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Old 07-25-2016, 09:12 PM   #10
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Default Re: Monotheism in Epic Fantasy (Just like DF but with culture)

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Originally Posted by Phantasm View Post
This seems to be a running theme in these particular threads, actually. Why, as a player, would I play a polytheistic cleric when I'm nerfed in this particular manner?
Generally... you wouldn't. The entire problem is that in a cosmology where divine magic is real, either you have a monotheism with a One True Gawd and all the polytheists are heretics, or you have a polytheism (or competing polytheisms) and the monotheists are restricting themselves by only acknowledging and accepting power from one deity instead of several.

The two ideas are mostly (not entirely) incompatible. I think GURPS Religion goes into this, but it's been too long since I've read through it in detail to remember.
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