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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8410336" data-attributes="member: 2209">I don't think that works as written in the 1e DMG."It is well known to all experienced players that clerics, unlike magic-users, have their spells bestowed upon them by their respective deities. By meditation and prayer the clerics receive the specially empowered words which form the various spells possible for them — although as with the spells of magic-users, the utterance of any given set of key sounds not only causes the desired spell to take effect, but it likewise wipes the memory of the sounds from the mind of the utterer, as each set of sounds is an energy trigger (see SPELL CASTING). Of utmost importance, then, is the relationship between cleric and deity.Each cleric must have his or her own deity, so when a new player opts to become a cleric (including a druid), you must inform them as to which deities exist in your campaign milieu and allow the individual to select which one of them he or she will serve."If a non-god demon were working for a god they could grant level 3-5 spells to a cleric of that god. They cannot grant it to someone who is a cleric of themself and not of the god.1e DMG RAW does not support being a cleric of a servant of a god if they are not a god themself.In D3 Lolth has clerics and is continuously referenced as a demon queen and it is not until the Fiend Folio that she is stated to be a goddess.T1-4 has reference to Zuggtmoy's clerics who she consulted before setting up the Temple of Elemental Evil and before any deals with Iuz came about.</blockquote>

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