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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6705469" data-attributes="member: 6777454">If that were the case, then everyone in Dungeons & Dragons would be part of the Catholic Church (or a renamed version of the same thing) and there would only be one god with anyone else who worshipped anything else being a demon worshipper. It would also actively suppress all attempts to advance sciences and destroy all artwork not commissioned by it and made to enrich its glory. People would be wholly owned by the lords of the place they were born in and forbidden from traveling-- any "adventurers" would be outlaws with no safe havens, women would have no rights and be considered effectively property of their fathers-- they would also be killed if not virgins on their wedding night when the lord comes to have his way with her.Knights would fight to the death in celebratory tournaments using lances and swords and otherwise spend their time questing for an ancient cup.And there would be a constant plague wiping out most of the population.Yeah.... nothing like that is remotely in the game. Instead the game is presented with a post-magna carta style of monarchy rule where people are effectively free or otherwise frontierlands in which there are no rulers, gender relations are presented favorable to modern sensibilities, the world is designed to be far more conducive to random adventuring than any feudal government ever was for its people, people don't fight to the death for entertainment because, again, modern sensibilities, and the world is filled with multiple gods who have similar power levels because... I really don't know why, but it couldn't be more counter to the single-religion dominated Europe that was intolerant to all others.I mean, I suppose one could argue that the Barbarian, Druid and Paladin were based on some odd ideas... but, then again, Barbarian works perfectly well to represent a Nordic Berserker, Mongolian Raider, Native American Brave or Zulu Tribal Warrior... Druid works pretty well to represent any sort of nature priest, probably fitting anyone from one of the animist religions across the world. And Paladin in 5th edition has drained out a lot of the specifically Knight Templar Crusader elements and now pretty much works just as well as a Spartan Warrior, Persian Immortal or Samurai Duelist or any other warrior so dedicated to a lord or a cause causing their battle prowess to increase due to control of emotions.</blockquote>

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