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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 3200066" data-attributes="member: 172">Not really. When I say dumb, it should be fairly apparent that I mean that I have an intense distaste for the lack of rigor and consideration that the implications of the "godless divine caster" convention entails. "Stupid" is just shorthand. For me, a feeling of verisimilitude springs from self consistency within the setting more than representation of all real world belief systems as authentic sources within the setting.I deny your assertion that is the conclusion that an intelligent person would necessarily come to. AFAIAC (and repeating myself modestly), an intelligent person should realize that stirring in all real world belief systems into a fantasy milieu and assuming that they are all somehow true will result in a cosmology and theory of magic that is at the very least convoluted, and without care and filtering, fundamentally inconsistent as well.An intelligent person also recognizes the false dichotomy attendant in the assumptions that all real world belief systems would be translated into true belief systems in the game world. Its perfectly possible, and much less messy, to assume that only a self-consistent subset of all belief models exist in a fantasy setting, and many or most belief systems remain false. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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