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[Sshodan]

In a way - in D&D setting your characters deity is an important factor, when I role play a... well drow matriarch for example I can't ignore Loth, can I? But that has nothing to do with my own beliefs.

In games like DA:O my personal sever dislike for any form of church structures comes to play. Religion is a personal matter between a believer and his god, and any "go betweens" are there for no other reason than money, power and greed. So my strong dislike for any kind of religious organizations influences my role playing. Chantry already got my hackles up

As for my self... I am agnostic and don't follow any particular religion, and for me it means that I am entirely responsible for all my actions, and lives of those around me are the best reflection of my own morality. I'm not waiting for any kind of god to set things right, if we want to be happy and live in harmony we have to work on that ourselves.

[Eshaye]

Taltherion wrote...

No, my religion won't affect my style of playing - at least not consciously. I'm playing a role - a character in Ferelden and there is no Christianity. So I'll try to behave like a person from Ferelden would - guided by the religious believes and traditions of Ferelden (which I unfortunately don't know that much about at the moment).

Ferelden's belief system gives me a strong medieval Catholic vibe so far, it won't be just like it of course as it's a made up belief system but still it kind of echoes a bit from that time frame. IMO anyway.

[ww2jacob]

I would have to say yes, in a sense. My first character will be somewhat modeled after myself. After reading about the Chantry and some of the choice involved with them, I feel my character will end up being opposed to them, as I am personally non-religious. Otherwise I intend to lean more towards the good side in most cases. It will be interesting to see where that leaves me with the various companions.

My future characters will certainly have different perspectives.

Modifié par ww2jacob, 15 octobre 2009 - 04:32 .

[NewYears1978]

AClockworkMelon wrote...

NewYears1978 wrote...

Sorry to the atheists, the question didn't really fit there...obviously if you have no religion, it doesn't play a role.

I find this ignorant.

Oh boy..here we go..lashing out.

All I meant was that if you have no religion..it obviously doesn't  play a role in how you play your character (aside from lack of religion playing a role)

I didn't mean anything ill by anything I've said..why do you have to bash?

[AClockworkMelon]

NewYears1978 wrote...

Oh boy..here we go..lashing out.

All I meant was that if you have no religion..it obviously doesn't play a role in how you play your character (aside from lack of religion playing a role)

I didn't mean anything ill by anything I've said..why do you have to bash?

No, you're not going to do that. You're not going to insult me and then act like you're persecuted to avoid a response.

"All I meant was that if you have no religion..it obviously doesn't play a role in how you play your character"

If your being a Christian has an effect on your characters, I hardly think it's obvious that your being an atheist wouldn't have an effect. I didn't 'bash' you. If you didn't mean anything ill by what you said, you wouldn't have patronized the atheists who responded by basically telling us we have no business posting in this thread.

Modifié par AClockworkMelon, 15 octobre 2009 - 04:26 .

[Sshodan]

NewYears1978 wrote...

AClockworkMelon wrote...

NewYears1978 wrote...

Sorry to the atheists, the question didn't really fit there...obviously if you have no religion, it doesn't play a role.

I find this ignorant.

Oh boy..here we go..lashing out.

All I meant was that if you have no religion..it obviously doesn't  play a role in how you play your character (aside from lack of religion playing a role)

I didn't mean anything ill by anything I've said..why do you have to bash?

Actualy it does play a role - we are all rised in societys that have religeouse imfluence, people who are not oficialy religeouse sill mostly consider all religeouse "sins" to be a bad thing - envy or greed are considered to be negative in cristian dominating society for example. And things like murdering and steeling being seriouse crimes where religeouse postilats once and than where adopted as a non beliver code of condukt. We all have some form of "attitude" towards religeon as well, so no matter what we ourselves belive religeon influences our view of the world anyway

[AClockworkMelon]

Sshodan wrote

We all have some form of "attitude" towards religeon as well, so no matter what we ourselves belive religeon influences our view of the world anyway

Correctomundo, Sshodan.

Modifié par AClockworkMelon, 15 octobre 2009 - 04:28 .

[Korva]

AClockworkMelon wrote...

No. My atheism doesn't affect my characters. I've played religious fanatics, religious moderates and non-believers. This is about their world, not ours.

Same here. It can be fun to experiment with in-game religion and spirituality, at least if the religion in question doesn't totally repel me. I tend to stay away from the fanatical end of the spectrum though.

[NewYears1978]

Again..I didn't insult anyone, and if I did, I didn't mean to. Atheism isn't a religion..and my question was does your religion effect how you play...so if you don't have a religion..the question doesn't necessarily apply?

I didn't mean by that, that aethist shouldn't post in here..or anything insulting..I don't have any negative ideas or feelings toward anyone or any religion..

I'm also not acting persecuted...you are taking this thing to a religious battle/debate..for no reason....I didn't intend nor want this to be any kind of religious bashing or debate..at ALL.

I'm not the most well spoken person so it's possible the way I have worded my posts came across wrong...and I apologize.. can we please keep this on topic as I don't want it to be closed..as I really do like to hear people's views on this.

Modifié par NewYears1978, 15 octobre 2009 - 04:29 .

[Chaos-fusion]

Other than sometimes taking a name for them from various ancient religions, no.

[AClockworkMelon]

Korva wrote...

Same here. It can be fun to experiment with in-game religion and spirituality, at least if the religion in question doesn't totally repel me. I tend to stay away from the fanatical end of the spectrum though.

Haha, well as Creed from the office puts it, "I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader."

[Errel]

Nope, am also an atheist. I do consider myself to have strong moral values.

But the characters I play can be fanaticly religious, both evil and good, or non religious, or averagely. It's really quite different each time, that's why it's called fantasy

[AClockworkMelon]

NewYears1978 wrote...

Again..I didn't insult anyone, and if I did, I didn't mean to. Atheism isn't a religion..and my question was does your religion effect how you play...so if you don't have a religion..the question doesn't necessarily apply?

I didn't mean by that, that aethist shouldn't post in here..or anything insulting..I don't have any negative ideas or feelings toward anyone or any religion..

I'm also not acting persecuted...you are taking this thing to a religious battle/debate..for no reason....I didn't intend nor want this to be any kind of religious bashing or debate..at ALL.

I'm not the most well spoken person so it's possible the way I have worded my posts came across wrong...and I apologize.. can we please keep this on topic as I don't want it to be closed..as I really do like to hear people's views on this.

What are you talking about? At no point did I question your religion. You asked how our religion affects gameplay. You got what you wanted. If religion can affect gameplay, lack of religion certainly can. That's what I said. You're reacting by screaming 'oh no u r ttly bashing me!'

Honestly. Come on.

[PsychoMunkys]

man thats a realy realy great quistion



i don't believe in god, so i don't realy effects me



i play theys kind of game's whit emoition if i feel happy , i am good , if i am mad or said , i make evil choice,



i did not even notice that i played that way until my girlfriend pointed it out to me.

[Mistress9Nine]

NewYears1978 wrote...

Okay, not sure if this will be a touchy subject, or a stupid question.   Religion is often bashed online..and I know a huge majority are not Christians, and there is quite a bit of Christianity bashing on the internet, especially forums.

I am proud of my Christianity and not afraid to put it right out there.   However, my question is this, does your religion and beliefs play a role in the character you play and how you play it (In this case directly related to how you will play your DA character, so as not to be off-topic)?

Very curious about this and it's not something that typically comes up.

I'm actually a catholic. I even go to church and all every couple of months. However this hardly effects my gaming-life. However my first character will be a devout Chantrist (what's teh name of a Chantry beliver? ) however not fanatical like Leliana. Still she's gonna be my BFF.

[Darth_Britanus]

well im an atheist but the elves always remind me of the druids so i go them so in a way i suppose it does

[Quercus]

Being an atheist myself will have an effect on my first character role, cause I want to play as myself during the first run. And by that I wonder how things will go, since there are also religions ingame (the chantry, the elven belief in multiple gods, ect). I might be looked at bad by these followers... as if humans in general wasnt enough .

Which make me wonder, since the chantry kinda resembles the christian belief, will you christians follow this path of "The Maker"? or will you ignore it since it's not your religion? (if your religion effects the way you play ofcause)

Modifié par Shiroukai, 15 octobre 2009 - 05:00 .

[Korva]

NewYears1978 wrote...

Again..I didn't insult anyone, and if I did, I didn't mean to. Atheism isn't a religion..and my question was does your religion effect how you play...so if you don't have a religion..the question doesn't necessarily apply?

I don't feel insulted, personally.

Although atheism could play a role if the person is question cannot or does not want to "get over themselves" and roleplay someone with a different take on religion than their own -- similar to how a religious person might refuse to roleplay anyone who follows a religion other than their own. I would consider both an atheist who roleplays only atheists and a Christian who only roleplays Christians to be rather ... limited, but to each their own.

[NewYears1978]

Korva wrote...

NewYears1978 wrote...

Again..I didn't insult anyone, and if I did, I didn't mean to. Atheism isn't a religion..and my question was does your religion effect how you play...so if you don't have a religion..the question doesn't necessarily apply?

I don't feel insulted, personally.

Although atheism could play a role if the person is question cannot or does not want to "get over themselves" and roleplay someone with a different take on religion than their own -- similar to how a religious person might refuse to roleplay anyone who follows a religion other than their own. I would consider both an atheist who roleplays only atheists and a Christian who only roleplays Christians to be rather ... limited, but to each their own.

Very good point, thanks for the post.

Me and Clock just had a misunderstanding..all is well now.   I just wanted to make sure I didn't insult anyone because that definately is not my intention.

I find religion very interesting and it's definately cool to see how it plays a role in gaming for people.  Been some great answers here.  It kinda made me think...I guess Morals (which I guess stem from my religious upbringing) play more of a role in my characters than religion itself.  I don't say "Hmm, what would Jesus do? (lol) but rather..Hmm what would I do, what is the right choice?

So this topic has definately sparked some thoughts within myself..very cool.

[Cat Lance]

I think it sort of does, a lot of times I don't feel much need to be overly selfless and I'll think I don't want to get involved in something sometimes. Also, I can never bring myself to take a truly harmful action. Other than the obvious, killing my way through the game thing. I'd love to be able to blame that on game mechanics, but I'm fairly bloody minded. I eat meat too....so, yeah, I never said I was good at my religion...:innocent:

[Quercus]

A big horde of Darkspawn is incoming from the west, what will you do?



a) Take shelter in the nearby forest.

Run towards the nearby vilage to warn them.

c) Walk over water to reach the other side of the lake.

[NewYears1978]

Shiroukai wrote...

A big horde of Darkspawn is incoming from the west, what will you do?

a) Take shelter in the nearby forest.
Run towards the nearby vilage to warn them.
c) Walk over water to reach the other side of the lake.

Haha.  Nice

[swirlwind]

While I do have a natural aversion towards playing religious characters, it doesn't stop me from doing so. However, most of my characters are if not atheists, at least not religious. For instance in the D&D system I've always had trouble playing paladins and clerics simply because they require faith to function. I don't have similar trouble with druids and rangers, which may be a little paradoxical, but there it is. In ME all my characters were atheists/not religious, but in DA:O I will probably play at least a few religious characters simply because religion is a big part of Ferelden.

I have also noticed that I tend to prefer not religious NPCs, and for the moment at least I prefer Morrigan to Leliana merely because of the latter's apparent fanaticism. Only time will tell if I change my mind after getting to know her.

[Edit:] However, the lack of religion does not mean in any way that I wouldn't play moral characters. I find most of the time morality has little to do with one's religious views.

Modifié par swirlwind, 15 octobre 2009 - 05:11 .

[Cuuniyevo]

I have given up on trying to play religious characters in games, because none of them ever let me do EXACTLY what I want for the character or myself. It would feel like I was compromising my characters if I made them do or say something that wasn't exactly right for them. So instead, I use a system based around other forms of belief, like ethics or honor, which usually are represented in games.