I was recently poking around and it occurred to me that one of the things DR is lacking in is devotional sacrifices (hang with me for a moment!).

What sacrifices do exist, solely seem for either Cleric devotion or favor orbs.

In the real world, it was common for cultures to sacrifice animals, food, or valuables to either celebrate a deity or encourage them to look the other way. While there's limited amounts of the first, I haven't really seen the second.

Even in the lore, there's references to things like Asketi and other dark gods being sacrificed to, yet if it exists, the players don't seem to be part of it.

So here's my suggestion: I'd like to see altars not only accept a wider variety of offerings, such as whole or live animals, gems, etc. I'd love to see dead animal critters able to be converted into "sacrifice items" which can then be taken to altars. In addition, I'd really like for the system to track these offerings either on a local or global level over long periods.

Then, the system could add bonuses or negatives based on the "piety" of local communities. Kertigen got 200,000 offerings last month? Bonus to all crafting in the area. No one paid attention to Aldauth? Invasion or plague. You could tie this into the "yearly" Asketi's ride, the weather, or other innumerable systems that could be influenced by the pleasure or hatred of the gods. And if once it's already set up, it could (in theory) be woven into player run and GM run events.

With the recent Lyras storyline and the expansion of demonic effects on the Realms, I would love to see more lore and interaction with how the gods and their agents interact with the Realms.

Thoughts?

TLDR; I'd like to see sacrficies to gods expanded.

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I am in general in agreement with parts of systems being available for all, like I believe everyone should have a Criminal Reputation, if your stealing and not paying dues what do you think organized crime would do to you; and the gods sure, I'd like to see some type of soul state even if your not a Paladin, and some type of Godly devotion setting for the masses; probably could flip this to a bunch of other things too.

Maybe be part of the task system, and will a lot of this it probably shouldn't matter much, but every once in a while a GM could take those stats and run with it and make the people who cared for so long have nice benefits, and be a bit of leaders for being so blank and blank.

Just some suggestions.

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I really like the idea.

I can see such sacrifices being tied to holidays. If certain conditions are met, a special event might pop up on the holiday, conferring some mild bonuses, some fluffy RP type events, or invasions.

I think they would have to be time limited so it wouldn't become a 24/7 bonus all over the place.

Neat idea!

GENT