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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 8126239" data-attributes="member: 58416">I don't have any emotional connection to the wall. I feel no need to defend it. I had no idea it even existed until after other people started to mention it. (I typically do not play in Forgotten Realms.)However, I also do not fully understand being offended by it. (Which isn't to say that people aren't offended; I'm simply struggling to understand why.) As I understand it, divine beings are very real and tangible in Forgotten Realms. So, it makes some amount of in-setting logic that they would also be able to enforce some sort of tangible method for enforcing religion*.*I didn't use the word "faith" because I do not believe it can apply in this circumstance. The people in the world have confirmed knowledge of divine beings influencing the setting. All that being said, the little bit of knowledge I have picked up over the past few days (from FR threads) lean me toward believing that most of the gods in FR are kinda dbags -even those who are "good." I guess can understand removing the concept so as to reduce the amount of setting elements which may be viewed as controversial (in any conceivable way) in contemporary society. I cannot say that I fully understand the why of somebody being offended in this instance, but, if it's viewed as offensive by the game's audience, I believe the game is overall better without it. Still, I find myself curious to see how far the effort to sanitize D&D goes; mentally reconciling the idea of killing other sentient beings for loot (and advancement) with real-life society's morals is going to be interesting to watch.</blockquote>

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