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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 1155470" data-attributes="member: 8439">A glimmer of a plot idea... Would it be possible for an evil diety to impersonate a good one? Say a nasty * Evil diety whose end goal is to gather as much worldly power as possible in order to free itself from a celestial prison and act directly on the material plane (again). How would you work it?idea #1 - clerics can be up to one step away from their god's allignment. The god only grants powers to * neutral clerics and instructs the general faithful in good ways.Idea #2 - its really that they can only be a step away from what they percieve their god's allignment as, and if he puts up a good face during the rare communions, he can have good clerics who nonetheless are working towards his ultimately evil goals. Idea #3 - Evil but well divination protected high priests create a false "good church." Lesser clerics are actually godless clerics by the SRD rules, who have taken on the allignment and domain paths taught by the religion, as opposed to those granted by the actual god. Once clerics reach a certain rank they are either corrupted into neutral or evil true clerics of the god, sent away to get converts somewhere where they won't see the final results or eliminated.The point of this sort of plot? Mostly to have a sistuation where the PCs are stuck fighting a generally good and well intentioned organization which is supporting an evil end goal. And mucking with the allignment system.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Kahuna Burger</blockquote>

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