Cleric/Alignment Weirdness

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Really, a Lawful Good cleric cannot serve the Good god Pelor, and a Good cleric cannot serve the Lawful Good god Bahamut? How does this make sense? It's clearly not a matter of strict standards, because an Unaligned cleric can serve either, or Evil Asmodeus, or Chaotic Evil Lolth.

 

[Xsjado]

Paladins are even wierder. Apparently the two have swapped places because now you keep your paladin powers regardless of how you use them.

 

[DreamChaser]

Really, a Lawful Good cleric cannot serve the Good god Pelor, and a Good cleric cannot serve the Lawful Good god Bahamut? How does this make sense? It's clearly not a matter of strict standards, because an Unaligned cleric can serve either, or Evil Asmodeus, or Chaotic Evil Lolth.

See, this makes perfect sense to me.

Either you identify yourself strongly with a particular alignment (to the extent that you are one of the rare mortals who possesses such an orientation), in which case worshiping a god of a different alignment makes no sense, or you do not identify with an alignment strongly, in which case the portfolio of the god is more important to you than his or her alignment.

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