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<blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 26647" data-attributes="member: 871">Yes.&nbsp; Not necessarily a deityless religion, though---more of an agnostic one.&nbsp; Could care less about the gods, since it focuses on self-improvement to obtain perfection &amp; enlightenment.This is the foundation of the monk class in my campaign setting---there are no monasteries devoted to the deities.&nbsp; The monks may hold a deity in regard, but more as a saint or exemplar of a particular virtue valued by the faith.Druids are deityless, in a sense---they worship the force of nature in its myriad of forms.I pretty much developed each main class with a religious bent (clerics, druids, monks, shamans, shujengas) to belong to a particular type of religion.&nbsp; The clerics worship the gods &amp; the &quot;ancients&quot; (akin to the Titans of Greek myth &amp; the Giants of Norse myth); the shujengas worship only the &quot;ancients&quot; (or great kami, as they call them); the druids worship the force of nature solely; the shamans are animists; &amp; the monks are agnostics seeking enlightenment (sort of like Buddhism, IIRC).&nbsp; Sohei practice the same faith as monks; rangers follow the same faith as the druids; &amp; paladins &amp; blackguards worship certain gods.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AFGNCAAP, post: 26647, member: 871"] Yes. Not necessarily a deityless religion, though---more of an agnostic one. Could care less about the gods, since it focuses on self-improvement to obtain perfection & enlightenment. This is the foundation of the monk class in my campaign setting---there are no monasteries devoted to the deities. The monks may hold a deity in regard, but more as a saint or exemplar of a particular virtue valued by the faith. Druids are deityless, in a sense---they worship the force of nature in its myriad of forms. I pretty much developed each main class with a religious bent (clerics, druids, monks, shamans, shujengas) to belong to a particular type of religion. The clerics worship the gods & the "ancients" (akin to the Titans of Greek myth & the Giants of Norse myth); the shujengas worship only the "ancients" (or great kami, as they call them); the druids worship the force of nature solely; the shamans are animists; & the monks are agnostics seeking enlightenment (sort of like Buddhism, IIRC). Sohei practice the same faith as monks; rangers follow the same faith as the druids; & paladins & blackguards worship certain gods. [/QUOTE]

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