What I think would really help is if the Acolyte background allowed you to pick a deity and that would sometimes be reflected in conversation.
Interesting idea! Yes, though for me ideally that would be in addition to the classes I mentioned being able to pick deities. It would certainly help for playing a religious character of a non-divine class. And it could go some way to plugging the gap for non-cleric divine classes, too, as it is a background I tend to pick for druids and rangers when I’ve wanted to play them as devoted to a divinity rather than nature generally, and also picked it for one of my paladins. It would certainly be better than nothing, but I’d still prefer the ability to pick other backgrounds and a deity for all divine classes.
I live in hope that this is intended for paladin, at least, as I think some deity content has been data-mined or even appears in the game. I wonder if there just wasn’t time to get it working properly, or think through how it should work alongside the oathbreaker subclass, before the pre-Xmas deadline Larian were working towards for patch 9. That’s my wishful thinking, anyway.
