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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corathon" data-source="post: 5869401" data-attributes="member: 22238">He probably isn't. Depending on what kind of world and what version of D&D you're running he's probably a cloistered cleric, and adept, or even an expert, rather than a cleric. Perhaps for the same reason that blood sacrifice is important to many such religions? Maybe blood that is spilled outside of the prescribed rituals is a waste of spiritual energy or some kind of spiritual pollution that would weaken a cleric's tie with his god. He wouldn't. He'd slaughter the innocent, poison wells, cut down orchards, refuse to honor treaties or truces as soon as it suited him. There's a lot more to "combat ethos" than using blunt weapons. Certain religious orders in the real world are celibate or don't eat meat, but not because they believe that it is immoral to have sex or eat meat. These added privations are a sign of religious devotion. In a D&D world, that added devotion brings extra powers (in the form of better spell casting). Maybe the  weapon restrictions represent something like that. This idea is not a new one. There have been several "evil priest" type classes over the years. I have used some of them, and also invidualized priesthoods by granting access to different spell lists for different sects.</blockquote>