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<blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1985859" data-attributes="member: 16936">Perhaps this is because it is not actually the one weapon that their deity would prefer them to use.&nbsp; Their god may in fact have absolutely no preference for what weapons his clerics wield.As in, a war god may have his favorite longsword, and songs and stories and epic poems may be written and revered by his church celebrating that famous and most-holy longsword...but this doesn't necessarily mean that when this war god looks down from his lofty castle in the sky, he gets pissed off if his faithful little clerics aren't toting longswords of their own.&nbsp; His portfolio isn't &quot;Waging War with a Longsword,&quot; after all...it's WAR.&nbsp; Use a flail or a halberd or a spear or a lance for all he cares, as long as you are showing him the reverence and respect he is due in all matters relating to war, and doing anything else it is that he wants you to do.Now, clerics being the impressionable little freaks that they are, it's entirely likely that most of them are going to think &quot;I should use a longsword, too!&quot;&nbsp; But that's not a freebie for them: their slavish imitation of their deity is their choice, and not a bonus that their god has granted to them.&nbsp; They can take the proficiency on their own time, with their own resources, because their god has larger and more important concerns.--and that goes double for gods who aren't all about the fighting and the killingryan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herpes Cineplex, post: 1985859, member: 16936"] Perhaps this is because it is not actually the one weapon that their deity would prefer [i]them[/i] to use. Their god may in fact have absolutely no preference for what weapons his clerics wield. As in, a war god may have his favorite longsword, and songs and stories and epic poems may be written and revered by his church celebrating that famous and most-holy longsword...but this doesn't necessarily mean that when this war god looks down from his lofty castle in the sky, he gets pissed off if his faithful little clerics aren't toting longswords of their own. His portfolio isn't "Waging War with a Longsword," after all...it's [i]WAR.[/i] Use a flail or a halberd or a spear or a lance for all he cares, as long as you are showing him the reverence and respect he is due in all matters relating to war, and doing anything else it is that he wants you to do. Now, clerics being the impressionable little freaks that they are, it's entirely likely that most of them are going to think "I should use a longsword, too!" But that's not a freebie for them: their slavish imitation of their deity is their choice, and not a bonus that their god has granted to them. They can take the proficiency on their own time, with their own resources, because their god has larger and more important concerns. -- and that goes double for gods who aren't all about the fighting and the killing ryan [/QUOTE]

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