In my current game, I have a player running a True Neutral Cleric of Gozreh that has prestiged into a Holy Vindicator. He plays the neutral part fine, being a friend to the common man and king equally, trying to maintain a sense of balance in his actions. However, his spirituality or lack of any is my main concern.
As a cleric of nature I would expect him to feel uncomfortable being in the city too long. I feel as a divine class your deity should be a BIG part of your character. I had to look up his god because I couldn't remember him ever mentioning it "in character".
These problems combined with for the past few levels he has started to plan on spending some serious money on building his own "chain" of item shops in several of the towns the party has visited. We just finished a large dungeon crawl and the party has about 6 weeks of downtime and the player has already started crunching numbers on real estate, inventory and whatnot. Gozreh HATES cities! They are an afront to all he holds dear. My cleric is a treehugger who wants to become a developer!?!?!
Now I will admit I'm a pretty loose GM but I need to have a line in the sand somewhere and to me it is scary that the Barbarian has more religion, spending his time and money on building temples to his god.
I realize now I should have reacted sooner but it just kinda got out of hand before I could react. I know I could just spring atonement on him but that seems like such a jerk move. So my plan is to ask all the players for a short week by week list of what they are going to do on the 6 week break. Then based on the info, I will begin to tell the cleric he is having nightmares, then visions, his stigmatas won't stop bleeding, reduce his health, then his channel energy amount/spells....then lead to atonement.
Do you all have any other suggestions? Or examples of how you dealt with something similar?