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#1 misterfido_dup Aug 08, 2009 8:52:46

The title says it all. This is one feature I've been awaiting for months, but no attention has been shown to. If you go to the Manage->Campaign Setting tab and disable some gods--maybe you disable all of the non-Forgotten Realms ones, maybe you disable the evil ones, or maybe a god is dead in your setting and you disable him from being selected--you will find that the list in Manage->Details... remains exactly the same. Each deity in the list is still available for selection. Oh, to be sure, there is some MINOR support, in that if you select Kord (for instance) when it's set up with Eberron-deities-only Campaign Setting Restrictions, it'll tell you that your character has been house ruled. But I would really, really like it if it simply would omit those deities from the list. Kord not available? You can't select Kord, he's not even there. What's the point in handing my players a .dndcamp file that doesn't actually inform them of which options they can't take unless they SELECT it first? Especially with all the Forgotten Realms deities, that's just too much effort to expect from any PCs, especially if they're new to the setting. Oh, to be certain, I could just tell them which deities to select, or write it down for them--and I do, as a kludge--but in the spirit of making D&DI and the Character Builder and especially the .dndcamp files as good as they can possibly be... this is important. I want to start an Eberron campaign soon, and hand the file to my players who might not be familiar with Eberron, and let them read the deities on their computers at their leasure. But no. They have to sift through Forgotten Realms and Core first. And I can't tell you how many times I've started a new campaign, only to discover a session or two in that one of my PCs worships Kord, and has boned up on all his lore and history and flavor, instead of Dol Dorn. I don't see any practical reason for this--if the DM specifically went through the effort to hand you a .dndcamp file with the deities removed, why would the builder still have them available? It doesn't show feats, backgrounds, classes... or, in fact, anything else that is restricted by the campaign file. So, being a petition: Sign if you agree! It's early on in the month, maybe they'll figure it out by the next update? Maybe they'll do it by the update afterwards--but I've been trying to poke people into doing this for months and have had no responses or results, so here's a petition! Or for that matter, sign if you disagree, and when they read through the thread--if they do--they'll be able to evaluate if this feature is wanted or not.