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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 255581" data-attributes="member: 3146">Mechanics:One fewer spell per level per day is a fair sacrifice but always having the right spell from the huge and powerful cleric spell list could be extremely powerful. It would be interesting to see how it worked out, but I think that clerics would be getting the good end of this deal. (If clerics got cut back from 1+1 to 0+1 spells when they gained a new level of spells, it really hurt though. I'm not sure if this is your intention or if you're just not allowing clerics to gain as many spells/day at the high end of their abilities). It might hurt parties with only one cleric out of four or five characters though since most of a cleric's magic tends to go toward healing and reducing the amount of healing available would really reduce the durability of parties.Play Style changes:Add one: there would no longer be a mechanical difference between good and evil clerics. In fact, with every cleric able to pick the appropriate spell for the moment, I suspect that the already weak distinction between clerics of different gods would further evaporate.Other things: I suspect that some players wouldn't enjoy role playing every request for a cure light wounds. "Oh great XYZ, please cure this warrior so he may continue to strive for justice. . . .[Cure Light Wounds] . . . Oh great XYZ, that wasn't really too impressive, this warrior needs many more hit points to strive for justice, please do it again." I've met some players who make up rhymes or couplets for spells they cast, but that's not something that the majority of players seem to do.Also, granting the DM the flexibility to refuse any prayer would be an anathema to many players who often feel like the DM is out to get them anyways [and it's often true]. It would likely lead to arguments about what was and what wasn't the deity's domain (or at least longwinded arguments about the appropriateness of a harm spell in the guise of a "role-playing" prayer). A lot of players already avoid the cleric class since they don't like to have their powers depend upon something else. If the cleric's powers explicitly depended upon the DM for every spell, I think a lot more players would avoid it.</blockquote>

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