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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 2119521" data-attributes="member: 6533">I'm not disagreeing with the thrust of your argument here, necessarilly, but cleric can and does mean more than simply priest.  And I know you know all of this, Fusangite, but I thought it was worth saying.All priests are clerics, not all clerics are priests.  At least in terms of semantics, I have no idea what sort of murky waters you move into when you really begin to discuss it in terms of fantasy literature or in terms of just being literate.  Technically I think it just means you have to have some sort of holy order so in a broader sense you could interpret that as sanctioned by divine authority, but it's problematic either way.  Mind you, cleric=priest would probably be true if a number of religions hadn't evolved that distinguished priests within their clergy as different from any number of other 'dedicated' individuals.Honestly, I'd love to see a system where clerics could produce their spells in some sort of easilly portable form that other players could activate.  They dissapear when the cleric refreshed his or her spells and he would have to spend the healing spells ahead of time to make them useful.I don't see too much of a problem with it balance wise since the cleric has just spent a lot of potentially wasted spell energy in order to give the party additional convenience, it makes the cleric slightly sexier - though more skill would be what would do it for me, and it fits with all the little tokens of blessing that everyone with any sort of religion or metaphysical concern has always carried with them since the dawn of time.</blockquote>

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