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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5549292" data-attributes="member: 94022">Certainly a character can worship a "false god" if the DM allows it, so long as there is a source for that character's divine power.  In one campaign that I ran a while back, I did something along the same lines, just slightly different.  The paladin of Moradin came face to face with the mother goddess (homebrew world) and she kept referring to him as "her knight".  The paladin finally interrupted and said "With all due respect, I am a paladin of Moradin." to which the goddess replied, "I do not concern myself with such trivial things as names or titles my son, for it is what you believe in, not who you believe in, that truly matters.Essentially, she had been granting him his powers all along (or at least for some portion of it) even though he had been praying to Moradin.  It wasn't that Moradin was a false god per se, just that he wasn't the god granting the powers.  The player was great about it and it ended up being an amazing RP arc wherein he had a "crisis of faith" before realizing the truth behind her words, etc.  Note though that I would not try this with everyone as some players would object vehemently to such an approach.</blockquote>