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Just thought I'd let you all know that I played in my first RPGA event with my game breakin' Drow wizard that still worships Lloth. Guess what? Everyone had a good time, the event went off without a hitch and perhaps 1 person realized that I even still prayed to her.

Now, feel free to warn me/centure me/ban me from the RPGA for this gross breach of the rules that isn't in any official rule source and I will be happy to find something else to do on my Monday nights.

Edit: Oh, and I did just read the message that Rich Baker. Why didn't you include the first paragraph?

Regarding Kossuth, etc.: I think that "in-world" most Faerunians don't distinguish much between someone who worships a god and someone who worships a demon or primordial. The typical Faerunian is likely to look on the latter as someone who's evil, primitive, or just nuts... but he can't easily observe the difference between a "cleric" in game terms and a person who serves as in a priestly office without the powers of a cleric. He'd see that flameservant of Kossuth wielding magical powers derived from fire, without really understanding that Kossuth isn't a divine creature. Scholars and real clerics would know better, of course.

To me, this sounds like my character could be seen as just being plain nuts, and as he gains absolutely no divine powers from his following of Lloth, it doesn't even touch upon the second paragraph that was quoted. The response, to me, says that you can 'worship' whoever you want if you're willing to deal with people thinking bad things about you but if you want to have any divine powers, you need to follow one of the good gods.

lcghent wrote:

Speaking of this, whats the penalty for killing a Lolth worshiping pc drow? Inquiring Eladrins and elves want to know.

*snicker*

Well from what I can find in the general rules of the RPGA, the penalty guidelines and the Living Forgotten Realms material there is nothing prohibiting it. But there are quite a few entries about "Unsporting conduct" and play disruption. However, if I was killed by another player and they told me that it was because I was worshipping a god(ess) that wants the obliteration of their race, I'd have no one to blame but myself and would go ahead and make a new character (assuming no one wanted to help me rez of course )

Dragon9 wrote:

Don't be a butthead. (Said with love, because you said I could call you that. )

Sorry, I just gotta be me.

I have been told time and again to follow what is in the rules and I am doing just that. You call it 'arrogant flaunting', I call it... well following the rules. Don't worry though, I'm sure soon there will be an official ruleset for the LFG campaign including not being able to off other PC's and not being allowed to worship evil dieties. Then, all this will be moot and I'll be stuffed back into my "Open In Case of Need of a Butthead" can.

I did pose the question to Baker though. He hasn't responded about it but it is more of a running campaign question and not really a campaign material question.

Just show me where worshipping an evil deity is not allowed in an official rule source - one that players are instructed to look towards - and I'll shut up. I feel that it is irresponsible to have rules that exist that a player cannot find out about until after he has sat down at the table and presented the character to the GM, only to be told that he can't use what's there. Yes, a post was made about them. But how is a player going to know to go through the message board to look for rules changes?

Other than that, I don't see myself being antagonistic about it. Well maybe the post about my event was a bit and if you took offense to that, I apologize. I thought it was humorous and Dragon chuckled.