Miracles

The miracle system (performing miracles) in torglike can also be seen as an ORE variant.

Founding principles

1. Miracles should be fun and easy to use.
2. Faith casters should be a bit more discerning when calling on their god as compared to spellcasters.
3. Including torg concepts such as focus.

[[ ===PERFORMING MIRACLES===]]

• In torglike, miracle workers (such as priests, shamans) roll their dicepool to determine whether they have successful performed a miracle.
• Unlike spellcasting, miracles generally do not need to beat a foe's 'Resist' difficulty. Instead, miracles must beat the miracles 'Focus' difficulty (this means that miracles are more independent of the foe's strength than spells are).
• To successful perform a miracle, roll Spirit + Faith
  • Width 2 sets work only if they are equal to or greater than the Focus difficulty. Eg. a 2x6 set miracle will work on a foe if the miracle has a Focus6 difficulty or less. A Focus7 miracle wouldn't have worked.
  • Width 3 or greater sets do NOT need to roll equal to or over Focus. (Otherwise miracles are too underpowered)

• There are also circumstance modifiers that affect the chance of performing miracles
  • performed in front of a congregation (at least 20 people) +2d
  • the recipient of the miracle is from the same faith +2d
  • the recipient of the miracle is of a similar faith (e.g an anglican performing a miracle on a pentecostal) OR has no faith (athiest) or is uncommitted (agnostic) +0d
  • the recipient of the miracle is from a completely different faith (e.g. an anglican performing a miracle on a taoist) -2d

ACTIVELY RESISTING

• Miracles cannot be actively resisted unless the character has the faith skill as well. It is a full-round action of denouncing the opposing faith and results in increasing the focus difficulty of the miracle by +2. Also, sets of any width must now beat the focus difficulty.

FAILED MIRACLES

• If the miracle fails (dice pool has no successes or does not beat the focus), then the miracle worker cannot perform THAT same miracle again until he/she has communicated with God and performed a penance. After the penance is complete, access to that miracle is restored. The penance is directly related to the Focus difficulty of the miracle. For example, a failed bless miracle with focus3 would need only a nights rest + rosary in the morning (for catholics) or 20min meditation (for buddhists) to be restored. A failed Faith Healing with focus6 would need a more severe penance such as donating a week of community service in the name of your god, or a 3 day fast with nothing but water/juice (with an associated penalty to the body stat while fasting).

MIRACLE RESULTS

Each miracle has a table that details the result of different width successes (in general Width 2 = minimal success, Width 3 = adequate success, Width 4 = Good success, Width 5 = Spectacular success).

EXAMPLE MIRACLES

• Bless
  • Focus3
  • • Width2
    • Width3
    • Width4
    • Width5

• Faith Healing
  • Focus6
  • • Width2
    • Width3
    • Width4
    • Width5

• Cure Disease
  • Focus7
  • • Width2
    • Width3
    • Width4
    • Width5

• Exorcise
  • Focus9
  • • Width2
    • Width3
    • Width4
    • Width5