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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shin Okada" data-source="post: 2775193" data-attributes="member: 1956">IMHO, basically as a concept and flavor. That is same as monks being lawful and paladin being LG. Favored Souls are meant to be people chosen by some deity.Game-mechanic wise, if there is no deity, there is no favored weapon. So the class do not work without a patron deity. Available deity (and one's favored weapon) may vary in campaign world and each gaming group.My play group love "do it yourself" tradition of good old D&D. So, DMs tend to allow a player design one's PCs patron deity by himself. DMs require somewhat detailed write-ups regarding that deity. Usually, we allow any martial or simple weapon as player-made deity's favored weapon. Non-power-gaming exotic weapons (say, double-weapon) are usually accepted, too.FYI, regarding clerics, our play group has no problem on choosing alignment cleric, or a cleric worshipping a pantheon. Japan is pantheism in culture. Most Japanese people are either Buddhists or Shinto-ismists (usually, both). In both pantheism (buddhism and shinto-ism), priests admire all the deity of their religion. Though a certain temple or shrine may have some "main deity", it is not uncommon to have several of them at once, or having different main deities for each buildings (or even for each rooms) of the same temple complex. A priest is, usually, not a "priest of deity xxx". So alignment or pantheon cleric seems quite natural for us.</blockquote>

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