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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 837459" data-attributes="member: 4937">Yes, RF's Riftwar books are D&amp;D books.&nbsp; You can literally hear the dice rolling in the subtext as you read them.I don't think that the 'cleric' (priestly warrior?) is a particularly common fantasy archetype outside of D&amp;D, BUT I don't think that most fantasy novels deal with the gods and thier servants much at all.&nbsp; Most of them seem to follow the Tolkienesk convention of having a world with essentially no visible organized active religion.But where you do have alot of evidence of an active visible organized religion, you also have evidence of 'clerics'.&nbsp; Think of the head villians of 'Conan the Barbarian' or 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'.&nbsp; Fantasy novelists seem to avoid such topics by and large, and seldom for whatever reason make thier protagonists clerics.&nbsp; Perhaps it is a modern Western discomfort with good clergy engaged in violence, or with religion in general.&nbsp; Perhaps those that aren't uncomfortable with religion are unconfortable with topics that could be percieved as sacriligious.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don't know what the cause is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 837459, member: 4937"] Yes, RF's Riftwar books are D&D books. You can literally hear the dice rolling in the subtext as you read them. I don't think that the 'cleric' (priestly warrior?) is a particularly common fantasy archetype outside of D&D, BUT I don't think that most fantasy novels deal with the gods and thier servants much at all. Most of them seem to follow the Tolkienesk convention of having a world with essentially no visible organized active religion. But where you do have alot of evidence of an active visible organized religion, you also have evidence of 'clerics'. Think of the head villians of 'Conan the Barbarian' or 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'. Fantasy novelists seem to avoid such topics by and large, and seldom for whatever reason make thier protagonists clerics. Perhaps it is a modern Western discomfort with good clergy engaged in violence, or with religion in general. Perhaps those that aren't uncomfortable with religion are unconfortable with topics that could be percieved as sacriligious. I don't know what the cause is. [/QUOTE]

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