cleric domains

[aaron22]

is it against the rules to have a general deity on a race that has its own racial listings. for instance a halfling of lathander?

[chad878262]

no, so long as there is an IC reason for it. I had a Human Ranger that worshiped Shevarash because his backstory was having been raised by a Wood Elf Ranger of Shevarash after his childhood town was put to the torch during a Drow raid.

[Sun Wukong]

is it against the rules to have a general deity on a race that has its own racial listings. for instance a halfling of lathander?

Why would it be? For example, you could be a halfling born and raised in the 'human' town of Beregost and not the village of Gullykin. Perhaps the teaching of Lathander spoke to your character far more than the teachings of your halfling deities, perhaps your character just wished to belong to the surrounding community a little better and just decided to follow Lathander like the rest. You could come up with almost any reason why a member of race 'x' would follow general deity 'y' or racial deity 'z'.

[aaron22]

well i kind of imagined that was the case. just wanted to double check