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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8047649" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Religions are not ethnicities. I am super on board with not having offensive stereotypes or such in the books, but the game cannot start to follow taboos and superstitions of real life religions. For example certain Muslims consider any visual depiction of human form to be forbidden, yet it would be ludicrous to expect PHB not to include any such pictures in order to be 'inclusive.' Yeah, Mielikki is actually an ancient Finnish goddess. And I guess as a Finn I could be offended by that. I am not though, but some Finnish neo-pagan might reasonably make that claim. But it is not 'same goddess' in any meaningful sense, it is a different fictional being with the same name. And if you can't stand 'pretend polytheism' that's your choice to make, but just like if I decide that my pacifism also prohibits 'pretend violence' then one needs accept that this may limit the fiction one can enjoy.</blockquote>