Nick Wedig

“Is there another Clergy member working against him, trying to crush the spirit of freedom that (should) be at the heart of his music?”

Of course there is. Consider the backlash against Elvis when he first appeared, which continues today against other wusicians and such. The people who argued in favor of Elvis forty years ago are the ones opposed to Marilyn Manson today.

There’s got to be an archetype of The Censor or something, that tries to eliminate freedom in art (on the good side, to ‘protect the children’, on the bad side to eliminate original thought). Perhaps this is just one manifestation of some larger authoritarian archetype, though.

But it’d be cool to have a couple of Censor avatars working together to stop art before it happens, by interrupting artists at work, and calling themselves the “men from Porlock”.

One of the first things I did when I obtained the 2nd Ed book was make notes as to which rumors would be true and which wouldn’t. This worked to provide me with story seeds, and also would mean the players couldn’t immediately discount all the wird rumors that they heard. No matter how odd something may sound, it might be true. At the very least, a couple of people believe in it, which could be exploited somehow on an intelligent PC’s part.

You might want to seek out a copy of the “Constitution on the Church of Vatican Council II”. That should tell you most of what you’d want to know, I’d think. You can get a copy used from amazon for about $5, and might want to look into some of the other books talking about the results of Vatican II.

Why no sections for the unnatural and/or the unexplained? What if I want to post new game ideas explaining, say, crop circles, or some sort of squamous horror to be used by the local evil cabal? Where would I post these thing? Some but not all could fit in other categories, I suppose.