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<blockquote data-quote="steamboat28" data-source="post: 5775981" data-attributes="member: 80920"><p>As true as all these statements are from the standpoint of PCs, it's highly unlikely that any of these assurances are found among the average person in a D&D society. </p><p></p><p>The average member of a D&D society isn't going to necessarily have access to the "high-level" clergy that can cast these spells regularly. And if they did, they wouldn't spend all their divine power (spell slots) and time doing this for every Tom, Dick, and Hrothgar. There are priests and laymen that run the local congregation, while the Paladins champion their gods' agendas and Clerics either undertake missions to put that much divine power to good use, or cloister themselves in a congregation of their own, communing with the divine. </p><p></p><p>I think one thing that we, as players, take for granted when playing is that PCs are the best their race has to offer. Even at level 1, by having a single class level in a PC class, you're better at whatever it is you do than most of your race. Adventurers do not people the whole of Oerth or Eberron or wheresoever-have-you, and the vast majority of everyone you meet is much more normal than you. </p><p></p><p>That means Clerics, as we (the players) know them, are the equivalents of high-ranking bishops, arch-bishops, and saints. The jobs aren't necessarily analogous, but the amount of spiritual authority and spiritual purpose are. Clerics have better things, more important things, to do than spend their times doing priestly duties and nothing else. They are granted miraculous powers by their deity to change the very face of the world. That's not to say that some aren't content summoning a feast to feed the hungry, or handing out Tiny Huts for the homeless, but it is to say that they do more than lead a congregation (however you might determine "more".)</p><p></p><p>I said all that to say this: <em>because</em> Clerics have so much on their plate ("With great power..." and all that Uncle Ben stuff), there is still room for doubt. The average person may hear about Father Boniface, Priest of St. Cuthbert, bringing justice to a faraway town with his blessed cudgel, but they probably didn't <em>see</em> it first-hand. They may have been told about Priestlord Argus, Blessed Paladin-Defender of Pelor, wiping out an entire infestation of undead in their town centuries earlier, and becoming a local saint.</p><p></p><p>So what? I've heard many stories of people in my faith displaying Cleric-level abilities, but I didn't <em>see</em> them occur; I still have doubt, why can't the peasants?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steamboat28, post: 5775981, member: 80920"] As true as all these statements are from the standpoint of PCs, it's highly unlikely that any of these assurances are found among the average person in a D&D society. The average member of a D&D society isn't going to necessarily have access to the "high-level" clergy that can cast these spells regularly. And if they did, they wouldn't spend all their divine power (spell slots) and time doing this for every Tom, Dick, and Hrothgar. There are priests and laymen that run the local congregation, while the Paladins champion their gods' agendas and Clerics either undertake missions to put that much divine power to good use, or cloister themselves in a congregation of their own, communing with the divine. I think one thing that we, as players, take for granted when playing is that PCs are the best their race has to offer. Even at level 1, by having a single class level in a PC class, you're better at whatever it is you do than most of your race. Adventurers do not people the whole of Oerth or Eberron or wheresoever-have-you, and the vast majority of everyone you meet is much more normal than you. That means Clerics, as we (the players) know them, are the equivalents of high-ranking bishops, arch-bishops, and saints. The jobs aren't necessarily analogous, but the amount of spiritual authority and spiritual purpose are. Clerics have better things, more important things, to do than spend their times doing priestly duties and nothing else. They are granted miraculous powers by their deity to change the very face of the world. That's not to say that some aren't content summoning a feast to feed the hungry, or handing out Tiny Huts for the homeless, but it is to say that they do more than lead a congregation (however you might determine "more".) I said all that to say this: [I]because[/I] Clerics have so much on their plate ("With great power..." and all that Uncle Ben stuff), there is still room for doubt. The average person may hear about Father Boniface, Priest of St. Cuthbert, bringing justice to a faraway town with his blessed cudgel, but they probably didn't [I]see[/I] it first-hand. They may have been told about Priestlord Argus, Blessed Paladin-Defender of Pelor, wiping out an entire infestation of undead in their town centuries earlier, and becoming a local saint. So what? I've heard many stories of people in my faith displaying Cleric-level abilities, but I didn't [i]see[/i] them occur; I still have doubt, why can't the peasants? [/QUOTE]
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