Who to worship?

[yaerav]

Apart from Shadowheart (and the obligatory war cleric dip for Lae'zel) I haven't yet played a cleric in BG3, would like to though. But, just for fun dialog options. I imagine Shadowheart would have some choice words for clerics of Sune, and I could imagine that there is some specific stuff for clerics of Lathander and Ilmater and maybe of Mystra, Kelemvor, Helm, or Meilikki?

So, without too many spoilers, which deity would you recommend for the funnest cleric run? Or is it really just a head canon choice without real in-game implications?

[AsianGirlLover]

Besides Shadowheart interactions, your god doesn’t have too huge of an affect on gameplay. I usually go with Talos for Tempest Cleric shenanigans.

[yaerav]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

Besides Shadowheart interactions, your god doesn’t have too huge of an affect on gameplay. I usually go with Talos for Tempest Cleric shenanigans.

Heah, yeah, Talos seems appropriate for that. I have a halfling storm sorcerer/tempest cleric ready for a Durge run, should I someday actually manage to muster up the staying power to play the game all the way through ;-) And that one definitely venerates the Storm Lord, because, who else? (ok, Gruumsh, perhaps, if you are a half-orc)

Of course maybe just trying out a Mystra cleric just to see if Gale acknowledges that, or Selune cleric just for the first area, or a Lathanderian cleric/monk (clonk?) playthrough until Rivington could even if only for the amulet spirit could be fun (dangerously hilarious even). Or just a straight-up Ilmatari just to see if that makes any narrative difference in Rivington... there's just too many options..

[Quaestor]

Yep, Selune is obviuous choice. Other deites have little no none unique replics. A few lines (in Vaukeen's rest and with Hag survivors) if you choose Helm, and also Gith can choose Vlaakith as deity and have a few unique lines here and there. But other than that there's not much difference. So pick Selune and annoy Shadowheart for the first part of the game. :)

[Margenat]

Unless you pick Selune, kelemvor, lathander, mystra or tyr, it is mostly fluff. If this were a pnp campaing your choice would matter more as many deities of the faerunian pantheon are more like local deities. By that i mean that gods like Bane or Talos have their followers in specific parts of Faerun, while others like Mystra can be found through the entire continent.

[God Queen 158]

Selune most likely.

There are a handful of gods that were removed from the game close to launch, and have dialogues tied to them that are pretty interesting. There are a few mods that add them back in.

[seeker1]

Gale, of course.

https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/10624

I guess he will be very happy to meet one of his own worshippers.

Yeah, for odd reasons - more "cut evil" stuff - they removed the option to be a cleric of Shar or one of the Dead Three (Bhaal, Myrkul, or Bane) ... and there is definitely some dialogue and additional things for those options - as you might suspect - but these things were cut from release (but put back by modders).

[Lord Farquad]

gruumsh stronk