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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khorod" data-source="post: 1225745" data-attributes="member: 1636">Lord of the Rings also lacked anything I would call a Cleric.Personally, I find have the supernatural be real makes things like religion very fun to play with, at least on the philosophical level.  As far as I'm concerned, if you want a generic cleric you may as well just let Wizards have access to healing magic, and let the player decide if his wizard is a spellcaster or a miracle-working priest.  (Like in Arcana Unearthed).And in my campaigns, I have multiple languages, trade-relations, and so on to a degree that the players need to make a serious decision about which languages they know to maximize regional communication or find someone who speaks a shared language wherever they go.  It doesn't need to be exhaustive- a few paragraphs on these subjects is what makes the campaign setting come alive.The old generic cleric had a problem- it was a healer with limited combat abilities.  And because it was generic, it had zero flavor to play off of.  The only 2E clerics I or anyone I knew were interested in actually playing were the ones house-ruled into having an actual purpose to exist.</blockquote>