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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scott-fs" data-source="post: 1581709" data-attributes="member: 5714">Heh, this reminds me of a little story of a session I joined a few years back.  I had just rejoined the group after an absence.  The DM as I learned beforehand was going to (as usual) run FR.  Now, I despise the FR, but I wanted to play, so I decided to simply ignore the FR references, and play in blissful ignorance.  I decided to play a cleric, but I didn't want to choose a deity (desiring to remain blissfully ignorant... yes, I really wanted to play badly).  The DM didn't like that.  Looking through my PHB, I decided that Pelor (or atleast the FR equivalent) would suffice.  The DM and I butted heads on details for a bit (apparently there are no deity-less clerics in FR), but the DM allowed me to play a cleric of the sun), but eventually we started.When I was trying to decide what my character's name was going to be, the other players were expecting me to use my old standby of Ish.  Ish has a very interesting background, used by no less than 6 characters of mine <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Anyway, since the DM wouldn't let me call my "deity" Pelor, I decided that the character would be named.... Pelor <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />This annoyed the DM somewhat, and probably what led to my characters death.  As I was going through the cleric spell list, I started renaming all the spells my character would use to reference the sun, or the light.  My character carried a candle (or lamp) that he would light whenever he meditated.Anyway, during the session, I decided to have my character meditate outside with the sun shining.  Some dwarves came by and wondered what I was doing.  I made some comments that I was praying to the sun.  They thought I was a heretic that I prayed to something other than... gasp... a god.  They left me, but returned with some town guards and I got thrown into jail.The highlight of the campaign was when I found it funny that my "cellmate" was a drow.  I couldn't resist having my character say to the drow "let the sun soothe your soul". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The character died later in the session on a trip to a larger city to deliver me and the drow to the authorities for trial.  The other players were getting annoyed that the DM wanted to "punish" me for not playing an FR cleric, and when they tried to attack the escort to protest this, a coup-de-gras by one of the guards (before the guards took on the other PCs) ended my character's life (and that of the drow).Yes, that DM ran horribly bad games, but in many ways he was the only one who wanted to run a game (everyone else was either too busy, or didn't have anything that they wanted to run).</blockquote>

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