Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-6529023-20140504175125/@comment-4536066-20140504204517

QueenArasene wrote: In one of the recent livestreams, it was said that prayer depends more on the souls of the departed than on the gods. This might be why it has no influence at which altar you restore your energy at.

If you're referencing the thing from the Q&A, that's only sort of true. That was a statement made by a mod in context that clearly framed it as speculative and not official. There was also a separate statement by a different mod that proposed a completely different explanation. I'm pretty sure they both said that the explanation of prayer was widely disagreed upon among the jagex team members and there isn't a single canon explanation for it at the moment.

As for using prayer in RSRP, I do think that it should be welcome in character, but I don't think there should be any kind of pre-designed structure for using it like is sort of being put forth here. Until we actually get canon lore explaining wtf prayer really is and how or why it works, specifics should be left up to the players. I'm also still in favor of banning overheads from rp, because they're basically just overpowered versions of the already-present defense prayers.

And I definitely agree that, unless you've devoted your life day and night to being a priest or nun or monk or maybe a paladin, or so on, you're not going to be performing any prayers beyond basic invigoration or healing or protection.