Changing Deities

[petey512]

SnottySnitch said:

"Is there a way I can set a deity to my character without having to remake him again? :P"

Perhaps it'd be good to adopt a thing I saw on Arelith called "The Book of Deities." If you were faithless you could choose any appropriate to alignment without a penalty.

If you already had a deity appropriate to your alignment but wish to change it to another equally appropriate deity, you suffer a 1000 xp loss.

I'm sure this would save DMs a lot of time. Lots of times I have wished to change my deity due to IG events but have been unable to do so, due to the DMs supervising much more important material.


Cons: People could possibly go from the deity of Torm to Cyric without supervision, which is why I suggest only allowing changes appropriate to alignment.

Major changes would still be overseen by DMs, of course.

[Allatum]

I don't think it's a good idea for several reasons. For starters, a cleric's level and abilities are faith based, and divinely granted (This applies to a few other classes as well.) That said, a cleric, etc. switching deities to only suffer one thousand experience loss is a little silly. Powers are fickle, and don't really appreciate flippant servants, not to mention you might run into domain conflicts as well.

For non divine classes, it wouldn't matter so much? Changing a patron deity is still a very big step that speaks of a character's outlook, but not a change that would cause them to lose anything unless they had divine gifts.

In all, it shouldn't be approached by the terms of "Oh, I've a book where I can just pick a new god." It's too big of a change for certain characters, and of too little importance for others.

[ScottyB]

Deity change requests are not common, and we are more than happy to facilitate the IC evolution of your character. It would be more work to script up with a book that needs bug fixing and receives complaints periodically. (I like my lawful Valkurites and chaotic Illmateri, among other non-standard, non-divine followers, for example.)

[Cruzel]

I think the better question needs to be asked -  Why does it matter?
 
If you already have a DM's attention, then go for it, ask them to wand you for a quick shift, it's no real trouble if they are already with you. Having asked for this in the past myself, It's really a minor thing.
 
I mean really. Aside for clerics and druids, it makes almost no difference whatsoever what you have in your deity field. You are not magically bound to follow whatever is written down. If you get converted/stop beleiving/whatever, Good on you, you don't NEED the change to make it true.
 
IMO this is more one of those things where you say "Oh hey, since you're here.."  Not "Oh hey could you come do this?". But It's the DM's call if they want to shift you. It just seems very minor to me!

[petey512]

Nvm, I merely posted this based on my experience of being unable to get a deity change. :P

Looking back now I can concur with the thought that this is a bad idea.

Unless people have more to say I think this could us a lock or whatever.