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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7816850" data-attributes="member: 58172">The problem with 4e and 5e is that everything is infected with references to polytheism. Polytheism is baked into the core rules themselves.Oppositely, 1e gives an option. It is clearly one of many different options for things that might inspire a DM to worldbuild. And thats it. The rules stay out of the way of what the DM finds inspirational.Even in 3e − especially the SRD − the core rules are neutral. The DM can easily worldbuild.By contrast, the core rules of 4e and 5e are infected everywhere by references to polytheism. It is impossible to ignore. I have given up the Sysiphean effort to search and find to delete references to polytheism to rewrite my own nonpolytheistic 5e rulebook. It is way, way, too much polytheistic spam.The main reason WotC spams polytheism, is because it wants to ‘brand’ the trademarked names of the FR deities. The motive is corporate abusiveness.</blockquote>