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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 1233253" data-attributes="member: 939">That can also depend on the campaign.  In my world, while there are plenty of gods, and speciality priests to go along with them, how the god is actually worshipped and the structure of the organization is actually completely up to the worshippers.  There is no divine intervention, no divine communication at all.  If you worship a goddess of love, and you find a bunch of like-minded worshippers, you can form a church and make your own structure.  If someone else also worships the same goddess of love, they get the same powers, but the structure of the organization might be different - if one order doesn't like what another is doing, they can try to force it, but they won't have any divine help in doing so, beyond their normal granted powers.  In other words, in that sense, it is like real religions - which are totally and completely structured according to what the adherents can make of it.  So some gods have rather uniform, well disciplined orders, others have many different ones.  It depends partly on the nature of those who would worship a particular god/goddess.  It also depends on how much real power a given order has, through whatever means are available - for instance, one order might have government or monarchy sponsorship and funding.  That would make it more widespread than one without.  During an early campaign, the BBEG, a necromancer, intended to become a god, which he finally managed to do after taking over a country and building a vast army, ready to invade the nation of the PCs.  And then an interesting thing happened - because in leaving to become a god, he left behind a power vacuum, and no longer had his direct control - so things sort of fell apart.  Now, those who worship him can be clerics, but he himself is gone - it is up to the clerics to decide what that worship means.  Of course, other campaigns do things differently.  I'm still working on transferring over my speciality priests from 2nd Ed.  I have them set up for 3rd ed - the problem is some of the extra powers are less balanced because I can't balance with spell circles like I could before.  I'm considering just keeping them as they are, with the domains I gathered for them for 3rd ed, and seeing how it goes.  It might be somewhat unbalancing, the extra powers for some, but it never was a problem before.  I'll put them in the House Rules this weekend.  I suppose I never did like the generic cleric... but then I don't like generic characters.  It is more fun to come up with something unique.  Thankfully, 3rd Ed allows avoiding generic fighters, wizards, and thieves as well.</blockquote>

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