RE: DI

[Daniel Lawrence <dan@aquest.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From:	Wright Frazier [SMTP:khelek@ns1.cioe.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, June 23, 1998 8:33 AM
To:	Steve Ames
Cc:	gmlist@ns1.cioe.com
Subject:	Re: DI


*nod* as do I.  I like a pantheon that doesn't make its presence
known, but still leaves reason for the aethist to doubt.
I also like the notion that if a god is going to put in an 'appearence'
he is going to do it in a vision, dream, a 'feeling', or a coincidence.
Only in the most dire of circumstances when something the god truely
and deeply cares about(like his matrix of matrix gems) is on the line
should he show up.

And I have had them show up in person often? When most recently? I wonder at your misconceptions. And I wonder at how you've missed when adventures have misused
There calls how the dieties involved have made things unpleasent for them.

Reaction rolls, hate'em.  They always screw you.  If you've been
loyal and devote, this is your way out...hmmm..bad rhyme there.  If
you've been rather candy ass about your worship, then you get dick.
This also prevents folks from calling out to Orus just cause they
know he has a general tendency to ask "What do you really want, and
if you say 'life', 9 times out of 10, you live." 

Wright

The reaction roll has always just been a modifier on the situation. However now since
The GM has nothing to start from it becomes his personal opinion of the piousness
Of the devotee. If you believe, as I do, in my ability to be impartial in this matter I will
Happily drop the reaction roll.

And as far as Orus is concerned... I say bull. I've run those things. You can even ask Lyle.... Diety intervent has been subtle and interesting and they have always been
loath to simply save someone from death. It is always at a cost, a show of faith or 
purpose that suits the Diety.

> I like a more subtle pantheon myself. If a devout worshiper
> is about to be squitted and some _explanable_ coincidence ocurrs
> to save him, he'll believe its a miracle. The unbeliever will
> believe its luck. Such is the way of the world. I also don't
> believe in reaction rolls and have never used them. If the
> adventurer has been true to his god he's in luck. If not, then
> his oops. sometimes intervention doesn't come free.
> 
> 						-Steve