Nor is it breaking a rule, or even a stretch, to think that the NPCs who make it to super high level represent the best of the best, rolling great stats, finding stat boosting books, getting boons, and more. Just because the final numbers don't add up to a PC array, doesn't mean that they started higher. They just ended higher, like many PCs. Or maybe they just rolled well.
I think you got me confused with someone else. I am literally saying what you just said.
They do in order for it to be part of the rules.
False. They can use music. They explicitly can also use oration.
Your argument is irrelevant, though. A flamestrike is a cleric spell. Unless the bard is 10th level or higher and has used one of his precious few magical secrets on it, it doesn't matter who sings what. Even then, after seeing a few more spells it's going be apparent who's the bard and who's the cleric.
Not in mechanical terms, no. Only the cleric has his spells granted by his god as the divine source of his power. The bard may FEEL that the god is the source, but arcane is the real source.
Yes, you can alter the game fiction to suit your argument. That's a homebrew campaign, though. As the written default, clerics are X in D&D, and bards are Y.
Yes, unless you change them. And the word you are looking for is incapable, not inept.
Yes in general. Inept seems an odd word choice as distributing spells to several million beings is quite a feat, but sure. Cannot impart arcane spells. It will technically be divine even if the spells are all analogues of arcane ones.
To who? Who are these people who know what the classes are and what their spell lists are, and can flawlessly recognize each spell when it’s cast? Do people in your worlds go around talking about how “Cleric Dan cast Flamestrike on that bandit captain, and the Captain was all, ‘oh crap they’ve got a Cleric y’all that was the Cleric spell Flamestrike we better run!’”?
Absolutely. And since no one knows what spell list a cleric has, because that sentence is full of mechanical concepts that don’t exactly translate into the game world, and don’t apply to NPCs by default, no one can tell that the Bard is a bard.
All magic is from the weave in 5e, IIRC, not that that matters at all to the actual topic.
Are the gods so inept that they cannot snap their fingers and annihilate the entire multiverse?
Look a little deeper into what the weave is and the information that exists out there about it. (Also are you sure divine magic comes from it? If so something pretty interesting happened.
I think at this point it takes a pretty narrow mind set ro even utter "inept" in relevance to beings who can grant that many caster levels in broad band just because the frequencies dont happen to include all frequencies...
whatever floats your vingelot
Seems you can’t take what you try to dish out
