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I'm not a purist, and I don't care what medieval people thought and believed, to the extend that I can mold this D&D setting to their beliefs without changing the classes or how magic works, I will. Basically I am substituting this historic setting for something comparable to the Forgotten...

Lucky thing then that the Resurrection didn't happen in 1100 AD, there are people who both believed it happened and those that didn't and as a DM I don't have to resolve this issue. There are three main religions in this setting, one of those, Christianity, believes there was a Resurrection, the...

The way I see it, the Devil is born out of the absence of good, he is everything God is not. God could destroy him, but if he did, he would also be destroying free will and the ability to choose between good and evil. So in my World, the Devil or Satan is a manifestation of people's freedom to...

I intend to keep RL theology to a minimum. A cleric casting a healing spell using the power of God is not theology in my opinion. God takes a general hands off approach and people need to solve their own problems without relying so much on divine intervention, they main exception to this rule...

I was at an RPG and Comic book store called "Gamers Gambit" yesterday, and I saw Ars Magica in the shelf, I picked it up and looked though it, a lot of interesting stuff in there, but I wasn't ready to make an investment in it yet. I would like to see what would happen if I adapted a historical...

There is a god and their is God. God with a capital 'G' is all powerful, a god with a lower case 'g' is not, I tend to make a distinction between the two. Satan can be thought of as an "evil god" in the pagan sense, but he is not God in the Biblical sense. Other pagan deities, such as Mars and...

The planar system is mostly the same as in Standard D&D, Satan has dominion over all of the lower planes, the Lords of those planes are working for him. God has dominion over the upper planes.

I think the gods Venus and Mars are consumed by maintaining their own planets, they have little time an energy left over for dealing with Earthlings once they stopped believing and worshipping them. During their heyday the Roman gods got associated with the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter...

Pagan religions aren't Medieval. We don't really have a historic example of a bunch of pagan nations existing in a Medieval Europe. Your grafting something that more properly belongs in Ancient times into a Medieval setting. the Church was a very powerful organization in Europe in 1100 AD. You...

Creating this alternate history would create a lot of extra work for me. Do you want me to give the Roman Empire 600 extra years of history? This would be a different world than Feudal Europe. History would be a lot different without Christianity. Do you want the Roman Empire to still exist in...

Why should I do that? 1) D&D is based on Medieval folklore and fairy tales. 2) D&D has clerics and druids that get their spells from deities. 3) The technology of D&D is Medieval, not Ancient as in Ancient Rome and earlier which was the time of those pagan deities. 4) In 1100 AD, In Europe, the...

Lets think of God as a living incarnation of all good and neutral alignments and Satan gets all the evil ones. Pagan deities are more limited, they have specific portfolios, and their following is limited to certain geographic regions where people still worship them. In the 1100s for example...

Well you need something to explain evil clerics casting spells. Satan is just something that grants clerical magic to evil clerics, also some zealots, inquisitors persecuting heretics did evil acts, now would a good God let evil clerics do evil in the name of God? Power corrupts and the clergy...

This setting is not a Biblical setting, God does not appear as a burning bush or a pillar of flames. God is very "hands off" in this setting. Clerics that pray to Him can receive spells, but Satan is also there granting spells to his followers and often times to clerics who think they are...

Since I am naming rulers here are some rulers for the various kingdoms. In England we have William Rufus also known as William II of England. followed by Henry Beauclerc on August 2, 1100, also known as Henry II. King Philip I the Amorous is king of France Poland is ruled by three dukes at...

Yeah, your right, the first contact was probably with the Vikings at around the year 1000 AD. So the elves have been a part of this setting for around 100 years, and most of the elves whom the Vikings had contact with are still alive in the present. 100 years is not a long time for an elf.

The Dwarves worship God in their own way, most aren't Catholic, but the Emperor tolerates this. The Empire is very loosely organized, it is more of an alliance of mutual protection. This is the coat of Arms for the Empire and the Emperor The Biblical God is the most powerful being that is...

Well, Ars Magica isn't Dungeons & Dragons, and I wanted to use Dungeons & Dragons rather than break into a new system that I don't have. Basically what I want is a D&D World constructed around a historic medieval setting. The history gives me the names of the kingdoms, and cities, and also the...

There is no reason why a Dwarven Kingdom couldn't be part of the Holy Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire itself is made up of a number of subordinate kingdoms, and a Dwarven Kingdom would just be one more of those, the Emperor leaves the Dwarves alone in running their day to day affairs, the...

The elves are not united of course, there are several kingdoms of elves on the continent of North America, including the drow that live underground, and their are tribes of wild elves living between the elven kingdoms Aquatic elves live in the warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean...