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4 years ago ::
Mar 05, 2009 - 8:32AM
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Still I don't see why a character can't worship one deity while keeping some of the traditions of another deity. Particularly when those traditions don't clash with one another, or in a case like Elistraee where the followers from one dead deity were directly taken in by other deities. After all how many deities are going to punish their followers for taking part in a harvest festival, besides some sort of god of famine?
I don't think you'd get much of an argument on that. The issue is if you decide to put "Elistraee" on the "Deity" line of your character sheet, particularly if your class uses the Divine power source.
"Of course [Richard] has a knife. He always has a knife. We all have knives. It's 1183, and we're barbarians!" - Eleanor of Aquitaine, "The Lion in Winter"
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4 years ago ::
Mar 05, 2009 - 4:01PM
#72
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You have to remember that most people in the realms offer up daily prayers to all sorts of gods. It is a polytheistic pantheon. However, the deity line on your sheet represents the one God who most embodies your beliefs and whom you offer your devotion and dedication to. This is more important for Divine classes (obviosuly) than for "lay" classes. Even a cleric of Amaunator may offer a quick prayer to Tempus before entering battle or Tymora if he needed a bit of luck to get through a situation. However, at the end of the day (and at the beginning especially) he will be devoting his prayer time to Amaunator. When he dies, if he has lived right, he will be taken to Amaunator's realm to serve him.
Sorry WOTC, you lost me with Essentials. So where I used to buy every book that came out, now I will be very choosy about what I buy. Can we just get back to real 4e? Check out the 4e Conversion Wiki. 1. Wizards fight dirty. They hit their enemies in the NADs. -- Dragon9 2. A barbarian hits people with his axe. A warlord hits people with his barbarian. 3. Boo-freakin'-hoo, ya light-slingin' finger-wigglers. -- MrCelcius in response to the Cleric's Healer's Lore nerf
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4 years ago ::
Mar 05, 2009 - 5:32PM
#73
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This is back again? More like worshiping a dead thread.
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4 years ago ::
Mar 05, 2009 - 8:56PM
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Hmmm... is a thread like an exarch? Still, you can't put "Thread" in your deity list on your character sheet. Even if it wasn't dead, it isn't an approved FR deity. (yes... I'm being stupid.  )
Sorry WOTC, you lost me with Essentials. So where I used to buy every book that came out, now I will be very choosy about what I buy. Can we just get back to real 4e? Check out the 4e Conversion Wiki. 1. Wizards fight dirty. They hit their enemies in the NADs. -- Dragon9 2. A barbarian hits people with his axe. A warlord hits people with his barbarian. 3. Boo-freakin'-hoo, ya light-slingin' finger-wigglers. -- MrCelcius in response to the Cleric's Healer's Lore nerf
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4 years ago ::
Mar 05, 2009 - 11:33PM
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Hmmm... is a thread like an exarch? Still, you can put "Thread" in your deity list on your character sheet. Even if it wasn't dead, it isn't an approved FR deity.
(yes... I'm being stupid. )
Did you mean you cannot put it in your deity line?
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4 years ago ::
Mar 05, 2009 - 11:45PM
#76
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Did you mean you cannot put it in your deity line?
Only if you don't have the Internet power source
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4 years ago ::
Mar 06, 2009 - 12:13AM
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Only if you don't have the Internet power source
Deity: Algore
Deity: Microsoft
Deity: .Net
Deity: JobsGatesWoz or should that be SteveSteveBill
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4 years ago ::
Mar 06, 2009 - 5:27AM
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This is back again? More like worshiping a dead thread.
My fault, I assure you. I had recently started playing a drow bard and was wanting to put Elistraee down as my deity, but since I didn't know her 4E whereabouts I ran a search on the forums to see what I could find on her current whereabouts. I was somewhat surprised at what turned up, and am quite dissapointed that one has to read the novels to know whats going on.
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4 years ago ::
Mar 06, 2009 - 2:27PM
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I will point out that a Star Pact Warlock, is a perfect way to worship a Dead God.... The worship is being "taken" advantage of by one of the Far Realms Entities.
There are also past examples of the worship of a "fallen" god being subverted by another power..
My Main Character is a Former Priest of Mystra who was "stoned" in a previous Living Campaign in the Realms, and was "recovered". When he came "too" and discovered that his divinity was no longer able to hear him, or him hear her, he went looking for answers, and found them, in the void above..
Work within the rules, not around them....
a couple of coppers worth
Greg Ferguson
Oviedo, FL
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4 years ago ::
Mar 07, 2009 - 9:51AM
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Doesn't sound like an answer any sane person would want to listen to. 
Sorry WOTC, you lost me with Essentials. So where I used to buy every book that came out, now I will be very choosy about what I buy. Can we just get back to real 4e? Check out the 4e Conversion Wiki. 1. Wizards fight dirty. They hit their enemies in the NADs. -- Dragon9 2. A barbarian hits people with his axe. A warlord hits people with his barbarian. 3. Boo-freakin'-hoo, ya light-slingin' finger-wigglers. -- MrCelcius in response to the Cleric's Healer's Lore nerf
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