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Well, the Fighter/Cleric I have in my game kinda put it best when asked about his chosen path.

Garret (Halfling Wizard): "So, a warrior, and a follower of the goddess of death? And you're on our side?"
Mikal (Human Fighter/Cleric): "Sure."
Garret: "Ok combat, I get. Gods, I get. I can even get a warrior following a god of death. But why a warrior, following a god of death, working with us?"
Immarel (Eladrin Warlord): "Good question."
Mikal: "We all live, do stuff, and die. The only thing we get to choose about that is how we live, usually. I'm choosing how I live, and how I die. I think I win."
Sulis (Dragonborn Rogue) *laughs*
Lianor (Half-Elf Paladin of Correllon): "I think a better question is what a halfling is doing with a spellbook."
Garret: "I like to try to cook her food before she eats it." *points to Sulis*
Sulis: "Cast faster."
Mikal: "And with a group like you, I should be able to ensure I get a noteworthy and entertaining death."

Also,

M4kitsu wrote:

I also find the image of a cleric of the Raven Queen rather appealing -a traveling priest who will fight with all his heart to stave off an undead attack or save a life wrongly taken, but won't lift a finger to cure a fatal but natural disease. That, however, requires a group that wouldn't throw me in front of a train for doing so; a thing I currently lack.

Then I might have some advice for you from said Fighter character.

Your key word here is natural death. There are also sometimes natural cures. While Mikal will not use magic to heal a person who could die a natural death, he does have the heal skill and is more than willing to try every application of it to try and save a life naturally. Maybe that outlook would fly with your fellow players.

Zousha_Omenohu wrote:

Whatever happened to the bright shiny paladins in perfectly polished armor who could do no wrong?

There still there.

That being said there are more options now on how to play your character. instead of being tied down by honor codes on how to act that were, well lame for lack of a better word (dont lie, dont use posion, ect.) , they can now be fully motivated by their god.

One reason i like the Raven Queen is that she is a softer death godess. She watches over the dead, protects them, and at the same time one can justfy murder in her name. Melora is a nature godess, so she could care less about civilization and peaple while Erathis cares to much about civilization and not about peaple. With the Raven Queen you can care about the person, alive and dead. you can also be a wanderer, a dark soldjer in the fight against evil.

Pelor is just to obvious for me, and besides some of us hear pelor and think of his 3,3.5 verson in which there is some convincing arguments that peg him as an evil diety rather than a good one. Moradin is a dwarf god, and a crafter that cares to much about family. Avandra strikes me as fickle. Bahamut is a dragon (ick) god that cares way to much about honor. With that im out of the "good" gods. So i pick the god that i like the most (atlest if i play a paliden, alot of my characters have no religion or worship something of my creation).

Because Bahamut's the patron of dragonborn, and I don't want to play a dragonborn yet.