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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aenghus" data-source="post: 5835569" data-attributes="member: 2656">The balance of 2e speciality priests was awful, even for 2e. Most of the kits were crippled, a few were overpoweredWe have announcements of two priest-type classes - a fairly conventional armoured cleric and a more pure-caster unarmoured priest class. These two different classes are good bases for a lot of the speciality priest concepts, but not all of them. I think there are two cases - concepts close enough that a cleric or priest can serve for them and concepts that are much closer to completely different classes, like ranger, paladin or wizard, which IMO are better served by that class along with themes, feats and other such customisation to add some priest flavour. The latter idea goes right back to 1e Forgotten Realms, where wizards and rangers could be "priests" of appropriate gods, and the excellent flavour writeups in the 2e Faiths and Avatars book.But the further a concept is from the cleric or priest class, the more reasonable it is to represent it by the closest class to the concept, which doesn't have to be cleric or priest.</blockquote>