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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glyfair" data-source="post: 326811" data-attributes="member: 53">This is a matter of the DM knowing the players.  Personally, if I was going to run such a campaign, it would not be obviously a specific Christian campaign, but one step removed.  Look at the Deryni series.  It is obviously a Christian oriented religious view.  An important scene even refers to the symbolism of Jesus on the cross.  However, beyond that it tends to refer to the Church rather than the religion in specifics.  Personally, if I was running such a campaign I would have the standard D&D Deity statblock for the various religions.  They would be closer to the D&D clerics who follow an ethos rather than an actual deity.  Basically an cleric could choose domains based on their alignment, other than that no limitations except by character concept.  I might have specific domains for  those who follow certain Saints or Demons.  I also might have certain "Orders" who forbid or require certain domains.  One thing I would absolutely stay away from is any kind of personification of God and Satan.  Saying that Satan is a fully advanced Solar tends to imply that you are thinking of having him appear in your game.  This is treading dangerous ground.  It's better to keep them in the background and just deal with their agents (Demons & Angels and the like are safer territory).  Tweak  the higher level cleric spells that deal with summoning and such so they don't exist, or only work on the "agents."  Gate is an obvious one to watch.Then again, only you know your players.  If you think you know how they will react, then go for it.  As long as your are all comfortable with it, then it should be fine.  If there are any questions about suitability, talk it over with your players.  You might want to watch what you are saying in public, though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Don't want to cause another PR nightmare for roleplaying ("I heard these people talking about whether they were going to take Satan up on his offer for help.")Glyfair of Glamis</blockquote>

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