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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7157033" data-attributes="member: 42582">No. I'm saying that, prior to 2nd ed AD&D's specialty priests, the core tools the game gives me to run divine PCs (clerics and paladins) aren't a very good fit for the classic polytheistic pantheons (Greek, Norse, Babylonian/Sumerian, etc) and fictional variations thereon.I don't know how you intend "implied". I took  [MENTION=22779]Hussar[/MENTION] to mean something like "entailed" - certainly stronger than "suggested". And the evidence he points to is good evidence - Appendix IV of the AD&D PHB.But that evidence:(i) doesn't exist in other sources (eg Moldvay Basic - the reference to "a god" is as consistent with a god chosen by the GM to be the god of the campaign world as it is with a god chosen by the player from among the many of the campaign world); (ii) faces the problem that there are few or no tools for actually implementing it in play - the cleric class is simply not a good fit for a priest of Artemis, or Dionysus, or Baldur, or Ishtar, or . . . - let alone for a devotee of the Happy Hunting Grounds.The introduction of specialty priests into 2nd ed AD&D, and their perpetuation (in various more-or-less limited ways) into 3E and 5e are a real change to the game, that make the implementation of polytheism in a campaign world much more practical.It means that either (i) I missed the implication that is to be found in Moldvay Basic, or (ii) it is not there. My contention is that it is not there.</blockquote>

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