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No Pantheons are listed in the 2024 PHB for D&D 5E?

Started by Man at Arms, November 27, 2024, 01:20:04 PM

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HappyDaze

#60
December 13, 2024, 04:34:04 PM
Quote from: Jaeger on December 13, 2024, 03:58:51 PMWhich has always been a bad excuse.
I gave a potential explanation, not an excuse. No 'excuse' is required as the decision to play a non-Christian is not a fault, and does not require justification.

HappyDaze

#61
December 13, 2024, 04:36:04 PM
Quote from: Chris24601 on December 13, 2024, 04:23:27 PMThe main difference I think is that my fantasy is pretty much to be myself only more competent in what the game is focused on, while theirs is to actually not be themselves for awhile.
Both are fine approaches to roleplaying.

ForgottenF

#62
December 14, 2024, 03:14:37 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze on December 13, 2024, 11:52:25 AMI think many players opt to play non-Christians for similar reasons to wanting to play non-humans: In an activity focused on escapism, the exotic holds more attraction than the familiar.


That's a plausible explanation, but it doesn't track with my own experience. The (admittedly small) number of practicing Christians I've played with have been more willing rather than less to play Christian-analogue characters. I'd be more inclined to ascribe it to a general desire people have to play an outlier in whatever setting they're playing in. A lot of people would only play a Christian in a non-Christian setting, which might be why the outspoken man of God is a bit of a sci fi trope. I get that. I like playing a foreigner in whatever setting I'm in and being the fish out of water.

But also, a lot of people in the RPG scene just never grew out of the 90s edgy atheist phase.
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jordane1964

#63
December 15, 2024, 01:34:51 AM
As much as designers try to make classes and spells universal for any setting, these things are best when integrated strongly, and in fact imply a setting. A world where fireball exists means nobles must think twice before building wooden castles.

Same thing goes for a cleric. If healing is good and raising skeletons is evil, what does that say about the moral alignment of the universe? What does that say about the gods?

Ygaragyr Xyagyxa

#64
December 18, 2024, 05:00:26 PM
I haven't read the new books, but good for them if this is the approach they're taking. One of the things I liked the least in 5e was how the setting was baked into the rules a bit. I just happen to not like the Forgotten Realms.

Chainzjade

#65
December 19, 2024, 07:26:10 PM
Maybe they want to move away from the deities disign for reasons of religion being a topic most people don't want to discuss while gaming.

Or as someone else stated, they may charge so much later per deity down the raid. Money, money, money.
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