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<blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 3037456" data-attributes="member: 2785">I allow most spells from WotC sources, provided I have a copy of the book. The caveat for clerics, however, I got from Piratecat--your spell list is limited in size such that it must be equal to the list in the PHB. If you want to use new spells, you have to make room for them by giving up old spells. This has had the effect of making each player character cleric's spell list unique, and has given me a framework within which I can allow most new cleric spells without allowing clerics to gain more power each time a new supplement arrives.As for the curmudgeonly fixation on limiting clerics to healing and buffing, I'd say &quot;Welcome to 3rd edition&quot; and &quot;it's time to let it go.&quot; Nobody wants to be, in the terminology of online gamers, a &quot;buff bot.&quot; Every player, even those playing healers, want to feel like his character is kickass, cool and special. If you take a look at cleric damage spells, pound for pound they are weaker than wizard damage spells. So why not let the cleric rain down holy fire once in a while if it will make the player happy?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForceUser, post: 3037456, member: 2785"] I allow most spells from WotC sources, provided I have a copy of the book. The caveat for clerics, however, I got from Piratecat--your spell list is limited in size such that it must be equal to the list in the PHB. If you want to use new spells, you have to make room for them by giving up old spells. This has had the effect of making each player character cleric's spell list unique, and has given me a framework within which I can allow most new cleric spells without allowing clerics to gain more power each time a new supplement arrives. As for the curmudgeonly fixation on limiting clerics to healing and buffing, I'd say "Welcome to 3rd edition" and "it's time to let it go." Nobody wants to be, in the terminology of online gamers, a "buff bot." Every player, even those playing healers, want to feel like his character is kickass, cool and special. If you take a look at cleric damage spells, pound for pound they are weaker than wizard damage spells. So why not let the cleric rain down holy fire once in a while if it will make the player happy? [/QUOTE]

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