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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6865714" data-attributes="member: 996">After playing a lot of magic-users, Druid became my favorite class in 1e. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Really pretty awesome in a lot of ways, and less of a healing burden.Cleric was easily the least popular class, excepting the barely-there Monk & barely-accessible Bard.  It was, however, no less played than the other standbys, because you /needed/ one.  Or else.And, while that was my personal experience, and the personal experience of everyone I ever met - again, except the one guy who loved playing evil clerics - it was also the dominant paradigm in the pages of Dragon in that period.  Nor did I see it change in the early on-line community, even as Spheres and custom priesthoods made the class more interesting - and in the case of some L&L specialty priests, apparently, broken.  Denial of healing burden and the unpopularity of the Cleric seems to be a pretty new thing.  Even in the 3e era, it was broadly acknowledged that the game had over-compensated for it by giving us CoDzilla.  It was hard to miss:  you've got a guy holding a cross in some 1e illos, the spell list leaned heavily towards biblical miracles, turn undead was an obvious reference to holding vampires at bay with a cross, and the blunt-weapon restriction was derived from a certain interpretation of scripture.  Level titles, OTOH,  were taken from a broad range of religions.  You went from cultist to Anglican to Catholic to Tibetan Buddhist amongst other things as you leveled.  ;PMore potentially interesting than it was in 1e, certainly.  And not as bad as 3e's CoDzilla.  That's not that bad, at least you can squeeze in a variety of death and other more pagan/fantasy-feel religions via Domains.But better than 1e.</blockquote>

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