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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Decamber" data-source="post: 248727" data-attributes="member: 438">The Philosophy of Religion in D&D/FaerûnHello!I've always wondered about how a thing works in Forgotten Realms, and I thought I can get some answers here.As you read the FRCS book, you get the picture that all people in Faerûn are religious and polytheistic. All people seem to have it obvious the fact that there does exist Gods, and there does exist many Gods - there doesn't seem to be any non-religious our monotheistic person at all.Think of our world. There are several kinds of religions. The most of them (at least as far as I know) depends on some holy text; for example, Christianity has the Bible. Going on with Christiany as the example, this book is written in a way which makes it hard to really understand the meaning - the meaning is a matter of your interpretation; that is, the religion is dynamical depending on the way you interpret it. There are several branches (for example Protestantism) in the religion all with different views on the world.Going back to D&D, I wonder how people in Faerûn look at the deities (say, in your campaign). Does all have the same view on the same God, i.e. the information in the FRCS book? Or do they have different views, like in our world? Is there one TRUE outlook, and only the stupid people may believe otherwise? If two characters both have Knowledge (Religion) 6 ranks and the same INT score, do the believe the same thing?Personally I think it's better and obviously more realistic if you have the same philosophy of religion in the D&D world as in the real world. But what do you think?My character, a human paladin of Ilmater, looks at the world in a different way than his God does. He views his God in another way than the "stereotype view". Would you, if you were my DM, let me do that? Also, would you let your players play a non-religious or monotheistic character?Well, I guess that's about everything. I'm curious on what you'll reply. So - thank you in advance! <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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