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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9608086" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think these posts understate the extent to which many humans, across many times and places, have seen the reality of the power of the divine as active in many, often all, facets of life.In my view, this is because most narration does not treat divine forces as playing a significant role in everyday events.A special but frequent case of this is that rolls of the dice seem most often to be treated as impersonal luck, rather than as the workings of providence.Generally the ethos of D&amp;D play seems to be unlike that of actual human beings from the sorts of times and places that D&amp;D settings are supposed to emulate.Like D&amp;D, REH's Conan is at heart &quot;secular&quot;, even nihilistic, in the sense that (with one exception I can think of, namely, Hour of the Dragon) it portrays a world without providence. Priests in REH's Conan are more like Warlocks in D&amp;D terms.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9608086, member: 42582"] I think these posts understate the extent to which many humans, across many times and places, [I]have seen[/I] the reality of the power of the divine as active in many, often all, facets of life. In my view, this is because most narration does not treat divine forces as playing a significant role in everyday events. A special but frequent case of this is that rolls of the dice seem most often to be treated as impersonal luck, rather than as the workings of providence. Generally the ethos of D&D play seems to be unlike that of actual human beings from the sorts of times and places that D&D settings are supposed to emulate. Like D&D, REH's Conan is at heart "secular", even nihilistic, in the sense that (with one exception I can think of, namely, Hour of the Dragon) it portrays a world without providence. Priests in REH's Conan are more like Warlocks in D&D terms. [/QUOTE]

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