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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolfwood2" data-source="post: 2848313" data-attributes="member: 39394">I think there's a big point where you said earlier that Shar's power allows him to work miracles far beyond even the most powerful cleric.  What if it's highly to the benefit of humanity that Shar has that power?  What if Shar is the only thing keeping fiends from the lower planes swarming into the world of Men and killing everyone?  What if Shar is literally the only thing keeping the giant wolf from swallowing the sun and plunging the entire world into eternal darkness?  What if, in short, Shar is not so much lounging around the celestial castle taking hits of 'mortal faith' from his bong?  What if he's a very busy deity indeed?That would also explain why he can't afford to support any clerics beyond the 'split attention' problem.  Being that Shar is constantly using all of his power to keep the walls of reality together, he feels that it's a higher priority than granting spells to mortals.At that point it's easy to see how Shar's instructions to his church are going to be along the liens of, "Need... more... faithful," and he's going to want to discourage faith going to Dead Gods.  Sure he can do without a few people's faith.  But each one he doesn't get is another leak in the dike.  It's also easy to see how zealous and over-zealous priests could interpret that as a mandate to kill theurgists out of hand.Besides, I personally think, "Shar needs your prayers to save the world!" is a pretty exciting pitch for a religion.I ask because druids have access to a lot of the same healing and beneficial spells as clerics.  Druids can also purify food, create water, heal wounds, and remove disease.  They can also Quench raging fires and cause farmland to be fertile and productive.  They can even bring the dead back to life!  (Albeit in different bodies.)If clerical magic is frowned on for societal reasons, I'd envision lots and lots of sucking up to druids.</blockquote>

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