Unaligned Clerics

[vagabundo]

I feel this change opens up the role playing possiblities.

Having an alignment now means something, you adhere to some tenets, which is why aligned people dont go for other Gods other than their alignment.

But unaligned people are not so strongly directed and have other concerns, so we get the cleric who joined the church just because that is what a fourth son is suppose to do, but he could be quite lazy and spiteful even though he is a member of the church of Bahamut.

It also means you cannot jump to conclusions about someone based on their class/deity (cleric or paladin) combo.

Reminds me of that story posted on enworld of the drunken, lecherous paladin...

 

[Xect]

But unaligned people are not so strongly directed and have other concerns, so we get the cleric who joined the church just because that is what a fourth son is suppose to do, but he could be quite lazy and spiteful even though he is a member of the church of Bahamut.

Yeah. I think the key here is that they are unaligned, not neutral.

A good character takes a moral standpoint of his own that is different from Bahamuts. An unaligned character does not take a standpoint of his own, he just does what Bahamut tells him to do.

I'd say that a character who is neutral by philosophy, rather than merely unaligned, would be barred from beingf a cleric of an aligned god.