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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbra" data-source="post: 1705900" data-attributes="member: 17086">A few points:Payment for spells cast need not be in gold (cash) but in goods and services that can be provided for over time.  Borm the dairy farmer provides the local cleric with cheese every week for saving his wife; little Onka comes and cleans the shrine; etc.The deity involved is crucial to how the cleric interacts with the village but any deity would want their representative to get involved in the community in ways which spread the faith and promote the deities causes.  For any good deity, this would be helping the people in times of need or helping people to help themselves.Non-magical healing is available and the village will have many 'experts' with home remedies and a little healing skill.  Indeed, the cleric may be active in promoting these skills so the villages are self reliant and useful when a large emergency takes place.The cleric will also have visitors - higher level clerics and other church personages, representatives of various powers that be. Or have a powerful protector regularly patrol the area.Also, the DMG figures are for people who live in the town and doesn't take into account transients.  Adventuring parties will be passing through (your groups is) and the village urchins watch in awe as flaming arrows shoot from the rangers bow as he practices one afternoon.  The merchant caravan from gnome community in the nearby hills visits monthly with their prestidigitation performances.  The fantasy news service (bards) regularly drops by. Etc.Even if magic is not seen directly by every villager every day, the farmer who saw the Lord's Patrol blast the giant beetle out of existence will be telling the story in the local pub for the rest of his life.Finally, the DMG provides averages.  It doesn't account for the semi retired sorceror who has comeback to her family's home for the twilight of her life and can toss out a 5th level spell or three if she needs to.I think the common commoner has had a lot less experience than the PC's but I think they have had a lot more than is being suggested.In regards to the encounters taking place twice per day. That's encounters scaled to the PC's.  Any good DM will have encounters of appropriate EL's.  The farmer's wife deals with the fox in the hen house, etc.</blockquote>

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