 Religion in Shadowrun. |
 May 8 2006, 06:41 PM
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How does it work in Shadowrun society? I remember in Transmetropolitan there being lots of churches, one being born every minute, being set up to take money from the stupid and the tired. They would set up on street corners and conventions and preach.
Is it much the same in Shadowrun? I would think that with both science and magic coming back into the world, not very much outside of shamanic traditions and other magic-oriented traditions would do very well. After all, most of the religions in America disavow any sort of magic, deeming it "the devils work" or some shit like that. I would think that God would seem rather irrelevent after the goblinization, UGE, fireballs, AI's, etc. Is Seattle spirituality dominated by said shamanic and hermetic traditions, and how do religions recruit in the Barrens? I would think if they did the "street shrine" thing from Transmet, they would get mugged and shot after they'd collected a few hundred nuyen from the credulous. |
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emo samurai Religion in Shadowrun. May 8 2006, 06:41 PM
Daddy's Little Ninja There is a lot of stuff in different books. Islam ... May 8 2006, 06:45 PM emo samurai Yeah, those last religions are okay with the idea ... May 8 2006, 06:46 PM Platinum Which society?
Religion is still present in the... May 8 2006, 06:51 PM Kremlin KOA islam is in mid schism right now
the Islamic Unity... May 8 2006, 06:56 PM WhiteRabbit There is a bit of a write up of this in MiTS, most... May 8 2006, 07:00 PM Findar I don't agree that goblinization, etc that cam... May 8 2006, 07:10 PM emo samurai I heard the Pope said that spellcasting was okay, ... May 8 2006, 07:11 PM FanGirl Pope John XXV released an encyclical called ... May 8 2006, 07:22 PM nezumi Canon doesn't have a lot on religion because, ... May 8 2006, 07:36 PM Dale All religion is a Shadowrun context would be weak ... May 8 2006, 08:00 PM emo samurai ALL HAIL DRAGON MUAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!... May 8 2006, 08:08 PM Synner Recommended reading on Religions in SR :
Target: S... May 8 2006, 08:39 PM Daddy's Little Ninja QUOTE (Findar @ May 8 2006, 02:10 PM) I don... May 8 2006, 08:39 PM stevebugge QUOTE (Synner) Religions in SR reading guide:
Thre... May 8 2006, 08:44 PM maneius Yes, but they wouldn't be 'miracles' i... May 8 2006, 08:46 PM Daddy's Little Ninja Most of the copy says magic is not that common. In... May 8 2006, 08:49 PM FanGirl And people are unlikely to come into contact with ... May 8 2006, 08:50 PM The ubbergeek Emo, also, there is the personal interpretation.
... May 8 2006, 09:01 PM blakkie QUOTE (The ubbergeek) Emo, also, there is the pers... May 8 2006, 10:13 PM Voran Sota64 I think has a section that mentions Wicca i... May 8 2006, 10:50 PM Synner QUOTE (Voran) Sota64 I think has a section that me... May 8 2006, 10:52 PM Wounded Ronin I'd think that religion in general would lose ... May 8 2006, 11:28 PM Platinum QUOTE (WhiteRabbit) There is a bit of a write up o... May 9 2006, 12:04 AM emo samurai What'd he say about Christianity?
And you hav... May 9 2006, 12:06 AM Wounded Ronin QUOTE (Platinum) QUOTE (WhiteRabbit @ May 8 2... May 9 2006, 12:11 AM emo samurai I'm so confused. May 9 2006, 12:13 AM FanGirl Yeah, will you please explain? The power of Chris... May 9 2006, 12:19 AM Wounded Ronin Nisarg is a guy with a blog (www.xanga.com/rpgpund... May 9 2006, 12:22 AM emo samurai "Theory-Swine?" That describes, like, a ... May 9 2006, 12:27 AM Wounded Ronin QUOTE (emo samurai) "Theory-Swine?" That... May 9 2006, 12:33 AM emo samurai What does he do? I don't know the RPGnet peopl... May 9 2006, 12:54 AM FlakJacket QUOTE (Daddy's Little Ninja)Most Christians ar... May 9 2006, 01:07 AM Platinum just hop over there and read. He bashes companie... May 9 2006, 01:07 AM emo samurai Who are these Lawn-Crappers he talks about? I reme... May 9 2006, 01:27 AM SL James QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) Nisarg is a guy with a blog ... May 9 2006, 01:56 AM eidolon QUOTE (Dale) All religion in a Shadowrun context w... May 9 2006, 02:10 AM Wounded Ronin QUOTE (emo samurai) Who are these Lawn-Crappers he... May 9 2006, 02:22 AM emo samurai Is a person who takes his model-painting WAY too s... May 9 2006, 02:26 AM FanGirl Emo, you're not a lawn-crapper because you don... May 9 2006, 02:30 AM Wounded Ronin I think FG has caught t3h correct regarding Nisarg... May 9 2006, 03:04 AM Kremlin KOA QUOTE (Synner) QUOTE (Voran @ May 8 2006, 10:... May 9 2006, 03:14 AM emo samurai Nor do I smell bad. I hope. May 9 2006, 05:14 AM Glyph Magic could be either a boost or a hindrance to a ... May 9 2006, 06:08 AM hyzmarca Well, some Christian philosophers feel that belief... May 9 2006, 06:32 AM eidolon This Nisarg sounds like a buffoon. Granted I have... May 9 2006, 07:26 AM Glyph QUOTE (hyzmarca)Well, some Christian philosophers ... May 9 2006, 07:38 AM SL James QUOTE (eidolon @ May 9 2006, 01:26 AM) This N... May 9 2006, 07:47 AM hyzmarca I suspect that such an individual would accept the... May 9 2006, 07:49 AM Synner Note that most organized religions in the Sixth Wo... May 9 2006, 07:54 AM Witness Lot of talk about organised religion here. But wha... May 9 2006, 10:37 AM nezumi A major corporation will likely have support for s... May 9 2006, 01:53 PM FanGirl QUOTE (Glyph) It's your campaign, Emo, but if ... May 9 2006, 02:22 PM emo samurai My Sprawl will have a mish-mash of religions; apoc... May 9 2006, 02:22 PM FanGirl Okay, fair enough. May 9 2006, 02:25 PM emo samurai Oh, and prominent Humanis members with random pric... May 9 2006, 02:26 PM SL James QUOTE (nezumi) So we can expect something like a R... May 9 2006, 02:59 PM Daddy's Little Ninja QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) I'd think that religion ... May 9 2006, 03:44 PM emo samurai Which is probably why those two religions are gain... May 9 2006, 03:56 PM hyzmarca QUOTE (emo samurai @ May 9 2006, 09:26 AM) Oh... May 9 2006, 04:00 PM Daddy's Little Ninja QUOTE (emo samurai) Which is probably why those tw... May 9 2006, 04:08 PM stevebugge QUOTE (SL James) QUOTE (nezumi @ May 9 2006, ... May 9 2006, 04:22 PM emo samurai Or you could smuggle a bunch of them out of Aztlan... May 9 2006, 05:01 PM Kremlin KOA Um Humanis is endorsed and Protected By the UCAS c... May 9 2006, 05:25 PM emo samurai That doesn't matter to runners who are well-pa... May 9 2006, 05:26 PM Kremlin KOA you miss my point
if Lone Star catch a Humanis me... May 9 2006, 05:32 PM emo samurai Yeah, Humanis is a punching bag in my campaign. Ho... May 9 2006, 05:34 PM Kremlin KOA The way it is written up
Runers may hit them ofte... May 9 2006, 05:40 PM nezumi And keep in mind, as has been pointed out, many (i... May 9 2006, 05:44 PM emo samurai But they still have the Ku Klux Klan masks, too, r... May 9 2006, 05:45 PM Kremlin KOA Think about it on the elves thing
a 59 year old el... May 9 2006, 05:49 PM emo samurai He'd outlive the CEO and live to see the compa... May 9 2006, 05:55 PM SL James QUOTE (emo samurai) Yeah, Humanis is a punching ba... May 9 2006, 07:49 PM nezumi QUOTE (emo samurai) He'd outlive the CEO and l... May 9 2006, 09:15 PM Calvin Hobbes I think it's funny that you assume pensions st... May 9 2006, 10:44 PM Glyph I think pensions will probably be completely gone ... May 10 2006, 03:00 AM emo samurai By punching bags I meant you could kill them witho... May 10 2006, 03:04 AM FanGirl QUOTE (emo samurai) Killing people without conscie... May 10 2006, 03:18 AM The ubbergeek QUOTE (emo samurai) And I won't even have Chri... May 10 2006, 04:53 AM emo samurai Then a demonologist will summon a demon and the de... May 10 2006, 04:55 AM The ubbergeek Hum.... May 10 2006, 04:58 AM emo samurai You're new here, aren't you? *holds out ha... May 10 2006, 05:15 AM SL James QUOTE (Glyph)As for humanis, they are punching bag... May 10 2006, 07:46 AM Laser QUOTE (The ubbergeek @ May 9 2006, 11:53 PM) ... May 10 2006, 10:04 AM nezumi QUOTE (Glyph) I think pensions will probably be co... May 10 2006, 02:37 PM emo samurai And that's why we kill them.
I think I did t... May 10 2006, 02:54 PM Daddy's Little Ninja In 2006 pensions are gone in favor of 401k's ... May 10 2006, 02:55 PM Glyph Good point. But they could probably do the same t... May 11 2006, 03:14 AM maikeru Kinda on topic but off at the same time. I think ... May 11 2006, 03:25 AM Glyph Yeah. On the other hand, trying to play a wiccan ... May 11 2006, 03:30 AM maikeru RE: Religion in Shadowrun. May 11 2006, 03:35 AM Wounded Ronin QUOTE (Laser)
That being said, a street preacher... May 11 2006, 04:11 AM thefather kinda new here, first post but ive been surfin the... May 11 2006, 05:23 AM
WyldKarde I once ran a defrocked priest myself, although in ... May 11 2006, 06:23 AM  |
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