2 hours ago, Rodney Dangerduck said:...
The reason for my original question is that two of our PCs, in a typical RQG Lightbringer group, are minor member of Yelmalio / Elmal. In D&D terms, they "took a dip" to get the two good rune spells and some weapon skills. Yeah, we do some powergaming...
Too late to change for us, but wondering if that was o.k. If Yelmalio is friendly, yes. Otherwise, well, they got away with it and next time we will know better.
I think Yelmalio vs Elmal are really mostly a societal/cultural issue.
"Elmal" in Heortling cultures is the allied god, a faithful ally. They will cooperate with "taking a dip" (although not in such powergame-y terms -- they want actual faithfulness, worship, earnest regard from their Initiates).
"Yelmalio" will be much more stand-off-ish, lthe priests much ess likely to accept Orlanthi who come to them saying they want to Initiate...