Xeriar
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fusangite said:I have another question of those favouring godless clerics: what are examples in history/myth that you are basing this role on? What philosophies have priests? I would argue that movements/institutions that are not theistic do not produce priests; they may produce scholars; they may produce philosophers; they may produce mages but are there examples of them producing priests?
Ever heard of the Dalai Lama?
Or a Buddhist Monk? Serving in something called a Pagoda?
There are frequent walking on water legends (My favourite though is:
Monk1: I've done it. For fifteen years, I have tried and failed, but yesterday I managed to walk on water.
Monk2: You moron, you've wasted 15 years of your life and the ferry is 5 bucks.)
There are also tales of healing and curing, and the ability to raise the dead (though this would be abbhorant, it would be bringing someone back into the land of suffering).
Taoism is best exemplefied by either the monk class or the Force from Star Wars (seeing as how it was based on Taoism). Maybe psionics. There are stories of self-healing but you can't force Taoism on another unless they've already accepted it.
Taoists who would be priests would probably also be Shinto or some other form of Animism-like thing (ie Shugenja in Rokugan).
Buddhism however is in its entirety a much more diverse. Either you make an entirely new spell list or you give them the cleric class and the choice of some domains (not sure what, actually, since IIRC healing has the raise dead and ressurection powers in it).