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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salthorae" data-source="post: 7903425" data-attributes="member: 1095">Thanks [USER=74672]@Jonathan Tweet[/USER] for the fun 3E design insight. I have honestly loved playing clerics in every edition I've played (though in 2e it was always a specialty priest just to avoid the generic flavor). They were definitely powerful, and only got more so as additional supplements came out, but I loved the mixing and matching of domains and such to differentiate Clerics from each other. Wow, I completely disagree. I think 5e clerics are great mechanically. In 5e I feel like distinction isn't just a class function anymore on purpose. Backgrounds are a thing that 5e kind of brought back from the 2e secondary skills to give a PC their own legs to stand on in combination with class differentiators, especially with the Traits/Ideals/Bonds/Flaws. Two acolyte background clerics of the life domain may be very different because of the Traits/Ideals/Bonds/Flaws they have. If you're just talking mechanical generic as opposed to RP generic though... I suppose so.</blockquote>