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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8593698" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>That's probably why the idea got phased out. Players aren't going to take a clearly subpar character option like that and so it ends up being a waste to publish and a waste for the DM to create it, even if it's just an NPC thing. </p><p></p><p>I think too there was just a shift in gameplay expectations over the years as the cleric developed between 1e and 2e. Early on, maybe you had a cleric that served the Greek gods. You favored one of them, but you served the whole pantheon. As you reached the higher levels, you eventually switched your service over to Zeus. Everyone was just a standard cleric so it made little difference. Then 2e comes along with specialty priests. Now if you worshipped a Lesser God or Demigod, you'd be handicapped with spell access. Who wants to play that? </p><p></p><p> Wisdom though maybe was supposed to play a role in that too, because you need an 18 Wis to get the level 7 spells (and I think 17 for level 6 IIRC). If you can't cast the spells in the first place, then it doesn't matter if your god can grant them. That raises an interesting idea for world building though -- maybe the lesser gods are weaker because their priests are bigger dolts. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orius, post: 8593698, member: 8863"] That's probably why the idea got phased out. Players aren't going to take a clearly subpar character option like that and so it ends up being a waste to publish and a waste for the DM to create it, even if it's just an NPC thing. I think too there was just a shift in gameplay expectations over the years as the cleric developed between 1e and 2e. Early on, maybe you had a cleric that served the Greek gods. You favored one of them, but you served the whole pantheon. As you reached the higher levels, you eventually switched your service over to Zeus. Everyone was just a standard cleric so it made little difference. Then 2e comes along with specialty priests. Now if you worshipped a Lesser God or Demigod, you'd be handicapped with spell access. Who wants to play that? Wisdom though maybe was supposed to play a role in that too, because you need an 18 Wis to get the level 7 spells (and I think 17 for level 6 IIRC). If you can't cast the spells in the first place, then it doesn't matter if your god can grant them. That raises an interesting idea for world building though -- maybe the lesser gods are weaker because their priests are bigger dolts. :D [/QUOTE]
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