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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6089199" data-attributes="member: 8461">So I've been reading the reprints 1E Core Rulebooks that I bought last Gen Con, and I noticed in the PHB the section about how the cleric's 1st- and 2nd-level spells are granted largely through faith alone, whereas the 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-level spells are granted from servants of the cleric's deity, and 6th- and 7th-level spells are granted by the deity directly.I initially thought that this meant that servants of the cleric's deity had to be imbued with the spells for a cleric, and then travel across the planes to appear before the cleric physically and grant the spells that way; likewise, for the highest-level spells, a cleric would then need to go to his god and be physically present before it to receive their spells. However, re-reading the section now makes me think that this is a mistake on my part (though still a cool idea for a house rule...albeit a stringent one).Given, then, that a cleric's spells are still restored via prayers, with the major difference being the distant source of their spells, what's the practical impact of denoting the difference between what's granting various levels of cleric spells? To put it another way, why did Gary include that section at all?The only thing I can come up with is that its an in-game reason for holding the cleric up to higher levels of scrutiny (regarding their personal conduct) as they gain levels. But that seems thin; one could presume that this would be true anyway, simply due to the nature of active deities policing how their clerics operate. So what am I missing then? Is this just a way to keep tighter tabs on how higher-level clerics act? Or is there some other reason to denote who grants various levels of clerical spells?</blockquote>

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