Deity selection

[Moa Rider]

I haven't played the game in over a year and half. Does anyone know if your able to pick a deity even if you pick a class besides Cleric? I really hope picking a god isn't locked out for non-Clerics. Seems stupid to deny extra reactivity, if that's the case.

[Keagian]

So far, only Clerics are able to choose a deity to worship.

[Metallicus]

You don’t even get to choose an alignment so you are out of luck for any flavor options.

[Ronin Gamer]

Cleric is the only one in EA currently. We don't know if official release will allow more.
Paladin is making an Oath, and that Oath seemingly isn't tied to a specific entity, but a kind of promise to the universe to act in a specific manner and keep to that manner.
Personally I'm more fond of the system for paladins in Pillars 2 where they don't swear an Oath like thing to gods but to an organization or group in the real world to act on their behalf and in a manner that would befit that organization. It gives Paladins a wider range or ways they can choose to act while still keeping you to a kind of mind set you need to stay in.
The option isn't exclusively "Lawful good" and nothing else basically.
Since alignment isn't as harshly tracked here, it's mostly sticking to your Oath or "promise" in BG3 which is a half way point between to two systems from what I see.

[DDkiki]

I would be sad if we are not allowed to choose our god as custom characters.
PF KM/WotR allows it and it leads to pretty interesting RP and events. And in games like BG3 located in Faerun gods are very important. Like being atheist iirc is a pretty bad thing there. Would be a big shame if its not included...

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by DDkiki:

I would be sad if we are not allowed to choose our god as custom characters.
PF KM/WotR allows it and it leads to pretty interesting RP and events. And in games like BG3 located in Faerun gods are very important. Like being atheist iirc is a pretty bad thing there. Would be a big shame if its not included...

You might be able to choose to follow one after character creation, or you can simply add that to your background and simply follow your god or goddess's rules despite not being a Cleric.
Nothing is stopping you from doing that if you want to honestly. It's a choice you make for yourself.

[DDkiki]

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Originally posted by DDkiki:

I would be sad if we are not allowed to choose our god as custom characters.
PF KM/WotR allows it and it leads to pretty interesting RP and events. And in games like BG3 located in Faerun gods are very important. Like being atheist iirc is a pretty bad thing there. Would be a big shame if its not included...

You might be able to choose to follow one after character creation, or you can simply add that to your background and simply follow your god or goddess's rules despite not being a Cleric.
Nothing is stopping you from doing that if you want to honestly. It's a choice you make for yourself.

Yeah I just wish game had actual in-game reactivity to my character's believes. Really hope Larian didn't forget it.

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by DDkiki:

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

You might be able to choose to follow one after character creation, or you can simply add that to your background and simply follow your god or goddess's rules despite not being a Cleric.
Nothing is stopping you from doing that if you want to honestly. It's a choice you make for yourself.

Yeah I just wish game had actual in-game reactivity to my character's believes. Really hope Larian didn't forget it.

Outside of cleric, I'm not sure if they'd have been able to slap that on every single class/character. They've been working on an idiotic amount of stuff for this game, they can't do absolutely everything.
The pathfinder games don't have everything either.

[Moa Rider]

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Originally posted by DDkiki:

Yeah I just wish game had actual in-game reactivity to my character's believes. Really hope Larian didn't forget it.

Outside of cleric, I'm not sure if they'd have been able to slap that on every single class/character. They've been working on an idiotic amount of stuff for this game, they can't do absolutely everything.
The pathfinder games don't have everything either.

What do you mean? Literally all they'd have to do is let you pick a god in character creation. It wouldn't be any extra work.

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Outside of cleric, I'm not sure if they'd have been able to slap that on every single class/character. They've been working on an idiotic amount of stuff for this game, they can't do absolutely everything.
The pathfinder games don't have everything either.

What do you mean? Literally all they'd have to do is let you pick a god in character creation. It wouldn't be any extra work.

Anytime someone on a forum says "all they'd have to do..." tells me they don't know much about game development in either how long it takes to implement things and the problems/bugs that could cause and need to be sorted as well as all the other work they are trying to get through and the fact that a development team can't just keep slapping things on top of the pile of tasks they need to finish working on for the game otherwise you'll get the garbage releases we see from other devs.
That's also how Crunch becomes a thing, and devs don't deserve that **** and should be minimized as much as possible.

[Metallicus]

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Outside of cleric, I'm not sure if they'd have been able to slap that on every single class/character. They've been working on an idiotic amount of stuff for this game, they can't do absolutely everything.
The pathfinder games don't have everything either.

What do you mean? Literally all they'd have to do is let you pick a god in character creation. It wouldn't be any extra work.

You already get to pick your pronouns. You ask too much.

[Moa Rider]

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

What do you mean? Literally all they'd have to do is let you pick a god in character creation. It wouldn't be any extra work.

Anytime someone on a forum says "all they'd have to do..." tells me they don't know much about game development in either how long it takes to implement things and the problems/bugs that could cause and need to be sorted as well as all the other work they are trying to get through and the fact that a development team can't just keep slapping things on top of the pile of tasks they need to finish working on for the game otherwise you'll get the garbage releases we see from other devs.

That is all they'd have to do. Just make a extra menu for selecting a god. How the ♥♥♥♥ would that so impossible to do if they already have all the work done for Clerics?

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Anytime someone on a forum says "all they'd have to do..." tells me they don't know much about game development in either how long it takes to implement things and the problems/bugs that could cause and need to be sorted as well as all the other work they are trying to get through and the fact that a development team can't just keep slapping things on top of the pile of tasks they need to finish working on for the game otherwise you'll get the garbage releases we see from other devs.

That is all they'd have to do. Just make a extra menu for selecting a god. How the ♥♥♥♥ would that so impossible to do if they already have all the work done for Clerics?

Again, stop. You don't know what all goes into game development, so please stop illustrating that. You'd look smarter if you didn't continue this conversation.

[Moa Rider]

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

That is all they'd have to do. Just make a extra menu for selecting a god. How the ♥♥♥♥ would that so impossible to do if they already have all the work done for Clerics?

Again, stop. You don't know what all goes into game development, so please stop illustrating that. You'd look smarter if you didn't continue this conversation.

Wow, this is the type of insufferable behavior I'd expect from a subreddit.

[Ronin Gamer]

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Again, stop. You don't know what all goes into game development, so please stop illustrating that. You'd look smarter if you didn't continue this conversation.

Wow, this is the type of insufferable behavior I'd expect from a subreddit.

I'm being nice to you, but you seem to not want to stop and becoming overly aggressive about the subject I asked you to stop talking to me about. I'll be muting you, good day sir.

[Moa Rider]

Originally posted by Ronin Gamer:

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

Wow, this is the type of insufferable behavior I'd expect from a subreddit.

I'm being nice to you, but you seem to not want to stop and becoming overly aggressive about the subject I asked you to stop talking to me about. I'll be muting you, good day sir.

Yep, redditor. Actually pathetic.