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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4633077" data-attributes="member: 13855">Missed the elimination of fatigue in that spell. I was skipping the cures and lumped cure disease in with that one. Still, outside of major urban centers, there's not so many 5th level clerics out there. And in major urban centers, the demand for cure disease is going to far outstrip supply of the spells, given sanitation conditions. There won't be "spare" cure diseases. Also, I think that economics plays a role here, as others have mentioned. As soon as you start giving away cures, you have several unfortunate effects. One, everyone will want cures for free. Two, you need to sell cures (amongst other revenue streams like donations) to keep your temple, soup kitchen, homeless shelter, and evil smack-down HQ open and functioning. Third, if you give away cures for free to only the "truly needy," then people start to wait until they are desperately sick before seeking help, so as to save money, which leads to more deaths and contagion than if they came in earlier. Finally, as soon as you do a handout, rather than a hand up, working class and middle class believers will ask why they have to work so hard to afford these services while Drunky McJobless gets it. They attend, they tithe, they volunteer and they pay. Drunky does none of those things. So, you undermine relations with the core of your congregation.So, I think it's likely that these churches require an exchange of services if the person can't pay: wash dishes, clean windows, scrub floors, etc.</blockquote>

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