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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scharlata" data-source="post: 2786177" data-attributes="member: 4806">Hi!I've long drooled over the plethora of cleric spells and decided (just some weeks before the SC hit the shelves) to handle the cleric's spell acquisition the same way as their fellows' - the poor wizards. Just to get me right. I didn't have a problem with allowing the spells IMC but as the years went on more and more automatic cleric spells came to happen in the minds of the clerics around in my campaign world. That went on to the point that even the power-hungriest players "turned their heads off in disgust". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Now, IMC we have the same options for preparation-spellcasters - no matter what their trade actually is.The rule for wizards broadening their spell repertoire has been modified only slightly. They know all cantrips in the Player's Handbook! Every other spell is acquired per the normal rules.The clerics' version of this "rule of acquisition" (pardon the pun) is that every cleric knows only the spells in the Player's Handbook. Just like wizards can copy new spells into their spellbooks, a cleric prays for a new spell (other than those in the PHB) and expends the same costs in gp (for incense and the like). He does not have to have a spellbook but gains the option to cast the newly acquired spell henceforth.That analogy allows the DM total control over the spells she may allow into her game, and beyond that - that's the interesting part - lets the character's wealth decide what divine spell beyond the normal PHB spells is that important to "burn" money on. Money is - as in real life - a very effective regulative instrument. As a side effect you get a new way for some characters to spend their money on. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As to now, I've had not only nice results but a fellow DM who has adopted the idea with similar results.Enjoy!</blockquote>

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