Hârn Religion Team

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The Hârn Religion Team (HRT) was an ongoing volunteer project started by some of the Hârn Mailing List subscribers in September 1995. Its purpose was to expand upon the published ideas on gods and religion in Columbia GamesHârnWorld setting for fantasy role-playing. During its existence, the HRT developed expanded rules and setting information for the religions of Hârn.

In practice, the HRT stopped producing new material around 2002. After four years of complete inactivity, the remaining members of the HRT decided it was time to offically disband the project in June of 2006. Some of the HRT's ideas have been incorporated into Columbia Games publications. Hârnmaster Religion is a partial reprint of the original Gods of Hârn, but it also contains detailed rules for handling Hârnic priests and religious activities, including a lot of brand new material, some of which was penned by members of the HRT.

Hârnmaster Barbarians also contains information on tribal religions, shamans, and shamanic rituals, much of which was also developed by HRT members. The HRT intended its work to be fully compatible with the Hârn material produced by Columbia Games and N. Robin Crossby. However, some material was not wholly consistent with published information. Material used here at Hârnica will be referenced as such in referenced notations and footnotes.

What were the criteria for submitted material?[edit | edit source]

Contributors to the HRT were asked to work under the following content-related assumptions when preparing submissions:

  • What is written in Gods of Hârn, Hârnmaster Religion, and other Columbia Games publications is basically true (but not comprehensive).
  • The gods of Hârn actually exist within the world of Hârn, but they act so subtly and indirectly that a GM who wishes to assume that the gods do not exist can still use our ideas.
  • It is (and should be) impossible for people within Hârn to prove that the gods exist or that they intervene in the world.
  • All details created in HRT should fit into a unified big picture. This picture may be diverse, and contain differing perspectives, but the basic outline of it should be coherent and unified.
  • HRT ideas should not conflict with any material about Hârn which has (so far) been published by Columbia Games and/or N. Robin Crossby. (If any such conflicts exist, they should be clearly marked.)
  • All submitted ideas are subject to input, criticism, and possible revision from other HRT members.

Index of work[edit | edit source]

The following is the archived content that was produced by the Hârn Religion Team:



 
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