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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 5743364" data-attributes="member: 926"><p>Dragons, as beings capable of thought and possessing souls, are as capable of religious experience, worship of a deity, and divine magic as any other thinking creature with a soul, such as humans elves or dwarves.</p><p></p><p>Now, you're quite correct that dragons are very powerful and arrogant, and, as stated above, a dragon's worship of a deity could be very different from a human's worship of the same deity, but as long as they were sincere about it then there's no difference between a dragon and a human, and I can't imagine any god refusing a dragon's worship unless said deity really had something against dragons. <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" /></p><p></p><p>Now as a gamemaster you can do anything you want, of course, so don't let anything stop you from having a dragon worshiper, or even Cleric, of any god you wish, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> but I can understand if you're wanting to be true to the setting. Don't worry, you're fine. Yes, dragons are arrogant, but very few of them are SO arrogant that they wouldn't be capable of sincere worship of a higher power because they don't recognize any power higher than themselves.</p><p></p><p>Hell, if I recall correctly, back in 2nd Edition a lot of dragons got a daily Cleric spell allotment along with their Wizard spells. And I've read in many places about dragon Clerics of whatsisname and whoeveritis, not just restricted to any one god, so you're fine; there's a long history of religious dragons, my friend. You're covered! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron L, post: 5743364, member: 926"] Dragons, as beings capable of thought and possessing souls, are as capable of religious experience, worship of a deity, and divine magic as any other thinking creature with a soul, such as humans elves or dwarves. Now, you're quite correct that dragons are very powerful and arrogant, and, as stated above, a dragon's worship of a deity could be very different from a human's worship of the same deity, but as long as they were sincere about it then there's no difference between a dragon and a human, and I can't imagine any god refusing a dragon's worship unless said deity really had something against dragons. :p Now as a gamemaster you can do anything you want, of course, so don't let anything stop you from having a dragon worshiper, or even Cleric, of any god you wish, :) but I can understand if you're wanting to be true to the setting. Don't worry, you're fine. Yes, dragons are arrogant, but very few of them are SO arrogant that they wouldn't be capable of sincere worship of a higher power because they don't recognize any power higher than themselves. Hell, if I recall correctly, back in 2nd Edition a lot of dragons got a daily Cleric spell allotment along with their Wizard spells. And I've read in many places about dragon Clerics of whatsisname and whoeveritis, not just restricted to any one god, so you're fine; there's a long history of religious dragons, my friend. You're covered! :D [/QUOTE]
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