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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6838209" data-attributes="member: 1465">Personally I try not to use contemporary real-world pantheons, but it's more because I prefer the feeling of old religions which most people have heard something about from school, but nobody takes seriously anymore. Generally I get the feeling that people are very often interested and fascinated by the idea of learning about cultures from the past (and I don't just mean while gaming!), about which they don't need to "take side" or judge.Instead, if you include cultures from the present, there is always someone who already has a moral opinion or has taken side (positive or negative) either on a specific religion or on the religious idea as a whole. You might just have people who are strongly religious vs strongly atheist in the same group, and if you have (any) contemporary religion in the game, the two may not get along well if they start arguing how to deal with them.But if you use Greek and Egyptian and Norse, nobody really cares and nobody argues. The atheists just treats them as false by default, the religious treats them as false by mistake.</blockquote>