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Lurkerabove makes numerous excellent points.

The only supernatural ability that rangers get access to from a deity is their spellcasting. All the rest of their abilities are extraordinary, including their animal companion (the same goes for druids). With this in mind, it makes sense that someone can be trained to be a ranger without necessarily belonging to the requisite faith.

It needs to be understood that rangers began as specialty priests of Mieliekki, Gwaeron Windstrom and Shaundakul (much as druids were specialty priests of Silvanus). That is where the concept of rangers requiring a nature deity to function comes from.

With the way 3.5 works, however, the necessity isn't present. Rangers are presented less as a specific kind of clergy and more as a hunter/pathfinder archetype.

I believe any of the languages in the Realms your character should know are permitted to be used in RP. All of the human regional languages, for example. Natives to Cormyr would receive proficiency in the Chondathan language for free.

Humans from Aglarond would have the ability to write in Espruar, as another example, due to their language having ties to the elves that live in the Yuirwood.

You should look up the regions your characters are from for a list of languages common to that area - and you can usually find a few sparse words or even full dictionaries on the FR wiki or Candlekeep.

I played on a server some years ago with a custom setting - and to avoid getting into a long explanation of cosmology, the Shadow Plane in this setting was a living, entropic force of destruction. Shadowdancers were tied to the shadows and could act as, basically, living portals for the energy it contained. So, Shadowdancers were hated and feared and hunted.

I played a monk/shadowdancer who made contact with an aspect of the shadows that had split off from the whole, and my character convinced this spirit to become the goddess of the night. He, basically, become the prophet for her cult - and totally blasted open the secrecy surrounding Shadowdancers. All the RP surrounding this - and my character's descent and recovery from madness as he became the Saint of Beggars, Whores and Thieves stands out to me still as a unique RP experience.

The other experience that stands out to me the most was on a Ravenloft server. I played a templar of an in-setting goddess named Ezra (basically, a Divine Champion). The character was a direct allusion to Byronic heroes (he even had an iron mask bolted into his skull). He was deeply flawed - a Machiavellian manipulator with little concept for the value of life, but ultimately, a man who craved deeply to be forgiven for the sins he had committed and be a "good person". This culminated one dark evening in Barovia with a close friend of his being stabbed through her stomach by a vampire - the kicker was that she was seven or eight months pregnant. What made matters worse was that the child was sired by his best friend (who had fallen from Ezra's grace and been killed by the church).

My templar dragged the woman into an abandoned house in the slums and proceeded to cut her open, and lay his hands directly onto her uterus itself in some attempt to salvage the pregnancy. It was a vast divergence from the character's norm - a compassionate act without much benefit to himself, and suggested a turn in the right direction for his ultimate goal. Of course, things in the Demiplane of Dread rarely end happily - and the child was born as a caliban (basically, a twisted freak a la Quasimodo).

I'm not an enormous fan of the square. What I prefer to do is just wander up on people and start chatting with them if they're aren't engaged in any intense RP or anything. I like to involve as many people as possible.

It's like photobombing, but with more philosophical conversations.

Yander.

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We all need a good Birthday Massacre. This is my favorite song of theirs.

There's a few things to note about The Order of the Radiant Heart that will make it difficult to work with in CD's general environment:

1. It only allows paladins and LG clerics to join. Non-LG members are forbidden. 

2. It's a fraternal organization (no women allowed).

3. It's exclusive and hard to get into - even the Auxiliary branch. Non-human, or part-human members would probably be almost impossible to get in.

4. It's a nepotic organization. Members of certain noble families gain entrance far easier than others.

5. Anyone member who is a Paladin that Falls (even to another good alignment) is subject to being beheaded by the Order.

6. The structure of the organization assumes that members come from feudal monarchies (which is usually where paladins come from, anyway). If a member joins and comes from, say, Mistledale (which is a republic), they could never join the Most Noble Order - they would have to be in the Auxiliary their entire life.

All this said, I think it might serve you better to create your own group with its own rules and lore so it can be tailored to fit the server.

I wanted to post some warnings or something, but it's a Marilyn Manson video. You know what you're getting into.

Logarti.

This was an awesome video, Kirin.

I think you hit the nail on the head.

Hello, everyone. Many of you have met my paladin of the Red Knight, Yander, already. I just thought I'd introduce myself properly on the forums.

See you in-game.