Quote from: LibraryLass;814330What can anyone here tell me about Bahamut's dogma

It likes riding in Bahamut's karma with its head out the window.

I imagine clerics of Trickster gods would absolutely create fake cults, or masquerade as clerics of another faith to cause mischief. They would have all the clerical powers, the support of their deity, and simply would have to mimic the language of that faith.

The problem would be how involved is the god whose own religion is being punked? AKA, in the Greek mythos, the gods might smite down a mortal who was pulling this scam. In worlds were the gods are far off and don't directly meddle with mankind, such a scam would be easier.

Quote from: Spinachcat;815706I imagine clerics of Trickster gods would absolutely create fake cults, or masquerade as clerics of another faith to cause mischief. They would have all the clerical powers, the support of their deity, and simply would have to mimic the language of that faith.

When we converted from OD&D to AD&D 1e, the new rules required clerics who were previously just "Lawful" to choose a god; several clerics jointly chose the "God of Agnosticism". We were (appropriately) uncertain whether the god actually existed or whether it was a trickster god's impersonation or something else; since lower level spells were provided by the cleric alone or by the god's representatives (who might have been previous clerics of agnosticism ascended to a higher level of uncertainty) and nobody ever reached sixth or seventh level spells, we never found out. I suspected that gating the god of agnosticism might be extremely bad.

QuoteThe problem would be how involved is the god whose own religion is being punked? AKA, in the Greek mythos, the gods might smite down a mortal who was pulling this scam. In worlds were the gods are far off and don't directly meddle with mankind, such a scam would be easier.

There's a question of how much the gods mess with each other's followers in general. Maybe the trickster god tricked the punked god into agreeing not to interfere ("Oh mighty leader of our pantheon! Surely you would agree (in a magically binding way) that it is wrong and therefore forbidden for any god to smite any temple or priests dedicated to him or her?" and then creating a spoof temple "dedicated" to the pantheon leader).

Another option could be of an utterly quietist cult. One dedicated to an ascetic separation from the world.  Maybe even a setup not unlike that of the Buddha: stating that the Gods were really part of the phenomenal universe and thus not really able to do anything for people in terms of removing the fundamental problem of human suffering, and that they're therefore not worthy of worship.