Syncretism and Pantheons in the Remaster

[Archpaladin Zousha]

With the new language specifying clerics choose a SINGLE deity in the Remaster, will things like the Syncretism feat and pantheons no longer be supported going forward?

[Finoan]

Archpaladin Zousha wrote:

With the new language specifying clerics choose a SINGLE deity in the Remaster, will things like the Syncretism feat and pantheons no longer be supported going forward?

Huh?

Pre-Remaster Cleric Deity wrote:

As a cleric, you are a mortal servitor of a deity you revere above all others. The most common deities in Pathfinder appear on pages 437–440, along with their alignments, areas of concern, and the benefits you get for being a cleric of that deity.

Remaster Cleric Deity wrote:

As a cleric, you are a mortal servitor of a deity you revere above all others. The most common deities in Pathfinder appear on pages 35–39, along with their edicts, areas of concern, and the benefits you get for being a cleric of that deity.

So obviously Syncretism and pantheons have never worked because the Deity rules for Cleric have always required a SINGLE deity.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Right, but that came out BEFORE Syncretism came out and Pantheons were introduced, so you could assume they were layered on top of the language in the core books. Now that the Remaster is out, all the rulebooks that preceded it are now in limbo.

[Finoan]

The only reason that it worked before was because of the General Rule: Specific Overrides General.

Literally nothing has changed. Not even the wording. Not the wording of Cleric Deity. Not the wording of Syncretism. Not the wording of Pantheons. Not the wording of Specific Overrides General.

So this really comes across as trying to grasp at any straws possible to say that something, anything broke in the Remaster.

So if that isn't your intent, my apologies for being curt. But I have been seeing that attitude in a lot of different places and it is rather annoying.

[Sibelius Eos Owm]

I see no reason to assume that Clerics can't do as they've always had to regarding pantheon and choose one deity of the pantheon to be their personal patron while overlapping the pantheon's changes and combining the anathema. At least, that's how I believed it worked and I haven't seen anything to suggest otherwise.

[thenobledrake]

Pathfinder doesn't actually have a "whichever rule was printed last takes precedent" clause to its rules like some games do.

The only conflict resolution between rules is that the more specific one applies and the general advice (paraphrased) to read stuff as if it worked rather than "it should work, but the text says [blank] so it doesn't."