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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 1849287" data-attributes="member: 3477">Being from Europe, this whole discussion does not really concern me much. However, I like to add that I can understand that certain aspects of D&D lead to conflicts with religious people. Upon creating D&D, the designers used a patchwork of material from many sources, like J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Vance, Poul Anderson, etc.  One of the sources was Judeo-Christian religion. They included Demons, Devils or the Nine Hells, because they thought these elements made for cool enemies to fight against. Seeing the big rave about books with these topics on these boards, I see that many gamers share this sentiment. If you look further into D&D supplements, you will find that the "churches" of many deities of Greyhawk or the FR are, as far as their organization is concerned, pretty exact copies of Christian churches and their organization. If you look at most plans of temples, you see the similarity again. I don't think that this is consciously designed this way, but that the authors simply followed examples they knew from their environment.I'm not religious. However, and this may look funny to you, I don't like elements like angels or devils in my campaign, because they are not "fantasy" enough for me. I like to keep real world religion out of my games, even if it's a fantasy version thereof. In this vein, I'm not really surprised that topics like this show up all the time; somehow, D&D calls for it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</blockquote>

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