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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1216679" data-attributes="member: 5100"><p>Cleric = sevitor of a god. A godless cleric is an oxymoron. About the only reason I can see to use it is if you're playing a beer-and-pretzels game and don't want to worry about religion or cosmology.</p><p> </p><p>One thing that 2E added in that I truly loathe is the idea of a cleric of a "philosophy". Ick. About the only exception that I can think of is something like Dark Sun that completely changes the nature of the divine -- and there "godded" clerics are nonsensical.</p><p> </p><p>I also require Paladins to serve a god.</p><p> </p><p>Oddly enough, Druids explicitly do not gain power from deities in my games. They gain it from the very divine weave of things. A priest of Obad-Hai or Elohnna would be a cleric, not a druid; pretty much by definition. Of course, I'm not entirely sure that I don't see Druids as just an odd sort of arcane caster.</p><p> </p><p>Likewise, I've never liked Rangers with divine spells. When 2E came out, I thought they made the wrong call in ditching the arcane spells and upping the divine spells. It should have been the other way around. Or give them no spells at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 1216679, member: 5100"] Cleric = sevitor of a god. A godless cleric is an oxymoron. About the only reason I can see to use it is if you're playing a beer-and-pretzels game and don't want to worry about religion or cosmology. One thing that 2E added in that I truly loathe is the idea of a cleric of a "philosophy". Ick. About the only exception that I can think of is something like Dark Sun that completely changes the nature of the divine -- and there "godded" clerics are nonsensical. I also require Paladins to serve a god. Oddly enough, Druids explicitly do not gain power from deities in my games. They gain it from the very divine weave of things. A priest of Obad-Hai or Elohnna would be a cleric, not a druid; pretty much by definition. Of course, I'm not entirely sure that I don't see Druids as just an odd sort of arcane caster. Likewise, I've never liked Rangers with divine spells. When 2E came out, I thought they made the wrong call in ditching the arcane spells and upping the divine spells. It should have been the other way around. Or give them no spells at all. [/QUOTE]
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