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cbwjm replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards?.I make no distinction between wizard and sorcerer, both need inborn power in the fiction. Warlocks borrow power. -
cbwjm reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards? with
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The whole innate/learned distinction is something that do not exist in most fiction, as often magic & similar are both. You need to have... -
cbwjm reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
How D&D handles religion is of course in many ways weird, and common magic certainly would warp societies in myriad of ways. But I still...
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cbwjm replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.Yeah, DnD faiths and pantheons are a little weird since, while the common people might worship the pantheon, clerics have been...
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cbwjm reacted to bloodtide's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
Not too much. The big twist too is that The Outer Planes are not Real Material places, not Reality. They are metaphysical concepts...
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cbwjm reacted to Voadam's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
I think it is going to vary a lot based on the actual cosmology, the specific magics available, the specific gods involved, and the...
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cbwjm reacted to maeve's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
Other people have mentioned how followers of pre-modern religions (at least) absolutely saw proof of their gods in the world around...
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cbwjm replied to the thread Approaching writing adventures for home games?.Sorry, I don't mean to say every adventure is a dungeon, just that the adventure I created in the forest was. It had clearings (rooms)...
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cbwjm reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
In Polynesia it was common for an old ineffective diety to be rejected and replaced by a new more effective god (the old gods idols...
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cbwjm replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.Mate, you don't need to be so defensive, this is just a conversation, I'm not attacking you, I'm just giving an alternate perspective on...
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cbwjm replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.That was actually a thing in 3e (having just looked it up), the soul might not even want to come back which would cause the spell to...
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cbwjm replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.Sacrificing to before a sea voyage Umberlee makes sense to me. If there is a god of the seas that might drag you down to the bottomless...
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cbwjm replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.Maybe this would be a thing for the wealthy, but even in 5e a 500gp diamond is likely out of reach for the majority of the population...
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cbwjm reacted to Reynard's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
I think that is just philosophizing about religion by way of gaming without actually interrogating what makes people religious and what...
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cbwjm replied to the thread Approaching writing adventures for home games?.I've created an adventure in a forest that was essentially a dungeon with permeable walls. I had clearings that were linked by paths but...