Factional Redesign of The Gift

[DreamWeaver]

At the core Midgard is a FANTASY based game that is BASED on a like Earth's technologically from an historical time period.

Having defined Magic that is based on the God's would be exceptable. Look at it from the aspect that not everyone that plays a religion clan would have the ability of their faith to do their faith's special ability. They have to earn it in game and that means searching in game and training up the levels of those skills to become worthy of being granted the special God given ability. Let's use the Gift, they have the special God given ability to Healing. Now when the Gift clan starts off they have the basic skills of PRE, HRB, ATP. That gives them the knowledge to begin to understand and how to do medical skills to help someone. Now if that same character wants to strive to actually obtain the God gven spell ability to Lay Hands, they must purse factional based knowledge in some related factional skills to say level 5 (PRE-5,HRB-5, APT-5). When a clan character reach that level for a character within their game, then that character gains the God given faith spell ability. Quite frankly that would take 3-5 years of constant game play to reach those skills levels in those three skills. The gained special perk would not over power anything in the game, it is more of a roleplaying point and character building element for the player of that clan.

Davin if you have a player that makes it 5+ years to reach that level, then you have a die-hard Midgard gamer and have succeeded. This game will never by D&D, and difining this magic as God Given explains it. As to new religions starting up, well it just requires those players to work out the details with you. Find that niche that their faith fiits in a a god given spell ability that works for that factional faith. Here are some examples:

GIFT - Healing
RING - Divination
BANNER - Bless

BLOOD & FIRE - Fear
CULT of the DARK ONE - Invisibility

As I stated all these special spell abilities can be cast on a single character, creature, item once a cycle by the character that has achieved their God's special level of Faith.  These are really only Special Action related skills that would be moderated by the GM in any use case. This just adds to the color of playing the game and roleplaying your clan that you have spent so long in game and paying to play your turn. Is it really that much extra, I don't think so at all. Yes this is magic within the game but honestly how many players do you seriously thing will ever reach this level.

I should also point out that much of what I am bringing up is from my long talks on the topic with former game owners of Midgard game like Zan E., the two different UK Midgard versions owners of (Andy and Stephine W.) and Jon Capps. As Jon has said this would only open up a chance for a GM to actually engage with the long standing player and roleplay more with the player and get involved more with the player and his roleplay within the game. This would allow the GM to also have some interaction fun to with their game and the players within the game.