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Message: <blockquote data-quote="candidus_cogitens" data-source="post: 737616" data-attributes="member: 770">Historically, the druids were absolutely the spiritual leaders of their communities, and had political power as well.  You might want to read an excellent book called "Druids", by Morgan Llywelyn.  It is fiction, with fantasy elements, but based on what we know from history.A question for you, on another point, Why do you want to treat the priest as a fighter/caster combination?  Priests in most cultures are less inclined to pick up a weapon than the commoner would be.  That's the problem I have with the cleric class as it stands--it's only loosely based on a very specific and very limited historical phenomenon, the militant priests of the crusades.</blockquote>