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Deon

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2008, 10:29:00 am »

Which story? I haven't read something abotu Cthulhu moving by Lovecraft.
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Re: State Religion
« Reply #16 on: February 16, 2008, 11:08:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Deon:
<STRONG>Which story? I haven't read something abotu Cthulhu moving by Lovecraft.</STRONG>


The flake that started the avalanche.

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #17 on: February 16, 2008, 11:19:00 am »

Just ask the C'tann for skeletal suits made out of metal. They won't eat your soul and make you annihilate entire planets, no-sir-ee.
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Re: State Religion
« Reply #18 on: February 18, 2008, 06:50:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by Ioric Kittencuddler:
<STRONG>If you shot off it's head would it turn into a giant psychotic blob that swallows everything?

[ February 15, 2008: Message edited by: Ioric Kittencuddler ]</STRONG>


You have to use -iron musket ball-s or better. Anything less will glance off.

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2008, 09:08:00 pm »

quote:
Originally posted by Ioric Kittencuddler:
<STRONG>If you shot off it's head would it turn into a giant psychotic blob that swallows everything?

[ February 15, 2008: Message edited by: Ioric Kittencuddler ]</STRONG>


I find this reference deliciously obscure.

I would love to see also big-ass wolves and boar demi-deities who turn into tentacle beasts while going insane when hit by iron-bullets.

[ February 18, 2008: Message edited by: Zemat ]

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2008, 09:12:00 pm »

quote:
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I find this reference deliciously obscure.
[ February 18, 2008: Message edited by: Zemat ]</STRONG>


Except pretty much everyone else in the thread got it.   Hi-five!

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2008, 11:46:00 pm »

Not everyone. Well, now not everyone.
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Re: State Religion
« Reply #22 on: February 19, 2008, 01:38:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Capntastic:
<STRONG>

Except pretty much everyone else in the thread got it.   Hi-five!</STRONG>


Well, that says more about this forum than anything else   :)

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #23 on: February 19, 2008, 10:24:00 am »

quote:
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Well, that says more about this forum than anything else    :)

[ February 19, 2008: Message edited by: Zemat ]</STRONG>



How?
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Re: State Religion
« Reply #24 on: February 19, 2008, 10:33:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Ioric Kittencuddler:
<STRONG>If you shot off it's head would it turn into a giant psychotic blob that swallows everything?</STRONG>

Miyazaki?

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2008, 10:36:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Skanky:
<STRONG>Not everyone. Well, now not everyone.</STRONG>

Princess Mononoke.  Good movie.

You'd need to blow it's head off with iron, of course.

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2008, 11:02:00 am »

When the Otaku are done, let's discuss the idea someone mentioned; I think that the state religion sounds very usable, perhaps by allowing the player to select a 'patron god' of the fortress.

Or, to take this idea in annother direction; perhaps the player can build and designate a 'shrine' room. Some advanced nobles would require private shrines, most dwarves would be happy with a great temple to their particular god. And, of course, temples could be built with particular features that modify the value to the dwarves and presumably to the gods.

I see a temple to a sea god detecting the presence of water in the temple and thus making it more valuable, especially if it is saltwater. A plant god shrine gets a bonus for trees, and a mineral or mining god shrine does best in a rough chamber with ore and gems in the walls.

How's that all sound?

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #27 on: February 19, 2008, 03:35:00 pm »

I think gods' spheres should depend on the environment of the dwarfs.
Dwarves living by the ocean will more probably have god of the water as their main deity, while those at volcanoes should worship god of fire.
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Re: State Religion
« Reply #28 on: February 19, 2008, 03:36:00 pm »

quote:
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I see a temple to a sea god detecting the presence of water in the temple and thus making it more valuable</STRONG>


I'a Dagon!!!

Sorry, I've seen a lot of people making Lovecraft references lately, and I have to beat them to the punch.

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Re: State Religion
« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2008, 03:43:00 pm »

quote:
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<STRONG>while those at volcanoes should worship god of fire</STRONG>

We can only hope for for Moloch, God of Fire.

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