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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 5840650" data-attributes="member: 63508">In my homebrew d20 game, cleric are spellcasting aristocrats.See in my game, clerics are ministers who go to their deity's theology schools. They study there to learn quotations, hymns, and prayers (including the spell "Paladin" that turn someone into a paladin).Prayers are personal pleas from the cleric. Spells casted as prayers are empowered and can spontaneously replace an available filled spell slot at any time. BUT prayers are forever stuck in the spell spot. For example, if a cleric cast cure light wounds as a has to always prepare CLW in a 1st level slot.Hymns are spells learned from a holy spellbook like a wizard. It functions like a wizard spellbook. There aren't many and only the most common cleric spells have Hymns.Quotations are spells from a spell list tailored to each deity. They can be prepare just like a 3.5 cleric and doesn't need a book for this spells.So a 1st level swamp cleric might have CMW, create water, read magic,  CLW, bless, and bless water in their spell book. He might know obscuring mist and entangle as quotations that all swamp clerics know. If the cleric needs to escape zombies he can pray for hide from undead. At this point he cannot remove that spell from that spell slot. It creates many tense moments where players grab the cleric player's collar screaming "PRAY FOR THAT SPELL!" and the cleric player yelling "NO, I ONLY HAVE ONE 1ST LEVEL SPELL SLOT LEFT!". "MAYBE YOU SHOULDNT HAVE WASTED SLOTS ON THAT OTHER SPELL!" "THAT WAS YOUR IDEA!""WE GON DIE! SAVE US PELOR!"The desperation and emotion caused before a prayer is casted fits the IC moment perfectly.</blockquote>

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