tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post3487558922025508220..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: Dark Sun: The TemplarsTreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-141267305023445932021-06-18T11:53:37.234-04:002021-06-18T11:53:37.234-04:00That's a great example, Anne!That's a great example, Anne!Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-51674420815716091032021-06-18T11:14:47.657-04:002021-06-18T11:14:47.657-04:00Your comment about civic religion for some reason ...Your comment about civic religion for some reason got me thinking about "Thor Ragnarok", where the citizens of the Grandmaster's city hold a parade celebrating the Hulk, complete with signs, banners, papier-mache, and clouds of green Holi-style dye powder.<br /><br />You can kind of imagine a parade celebrating the dragon form of the sorcerer king running through the center of the city right as they PCs enter town, them having to navigate a maze of celebrants as they try to find their way to wherever they're going. It'd be a cool one-time encounter. Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15493700749333105771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-9730941276634410032021-06-18T08:47:43.545-04:002021-06-18T08:47:43.545-04:00I always looked at Templars as more akin to a comm...I always looked at Templars as more akin to a commissar than a priest. Their demands for "veneration" of their SK feels a lot like insisting on adherence to an ideology to me. Some of them also serve as de facto secret police and informers too.<br /><br />The PC templars could fit that general archetype as agents who are trusted (or sneaky) enough to get sent abroad as roaming agents serving the SK's interests beyond their territory. Bards do that sort of espionage/wetwork/black ops too, but they're more independent since they don't rely on spells and authority derived from a single SK. Easy to see the two classes working together though.Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.com