Having religion within any game to me automatically makes the game a little more interesting (so long as it's not just black and white). With FFXIV having 12 gods I can't wait to see the lore behind all of them and how SE will incorporate them into the game.
Will there be religious wars between countries/cites/races?
Will each of the gods offer something that the other doesn't?
What are the moral positions of each of the gods? are some good,evil or neutral?
There's plenty of interesting rp idea's that can be used using gods but I guess we'll just have to wait till more lore comes out.
A long time ago I played a game called "DarkAges" and out of all the mmo's I've played I think they had the most interactive and interesting religious system. I won't go into too much detail but the game consisted of 8 gods, all of which represented a certain aspect such as war, death, compassion etc etc. Anyway you as a player had the choice to choose one of the gods to worship and by doing so you gained their blessings. Of course it wasn't just as simple go into their temple and get a buff, you had to go through a role-playing system and attend mass (which was could last up to 30 min or more) or donate to the temple to gain faith and then through faith you gained certain abilities that the god you worshiped granted to you.
Now I'm not expecting FFXIV to be as intricate as that but it be neat to see if SE will make religion within FFXIV more interactive then just saying I'm a follower of said god.
Only con I see to this is if one gods become more popular then another just because of whatever buff or reason they give, people would just flock to that god to take advantage of the game mechanic instead of the rp.
As for a general consensus within our rp group and other rp groups I agree with Laychield in the idea that everyone's going to have different idea's or make up their own story or gods (depending on the lore).
All I know about that is if I run into someone's religion that is contradicting to the lore I won't be saying anything against it but will rp out Klare's thoughts depending on how believable it is.
Anyway, as far as Klare goes with religion she won't be giving any type of worship to any of the gods since in her eyes they didn't do squat for her when she was growing up in the streets.
Will be fun to rp her running into one though if it's part of the FFXIV storyline.
Will there be religious wars between countries/cites/races?
Will each of the gods offer something that the other doesn't?
What are the moral positions of each of the gods? are some good,evil or neutral?
There's plenty of interesting rp idea's that can be used using gods but I guess we'll just have to wait till more lore comes out.
A long time ago I played a game called "DarkAges" and out of all the mmo's I've played I think they had the most interactive and interesting religious system. I won't go into too much detail but the game consisted of 8 gods, all of which represented a certain aspect such as war, death, compassion etc etc. Anyway you as a player had the choice to choose one of the gods to worship and by doing so you gained their blessings. Of course it wasn't just as simple go into their temple and get a buff, you had to go through a role-playing system and attend mass (which was could last up to 30 min or more) or donate to the temple to gain faith and then through faith you gained certain abilities that the god you worshiped granted to you.
Now I'm not expecting FFXIV to be as intricate as that but it be neat to see if SE will make religion within FFXIV more interactive then just saying I'm a follower of said god.
Only con I see to this is if one gods become more popular then another just because of whatever buff or reason they give, people would just flock to that god to take advantage of the game mechanic instead of the rp.
As for a general consensus within our rp group and other rp groups I agree with Laychield in the idea that everyone's going to have different idea's or make up their own story or gods (depending on the lore).
All I know about that is if I run into someone's religion that is contradicting to the lore I won't be saying anything against it but will rp out Klare's thoughts depending on how believable it is.
Anyway, as far as Klare goes with religion she won't be giving any type of worship to any of the gods since in her eyes they didn't do squat for her when she was growing up in the streets.
Will be fun to rp her running into one though if it's part of the FFXIV storyline.
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