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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lastalas" data-source="post: 2754681" data-attributes="member: 39207">Since D&D has immediate and effective results from a cleric's administrations, then any act performed by the cleric must be sanctioned by his god to some extent.  Otherwise, he loses his powers.  As others mentioned, if you have a diety that allows that then no problem.   However, such a diety may not be respected  by people or the other gods, which could limit their appeal and/or impact.However, it is a really interesting idea and I would keep developling it.It also gave me a thought.  What if the "clerics" of a particular group have powers or spells that are similar to a cleric's spells but are not god bestowed?  Maybe this group has found how to tap into divine power somehow else, or they use arcane magic (the people don't know the difference)?  Or even better, if u want them really dark, the Complete Divine book (I believe) has a prestige class that sucks its clerical powers from other clerics and diety connections.  They have no god of their own, instead leach the power of existing connections.  This could make an interesting subplot where these fake clerics begin to gather more power and prestige than legitimate clerics.  After all, people (especially those in power) love someone they can pay to tell them they are always right.  Maybe a powerful king has recently removed his Cleric of Heironous advisor for one of these fake clerics? and perhaps the impetus was a desire to commit some action that Heironous was opposed to?</blockquote>

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