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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8540359" data-attributes="member: 7032025"><p>Have you read all the examples after the first 3 ones ? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And again, have you read the examples below ? The Lord Ruler in Sabderson and Kelsier his adversaries are not only totally on that topic, but in a fantasy setting with exactly the kind of elements that you describe, plus additional twists, for example. Or the Arcane example.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Once more, see The Final Empire examples.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This really depends on your setting. And there are conflicts within pantheons anyway, right ?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are many ways forward here, and note that the level of feedback again depends on your setting and what you put in play. But first it might simply be that the deity itself wants revenge or whatever and pushes her clergy to extremism, this is a common enough case.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Please don't confuse things here between reality and propaganda. Both can be useful tools in a TTRPG when used properly and in moderation, but in the real world, they are both things that are to be rejected, and using one to say the other is "less bad" is not the right way to look at things. Just don't use either of them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And how would this make him better ? In the cases where it succeeded, abolitionism did not succeed by being extremist anyway.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not at all. Extremism is bad in itself, and I'm not sure it even solved anything anyway.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It is generally evil to seek change by extremism.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, these are just examples from the OP's own campaign, and again I find them interesting because for me, it's never a pure religious cause at work, in many cases it drifts into racism and in almost every case into economics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8540359, member: 7032025"] Have you read all the examples after the first 3 ones ? And again, have you read the examples below ? The Lord Ruler in Sabderson and Kelsier his adversaries are not only totally on that topic, but in a fantasy setting with exactly the kind of elements that you describe, plus additional twists, for example. Or the Arcane example. Once more, see The Final Empire examples. This really depends on your setting. And there are conflicts within pantheons anyway, right ? There are many ways forward here, and note that the level of feedback again depends on your setting and what you put in play. But first it might simply be that the deity itself wants revenge or whatever and pushes her clergy to extremism, this is a common enough case. Please don't confuse things here between reality and propaganda. Both can be useful tools in a TTRPG when used properly and in moderation, but in the real world, they are both things that are to be rejected, and using one to say the other is "less bad" is not the right way to look at things. Just don't use either of them. And how would this make him better ? In the cases where it succeeded, abolitionism did not succeed by being extremist anyway. Not at all. Extremism is bad in itself, and I'm not sure it even solved anything anyway. It is generally evil to seek change by extremism. Again, these are just examples from the OP's own campaign, and again I find them interesting because for me, it's never a pure religious cause at work, in many cases it drifts into racism and in almost every case into economics. [/QUOTE]
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