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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 2300587" data-attributes="member: 14041">My group has 3 campaigns that we play in a nonorderly rotation.In my homebrew game (a low-magic swashbuckling game) religion, at least initally, has very little to do with daily life.  Most people belong to a powerful heirarchical monotheistic (technically dualistic but lets not get into that) church whose primary influence is temporal power.  The church coins the money and arbitrates dispuites between the ruling houses.  This, however, is a realtively modern situation, lasting only a few hundred years.  In the distant past the world was more like the DnD standard, with gods that walked the earth.  No longer.  However, as the PCs are learning, the ancient struggle of the gods, and would be gods, is on going.In a more standard DnD game run by someone else, the PCs home land has been invaded by an agressive theocracy that worships a generally LN god, whose followers are more frequently N or E than G.  The human PCs worship "the Nine", a set of archetypal beings.  My PC, a paladin whose order was champions of a long destroyed city and nation, has strong ties to angelic beings from whom he derives his powers.  However, religion is more often politics than anything else.In Iron Kingdoms, the 3rd game, religion is very important.  Healing is limited, and with a lot of it depending on who you worship.  We are playing through the Witchfire Trilogy (great setting but I have major issues with the adventure as written) and religion has  come up, a lot.  Devout followers can also get boons depending on which saint they follow.</blockquote>

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