Invent your own faith system

[Cego_Colher]

There is a god and a goddess; they are married. Yin-yang. They creating the world and such. The God went up to heaven and the goddess stayed on the moon to watch the creation. The humans destroyed the planet and poisoned the water by means of not caring for the environment and war. The Goddess got mad at them and kept making the poison water rain on them. The God saw what she was doing and convinced her not to have it rain all the time, because she would kill the rest of the plants and humans (who she didn't care for anymore) He said that most of the humans were done with war and were trying to clean the water. It still rains a lot, but not all the time.

There is no nature of the universe. It was just a benevolent game of the Sims.

Don't make war/destroy the environment.

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This is actually for my sr. project, but since no one else wanted to share, I decided I'd share mine.

[Ashendant]

There is a god and a goddess; they are married. Yin-yang. They creating the world and such. The God went up to heaven and the goddess stayed on the moon to watch the creation. The humans destroyed the planet and poisoned the water by means of not caring for the environment and war. The Goddess got mad at them and kept making the poison water rain on them. The God saw what she was doing and convinced her not to have it rain all the time, because she would kill the rest of the plants and humans (who she didn't care for anymore) He said that most of the humans were done with war and were trying to clean the water. It still rains a lot, but not all the time.

There is no nature of the universe. It was just a benevolent game of the Sims.

Don't make war/destroy the environment.

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This is actually for my sr. project, but since no one else wanted to share, I decided I'd share mine.

The world is a video game is another religion i think this one is official

[Purple Rabbit]

The god that was completely misunderstood (Part 1)

On some day in the infinite vastness of eternity this god, let's call him Dick, decided to create some universes to tinker with a bit. He could have jerked of instead, but since he had been doing that for an infinitely long time it started to bore him infinitely long ago. So Dick decided on some specifics, pulled some levers, spoke some magic words and poof, there the universes, all 10 to the tenth to the tenth to the tenth power of them, sprang into existence. He could see right away that he had made a mistake. In case you wonder how Dick, being a god and such, could make mistakes, he just could! Anyone convinced of the opposite should read that great book "Concise manual for gods and supernatural boogey men". It's all in there so there's your evidence.

Now what was the mistake, I hear you think. Well...firstoff, he could see right away that he had to dispose of the majority of 'm because the creatures that were produced in these universes just shouldn't be. I mean, some had exteriors on the inside and vice verse, others smelled just awful and others still were abominations from Anti Being. Certainly the lot of them would never get approved by the Council of Nitwit Gods With Nothing Else To Do But Just Sit On Their Asses And Moan About How Long Eternity Lasts And Some Minor Certification Of Silly Attempts To Create Universes, The Council for short.

>> to be continued

[Purple Rabbit]

The god that was completely misunderstood (Part 2)

Oh no, the Council wouldn't allow for that. So he stuffed all the wrong universes into the Big Universe Shredder, a thing supplied to every certified god of the Multiversioned Superuniverse, and pressed the button. In case you're asking, gods do press buttons to shortcut the tedious tasks of magical tricks and all that stuff. Just as he had done so a deep loud squeaking "WOOT!! WOOT!!" rang out and he knew it was time for lunch. So he devoured some left over universes and gulped down a botlle of Dark Energy, the Multiversioned Superuniverse version of liquor. He was on high spirits now. But he had worries too.

He worried about that hideous attempt of a universe that he had let slip through his first evaluations. He couldn't backtrace that move of him, maybe it was because he didn't have a good night's rest since in the Multiversioned Superuniverse there seldom are (if you allow for the fact that seldom can imply infinitely many times). But fact was that he somehow was intrigued by the idea to dabble a little with that less than mediocre universe he had left be.

>> to be continued

[Purple Rabbit]

The god that was completely misunderstood (Part 3)

So he returned to his troublesome little universe and gave it a good close look, whatever that may mean to someone who already knows it all. There was serious trouble to be expected with this one. For one thing he could smell from afar that its inhabitants, let's call the bastards humans for Pete's sake, would falsely think that this universe was made with them in mind. Of course this was a far cry from truth, since they were not taking into account the 10 to the tenth to the tenth power other universes that he disposed of. Another thing he noticed was that humans would worship him, the creator of their universe, without ever contacting him! If they could have, they would find that just as the creator of a watch is free to abondon a watch on the beach, he didn't give a fuck. These universes are just a way to kill time, nothing else. Eternity is a long wait, you know. So despite all of theology, teleology is out of the window. Also he found that vast numbers of those humans would attribute moral guidance to him. Duh, can't they think for themselves?? Morals and gods just don't mix very well. Who needs the restraints of morals when eternity just waits there to play out all possible immoralities infinitely many times? He should not generalize them though. A guy named Plato understood it very well and seriously tried to put it into words in a piece called Euthyphro.

Of course Dicky could have decided right there on the spot to put an end to that horrible nightmare of a universe that he had created, but somehow he hesitated. He hesitated because ending it would mean immediate return to eternal boredom. And suspended in that (actually pretty common) dilemma that creators now and again experience he left us be...completely clueless.

>> to be continued by whoever feels like it

[DeistPaladin]

I've actually invented a few myself - two for books/stories that have never been written and three for forum based roleplaying realms. Of course, these are all fantasy based, polytheistic pantheons of deities...

Mythmaking can be fun. I recently did that myself for my own fantasy RPG universe. What started as an attempt to simplify from D&D's 10,000 gods and alternate planes into something more minimalistic and with each individual god fleshed out turned into an elaborate backstory.

I managed to get it down to just nine gods and yet cover all the bases as far as what's needed for an epic fantasy universe. Then I began to think about how the deities relate to each other and the point behind their struggle. I even tried to give the evil gods believable motivations and objectives instead of the tiresome evil-for-its-own-sake. Oh, and no stats for the gods. They're pantheistic spiritual forces that shape the universe, not anthropomorphic beings.

I switched the classic good-creator, evil-rebel paradigm found in Islamo-Christianity. The two creator gods are evil and their lesser god servants rebelled to save the universe.

The two creator deities were Baateza and Tanaros, mother and father of the universe. Those familiar with D&D will immediately get where I'm going with this, the first being derived from their term for "devil" and the latter being derived from their term for "demon". She felt her creation needed her strict, if merciless, order and guidance. He felt that only bloody chaos would give rise to a better species. I got inspiration from Babylon 5 but I'm sure Stranzinski didn't invent the idea for such a struggle. The "Blood War" between the devils and demons amounts to the most destructive divorce in history. The other seven deities each have their own ideas of how to best guide the mortals.

...that actually manifest physically and grant their followers special powers.

Hence why a lot of gamers are atheists.

"As a matter of fact, Sol will heal amputees. You just have to be powerful enough to channel enough of his divine energy to make it happen."

[Paul the Human]

Nice. A couple of mine were inspired by D&D. The rest were a combination of original ideas and twists on things from fantasy fiction novels. I'm a 'gamer' if you exclude video games. We haven't played for about a year, but I have been playing and DMing D&D for almost 20 years. Forgotten Realms, mostly. Plus a number of other tabletop paper and dice games (not White Wolf, though. Ugh).

[DeistPaladin]

We haven't played for about a year, but I have been playing and DMing D&D for almost 20 years. Forgotten Realms, mostly. Plus a number of other tabletop paper and dice games (not White Wolf, though. Ugh).

I've yet to find an RPG system that I'm completely happy with. D&D is a deeply flawed system, even the latest versions, but I've "patched" it with a set of edges, hindrances and point-based character construction in my variant.

White Wolf (Vampire and Warewolf, never played any of the others) is great for story telling and some of their mechanics make a lot of sense (I particularly like their relatively simple wound system) but some of their ideas are either not adequately supported by rules structure or badly unbalanced. Was this the cause of your "ugh" reaction?

Deadlands is appealing for its innovative mechanics (cards and chips in particular) and its great whopping handfuls of dice (always appealing to RPGers). However, its combat rules are cumbersome, there are too many Traits (a problem White Wolf shares) and the mechanic for skills relies too heavily on luck and too little on skill rank.

I love the primary rule in Feng Shui (anything that promotes the story is automatically successful) but its not a system for serious role playing.

Champions really pioneered the skills-based and point-based character construction but the mechanics are so complex that you need a computer program just to create a character.

[Paul the Human]

My 'Ugh' reaction was about the vampires and werewolves as player characters. I just didn't like the way they handled them... I did like the system itself. We played a WW game called Aberrant a few times. It was superhero/villains. Good fun, that.

We played Ars Magica for a while. And some Steve Jackson games, which are just silly fun. Mostly it was D&D 2nd with a lot of tweaks to the system and a lot of story telling/role playing. Now I miss it!

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Hynotoad beat me to it.

I was thinking of something along the lines of Scientology,but not as shrill. Probably have some kind of addictive drug designed for followere and included in a regular ritual.

I would be head cheese and personally own nothing except a few large off shore accountst, but would conrtol everything. I would be paid a salary based on turnover .

Probably have my own secret police to dissappear any critics.


World headquarters woud be somewher in the middle of the Simpson dessert,with attached casino,entertaiment and hotel complexes.


Beliefs? Oh, I'd make them up as I went along,that's the modus for all successful religions. It's only a matter of degree.The millennarianists are especially imaginative. (Chistianity is after all only a failed millennial movement)

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The Simpson Desert is a large area of dry, red sandy plain and dunes in central Australia[1][2].

The Simpson Desert is underlain by the Great Artesian Basin, on the of the largest inland drainage areas in the world. Water from the basin rises to the surface at numerous natural springs, including Dalhousie Springs, and at bores drilled along stock routes, or during petroleum exploration. As a result of exploitation by such bores, the flow of water to springs has been steadily decreasing in recent years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson_Dessert