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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 6065105" data-attributes="member: 1165">Clerics have always had this battle between role (numerics) and flavor. There's a lot of deities in D&D, which means priests shouldn't be alike, but it's very hard to balance the various kinds together.I think the rules for playable clerics should support adventuring clerics. That would mean medium or heavy armor for all (regardless of deity), depending on how the numbers work out.For some deities, this would make little sense, though. Do clerics of Aphrodite really need to wear chain mail and the type of combat training needed to wield something bigger than a dagger? Well, no. There wouldn't be clerics of Aphrodite. There would instead be priests of Aphrodite, and that's a different class entirely, and possibly not one that will ever be playable. The one with the one-hour long healing "rituals" that leave the target exhausted. Do clerics of Orcus need healing powers? No. There wouldn't be any clerics of Orcus. There would be priests instead, kind of like the 4e invoker, which doesn't have any healing powers.</blockquote>