Re: what is animism?

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From: Jeff <richaje_at_...>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 07:45:34 -0000

> Sure, but can't you sacrifice to (or gift) spirits to gain magic? Treating them like little gods, even though technically they're not.

Sure, and in that case - in the God Learner framework for understanding magic* - you are worshiping little gods, even if you call them spirits and understand them to be spirits.

> (I completely agree that the rules never handled this well, and dropping the game distinction is a good idea.)

IMO the rules handled such concepts extremely poorly and put lots of energy and questions into something that neither helped with game play or revealed insights into the setting.

This framework (theism, animism, and wizardry) is an intellectual abstraction and not something that any Gloranthan outside of a few philosophers hold to.

Jeff