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Lore reasons for being faithless
TL;DR
Faithless and False only existed in the forgotten-realms between 1996 and 2021.
Of Deities and Demigods
Back in 1980, TSR published the supplement "Deities and Demigods". It offered a ...
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Lore reasons for being faithless
Asmodeus is encouraging non-belief, to further his own ends.
According to Guide to Hell (1999), p.49-51, Asmodeus is permitted to claim the souls of non-believers, which he absorbs to recover the ...
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Lore reasons for being faithless
As far as I can tell...No. There is no lore reason given for why someone might be Faithless. Only what their fate would be.
I hit up the FR Wiki's entry on The Faithless, then pulled as many of the ...
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Cheapest / Most efficient way for a human Wizard to not age?
Out of action
There are various ways to be out of action for a period of several decades in a way that stops aging from being an issue. Petrification is a classic (from a monster such as medusa or ...
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Do dragons that act in opposition to their species alignment experience physical changes that reflect it?
No, or at least probably not
There is one possible exception, but that exception is described as unique. Otherwise, dragons who change alignment still continue to have the same color/biology that they ...
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Lore reasons for being faithless
The answers from Trish and guildsbounty are both fantastic, but there are a couple of things they don't address.
Because many people don't have the knowledge you are assuming they do.
Your question ...
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Cheapest / Most efficient way for a human Wizard to not age?
Get petrified
A flesh to stone spell, or perhaps an unlucky medusa or basilisk attack, might leave you turned to stone, letting decades pass you by effectively unchanged until you're released.
When ...
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Cheapest / Most efficient way for a human Wizard to not age?
Spend the timeskip in the Feywild
You say that your DM wants to give you some weird magical effect that prevents you from aging in your timeskip. The Feywild has exactly that. On page 50 of the DMG ...
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Lore reasons for being faithless
Every GM's world will have slightly different details, and those details may change from campaign to campaign. Some GMs put deities front-and-center, some keep them off to the side, and some eschew ...
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Cheapest / Most efficient way for a human Wizard to not age?
You have a number of options - I would suggest Sequester
You ask for the cheapest / most efficient method, but that is going to depend to a large extent on setting-specific knowledge we don't have. ...
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Cheapest / Most efficient way for a human Wizard to not age?
Use a Rod of Security
It's a very rare wondrous item, but if your character is aware of the problematic logistics of a decades long plan vs. their own time span, searching for this item could be an ...
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What are some of the gods of life a cleric can choose from?
This depends on the setting.
The core rules for every modern edition of Dungeons and Dragons tend to be vague about things like cultures, nations, and deities. This is because Dungeons and Dragons ...
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