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<blockquote data-quote="Phlebas" data-source="post: 3619893" data-attributes="member: 23810">I've always thought its more interesting to make clerics think about the consequences of their faith and their actions. so when I gave out a raise dead scroll as loot, I shouldn't have been surprised that the priests asked what faith made the scroll.so that made me think - is a raise dead scroll effectively the spell cast by the faith of the cleric who created the scroll, or is it just the ritual codified and the faith of the reader actually performs the miracle. In practice does that mean that an evil cleric can use the scroll created by a good goddess to bring back a blackguard ie the goddess of healing ressurects an evil b'stard, or is the nasty NPC just using the money and her god of treachery is bringing the evil NPC back. Raise dead is an obvious example, but the principle applies to any cleric spell.OK, mechanics wise it doens't make a blind bit of difference, but what do people think the better answer is - should clerics care about the faith that created the scroll, or is it just a tool now put to their faiths use. The second option makes things a lot simpler, but the first seems to open up so many RP'ing options..........</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Phlebas, post: 3619893, member: 23810"] I've always thought its more interesting to make clerics think about the consequences of their faith and their actions. so when I gave out a raise dead scroll as loot, I shouldn't have been surprised that the priests asked what faith made the scroll. so that made me think - is a raise dead scroll effectively the spell cast by the faith of the cleric who created the scroll, or is it just the ritual codified and the faith of the reader actually performs the miracle. In practice does that mean that an evil cleric can use the scroll created by a good goddess to bring back a blackguard ie the goddess of healing ressurects an evil b'stard, or is the nasty NPC just using the money and her god of treachery is bringing the evil NPC back. Raise dead is an obvious example, but the principle applies to any cleric spell. OK, mechanics wise it doens't make a blind bit of difference, but what do people think the better answer is - should clerics care about the faith that created the scroll, or is it just a tool now put to their faiths use. The second option makes things a lot simpler, but the first seems to open up so many RP'ing options.......... [/QUOTE]

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