| Pasquinade ( @ 2007-09-24 10:31:00 |
| Entry tags: | rpgs |
Upon Religious Tolerance in Fantasy Worlds
On the game I play in on Saturday, the heroes were preparing to face a religious hearing to determine whether our actions had violated a treaty. We'd gotten some of the bad guy's foreign mercenaries to turn coat, and they were going to serve as our star witnesses.
Me: (As we head toward the hearing, quietly, to the foreign mercenary) Okay, so listen, when we get in there...
Foreign Mercenary: You wish us to stand quiet and look menacing?
Me: Uh, actually, we were kind of hoping you'd testify.
Foreign Mercenary: Oh.
Me: Look, this is a religious hearing, and a lot of these crazy church people are pretty intolerant. So please understand, this is just a prelude to us taking our revenge upon the evil bad guy, a charade we have to put up with. Even if the religious stuff is a lot of stupid nonsense, it's stupid nonsense that we must agree with in order to survive this hearing and get what we want. So please, just avoid mentioning your gods.
Foreign Mercenary: Uh, we worship Tyr, too, just like you guys.
Me: You do?
Foreign Mercenary: (Pulls out holy symbol of Tyr) We go to church every Tyrsday.
Me: Yeah, me too. Praise Tyr! Game on!