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<blockquote data-quote="MostlyHarmless42" data-source="post: 8091865" data-attributes="member: 6845520"><p>This is something I often remind my players of in most games, as monotheism (particularly Christianity and the Catholic or Baptist churches where our players live) are incredibly pervasive in every aspect of daily life to the point where many people are literally incapable of imagining a church that <em>isn't</em> celibate, strongly gendered or hierarchical, and highly intolerant of other Faiths in the setting. To be clear this is not to knock those with Christian beliefs (you do you), merely that it shapes many a player's opinions of d&d religions subconsciously. I've found often the best way to counter this is to present multiple NPCs who do worship multiple gods as it makes sense to, adding in statements like "Luck god(dess)'s random body part" as what would realistically be slang in universe for people to swear or utter. That, combined with taking time to present dieties with blatantly <em>not</em> Christian style temples (like healing or love gods with literal brothels for temples, or nature dieties whom worship in a field instead of a building) really helps to shatter these conscious expectations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MostlyHarmless42, post: 8091865, member: 6845520"] This is something I often remind my players of in most games, as monotheism (particularly Christianity and the Catholic or Baptist churches where our players live) are incredibly pervasive in every aspect of daily life to the point where many people are literally incapable of imagining a church that [I]isn't[/I] celibate, strongly gendered or hierarchical, and highly intolerant of other Faiths in the setting. To be clear this is not to knock those with Christian beliefs (you do you), merely that it shapes many a player's opinions of d&d religions subconsciously. I've found often the best way to counter this is to present multiple NPCs who do worship multiple gods as it makes sense to, adding in statements like "Luck god(dess)'s random body part" as what would realistically be slang in universe for people to swear or utter. That, combined with taking time to present dieties with blatantly [I]not[/I] Christian style temples (like healing or love gods with literal brothels for temples, or nature dieties whom worship in a field instead of a building) really helps to shatter these conscious expectations. [/QUOTE]
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