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You can take you pantheon and go. Shoo.

Started by BarefootGaijin, January 30, 2014, 06:02:38 AM

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February 17, 2014, 03:19:54 AM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;731369You could always play BECMI D&D. :)

  "The D&D game does not deal with the ethical or theological beliefs of the characters in the game"--both Mentzer Basic and the Rules Cyclopedia, in the description of the cleric class.

  Admittedly, I'm coming at the issue from a personal position almost completely opposite of the OP--deeply Catholic--but I understand the desire to bracket off this stuff or not deal with it in gaming. The AD&D/3E/4E cleric makes that difficult to do; the premises of the class pretty much require interventionist, often polytheistic religion. The Basic approach to a cleric--dedicated to a cause or philosophy--allows the class to model any number of different things, such as priests, vampire hunters, sohei, warrior-poets, Jedi Knights, or even fairy-tale princes or princesses or magical girls who are empowered by purity of heart. ;)

Yeah, it's one of BECMI's (several) strong points.

Allthough in 2e, at least in its Priest's Handbook, there's also stuff for priests serving philosophies (like "Good" and "Evil") or unpersonal Forces ("Elemental Forces", "Life-Death-Rebirth Cycle") or monotheist faiths ("God of Everything").
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