 Additionally, Eisenbeis thought inequities in the ability of priests to advance based on race were unfair.Overall, he gave the book an average rating of 3 out of 5.Writing in 2014, Shannon Appelcline called author Carl Sargent "one of TSR's best-respected authors in the 90s", and commented that this book "more than doubled the count of humanoid, demihuman, and monstrous deities.