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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 267349" data-attributes="member: 2011">Actually, I have to head out for gaming, but I got a minute still. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Create Food and Water is a 3rd level Cleric spell, requiring a minimum 5th level spell caster. At 5th level and assuming a Wisdom of 16, a Cleric could cast this twice per day for a total of 30 people. With maybe half of the 5th level clergy having a 16 or higher Wisdom, that would mean an average of 22 people per 5th level caster or about 64,000 5th level Clerics doing this as a full time job.A 20th level Cleric could cast maybe 35 3rd or higher level spells, getting 60 people per spell. That would still be almost 700 20th level Clerics whose full time job is to create bland food. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />All in all, a rough guess is about 25,000 Clerics of 5th and higher level in a population of 1.4 million or one reasonably medium level Cleric (5th through 12th) for every 56 people. That's still a lot of clerics doing full time food production (during a protracted siege or whatever) and nothing else. With only a couple dozen or so Temples in Waterdeep with maybe a dozen plus clergy in each on average, that's still probably less than 1% of the city's food requirements.But, as you said, it's magic. They probably have Portals to the Farming Dimension. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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