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Message: <blockquote data-quote="karolusb" data-source="post: 6983217" data-attributes="member: 83359">I guess the question really is how married are you to the silliest aspects of Faerun?  I met a god.  Are you sure it wasn't just a 29th level Mary-Sue wizard? (Yes I'm sure, gods have limits Elminster does not. . .).   I can call down a pillar of flame because a god allows it.  I can cast fireball, if I say I can do it because a god allows it does that make Blasto the god of the Milisecond Sun real?  (Now lorewise 5E bards might be a real problem for the absolute gods of Faerun, because there is literally no spell a cleric can have that a bard cannot).  Even in my early days when I liked the setting I paid no attention to this silliness.  Why you ask?  Because Faerune is a part of the prime material plane, and the prime material plane does not dictate the realities of the outer planes.  Clearly this is not true in the outer planes (as they are explicitly shared between worlds) so it can't be true in Faerune, whatever the priests tell you at tithing time.  (Actually I just ignored it because it was silly, just like Elminster never saved the day when I was GMing, but this reason works too).  While I could see a given god refusing the power to his cleric to return a given person from the dead (though this is not actually a condition of the cleric class or the spell), this is true of any reason the god may have, atheism being no more interesting a reason than many, many others.  And a different cleric may well get a different answer (You shouldn't have slept with Ares' paramour, but Hermes is feuding with him right now, so he will probably be willing to do it just to tick Ares off).  I don't think I have ever run a game where I would disallow someone from being raised from the dead for a background trait though.</blockquote>

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