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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5078656" data-attributes="member: 463">Interesting question!Well, my primary long term campaign world, Ea, is primarily influenced by modernist fantasy such as the Swords &amp; Sorcery of Fritz Leiber, so there doesn't appear to be much of an objective moral order there.&nbsp; Deities draw their power from the number of worshippers (this was the foundation of the Worship Points System that Eternity Publishing uses).&nbsp; Recently, in 2008, I created a new world influenced by CS Lewis and to a lesser degree Tolkien, as well as the BECMI D&amp;D alignment system, that raises the possibility of an objective moral order, though not one necessarily automatically discernable by the PCs, just as Lewis' protagonists often err.It's a world where both the Church of the Unconquered Sun (Mitra) and the enemy Temple of the Horned Moon (Bafomet) consider themselves to be in the right, but the Bafomites ultimately serve Chaos while the Unconquered Sun serves Law.&nbsp; It's my first attempt at a hierarchic moral structure influenced by Christian theology, and has raised lots of interesting moral questions for me, though I'm not sure that comes out in play much.&nbsp; &quot;Can Goblins be redeemed?&quot; is a running campaign thread, though.Edit:&nbsp; The lack of relativistic morality in this setting occasionally makes players very angry, eg the player of a half-orc who liked to kill elves and feel good about it.&nbsp; He eventually had to leave.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5078656, member: 463"] Interesting question! Well, my primary long term campaign world, Ea, is primarily influenced by modernist fantasy such as the Swords & Sorcery of Fritz Leiber, so there doesn't appear to be much of an objective moral order there. Deities draw their power from the number of worshippers (this was the foundation of the Worship Points System that Eternity Publishing uses). Recently, in 2008, I created a new world influenced by CS Lewis and to a lesser degree Tolkien, as well as the BECMI D&D alignment system, that raises the possibility of an objective moral order, though not one necessarily automatically discernable by the PCs, just as Lewis' protagonists often err. It's a world where both the Church of the Unconquered Sun (Mitra) and the enemy Temple of the Horned Moon (Bafomet) consider themselves to be in the right, but the Bafomites ultimately serve Chaos while the Unconquered Sun serves Law. It's my first attempt at a hierarchic moral structure influenced by Christian theology, and has raised lots of interesting moral questions for me, though I'm not sure that comes out in play much. "Can Goblins be redeemed?" is a running campaign thread, though. Edit: The lack of relativistic morality in this setting occasionally makes players very angry, eg the player of a half-orc who liked to kill elves and feel good about it. He eventually had to leave. [/QUOTE]

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