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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9741466" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I suspect the predictable magic of of a lot of rpg fantasy world's might counterintuitively (since some of it is "divine") make people less religious. Many years ago I came to the realization that it's really kind of odd that many religions don't revolve around worshiping the sun given that it's clearly the most miraculous and important thing in our day to day lives, and that it clearly radiates power in a way that will literally blind you if you stare directly at it. Seems like the most obvious god to me. The problem is that it is also incredibly predictable, so even people without a sufficient explanation for it tend to view it as part of regular nature (many important sun gods notwithstanding, the point is that it's regularity makes it possible to not treat as divine even when it seems to check so many obvious boxes tying it to divinity). Similarly if the world is full of people who can cast magic on a daily basis maybe the miraculous in general all just gets dismissed as "a wizard probably did it" or part of the natural magic of the world, and people don't really believe in gods so much. Even if Clerics are doing magic, if an agnostic Bard can do the same magic maybe you don't necessarily believe the whole thing about gods giving them those powers.</blockquote>