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[UPDATED] Green Ronin Finds Religion In D&D 5E's BOOK OF THE RIGHTEOUS
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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7698166" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Despite the 3e original being notoriously popular, I was never convinced of its utility. It was probably very well written, and the idea of detailing religions in depth is certainly great. What didn't win me was the fact that the book presented essentially a set of unprecedented religions, which you could use either as a whole or cherrypick, but if you are playing D&D in a published setting you already have the pantheons and you'd rather want more details on the official religions (that's for instance what Faiths and Pantheons did for me to run the Forgotten Realms); if you are on the other hand homebrewing, the Book of the Righteous can surely give you ideas to steal from, but personally I find it more fun to just design my own.</p><p></p><p>Overall I think the strength of the Book of the Righteous was in the fluff, so it would be a bit awkward to make a mere 5e crunch update. OTOH 5e certainly doesn't have a lot of crunch yet, so the crunch part could be proportionally more useful now than it was in 3e.</p><p></p><p>There is another possibility: that the 5e BotR will feature entirely new deities, and will be a successor of the 3e original only in concept, but not in content. This would make it interesting also for those who already have the 3e original, but disappoint those who actually want to use the old BotR deities in 5e games.</p><p></p><p>I am not sure, but overall I feel like this would be a great book to talk about rather than use (for me).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 7698166, member: 1465"] Despite the 3e original being notoriously popular, I was never convinced of its utility. It was probably very well written, and the idea of detailing religions in depth is certainly great. What didn't win me was the fact that the book presented essentially a set of unprecedented religions, which you could use either as a whole or cherrypick, but if you are playing D&D in a published setting you already have the pantheons and you'd rather want more details on the official religions (that's for instance what Faiths and Pantheons did for me to run the Forgotten Realms); if you are on the other hand homebrewing, the Book of the Righteous can surely give you ideas to steal from, but personally I find it more fun to just design my own. Overall I think the strength of the Book of the Righteous was in the fluff, so it would be a bit awkward to make a mere 5e crunch update. OTOH 5e certainly doesn't have a lot of crunch yet, so the crunch part could be proportionally more useful now than it was in 3e. There is another possibility: that the 5e BotR will feature entirely new deities, and will be a successor of the 3e original only in concept, but not in content. This would make it interesting also for those who already have the 3e original, but disappoint those who actually want to use the old BotR deities in 5e games. I am not sure, but overall I feel like this would be a great book to talk about rather than use (for me). [/QUOTE]
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