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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 6116043" data-attributes="member: 21938">I did have a thought at one point that monotheist priests in the setting would have better spellcasting powers than pagan priests, kind of keeping with the likes of The Golden Legend  and other source materials, where worshippers of the old religions are shown to be worshipping false idols, demons and other things whose power is small compared to the One True God. But I forgot what it was! Something involving spells used for detecting and protecting against extraplanar entities, I think. Leaving that aside, I suspect the main difference between druidism and Christianity in a setting where both can use magic**, is mainly one of numbers. The druids are a small sect, Christians spread from Persia to Ireland and are backed by the Roman Emperor. In the real world, where priests don't cast spells, that's one reason, the other is in the difference in the message of the religion, Christianity presenting some (at the time) new ideas concerning faith - that it could be seperate from national identity, that anybody could have a personal connection to God without needing a priestly caste to intercede, and that violence wasn't always the solution to disputes (and that worship didn't require the killing and burning of living things probably helps).**Semantically, in game terms that's what they are doing but I would imagine a Christian cleric assumes that he is asking God for help, not actually casting spells himself - that would be witchcraft and sorcery!</blockquote>

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