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In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9741860" data-attributes="member: 891"><p>I agree.</p><p></p><p>Not just D&D though. I don't like them or their equivalents in any tRPG.</p><p></p><p>I'm fine with nature and spiritual forms of magic that circle around it. But anthropomorphizing it gets weird.</p><p></p><p>Plus, people don't like it when I make this opinion (some folks get extremely mad about this view), but concepts like clerics and paladins feel too much like what we see in the modern world as inquisition to terrorist behavior - you're out there killing heretics and non-believers in the name of religion. That may have seemed cool in the 70s when we had the fiction of thinking it was ancient history we could re-imagine, but it didn't age well as the world got more interconnected and aware.</p><p></p><p>D&D is kind of all about playing serial killers. But that one is just too... close to home / icky now.</p><p></p><p>I note that most fantasy fiction doesn't use 'holy warriors' because fiction writers seem to be a little more aware of that being a bit of a land mine topic. They'll throw in wizards and mystics and powerful magical beings. But rarely a divine champion as that just gets people thinking in the wrong direction.</p><p></p><p>Despite being more of a 'fanatic' Paladins / Champions / Seraphs (or whatever a given tRPG calls them) can be 'rescued' easier by making them advocates of ideals. Socio-political causes like "justice, freedom, tyranny, conquest", or people with deep meditative focus that have harnessed the magic of the world into that.</p><p></p><p>But Clerics are more on the nose problematic. They're not "Friar Tuck", they're the Inquisition. A Friar Tuck wouldn't seek violence even if he had magical powers. If he did do violence, it would not be in the name of a divine, but in spite of it. As a Friar Tuck figure - being one of the rare "clerics" of folklore but NOT fantasy, is a spiritual aid to his community rather than one out there smiting the unbelievers.</p><p></p><p>Again. Tuck isn't from fantasy. Fantasy writers usually avoid that hot potato.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 9741860, member: 891"] I agree. Not just D&D though. I don't like them or their equivalents in any tRPG. I'm fine with nature and spiritual forms of magic that circle around it. But anthropomorphizing it gets weird. Plus, people don't like it when I make this opinion (some folks get extremely mad about this view), but concepts like clerics and paladins feel too much like what we see in the modern world as inquisition to terrorist behavior - you're out there killing heretics and non-believers in the name of religion. That may have seemed cool in the 70s when we had the fiction of thinking it was ancient history we could re-imagine, but it didn't age well as the world got more interconnected and aware. D&D is kind of all about playing serial killers. But that one is just too... close to home / icky now. I note that most fantasy fiction doesn't use 'holy warriors' because fiction writers seem to be a little more aware of that being a bit of a land mine topic. They'll throw in wizards and mystics and powerful magical beings. But rarely a divine champion as that just gets people thinking in the wrong direction. Despite being more of a 'fanatic' Paladins / Champions / Seraphs (or whatever a given tRPG calls them) can be 'rescued' easier by making them advocates of ideals. Socio-political causes like "justice, freedom, tyranny, conquest", or people with deep meditative focus that have harnessed the magic of the world into that. But Clerics are more on the nose problematic. They're not "Friar Tuck", they're the Inquisition. A Friar Tuck wouldn't seek violence even if he had magical powers. If he did do violence, it would not be in the name of a divine, but in spite of it. As a Friar Tuck figure - being one of the rare "clerics" of folklore but NOT fantasy, is a spiritual aid to his community rather than one out there smiting the unbelievers. Again. Tuck isn't from fantasy. Fantasy writers usually avoid that hot potato. [/QUOTE]
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