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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Valmur_Dwur" data-source="post: 308621" data-attributes="member: 5065"><p>I think your making your clerics way too important<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />   Think of it this way(works for monks too); the church doesn't want you around!  After all even the largest churches only have so many resources for themselves.  And since they want to convert as many followers as possible they need to use less so more can be sent out into the community.  IMHO the ones the church leaves behind are the old, the charismatic, and the low wisdom ones.  The old since they are not going to be able to activly search out the doctrines of the church's dogma.  The charismatic because of the fine flowery speeches and the posterity the church gets(think hollywood movie premire).  And finally the ones who sometimes don't think as they should and do those things that can harm the religous followers of the church.  By keeping them at arm's length they minamize the damage and the one's so held are productive in providing the materials sent out into the community thereby making them productive<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />   Any other clerics are sent out to establish a foothold in an area that doesn't have a place of worship to that god.  In 1e they talked of setting up shrines as a way to get xp.  Can do the same here in a way that increases the following of that god escpecially if the shrine is attended to once in a while (probably at least once a month)  Here is your hook then the cleric is out going to these established shrines to talk to the layfolk about the mission of the church and any new news or important info.  The adventuring cleric is tto set up shrines in areas not covered and report back the location so others can include it in their travels.  IMC shrines cost about 200gp to set up.  Should be pocket change for a 3rd lvl cleric.  Just my idea YMMV<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

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