, did I just troll?

[Keilden]

quote:Originally posted by Fenrir:
<STRONG>
Worse, your god tantrums!</STRONG>

Or the local priest declare goblins to be holy right befor a invasion.

Arak Nazzhug Cancels Fight Goblin: Kneeling.

[Guy]

quote:Originally posted by Tahin:
<STRONG>I'd like to see it where gods are nothing more than a belief system, and make no appearance. They may or may not exist, but some people believe in them and others don't.

EDIT/ADDITION: The only place where it would have any affect is in people's culture and philosophy. A being that believes he will go to heaven when he dies is more likely to fight and die valiantly than an atheist, for instance.

[ January 03, 2008: Message edited by: Tahin ]</STRONG>

There are several things I like about this.  A lot of games (especially roguelikes) treat gods and religion as just a source of spells and stat bonuses.  I would like to see the gods and their worship be an aspect woven into the cultures of the DF world.  What religions the dwarves or elves or ratmen or whatever should say something about their culture.

(Just so people know, I'm not an atheist.  Just saying so people know my biases incase something comes up later.)

[myd]

Excellent! Maybe artifacts from your fortress will feature images of your deity and become the center of wars and worship. The possibilities are making me shiver in anticipation.

[Sowelu]

No matter how 'real' the gods turn out to be in DF, I think I'll be happy.  There aren't enough low-power games in the world, and all high-power games seem to do things in a different and interesting way.  The only real important bit is how the gods all interact, IMO, the game mechanics are kinda just frosting really.  Looking forwards to it!

[frostedfire]

hmm, I wonder how we are going to construct the sacrificial altars now? I'm almost done on the one at my ice palace too, just gotta rig up the altar to drop victims into a small pit filled with blade traps  

[Nesoo]

quote:A being that believes he will go to heaven when he dies is more likely to fight and die valiantly than an atheist, for instance.

Right, because we all know that there are no atheists in foxholes  :roll:

[Railick Stonemane]

It'd be cool if you could engrave images of gods into items for diffrent effects based on the god and what he is the patron of. For example engraving the symbol of beer god onto a barrel will allow it to hold twice as much beer ? Engraving the god of protection onto a piece of armor could make it more protective ect.

[Reign on your Parade]

quote:Originally posted by Tahin:
<STRONG>A being that believes he will go to heaven when he dies is more likely to fight and die valiantly than an atheist, for instance.
</STRONG>

I'm offended. As an atheist, I can quite truthfully say that there are quite a number of things I would be willing to die for.

[subject name here]

Why can't anyone discuss religion in a computer game without people trying to fag it up with an anti/pro-religion flamewar?

[Red Jackard]

Because we can't have nice things.

[Balathustrius]

"Fag it up?"  Now I am really offended!

Kidding.  =)  Say, are there going to be gay dwarves at some point?