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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 4040132" data-attributes="member: 6533">Yeah, Ruleslawyer is spot on.The Dar was pretty tolerant of different religions - though you could always occasionally be in trouble just as a scapegoat or if you were way too idolatrous or unfamiliar which Al-Quadim also reflected - and very very tolerant of other races.  A lot less tolerant of blasphemy and heresy within Islam - but that had a very specific political purpose.  Kingdoms weren't allowed to go to war within the Dar except on grounds of religious correction, so you pretty much had to find a heresy if you wanted a taste of that underdefended port in North Africa.It also just inherited a lot of the Hellenistic project of Cosmopolitanism.  It's impressive how often Alexander the Great shows up as a founding figure in the broader literary body of the Dar and its satellites.What Al-Quadim did that was <s>cool</s> clever was say that the truth of the Lawgiver was applicable to gods as well as men.  So you could go around and convert them to the new 'meta' religion as well.  It preserved both the gamist elements of DnD and the political-religious feel of the Dar.</blockquote>