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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 377420" data-attributes="member: 6533">high clergyThere's a little bit in the Kingdom's of Kalamar that I always thought added a strange bit to the eternal why do the many gods care question.In most answers the assumption is the gods want quality/quantity of worshippers of mana.In Kalamar, the claim was the gods were really after high level clerics.This intrigued me because there are some mythology's where someone figure out how to be a priest without the gods telling him or her how.&nbsp; A lot of shamanistic cults have a similar phenomena where the priest has a personal power that enables him or her to relate to god better, not a power that comes from god.I always wanted to see a DnD scenario where someone worked out exactly what that would do for adventuring priests.&nbsp; My thought would be that in a polytheistic cosmology this would definitely make your local gifted cleric a serious comodity as the only person who could both talk to the gods and be reasonably certain they would listen.Way more than a medic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Strangemonkey, post: 377420, member: 6533"] [b]high clergy[/b] There's a little bit in the Kingdom's of Kalamar that I always thought added a strange bit to the eternal why do the many gods care question. In most answers the assumption is the gods want quality/quantity of worshippers of mana. In Kalamar, the claim was the gods were really after high level clerics. This intrigued me because there are some mythology's where someone figure out how to be a priest without the gods telling him or her how. A lot of shamanistic cults have a similar phenomena where the priest has a personal power that enables him or her to relate to god better, not a power that comes from god. I always wanted to see a DnD scenario where someone worked out exactly what that would do for adventuring priests. My thought would be that in a polytheistic cosmology this would definitely make your local gifted cleric a serious comodity as the only person who could both talk to the gods and be reasonably certain they would listen. Way more than a medic. [/QUOTE]

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