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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9168749" data-attributes="member: 2209">D&amp;D has varied a lot on what actually powers clerical abilities, sometimes saying gods, sometimes saying belief or faith, sometimes other stuff.3.5 PH: &quot;Clerics do not acquire their spells from books or scrolls, nor do they prepare them through study. Instead, they meditate or pray for their spells, receiving them through their own strength of faith or as divine inspiration.&quot;4e had the ordination ritual granting the ability to wield divine power.4e PH: &quot;As a cleric, your deity does not directly grant you powers. Instead, your ordination or investiture as a cleric grants you the ability to wield divine powers. Clerics are usually formally ordained by existing clerics who perform a special ritual to do so, but on rare occasions a deity moves to directly ordain a worthy worshiper with out any sort of priestly hierarchy involved. What you do with your powers once you are ordained is up to you, although if you flagrantly and openly defy your deity’s tenets, you quickly earn the enmity of the faithful.&quot;Even 5e has varying descriptions. Mostly the 5e PH talks about clerics and gods but it also says:&quot;Harnessing divine magic doesn't rely on study or training. A cleric might learn formulaic prayers and ancient rites, but the ability to cast cleric spells relies on devotion and an intuitive sense of a deity's wishes.&quot;5e paladin abilities are powered not by gods but by their oaths.&quot;By 2nd level, you have learned to draw on divine magic through meditation and prayer to cast spells as a cleric does.&quot;&quot;The spells of clerics, druids, paladins, and rangers are called divine magic. These spellcasters' access to the Weave is mediated by divine power-gods, the divine forces of nature, or the sacred weight of a paladin's oath.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9168749, member: 2209"] D&D has varied a lot on what actually powers clerical abilities, sometimes saying gods, sometimes saying belief or faith, sometimes other stuff. 3.5 PH: "Clerics do not acquire their spells from books or scrolls, nor do they prepare them through study. Instead, [B]they meditate or pray for their spells, receiving them through their own strength of faith[/B] or as divine inspiration." 4e had the ordination ritual granting the ability to wield divine power. 4e PH: "As a cleric, your deity does not directly grant you powers. Instead, your ordination or investiture as a cleric grants you the ability to wield divine powers. Clerics are usually formally ordained by existing clerics who perform a special ritual to do so, but on rare occasions a deity moves to directly ordain a worthy worshiper with out any sort of priestly hierarchy involved. What you do with your powers once you are ordained is up to you, although if you flagrantly and openly defy your deity’s tenets, you quickly earn the enmity of the faithful." Even 5e has varying descriptions. Mostly the 5e PH talks about clerics and gods but it also says: "Harnessing divine magic doesn't rely on study or training. A cleric might learn formulaic prayers and ancient rites, but [B]the ability to cast cleric spells relies on devotion[/B] and an intuitive sense of a deity's wishes." 5e paladin abilities are powered not by gods but by their oaths. "By 2nd level, you have learned to draw on divine magic through meditation and prayer to cast spells as a cleric does." "The spells of clerics, druids, paladins, and rangers are called divine magic. [B]These spellcasters' access to the Weave is mediated by[/B] divine power-gods, the divine forces of nature, or [B]the sacred weight of a paladin's oath[/B]." [/QUOTE]

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