Free Article on Worldbuilding: Fantasy Religion Design Guide

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Worldbuilding: Fantasy Religion Design Guide

Are you working on a religion for your game world? Are you thinking about improving and detailing one of your game world's religions or deities? Read the article above for approaches you may not have considered and other divine ideas. While you're there, look over the other articles available.

 

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There is now a companion article which creates two religions as examples. Here's the link: Worldbuilding: Fantasy Religion Design Example

They are mostly (if not completely) edition/rpg rules neutral. Topics covered are: relationships between multiple religions in a world, monotheism vs. polytheism (pantheons) vs. atheism, relationships between deities, a deity's area of influence and personality, creating mythic stories to add depth to a religion, tweaking game rules for specific faiths and other ways religion adds color to a campaign.

 

[Vascant]

Nice article and examples, as a person who is starting to really do some serious work on my own world it helped out.

I also enjoyed knowing I am not the only person who remembers Dungeoncraft Rule #2

 

[Starglim]

Very impressive! and good to see the World Builder's Guidebook in use.