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Markusdark wrote:

Cool. Once the doc is in the official place, I'll be sure to follow it. As of now, my senior DM has decided to 'reserve judgement' until there's an official ruling on it in the rules. Which translated to I could do it as long as it didn't interfere or hamper the other player's fun or their character's goals and that I would stop if the rules told me I couldn't.

Worshipping an evil diety does not make you evil. If that was the case, then they would not have put into the rulebook that unaligned characters can worship evil dieties - they would have said that only evil and CE characters could worship them. Lloth is about the drow race and promoting them and their agenda above all others. I could quote a few LG gods that were the same way (especially having been in the Pale Meta-org all these years).

And, please, feel free to call me butthead. I'm a taurus so I tend to become stubborn about things.

I fail to understand your reasoning that an LFR document must be in some official place to be official. The "Characters in the Realms" document was written by Chris Tulach and, at his direction due to some issue with posting on the RPGA website, distributed as a public document by the LFR Campaign Staff. That does not make it less legal, even if slightly harder to find. It is posted on most of the public LFR yahoo lists.

No LFR PC may choose an evil deity for their patron. If you have DMs who are allowing you to ignore the rule, then shame on them.

At some point, I think Chris will fold the unique information from that document (and the FRPG Preview) into an update of the CCG, perhaps after the FRPG has become available.

Keith

Markusdark wrote:

Because there is a strict, set of rules in the CCG that state specifically what are legal sources and what aren't. For example, anything 30 days after being previewed in Dragon magazine. If I am going to be held to the rules of the game, then they need to be IN the rules of the game. I am not always privvy to all the little changes that are made (as evident by my first question in this thread about where was the rule written) so I don't see why I should be expected to delve these forums before heading to a game.

My DM should not be shamed. He said that he would change his decision if he found out otherwise. My guess is that he would look at the ruleset and the official sources and not spend his time digging through other pieces of information since - wow - he would expect such a rule to be in the ruleset.

Warlocks "...commune with infernal intelligences..." or the entire "Dark Pact" that is coming out with the FGPG, but I can't believe that Lloth has the right idea of wanting to promote the drow but is going about it the wrong way? Why? Other than Tulach's ruling what possible campaign breaking issue is there with me keeping this faith?

It will be eventually put into an update of the CCG and this argument will be moot.

Whether or not your DM should be shamed is up for debate. *You*, on the other hand, have no excuse. You have been informed by a campaign admin as to what the rule is and you have been directed as to where to find it as well as why it's not with the other documentation at this point in time, and you are still making the choice to ignore it. I fail to see how worshipping an evil deity is so important to you as a player that you think it justifies ignoring campaign rules that, despite your lack of knowledge at the start of the thread (where you were completely justified), you both know to exist and know the location of (which means you are no longer justified).