Gentlegamer
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Clerics worship their alignment. They may have patron deities (kinda like Catholic saints). The gods themselves serve the alignment even while serving as patrons of certain spheres of influence (again, like Catholic saints).
Early clerics and the gods
- Thread starter Quasqueton
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lukelightning
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Now that I think of it, on my first character's character sheet, in the space labeled "deity" I wrote "yes."
First time one new player looked at the deities in the PHB he remarked:Gentlegamer
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Your character worshiped the band, Yes?. Cool!lukelightning said:
T. Foster said:
Good point about Gods, Demigods & Heroes. Those gods aren't for worshipping. They are for treasure and experience points! (Just kidding.) Actually, according to the book's introduction GDG&H was published as a sort of plea to power-gamers: 'Hey, Thor himself is "only" a 20th-level fighter. How can you possibly have a 30th-level fighter?'
As for Quasqueton's question, we've used gods right from the get-go. My very first RPG purchase consisted of the Holmes boxed set (which included B2 but no dice), the Monster Manual, and some weird dice. A couple weeks later I went back to the store and was blown-away by a brand-new product prominently displayed on the shelves: the AD&D Deities & Demigods Cyclopedia. I snatched that up in a heartbeat. Thank goodness my parents were liberal with their money when it came to books.
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I've always used gods in D&D games; from OD&D onwards. Always made up pantheons (or fictional ones like Cthulhu)
I remember in the 1E games I used to play, everyone just sort of picked whatever deity they wanted their character to worship regardless of setting. We had druids of Obad-Hai besides fighters of Kiri-Jolith and paladins of Athena. It was particularly odd (to me) that very few cleric players ever bothered to choose a deity. 
But then again, in those 1E days, the cleric was the "girlfriend class."
When I did my own homebrew, I decided on a monotheistic religion for heroic PC's with different orders representing different portfolios. I had decided that I wanted religion to be a unifying cultural force across the continent, much like Catholicism was in the Dark Ages. Druids represented an older belief system that was gradually dying out, they worship an elemental/nature pantheon loosely based on Celtic mythology (one deity per classical element, the children of a "father time" and "mother nature" pair). And of course, there were scattered pcokets of paganism and cults across the continent.
But then again, in those 1E days, the cleric was the "girlfriend class."When I did my own homebrew, I decided on a monotheistic religion for heroic PC's with different orders representing different portfolios. I had decided that I wanted religion to be a unifying cultural force across the continent, much like Catholicism was in the Dark Ages. Druids represented an older belief system that was gradually dying out, they worship an elemental/nature pantheon loosely based on Celtic mythology (one deity per classical element, the children of a "father time" and "mother nature" pair). And of course, there were scattered pcokets of paganism and cults across the continent.
