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Help with background /Roleplaying for a cleric team.

SionIVSionIV Member Posts: 2,689
edited March 2014 in General Discussion (Spoiler Warning!)
Having finally cleared Nashkel mine with Garrick and company in my other challenge run, i felt that it would probably help me from getting burnt out to have another run on the side that would be completely different. Thanks to a discussion about divine spells i felt like trying out a run i actually haven't done yet. I'm just having a tiny bit problem trying to make it work out from a background perspective.

Welcome to team Cleric!

[Sion]

Human
Priest of Helm
Lawful Neutral

STR 18
DEX 18
CON 16
INT 13
WIS 18
CHA 9

* War Hammer
* Sword and Shield

[Lyssa]

Elf
Priest of Talos
Lawful Evil

STR 15
DEX 19
CON 16
INT 9
WIS 18
CHA 13

* Sling
* Sword and Shield

[Melandru]

Halfling
Priest of Lathander
Neutral Good

STR 15
DEX 19
CON 18
INT 12
WIS 17
CHA 11

* Sling
* Sword and Shield


Roleplay wise how would a team like this ever be able to stick together? I'm normally focused on gameplay but i can't play a team that makes absolutely no sense. And no matter how i twist and turn it i just can't see this team work out on based on their different faith?

Melandru would want to save everyone?
Lyssa would want to kill everyone?
Sion doesn't care?

Help me out here?



Comments

  • CorvinoCorvino Member Posts: 2,269
    You're part of the multi-faith working party of Candlekeep, trying to foster better relations between the various churches and the public. There's an ongoing outreach programme to engage members of the public in clerical matters and overcome the out-of-touch perception of the temples by adventuring and helping commoners.

    You could also have a Q&A chatshow where you party members field questions from local people and have good-natured intra-party banter.

    Commoner 1: My brother-in-law and I have a dispute over the ownership of a field between our lands. How would your deities resolve the matter.

    Melandru: Both of you could work the fields, co-operating to ensure equal labour. Come the harvest you both take equal portions of the bounty. Lathander promotes hope, prosperity and fertility. From co-operating perhaps even your relationship could spring anew.

    Lyssa: Or you could pray for Talos to kill him with Lightning.

    Sion: Lyssa, I'm watching you. And so is Helm.

    Commoner 1: Praise Talos!
  • SionIVSionIV Member Posts: 2,689
    Corvino said:

    You're part of the multi-faith working party of Candlekeep, trying to foster better relations between the various churches and the public. There's an ongoing outreach programme to engage members of the public in clerical matters and overcome the out-of-touch perception of the temples by adventuring and helping commoners.

    You could also have a Q&A chatshow where you party members field questions from local people and have good-natured intra-party banter.

    Commoner 1: My brother-in-law and I have a dispute over the ownership of a field between our lands. How would your deities resolve the matter.

    Melandru: Both of you could work the fields, co-operating to ensure equal labour. Come the harvest you both take equal portions of the bounty. Lathander promotes hope, prosperity and fertility. From co-operating perhaps even your relationship could spring anew.

    Lyssa: Or you could pray for Talos to kill him with Lightning.

    Sion: Lyssa, I'm watching you. And so is Helm.

    Commoner 1: Praise Talos!

    I love it!
  • RewolfRewolf Member Posts: 102
    The cleric's respective deities have received signs or symbols that Bhaal is making a return to the Pantheon and he isn't going to do it softly. Talos fears that Bhaal will try to take over his realm by combining murder and destruction for more power. Also he fancies getting the Bhaal's portfolio so he would like to see him dead.
    Helm and Lathander on the other hand fear the return of the Murder Lord and wish nothing more then to destroy him once and for all. Lathander does this because he stands for vitality and birth and not the destruction of this by the hands of a race (in difference of death by natural causes, like storms) while Helm is focused on protecting the living just for protection.
    These clerics have been called by their Gods in hope that their divine power combined can find out teh truth behind these rumors and hopefully put an end to it if it happens to be true. Also they do hope that they can weaken the other to either strengthen their own rule, settle a score or take over a portfolio.
  • the_spyderthe_spyder Member Posts: 5,018
    the Helmite and the priest of Lathander are "Escorting" the priestess of Talos for summary judgement, but they need to get her to a specific place "Safe and unmolested". Therefore, when everything falls to crap, they form a temporary working arrangement until they get her there. Over time, they begin to trust the person, if not the motives or the religion.

    A multi-discipline task force might also work, but I think less so in that type of world than in the real world. Gods play much more of an open hand in The Realms, so there would be less chance of diametrically opposed forces would "Play nice", because quite simply the Deities themselves wouldn't.
  • Viconia_DeVirViconia_DeVir Member Posts: 80
    edited March 2014
    I have, at times, walked with those of strong belief, opposed to my own - and though in some cases our beliefs became irreconcilable, in other cases things were different, and we could bear one another's presence. For those of the deepest faith, their worship is not simply assumed or chosen on a moment's decision, but revealed to them as an aspect of their lives no less present and surrounding than the air they breathe or the earth they tread upon. Such strong belief needs not to flaunt itself when challenged so desperately; a true cleric understands that they need not bluster. In time, they will simply be proven right.

    So it is with the Lady of Loss - who can say they've lost nothing, in the course of their lives? Such worship is inevitable and natural. If a cleric wishes to open the eyes of those around them to the true path - patiently, perhaps, slowly and subtly - then they cannot simply remain among the faithful, hm? They must put themselves and their faith to the test, even as they test the faith of others. Priests and priestesses are as necessary to their Gods as the other way about. Those jealous, grasping powers such as the Queen of the Demonweb Pits may brook no dissent among their faithful - and yet for all such demands made, even among my people there are quiet, whispered conflicts between divinities. For all the demands made by the Gods, their servants may still act as they choose... to an extent.

    Though younger members of an order or sect may bristle and bridle when faced with someone committed to an opposing credo, and even the great churches of Athkatla descend to violence when their tenets demand - those same temples still endure, side by side.
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