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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jollyninja" data-source="post: 308122" data-attributes="member: 3208">here is what i attribute the phenomenon of adventuring clerics to. it is a tradition that started because at the core of any pantheon's dynamics is the competition for worshipers. an adventuring cleric's job within the church is to up the regard of his religion in the eyes of an average joe.think about it. a farmer who has never left his villiage might become a worshiper of flharganin (the greyhawk travel god, i probably spelled it wrong) because once when he was young, his cousin was kidnapped by ogres and a travelling cleric of that god was the one who saved him and raised a girl who was killed in the raid who later became the farmer's wife. it's a small villiage, the one event could have great signifigance for everyone in town. they will remember those who did it. the fighter bob, the bard lisa, the halfling beaswell and the cleric of flharganin doug.as for temple priests, they are allways either old clerics, experts, or my variant "temple priest" npc class in my world.</blockquote>