Core Religions in Actual Play

[Simm]

Really just corellon for a cleric I once played. I tend to use gods from CW's figther pantheon, OK just Lyris. Come on no one can beat the goddess of fate.

 

[Aaron L]

I have played characters that worshiped Moradin, Heironeous, Corellon Larethian, and Wee Jas.


Interestingly, I have also had Clerics of all of them...

 

[Remathilis]

I played a cleric of Moradin and a cleric of Pelor-in-all-but-name (even played a Radiant servant of Pelor-in-all-but-name)

However, I've usually had home-brew deities with no real correlation.

 

[VirgilCaine]

There was a module called "Mad God's Key" in a Dungeon a couple of years ago. It is a fine, fine module, and it could be played in Living Greyhawk, with a 1st-level character. Among the possible rewards was a blessing of Wee Jas that, for one month from the date of playing the adventure, would automatically stabilise you if you were to fall below 0 hp.

Well, Raziel played it and gained the blessing. Following that game was a rather intense period of gaming for us, and during that time, Raziel fell unconscious at least once every module, sometimes several times. The blessing must've stopped his bleeding a dozen times or more. Thus, now when Dar, Tular and Raziel find themselves adventuring together, Dar and Tular keep whispering between themselves "Yes, he is blessed by our Stern Mistress." "He is worthy of respect." and casting meaningful glances at the Pelorite. He hates it.

That is hilarious.

 

[Aeric]

I played a cleric of Pelor which was a hand-me-down from someone else who was sick of playing clerics. After he died, I rolled my own cleric and made her a fighter/cleric/templar of Heironeous. I really wanted to play a paladin, but the party needed a cleric more, so I figured that was a nice compromise character.

 

[NiTessine]

That is hilarious.

Yeah. It actually originates from one of our Triad members, who once joked that the cleric should get atonement and convert to Wee Jas.

The Boccobite also has a story associated with his faith, one that I'll probably never get tired of repeating...

It was my first Living Greyhawk adventure ever, way back at Ropecon 2004. It was this Naerie regional module called The Living and the Dead. Decent dungeon crawl, now retired. Well, I created a wizard, and found out we're playing "up", so I'd be a 1st-level guy in a 4th-level dungeon. I had a pretty tough wizard for a 1st-leveler, with Con 12 and Toughness. Otherwise, he was pretty hastily done, and I neglected to fill in stuff like height, weight, hair colour... and deity. I figured he was an agnostic, or something.

So, we go through the dungeon, cutting down most resistance without much trouble, until we come to this door at the end of a long tunnel. The door is very ornate and large, and looks like it'll lead to someplace very important. There's some text on the door, but none of us reads Ancient Suel and I botch Decipher Script, so we don't know what. We pull the handle.

The door doesn't open. No, the text did not say "push".

What did happen was that a large boulder dropped from the ceiling and started rolling down the corridor toward us, Indiana Jones -style. We were trapped in a dead end. The corridor was long, so the DM gave us each one round to prepare for our imminent deaths. He also mentioned that the boulder's attack bonus was +13. I had AC 14.

So, some of us go on full defence and a couple of guys healed themselves. Me, I had nothing. I was wounded, my spells were depleted down to the cantrip level, I had no healing... so, as I wrack my brain, I look at my character sheet. I look at the battlemap. I look at the DM. I look at my character sheet. Then I announce:

"I find God."

The boulder rolled a critical miss and didn't hit me. The rest of the party all went unconscious.

About eighteen months, seven levels and one character death later, he gained his first level in divine oracle of Boccob. A bit after that, he purchased a sailing ship - Boccob's Blessed Boat.

 

[Vrecknidj]

I wish there were a none of the above option.

Dave

 

[Wombat]

None of my players have ever worshipped any of these deities.

We mainly use world-specific deities, and ones that have "messier" portfolios, closer to realworld deities than gaminggods.

 

[BOZ]

and Moradin wins this popularity contest!

 

[Stormborn]

I have only played in one campaign that used the core religions back when I first started playing 3rd Ed and my PC worshipped no gods. As he put it "Yes, I believe that there are beings of vast powers and mysterious ways who can maipulate my destiny on a whim, after all I have met my Grandmother*, I just don't see why I should worship them." So, he basically was areligious rather than atheistic.

* His grandmother was the Matriarch of a elven Mageocracy, basically an epic level Sorcerer with some templates.