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Could one of his brigades also be teal? The bible mentions him wearing the linen ephod and he was the tabernacle priest at Shiloh.

I think it will make the new samuel even more playable.

Amazing catch. It would definitely appear Samuel was a Tabernacle Priest.

urim and edicts for everyone!!

Pol,

Let's be a little careful with tone please.

As to what determines brigades, it's not quite just the identifiers. Characters with multiple roles tend to get the brigades most strongly associated with them. For a while, everyone who uttered a single line of prophecy in the Bible was given Green, but now we've kind of figured it out. There's no hard-and-fast rule that I'm aware of (for example, Moses gets White even though he didn't even have the musician identifier for a long time), but for the most part the brigades now seem to be based on the most well-known parts of that person's life.

I often agree with what you are saying but the way you say it is often very confrontational and dismissive of others. Being right doesn't give you the right to act in these ways.

Can Samuel be an "implied priest" lol

If the Bible explicitly says a character is a Priest, it's frustrating that there even needs to be a process before adding the identifier.

Sure, but I feel being civil doesn't produce any change.*



*Edited post by Soul Seeker to convey the thought without the perceived sarcasm.

If the Bible explicitly says a character is a Priest, it's stupid that there even needs to be a process before adding the identifier.

For cards before and without identifiers, that is the process

Oh and not to mention salvation! 

Pol I agree with you on the moses issue, however as Paul says in Romans "if it is possible as far as it depends on you live at peace with everyone."  It is certainly possible for you to make your points without antagonizing other board members.

Tried that, doesn't work. You may not have been around for a decade of bringing up rulings problems or discrepancies (which hive finally since been rectified, so they were indeed real problems and discrepancies), being told the elders were actively discussing the problem and would give a ruling soon, only to bring it up again a year later and find that there had actually been no discussion at all and the elders had forgotten about it. Anyone who's met me in person will back me up that I'm about the most pleasant, mellow person you could hope to meet. But I care about this amazing game too much to stop my unending crusade for its improvement just so a couple people won't be mildly put off by my tone.

@Daniel, that actually is the rule, or at least it was in older rules documents. If the Bible explicitly says something is or is not and Redemption contradicts it, unless there is some vaguery or nuance somewhere, the Bible is more authoritative. For example, Samuel is somewhat vague if you don't know anything about Greek and Hebrew writing conventions, but Moses and Aaron are incontrovertible. Moses being a Musician was in debate for a long time, not because it was in question whether he composed a song, but because we hadn't made up our minds as to whether one recorded composition a Musician makes. However, it has never been in question that Melchizedek is a priest or David is a King or anything else of the like because the Bible explicitly says so. No difference here for Moses and Aaron, and while Samuel is obvious too if you know the slightest bit about how that sentence structure operates in the language it was written in, it is not quite explicit.

I am relating a set of circumstances that you weren't around to witness.

I view conservatism as a good thing, bureaucracy as a bad thing, and obstructionism a bad thing. It is not conservative to immediately oppose any change whatsoever to the status quo, which is what most of the elders used to do. Furthermore, even conservatism is a bad thing when there is no opposition attempting change.