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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 2296400" data-attributes="member: 1210">The very first thing I thought about when I created my current campaign world was religion.  The entire 'first arc' of the campaign involved the Jesus-figure of the campaign growing into his role.  Strong religious themes run through a variety of other major plot threads; the entire campaign setting is in the midst of what is, essentially, a religious war provoked by the resurgance of an ancient religion that was forgotten/essentially dead.To make religion a more important factor in-game, I suggest using religious holidays and such ("we're invited to a ball on Boccob's Birthday"), using churches as much more than a simple "place to buy healing", and illustrating the piety of commoner and expert npcs.  I generally have problems with religions that will raise the dead of other faiths willy-nilly or without a very good rason; I find it... problematic to justify.  Never forget that if a cleric violates his ethos he can lose his powers and spells just like a paladin (though it's obviously easier for a strict paladin to fall than a cleric of an easy-going god).  If you make a list of the top 'pillars' of each major religion in the campaign, and occasionally use them as major motivations for npcs ("hello, stranger- alms for the poor?", or "WAIT!  You must not pass into the city without a hat on during the day, or the gods will curse us!"), you'll be drawing the pcs a picture of faith in the land.  Prolly this is better than telling them- seeing the religion in action is often more vivid and tends to draw the pcs in more than a one-paragraph writeup about it. Hope this provokes an idea or two for ya! <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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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