In reply to Galen (msg # 502):
Asking questions is not a sin, but being disruptive and straying into expressing negative personal opinions definitely crosses a line. If your character comes from Greyhawk, then that is the lore they know, indeed, that is the lore they possibly can know. (Or whatever realm/world they hail from.) As far as I am aware the One True God is not part of Greyhawk lore, so that answers your question (and should settle the matter). Greyhawk is but one world and you may not be there anymore.
I hope you don't feel too foolish for acting in haste and chastising the DM for not answering promptly, whereas I see they have not logged in for days before this was an issue. We don't know why this is, but speaking as a person with a job and family I am absolutely going to cut him or her as much slack as they need! I can't speak for anyone else, but I at least worked a little bit of this out with the DM beforehand so I feel reasonably confident in answering a much as I have. Everyone else that has chimed in with their opinions are fully justified in doing so.
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I don't get why you are all getting your panties into a bunch, since my question was for the DM.
This expression has not aged well. I hope you do not mean it in this way but I remember when this particular put-down was originally and expressly used to dismiss and feminise your target (because they were metaphorically wearing women's undergarments and being hysterical, just like a woman) if not outright calling them a homosexual. Speaking as a man who occasionally wears women's underwear (for comfort reasons) they don't bunch up more than men's as long as you buy the right brand! I strongly suggest you either change this expression to a generic "your underwear" or maybe just drop it from your repertoire entirely.
As for why you are being disruptive, I see you are trying to walk this back now but please remember you first chose to call out the DM, and me, in a public and insulting manner. This wasn't "innocent" (or at least inoffensive to any reasonable person) and you weren't Just Asking Questions (aka "JAQing off"). You characterised the inclusion of Christianity and our "personal religion" (as if this was self-evidently true?) as a "hamfisted" attempt at something unspecified but somehow objectionable. There are tactful ways of asking and talking about religion but this is not it. For an example of how religion is handled in an actual hamfisted manner I've had GMs in unrelated games (set on modern-day Earth no less) flat-out forbid the playing of Muslim characters because they hated Islam so much.
That said, it's not clear what the real problem is other than simply
YOU DEMAND THE DM SUPPLY SOME GODDAMN ANSWERS AND YOU WANT THEM YESTERDAY! (Ha ha! See that I did there?) You say you don't object to new additions to the pantheon of gods, as you yourself made up a random healing god, "Bibi" (which is fine). There is no practical in-game effect as Boris is not a cleric or similar holy man. Even if he was, he might still be able to create miracles (cast spells) in the name of the One True God even if that God didn't technically exist because in 2nd ed. the wellspring of power can still qualify as a philosophy under 2e rules: "In the AD&D® game, the God, Force, and Philosophy are identical in the way they are treated by the game mechanics." From the Complete Priest's Handbook. Read 'em and weep, as they say.
Thanks,
Tony
