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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 4534634" data-attributes="member: 172">Interesting. Thanks for that.The Faiths &amp; Avatars approach to describing religions as functional, self-consistent organizations was a hit-out-of-the-park for the day. Sadly, many 3e designers failed to see it's brilliance in more ways that one.Anyone here remember the short lived online for-pay magazine D20 Weekly? I wrote a very non-complimentary review of Deities &amp; Demigods for 3e, ranting about how it was a &quot;deities monster manual&quot;, and how the design team made a major mistake in not hewing closer to the Faiths &amp; Avatars model.I didn't associate at the time I wrote it that the editor of d20 Weekly at the time (Dale Donovan) was also on the editorial team for DDG 3e, who shot down my review. I resubmitted a very &quot;kid gloved&quot; version of the review.Dale insisted to me that emulating prior DDG's was the &quot;right thing to do&quot;, not Faiths &amp; Avatars as I had suggested. The winds had shifted on this issue, and I guess we wouldn't see the idea of religions as complex living organizations resurface until Eberron by my estimation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 4534634, member: 172"] Interesting. Thanks for that. The Faiths & Avatars approach to describing religions as functional, self-consistent organizations was a hit-out-of-the-park for the day. Sadly, many 3e designers failed to see it's brilliance in more ways that one. Anyone here remember the short lived online for-pay magazine D20 Weekly? I wrote a very non-complimentary review of Deities & Demigods for 3e, ranting about how it was a "deities monster manual", and how the design team made a major mistake in not hewing closer to the Faiths & Avatars model. I didn't associate at the time I wrote it that the editor of d20 Weekly at the time (Dale Donovan) was also on the editorial team for DDG 3e, who shot down my review. I resubmitted a very "kid gloved" version of the review. Dale insisted to me that emulating prior DDG's was the "right thing to do", not Faiths & Avatars as I had suggested. The winds had shifted on this issue, and I guess we wouldn't see the idea of religions as complex living organizations resurface until Eberron by my estimation. [/QUOTE]

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