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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8780117" data-attributes="member: 6801228">This one might lead into an entirely separate question, but one even less considered by the typical game worlds I've found. Why aren't basically all the nations Theocracy's? If you go back and look at the history of political power in the real-world, it was actually incredibly rare for the leader of the nation to NOT also be the head of the church. Spiritual authority and spiritual power were massively important, leading to &quot;The Divine Right of Kings&quot;, &quot;God-Kings&quot;, &quot;The Mandate of Heaven&quot; and so on. But, in DnD the gods are REAL, and they are more powerful than most other forces. So, logically, the majority of settings would have Theocracies of the God's actual chosen rulers. Only thing I can think of quickly which would prevent this is a world with a single pantheon, because then a single god couldn't get the focus, because all eight of them are equally important. But once you have hundreds of gods and thousands of kingdoms... then quite a few of them would be divinely ordained I think.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8780117, member: 6801228"] This one might lead into an entirely separate question, but one even less considered by the typical game worlds I've found. Why aren't basically all the nations Theocracy's? If you go back and look at the history of political power in the real-world, it was actually incredibly rare for the leader of the nation to NOT also be the head of the church. Spiritual authority and spiritual power were massively important, leading to "The Divine Right of Kings", "God-Kings", "The Mandate of Heaven" and so on. But, in DnD the gods are REAL, and they are more powerful than most other forces. So, logically, the majority of settings would have Theocracies of the God's actual chosen rulers. Only thing I can think of quickly which would prevent this is a world with a single pantheon, because then a single god couldn't get the focus, because all eight of them are equally important. But once you have hundreds of gods and thousands of kingdoms... then quite a few of them would be divinely ordained I think. [/QUOTE]

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