RP and granting it, Temple hold

[Alaric]

> The Guilder announces that he personally support the Church X
> against the nefarious purposes of Church Y. All his factors in the
> marketplace start comiserating with the shoppers, saying isn't it terrible
> the things that Church Y is doing, and wouldn't it be scary if Church B
> actually won. Why, they might just have to think about moving elsewhere if
> that happened. After all, you know that they say about those Church Y
> officials. Why I heard of a man over in...
>

That brings up something I've sort of had a problem with in the BR
system. According to the rules, it is not all that difficult to make an
entire nation worship one god where they had previously worshipped
another. It can happen in less than 2 months per level of the province,
with luck (contest it down, then create and rule it up, with lieutenant
actions figured in). Obviously the opposing church will fight this
sweeping change, but what about the masses? Are we to consider them so
much like sheep? (Not that the answer to that last isn't probably
'yes').
Thx,
Alaric

[Mark A Vandermeulen]

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Alaric wrote:

> That brings up something I've sort of had a problem with in the BR
> system. According to the rules, it is not all that difficult to make an
> entire nation worship one god where they had previously worshipped
> another. It can happen in less than 2 months per level of the province,
> with luck (contest it down, then create and rule it up, with lieutenant
> actions figured in). Obviously the opposing church will fight this
> sweeping change, but what about the masses? Are we to consider them so
> much like sheep? (Not that the answer to that last isn't probably
> 'yes').

I've occasionally, as DM, used something similar to the "loyalty" levels
of a province, only specifically to a temple ("faithfulness") or to a
guild ("brand loyalty" or somesuch). But only when it was required as part
of the ongoing story, then ditched it as soon as the conflict was
resolved. Probably the last thing a DM needs is another level to keep
track of over time.

Mark VanderMeulen
vander+@pitt.edu