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Religion in Gaming—Types of “Priest”
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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8654492" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>I tend to see it more as the other way around. There are lots of gods, and each has their own religion and views on what things are good and moral. So instead of praying to Chauntea for a bountiful harvest, Tempus for the courage to defending it from bandits, Waukeen for getting a good price at the market, and Sune for luck in wooing that lady you've been eyeing at the harvest festival, you will have adherents and priesthoods of all four deities each trying to sell you on The One True Way. Life is complicated, and polytheistic deities can't provide guidance in all walks of life, because each one is inherently limited to their own aspects. They only work when treated as a whole pantheon, where different gods are celebrated in different circumstances.</p><p></p><p>The only major setting that's really caught on to this is Eberron, with its Sovereign Host as the pantheon of Civilization and the Dark Six as the gods of those parts of the world you can't escape, but would rather not deal with. In addition to these you have other religions, but mostly non-theistic ones, each of which provides a different view of the world and how to deal with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8654492, member: 907"] I tend to see it more as the other way around. There are lots of gods, and each has their own religion and views on what things are good and moral. So instead of praying to Chauntea for a bountiful harvest, Tempus for the courage to defending it from bandits, Waukeen for getting a good price at the market, and Sune for luck in wooing that lady you've been eyeing at the harvest festival, you will have adherents and priesthoods of all four deities each trying to sell you on The One True Way. Life is complicated, and polytheistic deities can't provide guidance in all walks of life, because each one is inherently limited to their own aspects. They only work when treated as a whole pantheon, where different gods are celebrated in different circumstances. The only major setting that's really caught on to this is Eberron, with its Sovereign Host as the pantheon of Civilization and the Dark Six as the gods of those parts of the world you can't escape, but would rather not deal with. In addition to these you have other religions, but mostly non-theistic ones, each of which provides a different view of the world and how to deal with it. [/QUOTE]
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