In the course of playing in NS4, our characters sometimes pray to the gods. Mostly for raises, or a hello, or just to Shout. Aside from those times, some characters pray more than others. For example, I would expect paladins and clerics, in general, to do more praying as part of the role-playing aspect (if that is how you want to play) than other classes. Or, if for some reason your character is particularly pious, you may pray often also. Since I enjoy the RP part of the game, and I play clerics and paladins, I would like some guidelines on in-game prayers.
For example, praying for a blessing before entering the tomb, and a prayer of thanksgiving when making it out alive. Or a prayer of thanks for defeating a foe, or a request for help when a battle is going badly, or just because you’re a nut-job paladin and that’s what you do.
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But, I want to NOT spam the /dm channel, because there are also game issues, or the DMs may be testing or something. Using the shout channel has been discouraged, plus is just creates a storm of /shout spam (not that I’m against it, but that is mostly OOC).
So, what I’m kind of wondering is other people’s suggestions for fairly depicting a devout character in his/her prayers, without
1. Doing it so often it gets automatically ignored (these are the gods’ servants, but human nature is more like “Oh, it’s just so and so again.” Don’t want that.
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2. Interrupting the game flow so that people with technical problems have a more difficult time getting through.
Any *useful* thoughts, suggestions, etc.?