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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herzog" data-source="post: 4786589" data-attributes="member: 25696">I made a very vague suggestion to the player in question last weekend, and got a rather unexpected negative reply.(something about bashing my head in and starting another character)I must say, after the initial responses here and her compaints about the long lists of cleric spells earlier, this was a surprise.I guess I have to start from the beginning, talk about why I want this and how it will influence her character, before putting a final rule in play.I have to say I originally was planning to introduce a rule identical to the wizards' spellbook for Clerics, but the last responses here (and the reaction of the player) have given my idea a new direction.Maybe the prayerbook should automatically contain all the PHB spells, and only the additional spells (Spell Compendium mostly) should be added one by one, although maybe not at the cost specified for wizard spells.It would become more of a hindrance (having to carry all those prayerbooks if you really want to carry along all those spells) and perhaps a liability (what if you get seperated from your prayerbook?)Allowing 'spontaneous casting' from prayerbooks (with increased casting time) also sounds like a good idea. I might even port that to wizards as well.Maybe I can warm her up to the idea with the combination of bonus and penalty of such a prayerbook.....As to church or god specific prayerbooks: It sounds nice but: it will mean extra work for me (DM) that could have gotten into preparing for the next adventure. Or, like, having a life <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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