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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitsune9" data-source="post: 5395472" data-attributes="member: 18507">What you could do with this concept is that even though the clerics have a local religion, their ties to the Shintoesque world is strong enough that they can deal with the other spirits within your realms. That way even though the spirits have limited power or only local, clerics would be able to travel, sense the local spirits, and commune with them for spells/powers/boons.Part of your campaign or maybe a cleric's background is that he travels around the world to bring harmony to the spirits who are in disharmony. For example, the spirit of the river is angry because of the local farmers who have created irrigation channels into their fields but refuse to pay respect to it, so the spirit sends floods and destroys the crops. The only way to placate the spirit would be either destroy the channels or find an object of power that the PC's must locate and place in the river. Of course, this object of power belongs to a powerful demon in the heart of the mountain, etc, etc.Also, you can have your clerics bargain for power from the spirits, something like how shamans works. The cleric makes a bargain to get their spells and then must perform some task or ritual. If the bargain involves accomplishing an adventure, then the cleric has spells and powers while on the adventure. The prayer time each day is just meditation. Once the cleric has completed the adventure, then a portion of the spirit's power is permanently invested into the cleric and if the cleric needs to "grow", then he seeks another spirit.For example. You have a 1st level cleric who gets 1st level spells. He makes a pact with a tree spirit to punish a group of goblins that came and plucked all its fruit. The cleric embarks on this quest to hunt the goblins down, but in the meantime has access to 1st level spells bestowed upon him by the tree spirit. When the cleric has completed his quest and obtains a level to get 2nd level spells, he must then go out and seek a more powerful spirit; however he now permanently has access to his 1st level spells as the tree spirit gave some of its power to the cleric in gratitude.Now we can run a couple of things from this:1) If the cleric becomes powerful enough, his path to become a spirit who can grant powers becomes clear should the character die. Or...2) The cleric becomes a spirit regardless upon reaching the campaign's level cap. Or...Another idea is that more powerful spirits will have a greater range of spell power so if you have modules in which should last several levels, then the cleric can perform the bargain with just one and have access to a growing reportoire of spells as he advances in level.Have fun with it Korgoth!</blockquote>

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