Bring back religions?

[Quiet Wanderer]

Whats the vote? Bring them back or not? I got into AR after religions and would like to see them brought back. It seem like it could be a cure for people griping for new cabals. Join a religion if your class can't be in a cabal!

[Stephen2]

AR's never had religions. There were tattoos, but that's hardly a religion. I'd LOVE to see religion happening, with specific beliefs/codes of ethics etc...

But not as a cabal alternative, just something that you can choose or not..

My domokun ate my homework..

[Quiet Wanderer]

I had heard they had religions, I was mis-informed apparently. And would n't it be awesome though. It'd add more depth to roleplay definitely. But there would need to be a diverse amount of them, to cover for the different races and things that go into making a character. Now the question would be, do the religions get skills of their own, or just fancy titles?

[Mendek]

Religions and Tattooes were connected. Myria's tattoo was for those who believed in the New Order. The lion's paw was for those who believed in Ashandira, etc.

[Stephen2]

The New Order was no way a regligion! It was much more like a cabal, there were no belief structures etc...

As for Red-a-Lion? Can't say I ever learned he had a religion thing going on, but I went to his Immortal home. He had wolf cubs. They were cute.

[Neonin]

[Bones V2.0]

[Shade_Dragon]

Religions will add to roleplay, definitely, but we need to have some sort of slight advantages to having them, and have certain restrictions based on race/class. That's the bugger right there for the imps, or so I think. Like Paladins would have to belive in a god of light, DKs a god of death/destruction, and wordy Heralds would have to worship Burzuk.

[Amdorin]

Why does it have to add to anything other than roleplay? Everytime something gets voted on it's for getting some sort of "power" and whatnot. Of course it's cool to have something like that with you, but I'm sure such tatoos and religions were based on common ideas and/or goals, not to gain powers and whatnot.

I'm not saying I'm SO against getting power benifits from these things. But it's really more of a covenant, or oath-like alliance between each other of the same tatoo and whatnot, isn't that why it's there?

[Shade_Dragon]

I'm talking almost useless things here.
Like with goodies having a certain god that lets them detect evil, and a mage god with detect magic, and these things can be called upon every 12 hours or so without mana charge. These are extremely slight things. And it would add to unique roleplay. Would make cabal wars a bit more common...

[Quiet Wanderer]

Yeah... Or maybe race specific religions that would give them some slight bonus along those lines. Maybe like some of the smaller spells such as the detections and what not. Or possibly a unique ability for the religion, or some sort of EQ? I'm not talking hellstream or red dragon type stuff, just something OK that would be unique to that religion. And possibly have rival religions pitted against each other?

[Dark Elf]

what about both? the tats and the religions. religions for all race class combos and tats for excellent players? just a thought

[Davairus]

I don't remember it being that long ago that we last said religions were approaching the final stages of dev, but there's a rather cumbersome bottleneck we're working through in the mean time, that must be dealt with first. Once the pig passes through the python, you will start seeing changes/additions to tertiary stuff like religions etc.

[Vertas]

[Blood_Demon]

I think what they mean by bonuses is like what Rhastam..Resatimm..Ritase...one of his chars..had a circle..no..was it Aeva..damn...maybe it was...eh, who cares, it was a circle of thorns or something, it randomly cast poison which rarely worked, and cure light, so like...

A circle of thorns tightens, spilling a drop of blood.
You feel a little better.

It was something like that..

[Stephen2]

Fairly sure that tattoo cast vampiric touch.

[Mendek]

No, we didn't have religions, per se, but if you notice, most of the old tattooes were designed after one god or another, which is pretty close to a religion. Myria had an organization, Myria being an Immortal. That's the basis of religion, honing to a set of beliefs laid down by a priest or diety. The big problem with this approach is that we don't really view the Immortals in the game as gods. They're Administration, and really should be labled that perhaps.

The religions, far as I know, will have NPC gods, which may be controlled by Imms now and then, who knows.

[Quiet Wanderer]

Good to know. any chance or idea on the relase dates? I relaize the staff works hard, but it's kinda like waiting for a christmas gift, you get anxious

[Burzuk]