D&D (2024) 2024 Players Handbook: Cleric rules are culturally inclusive

[GMforPowergamers]

If now "no-deities" can be patrons, for example the king Arthur. Why not other characters? Not only from classic folklore but also forgotten IPs, for example the Golden Girl and the Guardians of the Gemstones.

can a PC become the source of another PCs cleric powers?

 

[Dausuul]

Isn't that how it's been since 3 or 3.5 when you could have a cleric of X ideal RAW? Falls-From-Grace was that back in PS:T back in the late 90s.

It goes back at least to 2E. Nontheistic clerics have been a thing for a very long time.

 

[Azzy]

I agree. I always "make" a cleric worship a deity or other powerful supernatural entity in order to get their spells and abilities. The idea of a cleric worshipping a concept or ideal has never sat well with me within the confines of a game world where gods and devils/angels are a known quantity.

In my homebrew setting (that I really should do more work on), gods are not a known quantity and there are many sacred traditions.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

This further explains why there's no named pantheon in the PHB - It's really meant to be world-specific, and that's the providence of the DM.

 

[Nikosandros]

This further explains why there's no named pantheon in the PHB - It's really meant to be world-specific, and that's the providence of the DM.

Yes, it's fine by me. Of course, I'm expecting the DMG to have a section on this topic.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

I've always played it as clerics deriving their power from faith in an ethos. In a traditional meddlesome gods set-up, the various ethea are set by divine command.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

PCs from previous campaings could become patrons of new PCs in a new one in the same setting.

Some power could be a secret society, or a true deity using some secret identity, or a collective of ancestors' souls.

 

[DEFCON 1]

If now "no-deities" can be patrons, for example the king Arthur. Why not other characters? Not only from classic folklore but also forgotten IPs, for example the Golden Girl and the Guardians of the Gemstones.

If you and your DM are good with it, then you can do whatever you want.

WotC probably won't publish anything about it, but you don't need WotC to get what you want for your game.

 

[Nikosandros]

but you don't need WotC to get what you want for your game.

Yes, this. Don't wait for WotC (or anyone else, really) to cater to your specific needs, just do it yourself. Personally, not being too creative myself, I just steal from whatever crosses my path...

 

[Aldarc]

Not sure if I would call this being "culturally inclusive" so much as it is making a cleric more broadly applicable to various cosmologies, worlds, and homebrews.