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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8216520" data-attributes="member: 6801845">There's a difference between soft power and clerical power.  Assume for a moment that gods only have so much magic they can hand out; in my world it roughly corresponds to the number of worshippers.  So a priest is working to support their god by leading an example, bringing people to the faith.  The work they do is no more or less important.So becoming a cleric can be a reward or it can be a necessity.  This priest has brought in (or retained) many followers for years.  He has served his god well, just not on the front lines.  I mean, who is more important.  The pilot flying a jet? All the people that support and maintain the jet?  In this case the priest is the maintenance crew while the cleric is the pilot. That doesn't make the maintenance crew less important.  A maintenance guy being given the opportunity doesn't suddenly become an ace pilot just because he knows how to maintain the engines.  It's simply a different skillset.In addition my campaigns span years because PCs regularly have months of downtime between adventures.  Like professional athletes, they don't get the skill from the game per se it's the training between the games that matter.  They learn from their games but they actually improve skills during downtime.Or, just ignore it all.  It's just a game and it doesn't have to be logical to be enjoyable.</blockquote>