D&D 5E WOTC Possibly Removing "Druids" for Religious/Cultural Sensitivity Reasons

[Tonguez]

Just anonymous comment or two on articles about this particular situation. I don't see anyone taking up the cause on Xitter so that probably means that WOTC is safe for at least give years.

I did see some criticism years ago about the the inclusion of the Egyptian pantheon being culturally appropriative of PoC even though I think that is the only ancient religion included in the DMG that doesn't have an associated contemporary neopagan movement. Even the hotepiest of hotep brothers seem to embrace some form of Islam as the basis for their religious practice.

of all the ancient religions the Egyptian inspired Cult of Isis is the only one to legitamately survive into post Bryzantium europe and to have been continued (and transmuted) via various medieval mystery cults into the modern era. While they likely are very different to Pharoanic ritual, there is a legitamate case for direct ancestry to the Philae Temple (the last legit ‘Egyptian‘ Temple, which was officially closed down in AD 537)

 

[Micah Sweet]

of all the ancient religions the Egyptian inspired Cult of Isis is the only one to legitamately survive into post Bryzantium europe and to have been continued (and transmuted) via various medieval mystery cults into the modern era. While they likely are very different to Pharoanic ritual, there is a legitamate case for direct ancestry to the Philae Temple (the last legit ‘Egyptian‘ Temple, which was officially closed down in AD 537)

Thank goodess there's an excuse to exclude them too. Wouldn't want anyone feeling left out.

 

[TwoSix]

Thank goodess there's an excuse to exclude them too. Wouldn't want anyone feeling left out.

I feel pretty confident that the copyright on the Egyptian gods has expired and they're in the public domain now.

 

[CleverNickName]

(finally got home, reads the article)

...this is bait, right? for trolls? It has all the typical markers: manufactured outrage, appeals to reactionary readers, hyperlink to a different website...

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

...this is bait, right?

 

[Tonguez]

(finally got home, reads the article)

...this is bait, right? for trolls? It has all the typical markers: manufactured outrage, appeals to reactionary readers, hyperlink to a different website...

yeah its been floating around for a couple of years now too, its not just bait its chum

 

[Mecheon]

...this is bait, right? for trolls? It has all the typical markers: manufactured outrage, appeals to reactionary readers, hyperlink to a different website...

Absolutely

May be some teeth behind removing shaman at least, but that's hardly an issue for D&D at the moment

 

[Vaalingrade]

It's basically chaff for people to point to as what the slippery slope breaking tradition out of compassion and empathy for others will lead to like dumping Always Evil and bioessentialism: the horrors of calling the shapeshifting cleric something else.

 

[Lanefan]

Bard could also become Skald, if one wants to tie it somewhat to Norse culture similar to how Druid is tied to Celtic.

 

[Bluenose]

Not Catholic priests (or orthodox to my knowledge). I don't ever recall Catholic priests communing with the spirit world, and holistic medicine wasn't even a thing discussed.

Exorcisms, praying for people to recover from wounds/illness, prayers that are supposed to halt or reverse curses - modern Catholicism may not like to do these things but they're in older prayer books (I'm not familiar enough with old Orthodox groups to say whether that's true there).