Hi, I am new to the world of Khoras and i'm in the process of starting my new campaing in this setting.
I will be playing unsing AD&D D20.
I found the religion aspect of the world of Khoras a bit "BIG" and a bit confusing.
First thing first, are there powers granted by the gods to their followers?
Is there any differences between the magic from the priests and the wizards?
Anyone have any idea of how to set the religion aspect into the campaign.
I know this all depends on what I want the campaign to be but I am looking for some idea of how should I do it.
Thanks everyone.
First of all, welcome to Khoras! I hope you'll post often and tell us how your campaign is going.
Regarding religion, I can't offer much help. The religion section of Khoras is due for a MAJOR overhaul. In my opinion, the religion section of Khoras is, and has always been, the weakest area in the web site. I've never really been satisfied with it. A couple of people have emailed me with some good suggestions and I plan on implementing them soon.
It's your campaign and you can run it however you like. I don't want to tell people how I run gods in my campaign, because I don't want to taint anyone's view of things. Truth is, you can run the gods anyway you like. Same thing goes for priests and their magic.
In some campaigns, the gods are real and interfere in the lives of mortals on a daily basis.
In other campaigns, there are no gods, only religions built around fictitious deities, complex ceremonies and priests that are deluding themselves. In such campaigns, I suspect the priests cast spells using the same energy field as the wizards. They might not use spellbooks, but the magical energy they control is the same.
And there can be many shades of grey in between.
I intentionally left the gods a bit vague so individual game masters could customize them. But when I overhaul the religion section, I may add a few ideas for each god. Currently, there is nothing official written up with regards to specific granted powers or spells or spheres of influence. Perhaps some of the other forum members might offer you some suggestions. Was there a particular set of gods you were interested in?
Anyway, that's all. I really do need to get off my butt and bring the religion section up to par.
Well, there is no religion in particular I'm interested in.
I think religion should be verry important in a fantasy wold as it is in the real world. Most of the religions I read about (I'm in the process of reading the entire site but as you know, it's huge ;o) are interesting though it appears to me that they are verry region specific.
I have not read all the gods and I do not know yet how I will set the gods, religions and priest spell casting in my campaingn, just wanted to know how others have set those in there campaign.
As an example, I read about Barrinor which I think is a great one and a well defined one which can be worship in almost all Khoras. I represent myself the religion as a cast of Paladin and only Paladin for you need to be warrior to be part of the hierarchy. In terms of gameplay (ad&d d20), one can't start as a Priest of Khoras. It has to advance as a warrior and then multiclass to priest of Barrinor or Paladin.
I'll be commenting further as I go through the web site meanwhile I'd like to hear about other how they set the religion in their campaign.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
thats how i am building my world too fairly generic on religon, well in fact i leave it up to GM/DM's to make up
or use one from another RPG system...
the only thing i do on my world is direct them to negative,nuetral,positive races or empires...
I can see how you want the religions to be important just like in the real world, and i would probably either 1) make up everything based on how i see it, or 2) find an analogue in The Player's Manual and base everything on that. And while Khoras' religions are indeed very regional or racial, many ancient cultures believed that there were gods outside their own pantheon, the dispute was more frequently on which pantheon was stronger.
Hope that helps! ;)