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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6379272" data-attributes="member: 8461">The AD&D 2E PHB inherited 1E's rules about higher-level cleric spells only being granted by divine servants and, for the highest-level spells, gods of higher ranks (it's there, tucked away in the book). However, the Complete Priest's Handbook presented the idea of clerics could worship and receive spells from not just a deity, but also from a force (e.g. nature or the sun, etc.) or a philosophy.My question is, did we ever see this happen in any particular D&D product? Ideally, is there any 2E product that actually had a force or a philosophy that listed the spheres and special powers that a specialty priest of it would receive?I know that the divine spellcasters of the Dark Sun setting are the biggest example of this (insofar as forces are concerned, at least), and its arguable that the "native" religions of Ravenloft could be construed as this, but those notwithstanding, what else is there? I know that Ravenloft's Domains of Dread had a philosophy called The Divinity of Mankind, but that wasn't presented in a clerical context. Likewise, Lisa Smedman's The Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga had the personified forces of Day, Night, Twilight, and Death, but again those had no clerical context presented.Was this concept ever put into play anywhere else in the game?</blockquote>