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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 2225104" data-attributes="member: 4134">The guy who introduced the Spanish Inquisition into D&D.I didn't ignore him, he posted that while I was writing. And I really hate it when people do the very thing they just accused other people of doing.Which is logical, until he gets a new patron.You know, this can practically turn the cleric into a warrior. I think that is too severe, especially if the change was justified. It may take months or even years for the cleric to catch up, if he ever will. Some might relish the challenge of playing a character that is much weaker than the rest of the party, but it's not for everyone (not for me, for example).My take on divine power: The amount of magical power a deity bestows upon his or her clerics has nothing to do with the power of the deity (or clerics of demigods would have access to lower-level magic only while clerics of panthon chiefs would be the only ones to receive the highest spell levles). In fact, granting spells uses up only a very small amount of the deitie's power (this is stated in Deities and Demigods). Instead, the amount of power depends on the clerics piety and experience, his personal power and ability to channel spells. So the god could grant level 9 magic to a first level priestess, but it would rip her apart.So once the excleric of god A has found his new god B, and has received his atonement from a member of B's clergy, he'll be at his old power level, for he has the personal power to do so, and the experience to handle it, and his piety has probably been restored (he didn't turn atheist, he just had serious issues with his old deity. It's probable that he doesn't have said issues with his new deity).This isn't only fairer to the player, it also makes more sense for the deity. He wouldn't want to waste the resource a high-level cleric represents. Actually, we could be talking about a fallen cleric that has been seduced by a dark power, and said dark power will probably have done so because of said clerical power.I agree: It depends on the deities involved, as well as the circumstances of this change of heart.</blockquote>

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