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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8114528" data-attributes="member: 14159">I don't play 5e and don't know what they've written about it for 5e.   In the 2e and 3e era materials I'm familiar with, they were pretty clear that you don't get punished for not selecting a patron deity.  You get declared Faithless for outright rejecting all the deities in life, by refusing to worship them at any level.  Even if you only given them token acknowledgement, or worship ones from beyond Faerun, then something will be done otherwise, such as your spirit going to a deity of an appropriate alignment or portfolio if you didn't bother to declare a specific patron deity but at least gave some nominal worship to the gods in general during life, or your spirit being handed off to another pantheon from a different continent or world to be sent on its way if you were a follower of a foreign god for some reason.The False were those that were hypocrites, that openly were members of a religion, while secretly holding absolutely no faith in it or outright betraying it.  A city guard who was a worshipper of Helm, who regularly took bribes to look the other way while people broke the law or trespassed where he was supposed to guard might be considered false.  A follower of Ilmater, who openly was a member of that faith and participated in worship services, but privately was cruel to beggars, dismissive of the injured and disabled, and generally callous towards the sick and suffering might count as False. . .and so could a Good (or at least Neutral) person who joined a Cult of Bane because they wanted the power that came with membership, wanted to avoid the attacks that the cult gave to outsiders, but kept his morals and virtues and worked to undermine the Cult from within, would probably be considered a False follower of Bane, especially if he didn't have some other relationship with some other deity he was "actually" following the whole time.</blockquote>

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