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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5258188" data-attributes="member: 1210"><p>It's a totally valid topic of discussion, just one where we disagree. <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=":)" /></p><p></p><p>To follow a different tangent for a moment- 2e's specialty priests, <em>when done well</em>, were the best iteration of the cleric that D&D has ever seen. In an edition so full of warts, the priest rules were the shining beacon of amazing clarity and brilliance. Sadly, many (maybe even most) published specialty priests were terribly unbalanced, but a well-made homebrewed pantheon with a few dozen different types of priests, each with a spell selection <em>actually based on its gods portfolio</em>, was amazing.</p><p></p><p>I lurve my 4e cleric, but it doesn't feel at all like a priest of anything in particular. It certainly doesn't feel like a priest of the sea god. As compared to my the priest of Decker, the god of ships, the sea and travel- they used tridents and nets and other aquatic-themed weapons; their spells were about elemental water, travel, the weather, with unique spells that would repair or summon ships, speed their travel, etc. Each type of priest different, with special granted powers that gave them supremacy in their god's area, and sometimes restrictions related to their god to balance them out (my specialty priests of Nerull were not allowed to accept healing, but had powerful death magic available to them).</p><p></p><p>Sorry, carry on, threadjack over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5258188, member: 1210"] It's a totally valid topic of discussion, just one where we disagree. :) To follow a different tangent for a moment- 2e's specialty priests, [i]when done well[/i], were the best iteration of the cleric that D&D has ever seen. In an edition so full of warts, the priest rules were the shining beacon of amazing clarity and brilliance. Sadly, many (maybe even most) published specialty priests were terribly unbalanced, but a well-made homebrewed pantheon with a few dozen different types of priests, each with a spell selection [i]actually based on its gods portfolio[/i], was amazing. I lurve my 4e cleric, but it doesn't feel at all like a priest of anything in particular. It certainly doesn't feel like a priest of the sea god. As compared to my the priest of Decker, the god of ships, the sea and travel- they used tridents and nets and other aquatic-themed weapons; their spells were about elemental water, travel, the weather, with unique spells that would repair or summon ships, speed their travel, etc. Each type of priest different, with special granted powers that gave them supremacy in their god's area, and sometimes restrictions related to their god to balance them out (my specialty priests of Nerull were not allowed to accept healing, but had powerful death magic available to them). Sorry, carry on, threadjack over. [/QUOTE]
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