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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Quixote" data-source="post: 400315" data-attributes="member: 694">It's not difficult to convert magical classes to a modern earth setting at all.  Wizards would remain unchanged: people who can cast magic, a talent that would be considered very normal, if rare, in a modern fantasy setting (Final Fantasy VII is very good here).  Bards would be magic-users who also happened to be rock stars.  Clerics characters could represent those few Christian priests and ministers, evangelical faith-healers, Muslim clerics, Jewish rabbis, Hindu brahmins, Shinto animists, Vodun priests, Native American shamans, etc, etc, who actually had the power to work miracles and prophesy.  Monks would be Buddhist priests who were well on their way to achieving Nirvana (level 20, Perfect Self <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).  Druids could easily be converted to Wiccan priest types.  And of course, all of these people would represent the exceptional few: most clergy would belong to NPC classes (commoner for deacons, expert for theologans and most clergy, warrior for fighting monks, aristocrats for noble clergy or politically influential members of a hierarchy).One thing I highly reccommend in a magical alternate earth is to eliminate tennants from modern religions that condemn magic, with a simple retranslation.  What if the King James Bible had never mentioned sorcerers and magicians, but specifically condemned demon-summoners and black mages?  That sort of historical redirection might even be the reason wizardry exists in the campaign: the world never forbade its practice.  On the flip side, divine magic (which is better called divine miracle, trust me, my campaign world uses all of these pointers I'm describing) would naturally be very prevalent in a world where the forces of evil have magic on their side as well as everthing else.  It balances the scales.  If demons and vampires exist, people who can turn them must also exist.  Thus, it even makes sense from a theological perspective.</blockquote>

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