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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7816815" data-attributes="member: 996">In theory, sure.&nbsp; In practice, for those of us who were playing it back in the day, the presentation we saw was all that weird D&amp;D patron-deity-polytheism.&nbsp; That didn't much expand beyond the odd hint here or there, until 2e, especially the CPH.&nbsp; And that expansion didn't take.&nbsp; The WotC era has been primarily patron-deity-polytheism, too.&nbsp; &nbsp;Very little of the 'ascetic tradition' of the 0e/1e Monk was expanded upon enough to suggest any sort of religion. There were /many/, almost unconscious-seeming, trappings of Christianity in the 0e/1e Cleric &amp; Paladin, but, Theocracy of the Pale, notwithstanding, it never added up to openly addressing monotheism as legitimate in the D&amp;D cosmology.&nbsp; The many deities, residing in the outer planes, were presented as simple fact.Like I said, for a while, 2e expanded on that, and it's always been possible for the DM to just unilaterally do whatever he wanted when creating a world - I certainly did, back in the day, there were monotheists placed in my 1e campaign world, for instance.&nbsp;Not say'n you shouldn't be, just pointing out that it goes back to the beginnings.&nbsp; What might've gone on in the pre-publication campaigns of Gygax &amp; Arneson, or what might've been going through their heads is interesting, but it doesn't re-write what was actually published in the 70s &amp; 80s.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7816815, member: 996"] In theory, sure. In practice, for those of us who were playing it back in the day, the presentation we saw was all that weird D&D patron-deity-polytheism. That didn't much expand beyond the odd hint here or there, until 2e, especially the CPH. And that expansion didn't take. The WotC era has been primarily patron-deity-polytheism, too. Very little of the 'ascetic tradition' of the 0e/1e Monk was expanded upon enough to suggest any sort of religion. There were /many/, almost unconscious-seeming, trappings of Christianity in the 0e/1e Cleric & Paladin, but, Theocracy of the Pale, notwithstanding, it never added up to openly addressing monotheism as legitimate in the D&D cosmology. The many deities, residing in the outer planes, were presented as simple fact. Like I said, for a while, 2e expanded on that, and it's always been possible for the DM to just unilaterally do whatever he wanted when creating a world - I certainly did, back in the day, there were monotheists placed in my 1e campaign world, for instance. Not say'n you shouldn't be, just pointing out that it goes back to the beginnings. What might've gone on in the pre-publication campaigns of Gygax & Arneson, or what might've been going through their heads is interesting, but it doesn't re-write what was actually published in the 70s & 80s. [/QUOTE]

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