"at last a river" proclaimed the dragonborn, " me waterskins were getting kind of flat!"Maybe.
Or maybe the art dept. is suggesting these creatures have built-in water or nourishment storage analagous to the humps on a camel... ?
I'm not sure any class that literally means "religious leader" is better designed without religion being part of it. As a designer myself, and with a real job of being a systems analyst/project manager, any time you miss the primary scope of what you're designing, we'd call that "horrible design", not "better designed".
What you're wanting is a magic user or sorcerer or any other caster class that isn't tied to religion being it's thing. Stop trying to change the cleric into something that is literally the opposite of what it's supposed to represent.
For example, Buddhists can have ‘clerics’ and a ‘religion’ without ‘gods’.
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For example, both reallife Daoists and fantasy Dark Sun clerics, can be characterized as ‘nontheistic elementalists’.
Ok I just passed my 100th dming session for AL. I been way to busy to double check someone player sheet to see what gawd they get their voodoo from. Can you give both a SRD, PHB, and any other AL document that forces me to kick someone from the table if they don't have a gawd listed.Strictly illegal. By the way, illegal in AL.
Too many references to gods everywhere else in the Players Handbook and other core rules.
Impossible to play without running into gods.
page 3That legal for home play, but its against the AL rules so its against the rules of organized play. Clerics and those who take the Acolyte Feat has to choose a deity from either the PHB FR and Monster Deity lists, SCAG, MTOFs. Its right in the Adventurer's League Players Guide v7 except for the mention of MTOFs which has its own rules document at least umtil they update the ALPG to v8.
but but butI don't recall ever seeing an AL DM demand a player insert religion into their roleplaying of their cleric. Players either did, or didn't based on their own style. And frankly, if you want to play a class without having ties to religion, try choosing a class that doesn't literally mean "religious leader". There are lots to choose from.
Without alignment restrictions (arbitrary in most previous editions, enforced by Oaths in 5e) what's the point of having Paladin be its own class at all?But in any case, with regard to gaming design, the paladin class works better without alignment mechanics, the cleric class works better without gods mechanic.
That’s not entirely accurate. Buddhist thought consistently rejects the notion of a creator deity. However, in its Saṃsāra doctrine, it teaches the concept of gods, heavens and rebirths; none of the gods is a creator. Buddhism posits that mundane deities such as Mahabrahma are misconstrued to be a creator.
Religious Daoism has its own temples, priests, sacred writings, rites, and gods. It is polytheistic, meaning it recognizes many gods, each of whom is worshipped for different functions.
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/gods.html
Don’t get me wrong: I don’t have a problem with more shamanistic/nontheistic descriptions of faith traditions, but those two wouldn’t be the best examples.
but but but
whaaaa whaaaaa I want to be healer but don't worship Jasper the evil, Morrus the Menance or Sure real Scrosanct.