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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 3781562" data-attributes="member: 151">We've never misunderstood it to mean you HAD to pick a deity...but it seems inherently flavorless to do so to most folks I know.&nbsp; Membership in an organized religion is rather a defining flavor aspect of the cleric as a class, IMHO, and to disassociate one from any actual real deity and dogma may be liberating, few people really want to do that.This leaves aside the perceived RP benefits both to the PC/DM of the assumed cleric structure and the various plug-in ideas of setting that a cleric, more than almost any other class, brings to the table.&nbsp; Being a 'generic' cleric might be a refreshing change once in a while, but overall one wants to be &quot;Brother Desmond of the Cudgel, follower of St. Cuthbert&quot; instead of &quot;Brother Desmond, general believer in Good Behavior&quot;. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 3781562, member: 151"] We've never misunderstood it to mean you HAD to pick a deity...but it seems inherently flavorless to do so to most folks I know. Membership in an organized religion is rather a defining flavor aspect of the cleric as a class, IMHO, and to disassociate one from any actual real deity and dogma may be liberating, few people really want to do that. This leaves aside the perceived RP benefits both to the PC/DM of the assumed cleric structure and the various plug-in ideas of setting that a cleric, more than almost any other class, brings to the table. Being a 'generic' cleric might be a refreshing change once in a while, but overall one wants to be "Brother Desmond of the Cudgel, follower of St. Cuthbert" instead of "Brother Desmond, general believer in Good Behavior". :) [/QUOTE]

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