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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9497726" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Personally, I'd recommend going for Cleric-adjacent items, rather than "this is specifically and only for a Cleric and is thus totally useless to the PCs." So, maybe while delving in a particular dungeon, amongst other loot, they find a mundane holy symbol of Fnordia (perfectly ordinary, sell it or gift it to your local Fnordian church), a +1 mace that deals 1d4 radiant damage to undead, and some nice medium armor that adds your Wisdom modifier to any rolled healing you do or receive (note, "rolled", so no goodberry shenanigans). The first isn't useful, but it can be thematic and has non-pecuniary value in the right campaign. The second is generally nice, especially if there are a lot of undead in the adventure (as was the case in LMoP, for instance). The third is just nice in general, and might even be worthwhile for a character that would otherwise wear heavy armor: a Fighter with decent Dex and Wis might find that pretty tempting since it would work with Second Wind, a combat-leaning Bard (e.g. Swords or Valor) would appreciate it, a Druid could still get some mileage out of it, etc. It would be best for a Cleric, certainly, but it's not exclusively for Clerics.It's perfectly possible to balance the desire for thematic items that fortify worldbuilding ideas and the desire to avoid pointless "vendor trash" items. This sort of thing is so easily resolved, I don't even really see it as an actual point of conflict between "it's a game, make it fun, avoid the boring" approaches (what might be called "gamist") and "it's a world, make it grounded, avoid the contradictory" (what might be called "simulationist").</blockquote>

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