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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuckyAdrastus" data-source="post: 5260903" data-attributes="member: 82859">Well, it sounds like you have invested role-players, which is a good start!  Beyond that, try to talk to and work with the players to make sure they are making decisions which balance advancing a concept of their character, with advancing the goals of the campaign (which likely include party unity).Looking at the specific religions, I think the most trouble may be with Dol Dorn or the Shadow.  Blood of Vol (as generally worshipped) and The Traveler are unaligned relgions -- although they have bad reputations, their actual tenets aren't directly harmful towards others.  Members of other religions who get to know a worshipper of either of those faiths personally should be able to overcome any prejudices.Dol Dorn is unaligned and all about militarism and personal perfection.  If the worshipper of Dol Dorn is focused on training himself, rather than eradicating non-Vassals (worshippers of the Host) he/she should be fine at dealing with worshippers of more unpopular faiths on a personal level.  Might lead to more opportunities to fight!  Think of Kord in the Points of Light setting, who was child of the original evil goddess of Winter, Khala, and joined her in a war against the good gods until convinced to switch sides.  So long a the Dol Dorn worshippers fellow PCs aren't trying to destroy the world, overtly harm innocent without justification, it shouldn't be too hard to pull off.Shadow could be very tough, based on which direction the player takes it.  If they worship the Shadow as a neccesary patron of their magic powers, then it shouldn't be any "worse" than having an infernal pact warlock, or party friendly wroshipper or Vecna, Bane, or maybe even Gruumsh from Points of Light.  On the other hand, if they seek the often implied greater goal of the Shadow to corrupt living things (the Shadow is CE, after all) then it could be more troublesome.Basically, the faiths should be able to get along if the players keep their goals mostly internalized.  If the Dol Dorn guy tries to lead a crusade against worhsippers of the Six, the Blood of Vol guys tries to raise an undead army to crush Thrane, the Traveler guy decides to assasinate King Boranel to spread anarchy, and the Shadow guy tries to turn the Eldeen Reaches into a shadow mockery of nature, that is likely to cause party harm.</blockquote>

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