[Churchofgaming] Lev's away, what to play?

Fri Jun 24 02:56:50 UTC 2011

Jay this seems to fit:

Alignment:
Free Souls
Free Souls are very rare in an age were the gods manifest obvious power
over the world. The philosopher Astorthed is the most famous of the Free
Souls and is was he who first coined the term. Free Souls have no formal
organisation. They vary in their ethos from those who simply have not
decided who to support, to knee-jerk individualists, to those who debate
the right of gods to reign over free willed souls just because the gods
have power. Most keep quiet about their lack of allegiance because most
inhabitants of the world regard people without gods to guide them as
untrustworthy, unpredictable, and bad luck. This alignment is a good
choice for a loner, intellectual, or perennial underdog. Free souls have
no priests, nor path. When divine intervention occurs it is usually
hostile to the Free Soul. Any divine spell with a beneficial effect will
never affect a Free Soul. A Free Soul cannot use action dice for
Narrative Control. A Free Soul gains one addition action die.
Three methods, three values
Methods: deductive logic, self-reliance, fall back on friendships
Values: Freedom, Knowledge, Friendship

Paths, Alignment Skills, Ritual Weapon, Flavour and Avatar
The free souls have no gods to grant them miracles and there seems to be
no cosmic force that will provide miracles for the godless. Therefore
there are no divine spellcasters among the free souls and the alignment
has no avatar.
Relations with other Alignments
Time Serpent (allied)
The followers of the Serpent and the Free Souls are generally content to
ignore each other. The Serpent is mostly content to let the world unfold
until the end of time comes. Even the most philosophical of the Free
Souls find little reason to oppose this distant god. On occasion the two
alignments work together against the meddling of the other faiths.
First gods (opposed)
The First gods are tyrants who would strike down any who deny them, rise
up, rise up against the tyrants.
Shhh!, you fool we must be careful to survive when They hunt us.
Young Gods (neutral)
The Young Gods seek to bring Free Souls over rather than punish their
insolence as the First gods do. As long as a Free Soul can withstand
prosthetising by those who follow the Young Gods the two alignments can
work together.
Cold Tyrant (opposed)
The Cold Tyrant seeks to rule us all as His slaves! 
Burning Lords (neutral)
Many desperate Free Souls find themselves consorting with revolutionary
cults of the Burning Lords when they oppose the influence of First Gods
or the Tyrant. Both question the authority of the First and Young Gods
but relations can be strained when the Burning Lords ask for every more
chaos.
Demands of Faith
None, free souls are portrayed as without obligation to deities' or the
ceremonies and values of a community. Therefore they are seen as
unguided and potentially dangerous. In reality Free Souls are a varied
group many of whom feel deep obligations to those they know or some
unconventional goal.

<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Jay Superfluous [superfluos at gmail.com]
>Sent: 6/23/2011 10:53:52 AM
>To: churchofgaming at rpgreview.net
>Subject: Re: [Churchofgaming] Lev's away, what to play?
>
>On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Carl Brown <catodon at whale-mail.com>
wrote:
>> Here is a little blurb about golems (Unborn) I wrote for my world.
>>
>> Unborn, Walking Idols
>> The unborn are statues given life. The presence of walking idols in
temples
>> and city streets is a reminder that the gods are active in the world.
Given
>> the divine spark of life by the gods the intention is that the unborn
serves
>> a temple. Stone and bronze endure though and over long decades many
unborn
>> develop motivations beyond service; time is a riddle the gods cannot
solve.
>> Some players might imagine intricate clockwork or other mechanisms
but these
>> do not exist in these Ancient times. The unborn of the mythic age
rely on
>> magic alone for movement. The most common golem in this Ancient age
is not
>> the steel golem. An unborn without a species feat is a bronze golem.
Note
>> being made of bronze they are immune to rusting.
>> Special Construction Clockwork is not allowed in this world.
>> While Unborn do not age they do gain from experience and experience
wear and
>> tear and erosion.
>>
>> <-----Original Message----->
>>>From: Jay Superfluous [superfluos at gmail.com]
>>>Sent: 6/22/2011 8:50:01 AM
>>>To: churchofgaming at rpgreview.net
>>>Subject: Re: [Churchofgaming] Lev's away, what to play?
>>>
>>>On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Liz Bowman
><eyebowman at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Ah, screw it. I meant Fantasycraft, not Runequest. Fantasy, runes,
>runes,
>>>> fantasy...
>>>>
>>>> Leave me alone to write my thesis and kill myself with cheese
>overdose...
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: eyebowman at hotmail.com
>>>> To: churchofgaming at rpgreview.net
>>>> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:26:31 +1000
>>>> Subject: Re: [Churchofgaming] Lev's away, what to play?
>>>>
>>>> Always with the freaking whales and ravens...
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, yep Runequest sounds good. I'll play whatever.
>>>>
>>>> Liz
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: catodon at whale-mail.com
>>>> To: churchofgaming at rpgreview.net
>>>> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:02:02 -0700
>>>> Subject: Re: [Churchofgaming] Lev's away, what to play?
>>>>
>>>> Or a dog with bees in its mouth!
>>>>
>>>> Species
>>>> All can be PCs all have sub-species, some odd, and your culture is
>>>> important
>>>> too:
>>>>
>>>> Drake/Dragon
>>>> Dwarf
>>>> Elf/Godling
>>>> Giant
>>>> Goblin/Boggle
>>>> Human
>>>> Ogre/Troll/Oni
>>>> Orc
>>>> Pech (Halfling/Gnome etc.)
>>>> Walking Tree
>>>> Raven (it's me after all)
>>>> Golems
>>>> Lizard Folk
>>>> And Undead
>>>> OK undead isn't a technically a species so if I want I can add
>>>> whales or
>>>> whatever later
>>>> Also lone oddities are sometimes made by meddling gods but these
are
>>>> treated
>>>> with suspicion at best.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Sounds interesting, I'm up for it. 12 different species, eh? I
>want to
>>>>>play a swarm of bees!
>>>>>
>>>>>Jay
>>>>>
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>>>Okay, Carl, generate me a Golem. I'm feeling rather mechanical today.
>>>
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>
>Okay, a bronze golem is fine. Perhaps one who has had a crisis of
>faith due to its temple being destroyed. PTSD
>(post-temple-separation-disorder).
>
>Jay
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