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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hashmalum" data-source="post: 843637" data-attributes="member: 9450">I'm somewhat conflicted about this. On one hand, yes, it makes sense that really powerful priests can wield miracles beyond standard mortal magic; I loved the quest spell mechanic (if not many of the actual quest spells) in the AD&D 2nd Edition book Tome of Magic for this reason. On the other hand, the game mechanics don't work well. In a world with epic rules, you'll either need to rework the gods and perhaps even the base divinity rules so we don't see the oddity of mortal priests casting greater spells than their patron god is capable of, or automatically ascend mortals (or otherwise stop their advancement) who reach that level of power (personally, I favor the latter, but that solution doesn't work as well for people who are running settings where there is no divine ascension).Some of them, but not all of them. In the real world, the Vatican has the largest collection in the world of occult literature (and, it is rumored, pornography), but I can't see Loki's or Erythynul's priests having scads of books hanging around. In-game, one could make the distinction by giving the priests of more scholarly religions domains with domain powers that give free skill points towards certain skills, or giving them access to church-specific PrCs (such as Researcher of Boccob). This might seem convoluted compared to simply changing the epic spell rules, but I see this sort of fleshing-out and adding flavor to the campaign's religions as being a worthy goal in itself.</blockquote>

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