[PFS] Define Worship

[Nohwear]

Do you still qualify for deity specific abilities, such as feats if your worship is more placating. For example, an Oracle with the Apocalypse mystery and Rovagug.

[Ellias Aubec]

I believe there was an FAQ for PFS that stated you had to have the relevant deity set as your deity on your character sheet to use it. How much RP you put into following that deity is up to you after that.

[blackbloodtroll]

Oracles need not worship anyone, or anything.

[Ascalaphus]

And you have to be within one step of the deity's alignment. But other than that you don't have to be very active about it.

I've been thinking about a ranger who is just morbidly fascinated by the Mother of Monsters because he's constantly hunting them. Also, the Destroy Identity feat is pretty cute.

[blackbloodtroll]

Nothing about the abilities of the Oracle is deity specific.

A LG follower of Iomedae could be an Oracle with the Apocalypse Mystery.

Everything would be fine, function fine, and be PFS legal.

[Imbicatus]

blackbloodtroll wrote:

Nothing about the abilities of the Oracle is deity specific.

A LG follower of Iomedae could be an Oracle with the Apocalypse Mystery.

Everything would be fine, function fine, and be PFS legal.

This. The power source of an oracle is unspecified. It could be a deity, an outsider, cosmic power, or mutation.

For a nice inner conflict, it's possible your LG follower of Iomedae may actually have been cursed with the Apocalypse mystery and Oracle curse by Rovagug.

[Dread Knight]

Ascalaphus wrote:

And you have to be within one step of the deity's alignment. But other than that you don't have to be very active about it.

That's only if you gain spells from said Deity.

[Ascalaphus]

@Dread Knight: in PFS, no, you have to be within one step even if you have no divine class features whatsoever.

FAQ

I suppose it might come up if you want to for example take the Potion Glutton feat (for which you have to follow Urgathoa, and have to be within 1 step of NE, so you have to be TN) and an improved familiar like a Faerie Dragon (for which you must be within 1 step of CG).

That would have been a very messed up tumor familiar.

[LazarX]

Nohwear wrote:

Do you still qualify for deity specific abilities, such as feats if your worship is more placating. For example, an Oracle with the Apocalypse mystery and Rovagug.

It's still worship. In game terms, you can dedicate yourself to one and only one diety to receive any mechanical benefits regarding to that diety. Whether it's in adoration, or total fright, worship is still worship.

In the various periods of the Abrahamic God, in the Old Testament you're generally urged to worship him to avoid his wrath. (The Old Testament God was really big on retribution out of proportion to the crime.) Worshipping God because you love him and he loves you is more of a New Testament innovation.

But either case, it's still worship.

[Nohwear]

Thank you everyone. Just double checking, would said Oracle have to choose inflict as his auto spells? It seems that the choice is outside of your deity or alignment.

[Imbicatus]

No, the oracle cure inflict choice is made by the player, and is not restricted by alignment or deity.

[LazarX]

Nohwear wrote:

Thank you everyone. Just double checking, would said Oracle have to choose inflict as his auto spells? It seems that the choice is outside of your deity or alignment.

I don't see any reason to put in a Rovagug influence if you're not going to choose inflict.

[Nohwear]

LazarX wrote:

Nohwear wrote:

Thank you everyone. Just double checking, would said Oracle have to choose inflict as his auto spells? It seems that the choice is outside of your deity or alignment.

I don't see any reason to put in a Rovagug influence if you're not going to choose inflict.

Fair enough.