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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8506988" data-attributes="member: 5948">I (who am not a Christian) backed this.  Given the authors are pastors etc and they come from a particular worldview, the product is obviously going to share that worldview.  But on the other hand, so does any product that draws inspiration from real-world history or themes.  I bought The Islands of Sina Una a while back, for instance, and one of the flaws in that otherwise excellent product is that the picture it draws of fantasy pre-colonial Philippines is so perfectly idyllic and peaceful that there's very little conflict, danger, or drama for PCs to get involved in!As for the product itself, I'm not a massive fan of the anachronistic cover art, but the way the developers have answered questions in the kickstarter comments indicates that there's a lot of serious thought and reseach put into it.  I have a considerable amount of faith (hah!) that this will turn out to be a pretty useful sourcebook on first-century Palestine and neighbouring areas, even if for home games people might want to prefer to re-insert clerics of non-Abrahamic pantheons etc.  But who doesn't mess with written settings in their home games, after all? And as i posted in the Satanic Panic thread on the other board - for D&D players, this is what victory looks like.  The best kind of victory - where rather than being brutally beaten down, the opposing side drops their weapons and joins you because your side is more fun.  The satanic panic was the best part of 30-40 years ago, nobody takes it seriously any more - and now we have a bunch of pastors, Christian youth camp leaders etc, enthusiastically putting together a D&D setting of their own.  Good for them.  And, if it brings more people into the hobby - good for us too.</blockquote>

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