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"Ours is the one true pantheon! You heathen druids with your nature worship must worship our pantheon or face the consequences!"
Not much difference, really.
Not much difference, really.
"Ours is the one true pantheon! You heathen druids with your nature worship must worship our pantheon or face the consequences!"
Not much difference, really.
Not much difference from what?
I don't think faith would nearly apply in the typical DnD world. Since the evidence for Gods in nearly all DnD worlds is directly available, it would not be a matter of whether you believed, but who you choose to follow. This should have a rather large impact in nearly all aspects of life, but that is up to your world.
Fourth Edition solves this nicely, as maintaining your divine powers is not dependent on the tacit approval of your god.
After all, why would you pray to Saint X for help finding your car keys?
I think a polytheist would be more likely to accept the existence of gods outside his own pantheon. They're just not the ones he worships, and of course his own gods are stronger than those of his enemies.Please see OP's initial question. My joking answer was that there would be not much difference between the behavior of pantheon-based societies from a monotheism-based societies. That's the real question, to my mind, because most people in polytheism-based societies were pretty sure that their gods existed because they worked miracles every day.*
What features of real life religions couldn't apply to D&D religions?
What features probably wouldn't apply?
In what ways would (or could) D&D religions mirror real life religions?
There are no wrong answers, or at least I don't think there are.
Your thoughts?