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Message: <blockquote data-quote="His Dudeness" data-source="post: 5658864" data-attributes="member: 94782">It is not sudden and it is not punishing the PCs (weird concept that, first time I've heard such thing was in this thread). If the PC is going to play a cleric, he knows that if his deity is a demigod or has a lesser status he is going to be limited in power.Want power? Follow a more important deity. Don't like it? Don't play a cleric. I'm talking about 2E here, and mostly Forgotten Realms which is the sort of default setting for D&D.Deities grant spells according to their portfolio. It would make no sense for a priest of Auril to cast Flame Strike, since Auril is called the Frostmaiden and is the enbodiment of cold. This is the same reason why priests of Auril can't cast spells from the Plant Sphere, because no plant grows in the pure cold that is her layer of Pandemonium.Limitations are there to reinforce a concept and force the player to make a choice. As a player I find it interesting.</blockquote>