doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
okay?When most Americans hear about pilgrims they think of Thanksgiving.
okay?When most Americans hear about pilgrims they think of Thanksgiving.
It was a silly joke. For the most part, I've found that religion doesn't play a promiment role in D&D. Which is odd for a game with clerics, gods, and all sorts of supernatural forces. Oh, sure, there's evil cultist, and even gods directly meddling in the affairs of mortals. But religion? Not really. At least not in my experience. D&D is oddly secular. So that might explain why you don't see a lot of pilgrims in most D&D games even though it sounds like a super awesome idea. Man, I'm surprised we don't have any good stories featuring a cross section of medieval society entertaining one another while on a pilgramige.okay?
Ah okay.It was a silly joke. For the most part, I've found that religion doesn't play a promiment role in D&D. Which is odd for a game with clerics, gods, and all sorts of supernatural forces. Oh, sure, there's evil cultist, and even gods directly meddling in the affairs of mortals. But religion? Not really. At least not in my experience. D&D is oddly secular. So that might explain why you don't see a lot of pilgrims in most D&D games even though it sounds like a super awesome idea. Man, I'm surprised we don't have any good stories featuring a cross section of medieval society entertaining one another while on a pilgramige.
In addition to Thanksgiving, you'll most often hear Americans saying pilgrim when imitating John Wayne.
It's generally played down to avoid negative interaction with the wide variety of real world beliefs players have.I've found that religion doesn't play a promiment role in D&D.
Even farmers travelled. One or two large journeys in their lifetimes and smaller travels anually or every few years was common.Interesting watch. But, his very first line does kinda put it in perspective. If 95% of the population are farmers, then 95% of your population isn't traveling all that much because it's kinda a bad thing to let all your chickens die so you could spend the weekend in the city.
Hiking around Europe I've come across plenty of local pilgrimage sites - small chapels in the mountains where farmers would go to pray for the end of a drought, for example. Usually there are shrines up and down the mountain sides to mark where some of them didn't make it.While today we only remember the big pilgrimage destinations back then there were also many local pilgrimage sites all over the place where people from the surrounding areas travelled to.