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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9405249" data-attributes="member: 4534">I've always found D&D to be rather secular which is odd considering the inclusion of the Cleric, Paladin, and of course the myriads of gods floating around.  I attribute this to two things, the first of which is the separation of magic into two categories:  divine and arcane.  The second reason is that D&D encourages player characters to look at the world through the lens of modern western liberal values heavy on individual rights with its freedom of speech, religion, property rights, and even separation of church & state.  For the most part, religion doesn't seem to matter in most D&D campaigns.  No, not even for Clerics or Paladins.  I'm hard pressed to think of any official D&D setting that does a decent job with religion.  That said, I've tried to incorporate religion in meaningful ways in some of my campaigns.  When I ran Curse of Strahd, for the first three levels I ran my own adventures outside of Barovia, and the church of Waukeen was an important part of the local community and an oft visited place by PCs and NPCs.</blockquote>