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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ultramyth" data-source="post: 1338923" data-attributes="member: 16417">I'm glad you asked. I did put some thought into this. Of course in actual history, the role of the church is actually massive. In Renaissance, I'm discussing the more monotheistic orientation of nations, not perhaps limiting nations to belief in the one god, but rather, limiting their national patron god to a single deity.The focus of the religious is important in a renaissance. It's a big influence. I am thinking about how this applies to polytheist religions, as are found in D&D.As for the templars involvement. I am aware that the last templars were disolved in 1314 (or was it 1214... I think it's 1314), which is still a century short of even the early italian renaissance (1400s). However, there is a lot of legends of how the templars went underground, and reestablished in scotland.Anyone who's seen braveheart, they forgot to mention how they really won that hopelessly outnumbered battle - it wasn't flashing the underkilts at the english - it was templar banners flying.So the templar is actually introduced in this capacity - as an elite, underground more or less secret society, though still with a bad reputation for sorcery and heresy. The whole purpose of prestige classes in the first place was to have sort of special classes for elite 'guilds'. This fact has been lost to a lot of d20 publishers. Even WOTC. I want to get back to making it not so easy to get a prestige class. As Dice and Dramatics may have demonstrated, I prefer roleplaying. So there will be a good story behind them.Hope that addresses your question.</blockquote>

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