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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 4577021" data-attributes="member: 22424">This is incorrect. Page 62 of the PHB:"You must choose a deity compatible with your alignment: Good clerics serve good deities, lawful good clerics serve lawful good deities, and so on."So, 4e Clerics actually have less alignment freedom than do 3e Clerics.That said, the 4e alignment rules contain no mention whatsoever of changing alignment, and the Cleric write-up does say that once you are a Cleric you are forever a Cleric. What this all actually means is undefined. It is entirely possible, therefore, that:1) Clerics can change alignment entirely at the whim of the PC, and suffer no consequences.2) Clerics (and other PCs) can act in any manner they want without risking an alignment shift. If the player chooses to change his character's declared alignment, this may or may not require that he also change deity.3) Since alignment represents nothing more than a metaphysical 'team' (per page 19, "In a cosmic sense, it's the team you believe in and fight for most strongly."), your Lawful Good Cleric can quite happily indulge his habit of burning down orphanages in his spare time, just so long as he stands ready to execute genocide on any passing Orcs at a moment's notice.Presumably, how you interpret this will depend on the tastes of the group, and how ridiculously they wish to interpret the rules.</blockquote>