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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7154404" data-attributes="member: 29398">So the Divine is only visible when good is being done?  Doesn't the Divine, if there is to be only one, have a mandate to support and encourage all nine alignments?  If not, where and how do Evil (or even Neutral) Clerics get their spells and powers?On this...and I suspect only this...we can agree. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The risk with that is it becomes dry as dust to read, thus turning potential players/DMs away from the game.  Probably not a good idea.OK, let's flip this around: in your game, which I can only assume is monotheistic given what you've written, can someone play a Cleric to a different deity than that one?Could someone, for example, play an Elven Cleric to Rillifane R'tillil?Then - and this is true of any edition of D&D, not just 5e - you have little choice but to rewrite the PH from scratch.What did you do during the runs of 1e (Greyhawk) - 2e (many settings) - 3e (Greyhawk/FR) - 4e (Nentir Vale/PoL), all of which have also been polythestic, even if in some (Dark Sun? Eberron) the deities were somewhat in the background?The rules are by definition neutral.  The flavour around them is also pretty neutral, all things considered.Lan-"and it's not like there's not lots of different deities being worshipped in the real world - D&D isn't making all this up"-efan</blockquote>

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