'Create Cleric' Ritual

[defendi]

I was tickled by this myself. It's close to one of my core ideas in The Echoes of Heaven Campaign Setting (small plug, http://enworld.rpgnow.com/index.php?filters=0_0_0&manufacturers_id=729). We'd say, however, that you merely need to convince the other clerics or paladins that you are the right alignment (since there's no detect alignment in 4th ed, I guess that amounts to the same thing). We also added a ritual in 3.5 in an upcoming book that allowed them to strip you of your power. We didn't just want to have the possibility of clerics and paladins going rogue, but we also wanted the possibility that if your superior in the church hated you, you might have to play good with the politics as he tried to come up with excuses to strip you of power.

I think anything that adds conflict to a setting is a GOOD thing.

 

[Shabe]

the clergy or faithful hunting down rogue clerics

Faithful: Give back what you stole from our altar.
Rogue: I haven't stole nothin' guvnor, if fact i'm one of your priests!
Faithful: Its no good we know you are a rogue/cleric.

haha, erm ha, i'll get my coat...

 

[MarkB]

I also very much like the Eberron approach to clerics, but whilst I also lie the "non-interventionist gods" concept of that setting, it won't work for every setting.

The way I'm intending to run it in my games is that deities don't track the individual actions and misdeeds of their servants, but they are attuned to more major actions, both good and bad. So inapproriate behaviour will go unhindered to a certain extent - but if it gets out of hand, especially if it impinges upon other members of the same faith, there will start to be some divine intercessions.

 

[eleran]

As part of my main plot thread for the Paragon tier of my campaign, I am going to have a cleric of Tharizdun infiltrate the PC Clerics church as a way to get sacrifices for a rather important ritual he wants to perfom. Since the Tharizdun cleric is quite charismatic I am going to try to use him to win over the trust of the PC cleric to make it that much more personalk when they find out he is the one responsible for some disappearances that will come to light later.