@nisjasper - It's not NOT Unknown Armies, but the imagined degree of "My religion is utterly tailored and specific to me" is I think a notable departure from UA usual?
@nisjasper - I'm talking like I said - near religions, built on things like key memories and personal psychological traits, designed to justify psi powers (in the genre sense - telepaths and telekinetics and astral projection).
"Mark practices a tokenistic kind of polytheism. He carries a truck fetish, an icon that reminds him of when he (rather traumatically) saw someone get hit by an eighteen-wheeler. To smash someone telekinetically, he touches the fetish and calls on the spirit of MACK."
@nisjasper - In that example, Mark is a Telekinetic. He has a particular psi ability. But to use it, he needs ritual, and his various rituals need to "line up" and not confuse each other.
He engineers himself a faith, cynically,and embraces it, simultaneously earnestly and with irony.
@ladylakira - Standard therapy, likely. But just to riff a different direction, wouldn't the best personal for-your-psyche religion builders have therapy backgrounds?
Arcane therapy, fighting it's own permanent battle of vigilance against turning into Wellness Mush.
@ladylakira - Oh, yeah, the horrible shitbags of the setting (or one type at least) would almost certainly be heavy on the "bent medical abusers" family of tropes.
I have read the full run of Baum Oz books (and have them all in glorious hardcover), most of the other-author books of the "famous forty" canon, the full set of the Maguire takes, and have seen the musical and a PILE of film and series stuff.
Not an expert, but I do know the material.
The new upcoming movie might or might not be particularly good!
But the objections at this point REALLY sound like "I don't know what I'm talking about, but want to make noise to cover my racism".
-TTRPGs run on tarot. Crunch is fine but not necessary.
-Tarot decks by solo or indie artists.
I know nothing about any of this, but a friend of mine who wasn't into TTRPGs is suddenly very keen now that they know there are tarot-based games, and I'd like to introduce them to some stuff.
I'm seeing a lot of my fellow Gen-Xers saying "When did we start thinking the police were the bad guys?"
Did you not come up on Fuck the Police? On Killing in the Name?
Or is this only because now that you have your little bit of shit and feel entitled that you want to remake it? To be safe for you, instead of strong for them? To become the generation we hated for not protecting us?
These kids are doing what we did. Being who we wanted to be. Help them, don't shit on them. Fucking cowards.