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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1217055" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Hi Burger! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Sorry if reply without reading the rest of the thread but I am quite in the middle or ehm... well my office... so I have to post QUICKLY!</p><p></p><p>I think totally-godless Clerics don't make any sense: a divine spellcaster is always described as someone who gains all his spells and unnatural abilities granted by some divine being. Every D&D books I have read follows this idea, and a Cleric completely untied to any divine source of power simply cannot make sense.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise, I think the rules as such are not meant to be used to have an atheist Cleric but instead to have a Cleric who is tied to a whole pantheon or part of it instead of being dedicated to a single deity.</p><p></p><p>In this way, it makes perfect sense to me to have a Dwarf Cleric who worships all the Dwarven pantheon, maybe with the exception of the evil dwarven deities, or a FR good Cleric who worship a set of good deities. An again you can follow this idea to have clerics of nature deities, of deities of magic, of deities of death and so on.</p><p></p><p>The only risk of this lies in players who only want to exploit the possibility of choosing for example one great domain from each of two different deities, wihch otherwise would not be granted both at the same time by an existing deities. But I can live even with that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 1217055, member: 1465"] Hi Burger! :) Sorry if reply without reading the rest of the thread but I am quite in the middle or ehm... well my office... so I have to post QUICKLY! I think totally-godless Clerics don't make any sense: a divine spellcaster is always described as someone who gains all his spells and unnatural abilities granted by some divine being. Every D&D books I have read follows this idea, and a Cleric completely untied to any divine source of power simply cannot make sense. Otherwise, I think the rules as such are not meant to be used to have an atheist Cleric but instead to have a Cleric who is tied to a whole pantheon or part of it instead of being dedicated to a single deity. In this way, it makes perfect sense to me to have a Dwarf Cleric who worships all the Dwarven pantheon, maybe with the exception of the evil dwarven deities, or a FR good Cleric who worship a set of good deities. An again you can follow this idea to have clerics of nature deities, of deities of magic, of deities of death and so on. The only risk of this lies in players who only want to exploit the possibility of choosing for example one great domain from each of two different deities, wihch otherwise would not be granted both at the same time by an existing deities. But I can live even with that. [/QUOTE]
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