> I've been trying to follow this since I play a shamanistic character
> in a Lunar campaign (and, as such, I try and figure out how they
> relate to the theistic Lunars all around).
Sounds like fun: and quite similar to something I'm doing.
> Now I had figured that it was a matter of scale and approach. Gods
> are seperated from spirits by power level and thesitic worships
> accept gods in a master/servant kind of relationshihp while shamanic
> practitioners deal with spirits more as equals. So, to a shaman, a
> god is a really big spirit that ones deals with as one would any
> powerful entitity.
This is how I used to see things, before HQ came out. From the point of view of a Gloranthan, I suspect it's still true. (It had better be - or we have Gloranthans waking up one morning with new ideas in their heads and no idea where they came from. Bad!)
> But here people seem to be saying you can worship spirits as spirits
> and gods as gods and they are entirely different. (What is
> "miss-applied worship", anyway?) But what is the difference?
There's a page or two (or five) of the HQ rulebook, starting around p105, that tries to explain this. With diagrams. Misapplied worship is near the end of that section, p110.
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