This is pretty much how the Factotum uses their healing ability, they use a random holy symbol and prayer to anyone/anything that may or may not be listening.
Planar Handbook; the PrC is called 'Defiant'. The mechanics are not all that suited, though, there's no spellcasting and a lot of resistances aimed at divine casting, so a cleric of the Great Unknown would be a bit closer (the Great Unknown being the Athar's somewhat-deistic leading faith), even if it would just be a straight cleric (probably using the worshipping-a-concept rules).
Thanks, I'll have a look at them, see if either of them have been translated to PF. I'm worried about the Factotum, though - I read they're a really big class for min-maxxers, since they basically only have to care about Intelligence and Constitution, and I'm mainly doing this for roleplaying reasons. TBH the Factotum's approach kinda reminds me of Beni, from The Mummy (1999):
Ah, really? Damn...
PF doesn't have an archetype specifically for it that I'm aware of, but the rules text for the class still clearly supports being a cleric of no particular deity. There are lots of points where it says "their deity (if they have one)" and the like and says that clerics without a deity have to choose whether to channel positive or negative energy.
Aw, nice! I hadn't really looked at the base class, 'cos I just assumed... Now I just need to figure out the way of doing it that enables the most hilarity for roleplaying purposes... Flat Earth Atheist (it could be normal beings from another dimension playing a game with all our lives! (can't you hear the dice?)), Disciple Of All the Gods And None Of Them (since either they all exist of none of them do), I Believe In Something But Gods Have Not Impressed Me (basically either a disciple of Crom, or Sergeant Dorfl, who believes not in Gods, but always in Sam Vimes), Believer In The Power Of Sapience Which Will Conquer Those So-Called Gods Who Play Games With Us, or think up something else?
This is something like the standard Athar approach for the more philosophically inclined - they believe there is divinity out there, but it is unknowable (hence "Great Unknown") and definitely not the supposed gods going around metaphorically rattling windows across the planes.
Bear in mind that if you're playing in Golarion it's implied that misotheist or distheist Clerics are virtually unheard of, the setting's iconic Oracle (divine magic is forced onto you by the deities) had to flee her native country because by just having divine spellcasting it was assumed she was a Cleric and in Rahadoum that has serious consequences in the form of antitheist inquisitions.
That's partially because they have a larger deity list than FR had at its height. There are so many entities willing and able to grant spells that it's damn near impossible not to find one that fits you.
That's true, but I've always posited the idea that channeling divine magic without drawing upon the themes of deities and demigods (by this I mean the various divine spell granting entities like the Empyreal Lords, Archdevils, Horsemen, etc) is significantly harder to do in the Pathfinder setting, otherwise Rahadoum wouldn't have as one of it's remarkable traits a lack of Clerics with which to respond to disease outbreaks with.
Back in 2e there was The Divinity of Man, which was a spell granting philosophy that believed that all humans were essentially sparks of the divine, and that they drew their power from this human gestalt, you could try adapting that
But that's the best system!
Hmmm. Have you looked at the Blood of Vol from Eberron?
...I have a feeling that Zarus would be very interested in subverting that belief for his own ends.
The Dark Powers of Ravenloft didn't manage to, so I doubt that any individual god can pull it off.
Yeah but the "Dark Powers" aren't really...well, they don't seem like they cooperate very much.
Ummm... how familiar are you with Ravenloft? There isn't any known conflict among the Dark Powers. They have never even appeared "onscreen". They have no personality beyond "faceless force of corruption and torment". They are more a natural law of the plane than sapient beings. And that's if they even are sapient. We don't know
Are you sure you're not confusing the Dark Powers and the Darklords?
I already play in one group and dm another, I've put in enough work on NPCs for my own campaigns. Do it yourselfWould anyone want to run a Pathfinder Module at some point?
I'd love to GM, and it'd give y'all a chance to build those characters you haven't gotten to ever play yet.
Don't know level , or what module, gotta see what I have on hand.
/ulterior motive -> It's easier to let other people build PCs and give them a personality, and then integrate those guys as NPCs into a setting, than it is to just build all your own. Others mean you get a different outlook on things.
Do you have campaign notes? Currently in a post-Campaign S&S IRL, and my GM would probably love to see your notes. He did some One Piece themed stuff too.I already play in one group and dm another, I've put in enough work on NPCs for my own campaigns. Do it yourself
Most recently, I remade the Skull and Shackles adventure path for epic/mythic use. Which was fun. I got to create a bunch of unique, almost One Piece Style, pirate crews. I have one with a Rakshasa Maharaja as the captain. He's completely batshit, like, Don Carnage from Tailspin, if he was a seven foot mass of muscle, sorcery, and death. The rest of the crew are rakshasa who still follow him out of a mix of Lawful Outsider loyalty to their rightful leader, and absolute terror of what he'll do if they mutiny. Some of them think it's all some bizarre loyalty test.
Another crew is made up of demon possessed children, led by an childlike Infernal. Basically a cross between Laharl from Disgaea and an evil Peter Pan. And I do mean evil. I broke out the old Book Of Vile Darkness for these guys.
There's a few more, but those are my favorites. They replace Merrill Pegsworthy and Avimar Sorrinash respectively in the story.
Just have stats at the moment. The personalities are all in my head. The party has just reached Rickety's Squibs, so they haven't encountered any new characters yet, just levelled up versions of the usual part 1 NPCs
