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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaister" data-source="post: 2786216" data-attributes="member: 13193">Scharlata's fellow DM would be me. I adapted his idea for my new campaigns with the following house rule for clerics (and in the same vein, also for druids, rangers and paladins):At 1st level, a cleric has access to all cleric spells listed in the Player&#146;s Handbook, as well as his domain spells, regardless of their source. To gain access to additional spells, a cleric must request the spells from his deity or faith in a special one-time prayer ritual. The cleric must prepare this ritual with special incense and sacrificial objects as fits his deity or faith. These items must value at least 50 gp per total sum of levels of the requested spells. The ritual takes 24 hours regardless of the number of spells requested. The procedure also requiresthe cleric to spend 25 XP per total sum of levels of the requested spells. When the ritual is finished, and the cleric has been faithful to the doctrines of his faith, he is granted the requested spells. He adds the spells to his personal spell list, and he can prepare these spells from then on as he would any other spell he knows. A cleric can never request a spell he would not be able to cast, for example because he cannot cast spells of that level,or because he is forbidden the spell due to an alignment descriptor.For example, Jozan, the 9th level cleric of Pelor, wants to access two new spells, protection from negative energy (a 3rdlevel spell from Spell Compendium, and stalwart pact (a 5th-level spell from Spell Compendium). He sacrifices incense and gems worth a total of 400 gp (50 gp multiplied by 8 spell levels) to his deity, pays 200 XP (25 XP multiplied by 8 spell levels) and withdraws in prayer for 24 hours. After he finishes the ritual, whenever he prepares spells, he can prepare protection from negative energy and stalwart pact in his 3rd and 5th level spellslots respectively.Note: a cleric can always cast a spell from a scroll or use a spell from a wand if that spell is on the general cleric spell list, and is not forbidden to him due to an alignment descriptor. He does not need to have the spell on his personal spell list.Regards,Stefan.</blockquote>

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