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<blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 1233504" data-attributes="member: 2198">Everyone wanted to play clerics, but no one actually did?&nbsp; Or do you mean you didn't have a single generic cleric once 2E came out.The flavor of the 3E priest is up to the DM.&nbsp; No different than what you got from 2E, which didn't give you any specialty priests in the core rules, just the generic cleric and the druid.&nbsp; The 1E cleric had flavor in that it was a Catholic warrior-priest, but that was rather inflexible and never made much sense in your standard polytheistic D&amp;D world like Greyhawk.In my 1E days, we had a cleric at the start but the player left while we were still low level.&nbsp; Never had another cleric in the group, although the DM had a druid NPC that I guess we used for healing.In my 2E days, I briefly played a fighter/cleric, but I don't remember any other clerics in any of the groups we had.&nbsp; I don't remember what we did for healing.&nbsp; The only exception to this was our Dark Sun games, which always had an elemental cleric.&nbsp; But in Dark Sun, the source of your cleric spells didn't care what you did with them.&nbsp; Maybe I just always end up gaming with people that don't like strings attached to their character's ability to do stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spatula, post: 1233504, member: 2198"] Everyone wanted to play clerics, but no one actually did? Or do you mean you didn't have a single generic cleric once 2E came out.The flavor of the 3E priest is up to the DM. No different than what you got from 2E, which didn't give you any specialty priests in the core rules, just the generic cleric and the druid. The 1E cleric had flavor in that it was a Catholic warrior-priest, but that was rather inflexible and never made much sense in your standard polytheistic D&D world like Greyhawk. In my 1E days, we had a cleric at the start but the player left while we were still low level. Never had another cleric in the group, although the DM had a druid NPC that I guess we used for healing. In my 2E days, I briefly played a fighter/cleric, but I don't remember any other clerics in any of the groups we had. I don't remember what we did for healing. The only exception to this was our Dark Sun games, which always had an elemental cleric. But in Dark Sun, the source of your cleric spells didn't care what you did with them. Maybe I just always end up gaming with people that don't like strings attached to their character's ability to do stuff. [/QUOTE]

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