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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 6858800" data-attributes="member: 6802951">You're making the assumption that the power that a god entrusts a cleric is directly based upon the cleric's ability to schmooze their way up in the church hierarchy and bring in converts. I do not believe that that has ever been official lore.As a suggestion:The church and god probably do value the charismatic evangelist, but bear in mind that the cleric class isn't a standard member of the church whose job is to respect the hierarchy and tend the masses. The cleric is the hand of her god, with a mandate to do their god's work on the material plane, often outside of the official church. Its not the cleric's job to proselytize, its their duty to uphold their god's aims and smite/protect the evildoers/innocent (or whatever, based upon the god itself).The divine power that the cleric channels would appear to be based more upon the cleric's sense, ability to resist temptation, and groundedness in the world. The cleric is a representative of the god in a way that most church members will never be, trusted with a portion of the god's personal power, and if they were to misuse it, it might have repercussions both on the mortal world, and amongst the gods. Thus discernment, strength of character, and common sense are a better measure of the level of power the god is willing to risk than how well the cleric gets on with other mortals.</blockquote>