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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4787925" data-attributes="member: 19675">Some thoughts on Clerics and prayer(spell)books, in no particular order:1) Instead of making all Healing spells appear in the prayerbook, perhaps Clerics should channel spells appropriate to their particular faith...and THOSE should be automatically in the prayerbook.  (Domain spells, perhaps?)  Yes, this is a major change in clerical mechanics, but it makes a certain amount of sense...2) IME, most people of faith, especially clergy, tend to memorize the prayers they say the most often- prayerbooks become a crutch for moments of forgetfulness or stress in regard to those prayers.  To study religion at the level of a clergyman almost seems to require an almost rote memorization of vast amounts of holy scripture.To mimic this, perhaps over time a cleric would choose certain spells that they would not have any need to read ever again- or perhaps casting such spells don't cause the caster to expend a slot.  IOW, they'd be almost like how Shadow mages from the ToM start being able to cast certain spells at will.  You'd need to tweek the mechanics to avoid imbalance, though.3) If you do this, PLEASE be sensible and don't preclude the ownership of a prayerbook by a PC with a VoP.  It violates the internal logic of such a vow to prevent a clergyman from carrying the scripture of the being to whom the vow is sworn.</blockquote>