Originally Posted by Piff
Druids in 5e don't necessarily have to worship, but a lot do worship various nature deities, same goes for rangers. Paladins can now swear themselves to causes, rather than gods, but again, many still worship gods. Its about giving people options to play the kind of character they want. Also it is a side effect of getting rid of divine champions and blackguards as classes, paladin had to broaden its class portfolio. There's absolutely nothing stopping you from going old-school with your paladin, but you have options.

It's why I think everyone should have the option to select a god, because lots of people still make characters that are religious, even if they aren't playing a cleric, or need it for their class.

100% agree everyone should be able to select a God. Even if they may not often get unique dialogue for it.

But it just wont be the same without Lathander as an option unfortunately.

Originally Posted by Zarna
Originally Posted by Drath Malorn
Er ... why just Lathander or X or Y ? With a bit of exaggeration, all the gods should be available. More specifically, I would have the following requests.

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Everyone should have a deity.

And by everyone I mean not just-Clerics. See the thread there.


Please, give us more deities to choose from.

The following are well established deities, and I'd say their inclusion is between fairly important and pretty much required : Sune, Lathander/Amaunator, Torm, Talos, Umberlee, Auril, Malar, Sylvanus, Mielikki, Eldath, Chauntea, Mask, Waukeen, as well as Red Knight, Garagos, Valkur, Uthgar, Loviatar, Sharess, Tymora, Beshaba, Talona, Milil, Gond, Bahamut.

Note : you have made us encounter a druid circle dedicated to Sylvanus, a cleric of Loviatar, an inn called Waukeen's Rest, etc. Since you mention all this lore, it would be a pity if players cannot have access to it as well.

Finally, "none" should be in the list (for all classes, including Cleric), so that players can play character who don't particularly follow a deity.


Non-Humans should have more than one deity option.

It currently feels as if non-Humans are neglected. When playing a non-Human Cleric, we currently have the choice of either going with the only racial deity given (or the only two, in the case of Drows), or going for the much rarer story of a Cleric worshipping a deity from another society/pantheon than the one we would expect.

Maybe there is no need to include the whole pantheon for each race (although ... maybe not), but it would be nice to guarantee 2-4 choices of deities per race, just to say that players had a real choice.

Suggestions : Clangeddin, Berronar, and Dugmaren or Marthamor ; Solonor, Rillifane, and perhaps Labelas, Sehanine or Hanali ; Vhaeraun ; Baervan and Baravar ; Arvoreen and Sheela ; Gruumsh, Luthic and Obould.

All of this. Still a bit upset that my two favourites (Mask and Vhaeraun) are missing.

Originally Posted by Drath Malorn
I have difficulties with us visiting a Druid Grove dedicated to Sylvanus, having access to the Druid class, and not being able to select Sylvanus as our main god. By the way, people who have played Patch 4 : do Druids select a main deity at character creation ? Please don't tell me no.
You do not select a deity as a druid. However unless they have fixed this, you and the companions all worship Shar on the level up screen.

Yeah they need to fix this. Not having the god of dawn and renewal is bad enough without friggin Shar being shoved down our throats.