Religion in Larp

I also second Kat's assertion, and present myself as testament. I felt comfortable bringing two agnostic characters into the game, and was never uncomfortable with that choice at any point in my stay.

Honestly, I feel that religious characters SHOULD put a little bit more pressure in, sometimes, though, because I came into the game as Guo Liang fully expecting having to defend his lack of faith, and was never even approached about it. Which I suppose is nice, but I'd hoped it to have at least served as a talking point. One of the myriad of reasons I tabled Liang for now.

That pressure should be limited to character conversation, rather than to actual ramifications, as Kat warns against, however.

What - no baptisms at swordpoint?

I guess we're just very used to the concept of live and let live in religious matters that pushing someone to take on (or relinquish) a faith is so unthinkable to some that they have a problem with acting out sth. like this in-game, seeing it instinctively as a form of gameplay that will make people uncomfortable. Especially since it seems the typical LARPing crowd tends to not be too mainstream about their religious views.

Looking at the PvP thread - this might equally be something that could be communicated out-of-game first, so those who want this can be pestered by clerics as much as they want.
(In my case - I'd say "bring it on", but I'll probably be very obviously a follower of Gaia)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure there are actual IG repercussions for baptizing someone against their will, and repercussions for not being truthful in one's alleged wish to be baptized.

Beats me what those are though, so FOIG on those.

That, to me, is a sort of keystone to Religious RP.

Lux wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure there are actual IG repercussions for baptizing someone against their will, and repercussions for not being truthful in one's alleged wish to be baptized.

There definitely is.

I was kidding, of course. I already read up on the consequences for things like that (being untruthful would be 100 divine damage, if i recall correctly) - it's in the core rules.

That, to me, is a sort of keystone to Religious RP.

The impossibility of getting babtized under false pretenses?

I'm not questioning at all why you would choose to handle it the way it is handled at KR, I'm just saying I had some fun playing around with this in the past. One of my traders once got babtized just because he wanted to get in on the production and sale of religious relics - which worked. Later, he almost died from a wound, and I let him have a vision of a saint in his fever dreams, and I made him became a devout follower, continuously giving plenty of coin to the church.
Also, there were these norse guys getting babtized to scam the clergy out of free babtizing shirts...some of them more than once. It was hilarious, the priest's player didn't realize it at all.

Allow me to clarify, I curtailed my thought early (It's rather late here, and I shouldn't be up.) I meant religious RP in our context.

Though those are hilarious. Even the Trader could conceivably get baptized in that fashion, though, I think, at least by that short description. You don't need to necessarily be a Saint to be baptized, all you need is a legitimate interest and devotion to the church. If that devotion is the will to peddle holy symbols, than so be it!

Now if a Galmachian disguised themself as a Gaian follower hoping to be baptized to Servant status... THEN is when Gaia (And/or Galmachis, for that matter) will strike them down for their infidelity.