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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3782307" data-attributes="member: 307">But that's just what I don't want. Followers of the viking gods should be an anathema to followers of the pseudo-Christian analogue if you want to get any kind of medieval feel. Christian priests in England considered the raiding Vikings to be the very agents of the devil himself, and regarded them as wickedness personified. The vikings, of course, didn't see themselves in that light. we don't see them in that light. But when you try to shoehorn the dynamic into the D&D alignment system and try to reflect the Christian priests' attitude, you are left with having a bunch of evil Norse gods, or having Paladins of Tyr engage in friendly theological debates with Arthur's knights.But part of the issue here is that a worshipper of the Norse gods, no matter who he holds most dear, should regard Loki as a perfectly valid deity to pay homage to, and probably look to him from time to time himself. He shouldn't be saying "Loki = evil, smite his priests!". And the priests of the saxon pseudo-Christian god should regard the druids as infidels, not just as a moderately morally acceptable sect.Look at the idea of a Crusaders and Saracens campaign - unless you redefine the D&D alignment system, for the two sides to engage in a truly religious type war, you have to make one side or the other evil. I don't think that works very well.if what you are going for is a monster bashing campaign, then, as I said in the original post, the D&D alignment system as structured is perfectly suited to the task. If you want religious tension and conflict, it seems to me to not work so well.</blockquote>

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