God Whoring

[Lathander]

In SOME defense of SOME players, I know in the past that PCs would pray, find out a god was closed and then choose another one.

[Xenia]

But what if what we were told is to go see a someone and we learn about the god and the character decides against it, or Like in your other post it is in your Roleplay where you might want to make people think one thing and do another, confuse and stuff. Of course the HP would hear from the God/Goddess that the heart was to change, but also isn't it not considered to truly want to follow a god until you pray to them or during this drive put Hopeful, Questee or Initiate. Which can't we still RP until we actually put something in our title to show what god we want to quest with? Just questions to show we are not God Whore or Be indecisive but RP. I know you learn about the gods from a certain quest and that quest shows many characters more than what their "IC" knowledge would be.

[Jadom]

As far as deception goes....it's still going to irritate a God to find out you were pretending to show an interest in them just to fool somebody else.

And being indecisive...it makes perfect sense for a God to give you a harder quest, after all, they know your a waffler, so they want to make very sure you are going to serve loyally.

Basically, just talking to members of a faith to find out about a God, then deciding that faith isn't for you is fine. But I think what Mystra is talking about is actually praying to a God, or telling an HP that you definitely want to join the faith.........then changing your mind 10 minutes later.

[Rhiel]

Rhiel has faith hopped more times than I care to recall. As a warning to all players out there, this makes for a REALLY challenging, uphill, and generally unpleasant RP experience. It's not worth it. I've been faithed now, after showing some consistency, and I'd like to thank the immortals responsible.

I worked hard to maintain consistency this time around, and it has paid off. But, it's been a LONG road. Nearly two years IRL. And ICly, my character had been shunned, was never taken seriously, and generally disliked for switching loyalties so often.

So, simply put: To those who would think upon faith hopping: DON'T. Take it from someone who's been there and done that, as a bit of advice. Your RP and gaming experience will be so much more rewarding, I assure you.

[Leohand]

I agree with Mystra. Once you make a commitment in game, you either stick with it or accept the in character consequences. However, if you were to, say, be a bard, and an Elf that followed Corellon, you might give thanks to Oghma before a performance or after, as long as you don't actually pray. I think that should be fine, am I right?

[Lathander]

Correct

[Leohand]

Correct

Thank you. Yeah, you might respect multiple gods, but you choose one Patron deity. I don't know about Clerics and Paladins though. Like, if a cleric of Lathander were to say to a follower of Ilmater, as s/he lay dying, to have kelemvor guide them into their next life or something like that, I can't say whether or not there'd be a problem, that probably varies from deity to deity. I am sure that most good-aligned deities probably wouldn't have a problem is, say, a cleric happened upon a follower of Ilmater that was dying, and asked that Ilmater take them. Again, as long as it's only in character but not actually praying. The big deference in some cases, may be that paladins and clerics are held to higher standards and it may be that it's unwise to invoke the name of any third party deity, but I don't actually know that to be true.

[Algon]

From what I understand it is quite common for people to say prayers for certain things and show respect to many deities. No matter if they declair themselves a worshiper of one deity in particular.
Like anyone would say a prayer to Umberlee when starting a voyage on a ship. Anyone would pray to Chauntea for a bountiful harvest. A follower of Gond may say a prayer to Waukeen to get a good deal on selling his new creation.
So yeah, I think one could pay homage to multiple Gods but only have a calling to be a follower of one.