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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 2721284" data-attributes="member: 19130">I have to agree with Ghoti here, I just don't see genocide as an inevitable result of widespread faith, especially since pretty much every published setting already assumes widespread faith in the deities.  Giving everyone a little divine spellcasting wouldn't really exacerbate that, to my mind, and it might even weaken the churches.  ("You can heal?  So what, everyone can do that!  Why should we tithe to your church for powers the Great One gives us already.  Now the city council and the mage's guild, they actually have something to show us for our money...")I like Dirigible's suggestion of animism, especially since I think it would be virtually impossible to maintain a monolithic church when everyone has some speck of divine power to show for themselves.  It would make sense for a sense of radical tolerance to spring up based on the idea that everyone worships their own idiosyncratic set of spirits that are important to their daily lives.  The everyday tools of your trade and spaces of your home would acquire a certain sacred tincture if everyone has clerical spellcasting.And I doubt strongly there would be many people around without a double-digit wisdom.  That would be like being born blind or deaf (more like blind and deaf) in such a world - the person's life is pretty much a non-starter except in very unusual circumstances, especially since I would enforce the required 1 level of cleric.  Even if you get no spells for that level, you were trained according to the way the world works it.</blockquote>

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