Nice. I'm planning on having a certain dead god a central component to my mythos for my future games, so this is useful. Thanks.
Just to be clear, the pulling of spells comes from a domain of the dead god right?
1) What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If you make a new feat and allow NPCs to use it, you should allow PCs to use it as well.
2) It's not really clear what the feat does. If I understand correctly, it allows a cleric, paladin, etc. to take a dead god as his patron diety?
Still not really clear... they choose one domain that belongs to a dead god, and they can prepare spells from that domain in their domain spell slots? Is that the intention?
That can be someone's one background feat, and they can be a cleric of Arouin(probably spelled wrong).
Why does this need to be a feat? If you need an NPC that, for story purposes, worships and draws power from a dead god, simply let him do that. Ditto for PCs - I'm not sure I see a reason to add this as a feat tax. As DM, you're already adjudicating what gods clerics can choose from anyway. Why add an extra barrier to an interesting character concept?
Why does this need to be a feat? If you need an NPC that, for story purposes, worships and draws power from a dead god, simply let him do that. Ditto for PCs - I'm not sure I see a reason to add this as a feat tax. As DM, you're already adjudicating what gods clerics can choose from anyway. Why add an extra barrier to an interesting character concept?
After all, you can play a cleric with full spell access, with any two domains you choose, who worships no god at all.
The "Heretic Faith" feat makes some sense to me because it lets you do something mechanically different - giving a good cleric access to evil descriptor spells, such as summoning devils, for instance.
Maybe that's a better direction to take this, Brokenbane. Rather than requiring a feat tax for something that is purely DM adjudicated, consider creating a feat that lets these dead god clerics do something unique or interesting. You could tailor it to the specific god(s) you're thinking of, and you'd have something really memorable and interesting.
I'm all for this character concept, but rather than taxing it with a feat that doesn't do anything, let's give it a feat that makes it really worthwhile to play.
Honestly, I'd make it a magic or religion trait and imply that the magic doesn't come from the dead god. The cleric worships the dead god, but some mysterious force is still giving them spellcasting power.
Why would this even be needed? You don't need a god to be a cleric/get divine spells, why would you need to waste a feat on something like this?
I always wanted to play a PFS character that's a "cleric" of Aroden. In reality, he's a sorcerer with the Razmiran archetype or perhaps a witch with channel energy. He claims that Aroden is not dead, but rather in a state where only the most devout can get spells from him. He secretly hopes that if enough people believe that Aroden isn't dead, it could bring him back.
Most monsters have a patron deity. While being an atheist gets you being targeted by undead and fiends, worshiping Aroden might get The Wormlord to cut you some slack because he was dead once too.
Note: The Wormlord being back via a ritual is my headcannon and not yet official. His monsters are regularly reeking havoc in the World of Creation topic in the Forum Games subboard.
