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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8280625" data-attributes="member: 7030132">That is always a danger, even when you use made up published material, but imo also represents the big advantage when using historical source material. No setting is as detailed as history is. That includes knowing all the little details you would not even think off when creating a setting of your own.And we are defaulting to the real world a lot anyway. Who really invents a completely new way of how nobility works instead of just reuising European nobility with, maybe, changing names, does not have a trading city in the style of Venice or really goes through all the trouble to invent a new culture for their seaborne raiders instead of just renaming vikings? How many NotChinas and NotJapans are out there?So why not do the same for religion and have, for example, a renamed pope including a council of cardinals, etc.? Its not that many RPGs don't already have many christion references in the form of angels and devils or reuses the word crusade.Large parts of the cosmology in D&D is basically a copy of the Divine Comedy which is a religious and political text.</blockquote>