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<blockquote data-quote="Alek" data-source="post: 3241484" data-attributes="member: 42837"><p>Armchair fantasy theological philosopher here: The domain, IE, Sun, War, Love, Magic, Protection, Good, Evil, etc. things that pervade every fantasy world, usually wind up bunched into similar groups, which are then ruled by extremely similar gods. This leads many people to believe that individual gods of each plane, are not so much Gods, as greater avatars of a collection of beliefs. </p><p></p><p>A plane hoping cleric does not usually lose his powers on the outer planes, simply because their faith in their god, is actually a complete faith in the ideals of their god, and the powers that rule over those ideals, grant them their prayers because they are their servant, even if they do not worship them in name. I believe the same idea can be applied to Oerth, though rather boring in comparison, does have very similar gods to Faerun, and almost every domain of influence that Faerunian gods rule over, is also represented on Oerth, and generally not by completely oppositely aligned gods. </p><p></p><p>So, that being said, I do not think a cleric will suddenly be cut off from their power by going to Oerth, from Faerun, but would definitely become aware of who exactly they are directing their prayers at. I suggest you look up who your cleric worships, see what domains they rule over, and then compare it to other gods across the planes so you have a table. </p><p></p><p>To break it down, it is not so much the god as a person that a cleric worships, but a god as a collection of beliefs. Therefore, as long as they have faith in these beliefs, and the domains these beliefs fall under are represented by any God of similar alignment, they will maintain their powers.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*edit* haha...thats right, DOMAIN.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alek, post: 3241484, member: 42837"] Armchair fantasy theological philosopher here: The domain, IE, Sun, War, Love, Magic, Protection, Good, Evil, etc. things that pervade every fantasy world, usually wind up bunched into similar groups, which are then ruled by extremely similar gods. This leads many people to believe that individual gods of each plane, are not so much Gods, as greater avatars of a collection of beliefs. A plane hoping cleric does not usually lose his powers on the outer planes, simply because their faith in their god, is actually a complete faith in the ideals of their god, and the powers that rule over those ideals, grant them their prayers because they are their servant, even if they do not worship them in name. I believe the same idea can be applied to Oerth, though rather boring in comparison, does have very similar gods to Faerun, and almost every domain of influence that Faerunian gods rule over, is also represented on Oerth, and generally not by completely oppositely aligned gods. So, that being said, I do not think a cleric will suddenly be cut off from their power by going to Oerth, from Faerun, but would definitely become aware of who exactly they are directing their prayers at. I suggest you look up who your cleric worships, see what domains they rule over, and then compare it to other gods across the planes so you have a table. To break it down, it is not so much the god as a person that a cleric worships, but a god as a collection of beliefs. Therefore, as long as they have faith in these beliefs, and the domains these beliefs fall under are represented by any God of similar alignment, they will maintain their powers. *edit* haha...thats right, DOMAIN. [/QUOTE]
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