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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doc_Subtlety" data-source="post: 215133" data-attributes="member: 2615">Not anymore.  In 3E, Clerics don't have to have a god at all.  (Actually, this was true as of 2E Planescape - it just made it into a PHB, this edition. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Some thoughts:- The older, deity dependent Clerics will try to stave off their loss of power as long as possible.  Doesn't matter what alignment they are - they won't disappear quietly.  (This might take the form of lying about what's happened, or concealing it entirely.  But it's pretty guaranteed that they'll try *something*.)- Many people will leave the church.  Others will turn to crazy heresies, maybe even human sacrifice to try and get their gods back.  There'll be some rioting.  Things will get crazy, when the truth gets out. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />- The church will ultimately endure a while despite all of this, in some diminished form.  - You'll see a surge of popularity for Druidism, and for Bards. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />- New Clerics will eventually come along that are not deity dependent, unless you rule that ethos clerics don't exist.  (How long this takes depends on the campaign.  I ran a game where the gods died, and it took hundreds of years.)</blockquote>

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