Religeon - requires specific alignment ?

There's a difference between 'I worship X' and 'I am empowered to do magic tricks by the magical might gifted to me by X and the clergy that directly communes to and espouses their message.'

It's kinda like the difference between being a Cristian, and being St. Paul, or Elijah, or Abraham, or any other prophet or holy man. Not every adherant to a religion necessarily walks the straight and narrow of that belief system. There are some who murder when thou shalt not murder, or steal when thou shalt not steal.

However, when the diety starts handing out the hocus pocus, that stuff's only going to those who actually got their head on straight (by the diety's point of view.)

You might have a lawful good person who worships the Raven Queen, believing that his hunting of vampires is for the common good. He believes he is doing the right thing, and that everyone should do the right thing.

However, The Raven Queen isn't doing it for the common good, she's doing it because fate must not be abated, good or evil... the deathless are as culpable as the undead. But those chosen by her? They're fated to be that way, so do not defy her will, whether they do evil or good. Thus, one entrusted as her cleric, or paladin, would be unaligned. Her clergy doesn't hand that stuff out to shining white knights who don't quite toe the party line.

Okay how about the LG and NG Goliath Twins, that have a particular hatred of Orcs as they killed there family and wish to kill every Orc they meet (naturally enough) and also Duergar as they are filthy disgusting creatures - awful to fight in beard with greasy beard and bodily parts being flung at you......

sorry I get off track...

They also worship the Raven Queen, and choose her Raven Knight Epic Destiny, which has no alignment pre-req but does have "Must Worship her" pre requ.
 

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You can worship whatever god you like. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for a Lawful Good character to worship Lolth, but maybe he's got a thing for spiders?

Enacting the will of a god, in the world, is a bit of a different thing though. It's rather hard to strictly adhere to that god's canon, if your personal beliefs diverge significantly from it.
 

Okay how about the LG and NG Goliath Twins, that have a particular hatred of Orcs as they killed there family and wish to kill every Orc they meet (naturally enough) and also Duergar as they are filthy disgusting creatures - awful to fight in beard with greasy beard and bodily parts being flung at you......

sorry I get off track...

They also worship the Raven Queen, and choose her Raven Knight Epic Destiny, which has no alignment pre-req but does have "Must Worship her" pre requ.

They're fine by the rules and I don't see why not by the RP, either.
 

There's kind of a base assumption in D&D that if a character worships a deity, he worships one god. So if his power is divine, then he is getting that power from a single source.

Y'think? I always figured, with the different domains of the PHB gods, 4e implies a pretty polytheistic society. You pray to Sehanine for love. You pray to Pelor for a good harvest. You pray to Bane for success in war. You pray to Bahamut to be protected. You pray to the Raven Queen when you mourn. You pray to Asmodeus when you want to rule effectively.

I think the role of those with the Divine power source is different, though. Those powers seem to come from one special god.

I think it's kind of like the deal Jacob struck in the OT. In a world of many multitudinous deities, Jacob looks at the deity he met in Luz in a vision, and says, more or less, "I am special to you, and you are special to me." Jacob makes that god his elohim, his personal deity. It's a "you scratch my back and give me magic, I'll scratch yours and advance your cause above all the rest of the deities" thing.

Everyone else, though, has no problem worshiping all sorts of weird things. Better to pray to a whole host of divinities, any of which might sit up and pay attention, then depend on only one, who might at any moment be destroyed / usurped / weakened /etc.
 

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