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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 4631794" data-attributes="member: 319">Here's something I've been thinking about lately: How do Clerics of most good deities justify going to bed at night with unused spell slots? (the non-adventuring ones, at any rate - who can reasonably expect to be able to sleep through the night without being attacked) After all, there are tons of beneficial spells that have no monetary or XP cost, and which take between 6 seconds and several minutes to cast. The effort to prepare those spells each morning is the same whether they get cast or not, so hoarding them really is just pure laziness.I'm not asking, mind you, to come up with a hand-wave or justification for it. That's easy, you can just say "God X wants you to help only those who believe in him" or "Goddess Y wants her followers to make their own way in the world instead of relying on the priesthood to solve all their problems for them".Instead, what I'm asking is whether it's morally justifiable - for someone Good (in the D&D alignment sense) - to let a valuable resource that costs the user virtually nothing to go to waste when it'd be simple to find someone who needs it. (as in, when you're in a major city) Is the huge inconvenience you'd incur if you announced yourself as a source of free healing enough to justify not doing so? What, exactly, do NPC Clerics do with all the time they don't spend casting Remove Disease and Lesser Restoration on PCs? Do they need to keep spells reserved for paying customers to keep their struggling temples afloat in difficult economic times? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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