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<blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 5069530" data-attributes="member: 2182">Admittedly, some of the flavor of the cleric class as written came from Christianity, but the way the class works is very different from either Jew or Christian traditions.&nbsp; For example, while their are stories in the Bible of prophets performing miracles, they are treated as, well, miracles.&nbsp;&nbsp; Miracles were meant to be signs of God's power, not a daily allotment of spells that could be cast anyway and at anytime the cleric felt like.Also, the DMG states flatly that &quot;polytheism is the default assumption of the D&amp;D&quot; game.&nbsp; This does not mean that other systems are not possible (Deities and Demigods presented monotheism, dualism, and pantheism), but the RAW seem to lean very heavily to a polytheistic pantheon.Finally, the heavy armor and fighting features of the class, as stated previously, are obviously inspired by The Song of Roland.&nbsp; This always struck me as rather odd - here we have a class that mixes miracles from the Bible, the religious warrior tradition of The Song of Roland, and often a number of gods inspired by Greco-Roman mythology.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="shadow, post: 5069530, member: 2182"] Admittedly, some of the flavor of the cleric class as written came from Christianity, but the way the class works is very different from either Jew or Christian traditions. For example, while their are stories in the Bible of prophets performing miracles, they are treated as, well, miracles. Miracles were meant to be signs of God's power, not a daily allotment of spells that could be cast anyway and at anytime the cleric felt like. Also, the DMG states flatly that "polytheism is the default assumption of the D&D" game. This does [I]not[/I] mean that other systems are not possible ([I]Deities and Demigods[/I] presented monotheism, dualism, and pantheism), but the RAW seem to lean very heavily to a polytheistic pantheon. Finally, the heavy armor and fighting features of the class, as stated previously, are obviously inspired by The Song of Roland. This always struck me as rather odd - here we have a class that mixes miracles from the Bible, the religious warrior tradition of The Song of Roland, and often a number of gods inspired by Greco-Roman mythology. [/QUOTE]

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