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Idea: Religious Conversion - theredknight_x - 11-24-2010
Was rp'ing last night with someone with my cleric and managed to convince them to change their worship to match with my own god.
Now of course this requires a 'SIGNIFICANT' XP loss for the player involved, so it was definitely one of those special moments where character development was taken over statistical development.
But what did I get out of it? Nothing.
Which got me thinking... why the hell not?
One of the best things I enjoy playing a cleric is moving others to the viewpoints of your god. In Thay, thankfully, priests have the option of taking to others about the worship of their patron god and perhaps even convince them to look favorably upon them. But what about this special moment?
The PC I was with lost like some 1200xp by doing it, what if there was an option to allow the pc to give half (600xp) to the person who managed to convert them to the new gods worship? As well as the notoriety from doing that deed? It would certainly push religious conversion, a major point in polytheistic settings like Faerun, to being rp'ed alot more. If I knew I could get some 600xp from convincing another pc to change their worship to my god I'd certainly be pushing it more often.
Anyway, any thoughts?
RE: Idea: Religious Conversion - kta - 11-24-2010
Well that would most like also encourage metagaming. As reward the PC might have given you PR XP via the Player Menu.
KTA
RE: Idea: Religious Conversion - theredknight_x - 11-24-2010
(11-24-2010, 01:12 PM)kta Wrote: Well that would most like also encourage metagaming.
KTA
I would hope that wouldn't be the case, and certainly would hate to jump to that conclusion, though I can imagine a metagamer probably wouldn't want to cause the loss of 10% of their xp (which I think is what the going rate for leaving your god is) for another character. And switching back would cost another 10%, which is a helluva lot lost for any action. At level 5 that would be somewhere to the tune of what, 2000 - 3000 xp for a double switch, only to give the other pc two doses of notoriety and 1000 - 1500xp? Phew. And if someone were to make a bunch of 1st level character to convert worship for other people to get xp 10% is what, like anywhere between 1 and 100 xp, tops? At that point, ban that guy for just wasting the CPU cycles on the server :) LOL
Any other opinions?