How fedora would you rate your setting?

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.

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

-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.

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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.

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

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

>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.

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

Touhou/10

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

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

>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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Good to know, thanks user-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.

This is the fucking best. I love antivillains.

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."

What are your standards for godliness?

>"cyberpunk meets film noire"

8/10 fedoras for that bit only

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

They belong in the kitchen m8

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Don't take memes too seriously.

No, we are all agnostic now.

It feels as no as my gf.

>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.

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

Don't be too sure about that.

>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 ?

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

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

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

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

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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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.

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, Veeky Forums.

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

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

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

You got me curious. What game is this?

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Three sombreros, b/c we are space mexicans.

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!

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.

Unless it's satirical.

I grew up Mormon (not anymore!) ask me anything

>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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

so they get no special powers or shit?
that seems pretty dumb user, 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

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

11/10 Fedoras.

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.