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It's not even hypocritical. Wizards have power too. Everytime a wizard casts fireball at your enemies, should you worship him? I'm sure the wizard might think so.

Maybe they heard how the FR deities are funnelling souls and depriving the more general planes of the normal flow (again, it could be a long game move by the Far Realm secretly directed by AO). Maybe one of a billion different reasons. Use your imagination. As for being outmatched, numbers...

So? Maybe they all want to. Motivation is up to the DM and the campaign. How do you know he isn't a bad guy? We do know he is subservient to someone or something's interests and rejecting worship could be to avoid unwanted attention. Being organized is not the same as being nice. Is that...

It sounds like we probably play similarly. I just don't get the attitude expressed by certain posters that there is no circumventing the fate of non-believer characters. It's freaking D&D: Everything is malleable. Nothing is absolute. The slavish devotion to the dogma of "canon" on the forums is...

You can adapt...or you can change your environment. The way the Realms' afterlife works is hardly universal.

Of course characters are expected to be uncomfortable - that is the nature of adventuring. I maintain that making players uncomfortable is bad gaming. I'm not referring to "your character might get killed" kind of uncomfortable, but rather "play your character as accepting the nature of religion...

Nice observation. So much for "universal truth". While clerics should play with awareness of their religion's tenets, I would not go so far as this. In practicality, you are preventing a player from helping another player...which would likely frustrate either one or both and decrease...

Maybe to most, but I know some players who don't like dealing with the religion aspect at all. They are not wrong to feel that way. Irrelevant. It's a DM decision that should be based on his players' needs. No, you are wrong. That isn't the only way to see it. Seeing the "gods" as beings of...

Except it isn't, and your lack of pity changes nothing. Perhaps my characters would pity you when your soul gets shuffled around in the juvenile politics of the Realms' "gods". My players' characters would rather shatter the rules of the universe than follow them like sheep. I encourage that...

You assume too much. Take the Beastlands (Happy Hunting Grounds) for example. It is a plane of Neutral-Chaotic Good and while it hosts many gods realms, the basic nature of the plane lacks any kind of power structure or hierarchy powered by ritualistic dogma. Beings of matching alignment are...

The outer planes are infinite and represent alignment only, not specific beliefs. Even the gods hold only small realms within them. As such, there's no good reason souls wouldn't gravitate to a part of a plane that suits them most closely. In fact it makes sense since they already gravitate...

I think the story has a lot of potential. I don't know why some people are trying so hard to discredit your idea. Maybe they're afraid of ending up on the Fugue? ;)

Over 3 billion people have IQ's below 100.

Wizard is about to die! Warrior needs food. Use keys to open doors.

Quit playing to the barbarian's strengths. Two words: Intellect Devourers.

You mean the Shadowfell - a poor imitation of the plane of Shadow. I wish the Shadowfell and the Feywild would just collapse into each other in a blaze of mutual annihilation. Bring back the real (pre-3rd edition) plane of Shadow and the real demi-plane of Ravenloft. :) Incidentally, any...

Ugh. Ravenloft definitely doesn't belong there. Ravenloft > Realms For that matter it doesn't belong in the (IMHO stupid) Shadowfell either.

This exact scenario happens quite often in my games.

If, as has been suggested, the only thing that matters is sheer survivability, then only a complete and utter moron would be adventuring in the first place. Far safer to stay at home I would think than suicidally face an endless array of potentially lethal threats. Whether or not you are...

No. You get one free object interaction. The second interaction would cost you your action for the turn.