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<blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 1225728" data-attributes="member: 2182">Actually, I've played in games where cities were just places to sell loot. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I think it's interesting that most people are able to able to accept many totally generic and evasive D&amp;D concepts, but are not able to accept a generic religion.&nbsp; Take for example languages.&nbsp; In most campaigns I've played in speak language is a totally useless skill.&nbsp; Everyone has no problem accepting the fact that everyone on the planet speaks modern day English (eg. common).&nbsp; Even in the rare instances when there are other languages, they are usually pretty generic; elves speak Elvish, dwarves speak Dwarvish, etc.The same goes for economics.&nbsp; No one has a problem with the totally generic economic system found in D&amp;D.&nbsp; Every country uses the same coinage, which is apparently based on treasure looted from ancient ruins.&nbsp; No consideration is ever given to relative rarity of goods, supply and demand, ect.With the amount of generic concepts found in most campaigns, I have no trouble accepting generic religions.&nbsp; In my current campaign, the cleric works for &quot;The Church&quot;.&nbsp; No more needs to be said.The interesting thing is that Tolkien never directly mentioned religion in The Lord of the Rings.&nbsp; Sure, the Similarillian goes into a lot of detail about the religion and myths of Middle Earth, but The Lord of the Rings never directly mentions any type of religion.&nbsp; So, it is possible to do a story without religion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shadow, post: 1225728, member: 2182"] Actually, I've played in games where cities were just places to sell loot. :D I think it's interesting that most people are able to able to accept many totally generic and evasive D&D concepts, but are not able to accept a generic religion. Take for example languages. In most campaigns I've played in speak language is a totally useless skill. Everyone has no problem accepting the fact that everyone on the planet speaks modern day English (eg. common). Even in the rare instances when there are other languages, they are usually pretty generic; elves speak [I]Elvish[/I], dwarves speak [I]Dwarvish[/I], etc. The same goes for economics. No one has a problem with the totally generic economic system found in D&D. Every country uses the same coinage, which is apparently based on treasure looted from ancient ruins. No consideration is ever given to relative rarity of goods, supply and demand, ect. With the amount of generic concepts found in most campaigns, I have no trouble accepting generic religions. In my current campaign, the cleric works for "The Church". No more needs to be said. The interesting thing is that Tolkien never directly mentioned religion in The Lord of the Rings. Sure, the Similarillian goes into a lot of detail about the religion and myths of Middle Earth, but The Lord of the Rings never [B]directly[/B] mentions any type of religion. So, it is possible to do a story without religion. [/QUOTE]

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