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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7156529" data-attributes="member: 3400">You don't need support for it and never needed support for it. The various publications including gods, demigods, and heroes just serve an interest among the player base and cater to their interest in mythology and the stories in which gods interact with mortal life from the Iliad and the Odyssey to Elric of Melniboné and Thieves' World. They aren't really making a statement that D&D settings should be pantheistic, just that they can be.And I think your veering off in the wrong direction about what pemerton is saying about paladins and clerics. They don't imply monotheism and he's not saying they do. Rather they are inspired by the mythology and lore of a monotheistic religion. Incorporating that religion and having those classes explicitly embrace their inspiration is pretty easy. I'd even say it's trivial. From powers like laying on hands to spells like insect plague, the inspiration is clearly there. If only they hadn't stopped before the visitation of hemorrhoids spell...</blockquote>