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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dozen" data-source="post: 6091356" data-attributes="member: 6698275">There propably is at least one.Heavens, no. What nonsense.Finally we got to the point. Gods notwithstanding, Clerics of widespread religions(that is, those who are invited to court) want to be taken seriously. That's why they're widespread. They want respect, to appear powerful, unapproachable. Most people don't come to the cathedral for the joke of the week. That and similar you can get from clerics of Zagyg or the Exalteds. And not even the latters call the dead  back from the grave for willy-nilly reasons. If that was how it worked, precious few above lower middle class would ever die permanently of anything but old age. No, they may accept payment, once or twice, for a friend, or a loved one, at the same church every few years, not bringing people or monsters you don't even know back, let alone commercially and on a weekly basis like a public service agent. What would happen to the image of your church if you've given your name to raising dangerous(never mind alignment), alien, unpredictable fey and aberrations from the dead for a flippin' petting zoo? It'd be a b*tch to pull that off as a publicity stunt. The risk is going to cost more for the party/king than a few thousand gold. Now, if they operated in secret, it's another story, but why make a zoo when no one can see it? Or more accurately, why would the DM have the king build the zoo in secret? So the party could approach the quest from a boring angle? There has to be more to his decision than a 'just because', otherwise I'm not buying it. A king whimsical enough to even think about this ridiculous idea might as well decide he doesn't care for what his people think of it.</blockquote>

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