Anecdote from a recent one-shot. High levels of Australian slang ahead. Good luck.
Our cleric chose “Downtrodden and Forgotten” as his deity’s domain and “trial by combat / personal victory” as the precept, so we decided it was a god of underdogs. This snowballed into calling the god Occa, since rooting for the underdog is pretty entrenched in our Aussie “kulcha”.
As a result, the cleric became a bogan priest, with a tin of VB as a holy symbol, and casting a spell became “cracking a tinny”.
The highlight was the cleric trying to maintain Turn Undead while ghouls surrounded the party. A partial success let him keep it going, as long as he kept drinking – can of VB held above his head and pouring into his mouth, chugging the beer down and swapping it out for a new one whenever it emptied…
I’m tempted to use that Cleric as an NPC in a scenario I’m planning on running for some friends, if I can get your/the player’s permission.
Haha absolutely. If the cleric communes with Occa, be sure to put on the most dero Aussie accent possible and try to abbreviate the cleric’s name to end in “o”.
“Oy Stevo ya mad cunt, I reckon it’d be sick as if you’n the boys swung by the wizard’s tower…”