D&D 5E Archetypes to add to 5e

[PsyzhranV2]

To require players to conform to polytheism in order to play D&D,

is like to require players to say ‘Our Lords Prayer’ in order to play football.

This religionism is an ethical violation.

Paragraphs you fool, paragraphs! You don't have to press the goddamn enter button after every period or comma! 3-5 sentence paragraphs, don't go over 200 words per paragraph, it's simple! Your posts would be a lot less annoying to read if you didn't break them up like you were hammering the enter button like the snare drum!

 

[cbwjm]

What matters is, there are many different kinds of religiosity among the human species.

NO ONE

NO ONE

NO ONE

has permission

to coerce someone else into any religion.



Not even D&D.

Good news! DnD doesn't coerce anyone. If anything, it's the DM creating the setting that does.

 

[Remathilis]

There totally needs to be an "Opera Phantom" Bard subclass. They could get mask related powers, mind control via singing, and free proficiency in rowing boats!

The College of Opera exists on DMs Guild.

Dungeon Masters Guild

www.dmsguild.com

Combine with the faceless background in Baldur's Gate.

Viola!

 

[Tony Vargas]

I am fine with D&D 1e.

Then, while I can understand the potential insensitivity in continuing to include references to less-widely-recognized, but no less legitimate, RL neo-Pagan religions, I can't otherwise take your complaint about 5e too seriously.
5e is all-in on the DM Empowerment side, anything you could ignore/change/re-define/skip/fold/spindle/mutilate in 1e, you can in 5e. D&D's only striven to become more consciously-inoffensive with regard to RL issues with each passing ed.

What matters is, there are many different kinds of religiosity among the human species.

Does it not matter that D&D's odd, prolific-thaumaturgy/patron-deity-fixation fictional take on polytheism corresponds to none of them?

 

[Yaarel]

When errata to the 5e Players Handbook finally removes the requirement of the Cleric class to conform to polytheism, then the coercion on players to conform to polytheism will end.

Or at least, significantly diminish.

 

[PsyzhranV2]

disregard

 

[PsyzhranV2]

When errata to the 5e Players Handbook finally removes the requirement of the Cleric class to conform to polytheism, then the coercion on players to conform to polytheism will end.

Or at least, significantly diminish.

Quote the offending passages, and let us judge if you have a point or if you are high on your on farts.

I think I know the answer already, but would you be opposed to playing Pathfinder, Exalted, Vampire: the Masquerade, Deadlands, Dark Heresy, or literally any game with a default setting implicit or explicit, because of how tight your underwear is knotted up over this - IMO, quite overblown - contention over how religion is portrayed? Would you refuse to play a video game set in a setting with a set-in-stone proven to exist god or gods, monotheistic or polytheistic? Or read a novel of the same setting?

I think the answer to all those questions is yes because of how insane you are being in this thread. Prove me wrong.

 

[Tony Vargas]

When errata to the 5e Players Handbook...

...the City of Brass will freeze over. 5e errata is like moving the starting line after the gun.

There's just little point.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

To require players to conform to polytheism in order to play D&D,

is like to require players to say ‘The Lords Prayer’ in order to play football.

This religionism is an ethical violation.

I may play a wizard, but I as a player do not believe in magic.

I may play a warlock, but I as a player do not believe in devils or fairies or Yog-Sothoth.

D&D is not coercing me as a player to conform to any belief system.

 

[Xenonnonex]

To require players to conform to polytheism in order to play D&D,

is like to require players to say ‘The Lords Prayer’ in order to play football.

This religionism is an ethical violation.

There is such a thing as separation of fantasy from reality.