Recent content by Phantarch

Which is why the real goal of the PC should be to depose Kelemvor and take his place as the god of the dead. That's the only way to permanently remove the wall.

Minor nitpick. I don't think that anyone is saying the multiverse depends on the gods, but rather the physical world (Faerun specifically, perhaps all of Toril). There seems to be quite a bit of proof that things can and do get pretty heavily disrupted when bad things happen to the gods...

Deity: Atheos, god of atheism Alignment: CG Suggested Domain: Knowledge Symbol: A broken wall

Consider that explanation officially stolen...

Yeah, I'm currently in a 3.5 campaign where I'm a LN Incarnate playing with a CN Incarnate. Our characters HATE each other, but it's fun. My character basically views the other as an expendable but useful tool. I regularly provide him healing, but I also frequently manipulate and encourage...

And all of that, I'm OK with. Those are all in-world arguments. The point of my analogy was that the flaw in reasoning is arguing that because something is a certain way in one place it should be in another place. And I am admittedly out of my element here. All of the baggage of published...

I drive on the right side of the road in the United States, so it makes absolutely no sense that I can't drive on the right side of the road in England. That argument doesn't hold up because they are completely different locations with completely different laws and rules. The reasons for those...

Arguably, fear and respect ARE worship. There are certainly many religious practices that solely existed to appease the gods, and weren't performed out of love and devotion. Within the Forgotten Realms, Umberlee is a classic example of this. And this seems to be a major source of the divide...

I should state that (as I think I did once 300 posts ago in this thread) I'm actually not a huge fan of the wall myself. Actually, I find the great wheel cosmology revolting as well (your soul is slowly consumed by whatever plane you go to until you disappear or become an altogether different...

When we say "atheist" in the realms, I would say we are talking mostly about people who deny the divinity of the gods, not the existence. Denying their existence is tantamount to utter insanity. For the sake of this discussion, I would argue that "divinity" (what actually makes a god a god) is...

I think this touches on the crux of the situation. I would add to that and say that godhood entails NECESSARY control over these parts of the world. I think some people view the fantasy world of the forgotten realms as functionally the same as our world: the natural world carries on governed by...

Sorry to say it, but it just sounds like a problem player to me. It's difficult that he is your friend, so I'm not sure how to advise handling it without knowing the dynamic of your relationship. I know I have friends that I just can't do certain activities with because they lead to conflict...

You are correct that there are no skill checks in 5e, only ability checks that sometimes add skill proficiency. However, in the rules these are typically called out very specifically (e.g., make an Intelligence (Arcana) check). If it is not called out specifically, there really isn't a rules...