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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 9405425" data-attributes="member: 5889">If you take the standard assumptions of dnd:1) The gods are real and we have actual people that wield their power, talk to them, etc.2) Humans in most dnd settings are "similar to us", sure they live different lives but they are still generally human in thought.Then honestly I would argue that the vast majority of settings and likely most homebrews VASTLY underscore the impact religion would have on the world (and that's mine included). Think about how strong religion can be in our world or has been in the past, and that's based on just pure belief that god and the afterlife might be real. Can you imagine if people literally just walked around wielding god's power, and said "oh yeah heaven is a real place, oh that devil we killed, yeah from hell, fire,  brimstone, torture, all the stuff".Religion would be the absolute order of the day. The common people would do whatever the theocracy said (and government would almost certainly be a theocracy in most settings unless the gods very specifically told their followers not to engage in that kind of thing....which for chaotic gods that could certainly be a thing). People would pray all the time, because now its not just faith, its flat out proven "science". You do X and you go to the good place, do Y you go to the bad, the gods are watching, and so are their followers while wielding their superpowers.</blockquote>