[crossfire] Love and marriage, love and marriage...

[Tchize]

Brendan Lally a écrit :

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     On 10/18/05, Anton Oussik <
      antonoussik at gmail.com
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     I persume you would get married in a church, which means you would
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     need to worship a god of some sort.
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     Wouldn't it be a high level thing anyway? Marriage typically something
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     that was engaged in later in life than soldiering.
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     Depends on culture, in some countries, girls were married at age of 13
not so long ago.

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       - Should the couple worship the same god for marriage to work? Maybe
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     allow marriages between worshipers of different gods as long as they
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     are not enemies and there is no conflict with any of the gods?
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     or allow each god to define it. I'm inclined to say no though, the
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     gods in crossfire are not merely different denominations, but
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     different religions, there is no real-world norm to parallel to what
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     you describe.
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     I'll say forbid cross-god mariage, it hads soem much fun when one of the
to be married
must change god :)

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       - Do we allow same sex marriges (I can see valriel rejecting them)?
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     Crossfire still have no gender. More serious question, do we allow
cross-races
mariage?

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     I can only assume this is an attempt to provoke an off-topic flamewar.
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     Why? The question is legitime. But i'll say no. Or player would just get
married to
be able to use the additionnal spells, no matter their respective sex,
and divorce
just after.

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     I shall simply state that it is ahistorical, without precedent in any
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     society that approximates the technological state where crossfire is
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     set (medieval europe/renaissence - with the odd 17th century-ism)
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     Should it be god dependant? Should some gods not allow marriage
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     alltogether (like devourers, since the primary goal of getting married
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     is having children, and this seems to go against the principles of
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     devourers)
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     probably, or else they would have polygamy/polyandry
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       - Divorces. Let's face it, relationships do not last for ever, and
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     you may decide to go your own ways. Should there be a mechanism for
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     terminating a marriage?
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     Kill your husband/wife?

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     not a standard one. The way that divorces can occur varies between
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     different faiths. I see no compelling reason why crossfire should be
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     different.
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     Agree

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     There are major issues though, if marriage would allow a shared bank
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     account, then splitting it afterwards would be interesting. This would
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     become more acute if polygamy existed
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