How fedora would you rate your setting?

>>47049568
How do you rate fedoras? What is fedoras rated off of? Is a fedora the hat we're talking about or another thing altogether you just made up for shitposting? Do we measure fedoras per mile (fpm) or volume of fedoras?

Only one.

There is no deterministic force that has shaped the universe in any particular way just various degrees of life. The highest life forms that exist as energy still behave like animals for the most part but have the potential to gain intellegence by interaction with lower-life forms by feeding on and being shaped by the collective mental energies of said lower life forms (hence belief becoming reality in a way, the energy based life forms are simply assuming forms based on pre-concieved notions or amalgams of them)

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>>47049607
How about, the less gods and religions there are the higher the rating /10.

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>>47049568
It's more of a ratty inquisitor/pilgrim hat, with one or two buckles on it. How close is that to a fedora?

The setting is Innistrad

>>47049648
>>47049568
gods are never really discussed but the fact that they exist based off what the players have seen is a distinct possibility .
so a average 5 fedoras out of 10

My entire group consists of hard-boiled P.I.s that are 'Too old for this shit'.

Our fedora level is pretty high.

Fairly considering that the premise involves God dying of old age

>>47049728
Everyone loves the shit out of P.I.'s for some reason.

>>47049568
It's Exalted, so infinity m'lady.

Considering that the back of the book has a postword thanking God for stuff pretty much zero. I have conflicting feelings about it though which I guess makes me pretty damn Fedora

0. Women are considered equal to men in all respects.

>>47049919
of course they are, that's why it's a fantasy setting

>>47049568
-10/10
Gods as we understand the in the greek sense exist, except they are the ones of modern religiouns, with their power being derived from the number and intensity of believers.

>>47049930
ayylmao

Not terribly. I don't typically use anything resembling the Judeo-Christian god, but there usually is some manner of perfect, non-anthropomorphic deity as the creator of all things.

Zero, it's a fantasy setting that works on mythopoeic logic.

The gods embody the functions of reality and nature metaphysically, and if they are harmed or killed their domains suffer.

I'm pretty fedora myself, but religion is a part of human history, culture and mythology, which is an integral part of fantasy.

>>47049648
Surely a setting with only one or two major religious denominations, and largely being monotheistic can't be fedora.

>>47049568
post apocalyptic cyberpunk world that is entirely and totally apathetic to any concept of good or evil, and entirely nihilistic when it comes to life in general

but the outright most powerful character i have statted out is literally an angel

>>47049975
>they are the ones of modern religiouns,

>tfw one god for more than 50% of all people
>tfw it makes Him basically all powerful
>tfw no graven images

I'm playing shadowrun as a moralfag Catholic that does everything he can to help the party and his contacts, so I have no real idea how to rate it.

>when you send the player characters an invitation to a Christmas party in game
>when everyone shows up in the game and it's just an hour of in game shitposting as the characters eat a real turkey dinner

It's the little things that make tabletop fun.

>>47049648

By that logic, Abrahamic religions are fedora because they have One God.

>>47049975
Touhou/10

>>47049568
God exists. Would that be negative fedoras or just zero?

>>47050047
A religion isn't a setting though. If we're rating the real world as a setting it has a ton of religions.

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>>47049568
>people worship gods as a way to have some sort of hope in an edgy dying world
>it's revealed that the gods are fake
>people still worship and follow their teachings as they're actually valuable and help them to have something to believe as a society and care about each other.

How many fedoras is this?

>>47050104

I'd say 1 or 2 because gods don't exist

But you don't get a lot because you made religion a positive thing, and the practitioners legitimately altruistic and pragmatic.

>>47050104
That was from the book blade runner was based on. It was nice but definatly a case were the movie was cooler

>>47049568

I'll give it a trilby out of 5 fedoras. The gods live, but sometimes the good-aligned religions do "bad" things, while the evil-aligned religion does "good" things.

>>47049568
Hard to say.

On one hand, the world was explicitly created by the gods, people have souls, etc. On the other hand, the gods largely exhausted their power some tens of thousands of years ago, and now have little or no ability to exert their influence on the material world, and many have been forgotten altogether.

>>47050161
Good to know, thanks anon-san

So the goblinoids 400 years ago were a race whose souls were sold in exchange for god like power. Since then they built an empire, subjugated other nations, and created 9 gods of their own. They now plan on seizing the means of deification because the setting as a whole is heading towards armageddon at mach speed (got a good 1000 years left in it max).

So a species pulling themselves up from nothing and making their own gods in the hope of remaking a new world.

Is that fedora? I don't know.

>>47050255
This is the fucking best. I love antivillains.

>>47049568
Rate me.

No magic, only technology. Only "god" is the Founder of Science, Bobby Ainberg (named after me of course) who pathed the way for lazer katanas and the "Game Wars" where people build indie game characters to fight as champions. The winner is given a Nobel Prize, and the loser is sent to the cages, where stupid religious people are locked up. Women are only for breading, and the style in my setting is "cyberpunk meets film noire".

4.5 fedoras out of 5.

Science wizards have identified gods as a type of powerful spirit that sets up a now well-understood symbiotic relationship where they feed of the psychic energy of the faithful and repay it with miracles and blessings.

This hasn't been too good for the gods because it makes whole-hearted faith less likely, and tends to make followers entitled: "I pray every single night and my Petunia still hasn't found a man, I demand my mana back so I can sell it the necromancer and get him to raise a frankenstein to marry her."

>>47049648
What are your standards for godliness?

>>47050614
>"cyberpunk meets film noire"

8/10 fedoras for that bit only

>>47050614
>Women are only for breading
So what you're saying is that the only career path available to them is being bakers?

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>>47050743
They belong in the kitchen m8

>>47050664
Their existence but really it comes down to how religion is handled and if there is a significant absence of it then how hamfisted and opinionated your reasons for doing so are.

Rate it

The setting takes place on a world which suffered a near extinction event thousands of years before, in an event which effectively destroyed and buried the post modern industrialized civilization on a global scale, but introduced magic to the world. There are many religions, most of which erroneously worship pre-apocalyptic humans or the technology they left behind to repropagate humans into the world as divine. A scant few groups worship to gods and with ceremonies gleaned from the few artifacts left behind, though this worship does not result in any tangible result in and of itself, as such there is little to no evidence that these gods exist. One group worships the emperor of the largest civilization of the planet, who is centuries old and possesses almost unimaginably powerful magical attunement, though he denies that he is divine in any way.

Though in practice magic is only usable, or even detectable, in most individuals through practiced and specific spells and rituals, the basis of it is the expression of thought into reality. For this reason, the existence of religion throughout the world results in a force which is an aggregate of the human idea of "God" which envelops the world, and sometimes intervenes in major historical events (usually when there is something that most or all of the various cultures would describe as a straightforward conflict of good and evil), though ultimately this is more of a shifting magical construction than anything as permanent as a god.

>>47049648
I don't get it, are we all Christian now cause atheism got too popular?

I don't think people thought this one all the way through.

>>47049568
Hum dee dum

>God doesn't exist

+5 fedoras

>Gods in the Greek sense do

-3 fedoras

>They are robots sent by an intergalactic civilization and the creation myth is the story of them terraforming the planet

+2 fedoras

>Men and women both hold distinct powers in the social structure and rarely step into the roles traditionally held by the other gender

+2 fedoras

>While this means that society places decidedly different expectations and pressures on them, it is far more nuanced than "muh oppression"

-1 fedora

>Facial hair is the height of fashion for many men

+1 fedora

>WELL STYLED facial hair, not just letting it do whatever

-2 fedoras

>"Magic" comes from understanding the universe's laws and meditating upon them, which allows you to manipulate the nanomachines that the gods left all over the place into-

+over nine thousand fedoras

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>>47050548

Well, it fits in with the pantheon of gods. Although Umberlee is the chaotic evil goddess of the sea, she can still offer safe passage to those who do her respect. Conversely Selune is Chaotic Good, but might decide one day to change the constellation of the stars to reward some adventurers, leading hundreds of sailors to be lost at sea. It all depends on the setup.

>>47050848
I'm asking because there sure are entities called gods, with a great amount of influence over the natural world and things and who are regularly worshipped by mortals, but technically speaking the difference between them and the spiritual rabble like fairies and ghosts and so on is one of degree and not of kind.

>>47050922
Don't take memes too seriously.

>>47050922
No, we are all agnostic now.

>>47049568
It feels as no as my gf.

>>47050028
>I'm pretty fedora myself, but religion is a part of human history, culture and mythology, which is an integral part of fantasy.
If you admit that religion is a big part of history and culture and are okay with that reality, you aren't fedora.

>>47050878
0/10 fedoras. You put thought into it. Needs more millitant atheists desu m'lady.

>>47050964
Don't be too sure about that.

>>47050626
>Science wizards have identified gods as a type of powerful spirit that sets up a now well-understood symbiotic relationship where they feed of the psychic energy of the faithful and repay it with miracles and blessings.

So what else have you taken from 40k ?

>>47049568
On a scale of Suspenders to Fedora?

Cummerbund.

I've been working on a full fedora setting.
Cleric's magic is based on charisma and doesn't work on athiests since it is just tricks.


Athiests suffer a penalty on charisma checks with women and chads, and if they ever fail a charisma check with a women they are friend zoned forever.

women have -4 strength.

If a character becomes an athiest, they win the game. Although they must keep playing, no one loses, and there is no keeping track of who has won the game

>>47051021

There is an atheist wizard who traveled the world and wrote a series of books cataloging the various religions and beliefs he found, with varying degrees of both solid explanation and baseless pontification of how they might have come to be.

his final work was unpublished, as he killed himself shortly after gazing too deeply into the depths of the sea in the middle of the Shattered Islands

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How Fedora do you rate City of Stairs?

>the gods are real
>BUT they all died
>they were the allies of whites who oppressed the innocent browns
>the browns are now cultural genociding scientism atheists
>the most popular god hated sex, browns, homosexuals, transsexuals, divorce, fun, women's exposed skin, and loved torturing people for their sins
>the remaining religious whites are irrational xenophobic idiots
>the spartacus of the browns who killed the gods was a demigod, with two gods as grandparents

>>47051214

This one's melting my brain

I guess 5/10? It would depend on how it ends I guess, and how prosperous each era is suggested to be in comparison

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>>47049568
In setting, the only verifiable God with any impact is a massive dick of a swamp God who infects those who drink from his water with madness. He then directs them to conduct ritualistic warfare to feed his ever expanding swamp. The winners earn his fleeting favor before the next round begins.

So, I guess fedora in the "God is really evil" sort of way, even if he's only a very minor deity living among mortals.

>turkish megalopolis so overpopulated that half the citizens are entirely nocturnal
>climate change has made the world unbearably hot and bright
>main character is trying to uncover terrible secrets about societal manipulation and biological experimentation
it's not a great explanation but how many fedora tips/10 am i starting at?

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>>47051718
?

>>47049786
The idea of a guy making it on his own and helping people for good money and with little oversight in a time period where the little guy needs to look out for himself is pretty provocative to some people.

>>47049568
The people don't know if the gods are real or not. Magic doesn't act as proof one way or another. In some cultures people are more sure than others, and there are just as many good things that happen because of religion as there are atrocities.

It's a potential casus belli--as are most things--but wars that the GM himself can say were fought for legitimately religious reasons by all involved on at least one side are rare enough as to be nonexistent.

Magic is a thing that most people can do, but if you don't have the rare natural talent, it's only with dedication and training. So something like how not everyone is a nuclear physicist, but most of us have the potential to be.

Rate my setting in fedoras off this, /tg/.

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>>47049568

Given that the latest game I have been running is based on the Book of the New Sun then probably 0 ?

>>47049568
Well, its set 200 years into the future, and religon is just as much a thing as today, so maybe 1 or 2 fedoras

>>47051949
Similar in the swamp sense, but my real inspiration was the Aztecs.

I wanted to make a New World campaign, and I based that guy off the Aztec capital being built on a lake. It also allowed me to explain away why the locals were blood thirsty monsters.

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Most of my gods are kinda dicks. Not because they all get off on being dicks to their worshipers, but because their dickery towards each other stops any of them from doing much of anything. Their power is only strong in areas where they have followers, but years and years of infighting have taken their attention away from guiding their followers and pointed their efforts towards screwing the other gods over. They're like a bunch of really bitter superhumans that run on a crab mentality. People who no longer follow the gods either worship local spirits of long dead figures, belong to one of the couple apocalyptic cults, or just live out their lives hating them and worshiping nothing. I dunno. 1/5 fedora, maybe?

>No white people in the setting
>Countries range from extremes of patriarchal to matriarchal with most being fairly egalitarian
>Religion is less prominent than the modern day but what religions there are are generally positive influences
>Governments range from socialist monarchy to democratic republic to libertarianism that's turned into effective corporatism.

I don't know. Anyone got an opinion?

>>47049568
Well, planar scholars are currently trying and failing to figure out why the gods made the world in the first place and what they could possibly want from mortals.

They don't need worship to survive, so why?

>>47051014
Eh, but I also feel like the modern world has outgrown the concept, and it's become a hinderance to secular society.

So yeah, I'm pretty fedora.

>>47050095
Pretty sure the fantastical version of that region counts as a setting.

>>47049902
You got me curious. What game is this?

>>47052797
There were other gods in the old testament they were just jobbers and you weren't supposed to worship them.

I'm running Eberron, taking place in Sharn.

That's gotta be at least a 6, right?

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Deadlands setting, not mine. Grim Wild West alternate history with magic and monsters and an unending Civil War

>the Abrahamic God is real, or at least some power like him
>he does not play favorites, giving powers and blessing to pious Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Baptists, Mormons, Eastern Orthodox, and Muslims
>Also somehow these same powers are also granted to faithful Taoists, Buddhists, and Shintoists
>no downsides to using powers, though it requires pious living (no blaspheming, no fornication outside of wedlock, no murder, no adultery, help those in need, etc.) and some powers need 'fate chips' to power them up

>Native Americans have their own spirits who grant favors
>these spirits are the less dickish cousins to the demons trying to end the world in a nuclear hellscape
>getting these favors requires making pacts and completing actions ie fasting, self mortification, etc

>Crazy inventors actually receiving whispers from those demon things, who hope to eventually build up to afor mentioned apocalypse. Listening too hard tends to drive men mad
>Hucksters have battles of will these spirits and can force them to do the favors, with a far greater risk of physical backlash and damage to their bodies and psyche

>>47052886
Hmm, it has the actual Abrahamic God, and he's not a malevolent overlord figure and even hands out cool magic powers to the faithful, and Science is literaly the work of the Devil, at least partialy.

I kinda think that might qualify for a negative fedora rating actually

>>47052886
>protestant and baptist are separate denominations.
other than that, sounds all like my post apocalypse setting.

>>47052596
Eh, I'd have to argue with you on that one. Religion still plays a HUGE role in many non-Western societies, especially as a large social safety net for people and families. Religious organizations dominate the Aid/Charity sectors overwhelmingly, and do a lot of little things at the local level that non-religious organizations (at least at this point) have really not done a good job of fulfilling, like community outreach and face-to-face social welfare systems.

>>47052973
I tend to personally separate the infinite splinters of American Baptists and other derivative sects and denominations from the more organized and centralized Protestant denominations such as Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, Anglicans/Episcopalians, and so on.

>>47052973
Eh, having grown up both Methodist and Baptist and preferring Methodist, it's not THAT far off to separate Baptists from the rest of the Protestant denominations if you're not going to go into the fringe denoms like Pentacostal (which is like speaking in tongues and other crazy shit).

The general consensus in the Protestant community of "deviation from Catholic" is:

>Catholic
>Episcopalian ("Catholic Lite: Now with 100% less Pope!")
>Lutheran
>United Methodist
>Methodist (they're different, it's weird)
>Presbyterian
>
>Baptist
>
>Southern Baptist (i.e. "Black Baptist")
>
>Pentacostal
>
>
>
>
>Whatever the fuck Mormons are

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>>47053203
>Whatever the fuck Mormons are
Lovely people, nearly all of them.

And anti Trinitarian Heretics, in addition to the rest of their fanfiction

>>47049568
Three sombreros, b/c we are space mexicans.

>>47053248
I've always referred to them as "The nicest people who believe the weirdest shit."

They refused to allow black people into churches until the 1970's because they believed that they were children of Nephilim, and only in like 2012 did they allow them to become ministers. That's not including the whole "Mormon Harems" thing that nobody likes to talk about.

Also, they have too many goddamn kids. I grew up on a street with six mormon families. Each one had at LEAST five kids, and one had nine. Nine kids! All under the age of 16!

>>47053049
Not the other guy, but while I sort of feel the same way as him I haveto agree more with you. Religion is a hugely powerful motivator. It can get shit done or stimmy progress. Either way it is still far too important a thing to individuals and society to just move past. I have my fedora moments but that's generally only when I'm having a go at somebody I hate and attacking their beliefs is an easy way to get them mad as fuck. In that case it's more about the fact they're a cunt and I want to upset them by using religion, which makes me a cunt too but like I said, fedora moment.

>>47052955
Unless it's satirical.

>>47053422
>>47053248
>>47053203
I grew up Mormon (not anymore!) ask me anything

>>47053203
>methodist and united methodist are different.
we united Methodist prefer the term "Holiness movement." to describe other Methodist denominations .
we also like to joke that Untied Methodist/Methodist are essentially ultra lite Catholics.

>>47049648
I've got dozens of gods, spirits, and elementals, and they're constantly fighting over jurisdiction, "territory", and morals.

Some are benevolent, some are malevolent, some of them just want everyone to stop fucking with their stuff. Most of them are accepted and even a few of the more radical or evil seeming ones have pretty mild official unified churches.

>>47050878
Sounds like 40k.

On the one hand, godlike power is held by a specific entity and thus said entity is treated as a god. On the other hand, individuals are just fragments OF that entity so technically everyone's a god.

>>47053652
How gnostic of you

There's tons of religions in the world, but there's no hard proof that any of their gods are real at all, save the ones that deify actual people, or the semi-sentient super conglomerate of magic purposely made by not-German "Not Nazi's but still fascist" faction over the course of several centuries.

There's huge religious strife because it's based off the 1920s, so the majority religion in a group will have the occasional lynching of those dirty followers of that local minority religion.

So something like 4-6 Fedoras out of 10 maybe?

Hundreds of gods (at least 3 per pantheon for all 20 or something races), powerful spirits of nature, fey lords, various celestial leaders and exemplars, elemental spirits, and various cults to false or small "gods". I just love the idea of multiple gods for every aspect. Like there is 13 gods of death who all share the same judging area and act as a tribunal for special cases.

>>47049568
In my setting the gods were once a slave race to a higher power. and they're not really immortal either, just really powerful beings. So I don't know how much that would rate.

>>47052826
Fragged Empire. I like the setting and the system but I am just Fedora enough that the writer being religious rustles my jimmies ever so slightly.

>>47049568
The gods in my game aren't real, but I don't tell the clerics or paladins this before the game starts.

They get so pissed when they find out that there's no such thing as divine magic in the campaign. Serves them right for being christfags.

>>47054040
Personally I prefer basing the gods off Greek mythology and just having them all be assholes.

>>47054040
9/10 fedoras. The cyberpunk noire guy has you beat desu.

>>47054040
so they get no special powers or shit?
that seems pretty dumb anon, it doesn't matter if gods aren't real in the setting or that they're being "christfags", at least give them something to not be shittier fighters

>>47054040

You're taking away player agency like a true atheist would.

11/10 Fedoras.

>>47049648
0/fedora

I'm using every pantheon from the AD&D Legends & Lore book.

Middling? I'm playing Dungeons: The Dragoning and I'm saying that gods are actually just really powerful warp entities that exist in both the warp and the physical world.

The main reason for that is because I am very deeply religious and I feel uncomfortable having actual gods in settings I run, so I'm not sure if that adds or detracts any fedora points.

>>47050922
welcome to 4chan, contrarian capital of the internet! If Trump wins in a landslide and major game studios start purposefully making objectifying content expect /pol/ to start quoting Das Kapital and /v/ to champion feminism.

After all, it doesn't matter *what* the redditors and society at large believes, only that anons believe the opposite

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>>47054254
>because I am very deeply religious and I feel uncomfortable having actual gods in settings I run,
I am too, but usually I just either do a Historical Fantasy or pull a C.S. Lewis/J.R. Tolkien with "Allegory Jesus X"
I run a Shadow's of the Demon Lord game sort of like Inquisition, but set in early medieval era.

>>47054267
I once DM'd a campaign where someone played a True Neutral druid like that.

>>47054267
>After all, it doesn't matter *what* the redditors and society at large believes, only that anons believe the opposite

Exactly this. This website isn't now "Christian" because anti-theists get enough to be considered obnoxious.

>>47054372
er, enough attention

No gods, science and technology flourishes at the same rate, murder happens at the same rate due to other human shit, now it's cyberpunk and god isn't ever considered

So yes, fedora/fedora, it's so fedora that I don't even consider myself a god when I'm literally the person who created their universe and dictates what happens

>>47049568
Pretty high, I'm setting up for the PCs to kill God.

>4 original gods
>12 gods created by humans that preside over adventurers of each class
>humans who worship the original gods are physically altered into dwarfs or elves over generations

i guess not very fedora at all

>>47049568
Iduno, how much fedora is a typical superhero-style setting in which assorted pantheons of Greeks and Norse are up and about but anything Abrahamic is conspicuously absent?

>church is good
>monks are the intellectuals and scientists
>wizards are a bit anti-science because they deem it unnecessary
>depends on the deity, but in general no religion persecution unless obvious evil cult

Not much

0/10 Fedoras.

There are elder gods who are too fucking abstract and hugely powerful to be worshiped widely. The god of war literally has no personality outside war, combat, bravery, etc, etc, he literally can't discuss anything else. They're usually maintaining the foundation of the universe. (Except the god of war, who's busy fending off hundreds of lesser gods from different planes who want to take his position) But there are major and folk deities that are prone to fucking around on the mortal planes and some, in fact, just live there too.

>>47049568
I dunno.

The gods did exist, but killed eachother in the past and are now either dead or into hiding, causing years of religious unrest and with their influence in the world waning.
Some of them may or may not roam the mortal land under cover in a quest to either resurrect their brothers or regain their powers

how fedora is that

>>47049568

>beastfolk
>every magic is edgy demon summoning
>keep an alternate history of the same setting full with mostly vanilla magical realm.

>>47049568
Goddesses, Gods, Devils, Demons, Angels and the fallen, World-Devouring Monsters asleep between the stars...
It has it all.

My own character and two others in the party came from a people that worship a Mother Goddess who lives in the Volcanos across their nations islands.
The Fedora here is that she's actually the head priestess of an ancient cult that worships Old One-esque monsters. All worship towards her is actually feeding her sleeping masters so they may oneday reawaken and devour the land.
The double twist is that she and her masters have been playing this game for so long they actually do care about their people and have created a legitimate afterlife for them.

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Let's see-

>Setting has a powerful head God that killed a bunch of other Gods, went to sleep as a volcano
>The Four Moons of the setting are Gods who were defeated and enslaved by the Head God- they represent four lovers a 'real' man should have (Fierce Woman, Homely Woman, Young gay male, and a male cuck).
>Many of the Gods pretended to be dead when the Big God stabbed them with his spear, but really they were just pretending. They later hid around on the setting's planet
>The sun is where all the demon's are kept- it's basically hell prison, forcing demons to support all the life on the planet
>Constellations are all Gods too
>Divine Bureaucracy tries to keep everything in order in the natural world but now has to create an afterlife for the human
>The Bureaucracy keeps trying and failing to find ways to get the humans off their responsibility
>Humans can be made basically by any of the other Gods, so they are made by Gods out of things like clay, ash, weird supernatural creatures, etc.
>There is a queue to get into heaven (this is where ghosts come from, they are bored waiting to get in)
>Gods are still mortal and could be killed by a strong enough army, hero, or magic.
>All of this shit is mythological in basis so either all or none of it could be true

Hmm- I'll give it 7 out of 10 fedoras. That sounds fair.

>>47051214
9/10 fedoras

10/10 would be if gods were fake and the whites got cucked so hard they had to invent tales of godslaying to cope with it

>>47049568
well uh.

>Only 1 god
>Said god is evil
>All other sapient beings are good
so it should be pretty damn fedora, but
>said religion is entirely focused on "saving" said god

>>47049568
meme/maymay

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>>47049568
I'm basing it off an unholy mixture of Kirkbride, Kabbalah, Mormonism, Kierkegaardian Existentialism, Socratic Virtues, and a Yes album, and maybe a little bit if Dio.

So pretty anti-fedorah overall.

>>47049568
Gods exsist in their own elemental planes and are imensely powerful, but as they have no physical bodies they do not have any 'intelligence' per se, only vague desires they wish to spread. They do not directly interfere with the physical universe but all magic is ultimately derived from the planes in which they inhabit so being a mage in one school of magic automticaly sort of makes you a follower of that god.
While life energy does exsist in all living things (sort of a soul) it disipates imidiately uppon death to be absorbed by other living things. As a result there is no afterlife and no direct re-incarnation.

>>47057615

Sounds equal parts awesome and insane in all the best possible ways.

>>47049648
In that case 5/10 I guess. I've introduced two good deities and 3evil ones

>>47057812
I just wish I can actually get around to writing and finishing it. I guess I'll probably have time this summer during the downtime between field work

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>>47049568
if our resident THAT GUY was DMing i'd say 3/5 but we usually ruined it for him when he left rotation for who is DM

>tfw we turned his grimderp Got/AoT fanfic campaign into candyland

>>47057528
So 10/10 fedoras?

>>47054267
Gotta pretend that 4chan's still relevant somehow.

Zero fedora's as the pantheon of gods of each culture do exist.

>>47051102
What's a cummer? Why do they wear a bund?

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>>47057615
A-are you playing Steel Ball Run?

>>47061366
No, but now I want to. I guess I know what to turn one of the planets into.

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i rate mine DEUS VULT/10

>>47053619

I guess sort of, at least the emperor guy, but there aren't any societies of non-human sapients and humanity is not in any immediate threat of obliteration. It's certainly far from grimdark, and the guy in question is more of an interesting artifact than a focal character in the history of the world.

>>47049568
>primary religion is monotheistic
>single creator deity, all the religions are essentially different interpretations of his teachings
>creator deity is actually benevolent, it's just the denizens of the world that keep choosing to shit everything up
0/10 fedoras, would trigger any neckbeard who ended up in it.

>>47049568
10 Fedoras out of 10

my setting has no gods.
It also has no world, no backstory, no fluff, no history, no descriptions, and no named characters. It exists purely as a vessel for numbers to do number to other numbers.

>>47061979
that sounds like Baha'i faith
which is a very interesting way to do a monotheistic faith

>>47053531
I grew up Mormon as well, formerly apart of the LDS Church in Utah. Were you a Brighamite or another sect?

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>/tg/ talking Mormonism
>>47057615 here, Stop it. This never turns out well and it's really not the best venue for it, especially since the anonymous nature if the board tends to make cantankerous asshats out of everyone involved, and soon people are spouting incorrect memes and attacking eachother.

Let's just say the Mormons are wierd Non-Nicene compliant nuts, who have more in common with Judaism than Christianity, and as such shouldn't be really compared in discussion about Christians.

Discussion over. The End. Pool's Closed.

>>47062102
There's a church of lysyclodine?

0/10.

People will execute you for not being ultra devout at all times, and you become actively weaker if you don't worship.

Tired of this atheist nonsense in fucking fantasy.

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>>47062680
>TFW one of the largest global religions has internalized fanfic as dogma
>TFW an offshoot is considered heresy because it uses its own, much later fanfic

>>47062824
Yeah, but that's just how religions, cultures, politics, philosophy, and societal norms form in general.

>>47049697
Are puritan hats in the fedora category?

>>47062019
>someone made an ascii game as a tabletop RPG
i like you mate.

Zero. There are gods, they're non-evil, they care about people, and there's various religions.

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>>47062824
>mfw reading Dante's Inferno
>It's fan fiction
>Dante invents the architecture of Hell and spends half the book describing how the people he hates are being excruciatingly tortured
>It's literally deviantart tier "And then there was Steve, from math class. I hate you Steve! Fuck you!"
>He even steals his favorite characters from history and classical greek works, and wanks about how he's the greatest poet that ever lived
>While self inserting


It's such a crap story. Why is it held up as a classic, or anything remotely approaching good?

>>47063282
"The Inferno is fanfic" is a meme spouted by imbeciles who haven't actually read it

>>47063464
>Lol he didn't read it

Please, continue to call me names and claim things that aren't true.

Tell me what I said was wrong.

He invented Limbo and the 9 circles, and arranged them according to his on personal interpretation of preceding works.

He took great figures from Greek history and myth and made them into demons.

He was the protagonist, and upon arriving in Limbo (which is a nice area of hell for virtuous pagans) all of the great Greek poets took him by the shoulders and told him "Yes, Dante, you will be the next among our rank. You will be the next legendary writer of tales, whose name shall echo through the annals of history!"

This includes Virgil, who was instructed to guide him through hell by the Psuedo Love Goddess Beatrice, who was his neighbor he crushed on but never got to marry before she died.

And finally, he goes into rather grim detail to describe the areas of hell he's invented and just so happens to run into an awful lot of people that either personally wronged him or that he disapproved of heartily.

He even invents a bunch of bullshit about "evil souls go to hell and a demon takes over their body if they're too evil before their time" so he can have one of his enemies who is still alive being tortured.

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>>47063282
>I never read any political satire in my life...
>I also have no idea how Renaissance politcal and social life worked.

>>47063775
>13th century
>Renaissance

>>47063883
Well I appoligies, Im not a medieval historian.
But it still, The divine comedy is more a political satire than anything else. People generally teach it because it was a way to not get fucking killed by the church at the time.
And it is, indeed, mediocre at best.

Rate me/tg/
>Overgod exists, but basically gave himself schizophrenia to create the universe
>Lot of gods exist, but a lot are Shinto tier and not really very important or strong.
>A number of fairly complex religious systems and faiths that are generally morally grey at worst, legitimately benevolent and helpful a lot more often

>>47053531
Okay

Why should I bother asking you anything?

"Look at me! I am not in a certain group anymore"

>>47062093
True, though in this case it's that the Baha'i faith is the one that's correct, not necessarily the one practiced by the majority. Each race worships their own interpretation of God- elves see the ultimate tree-hugger, orcs see the lord of unstoppable wrath when angered, ect.- and along with language barriers, this has led to the denizens of the setting having a sizeable pantheon of gods, most of them to absorbed in denouncing followers of the other gods to realize that all the gods are actually the same.

Meanwhile God is just sort of exasperated at his children, because damnit he gave them a fucking book written by him through the early prophets outlining what he wanted, and yet they denounce it because "it was written by men, not God!" and take what were supposed to be general guidelines for the morally retarded getting taken literally, and sometimes it seems like they're just doing it on purpose...
Ah well, most of the nice ones end up in his afterlife anyways, while the irredeemable assholes just go wander the spiritual plane doing whatever.

>>47063753
>"Yes, Dante, you will be the next among our rank. You will be the next legendary writer of tales, whose name shall echo through the annals of history!"

Well he wasn't wrong

>>47050614
>Women are only for breading
I do like my women doughy.

>>47050614
>Women are only for breading
"excuse me, fry cook my tendies have boobs and vages on it."