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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 6796245" data-attributes="member: 907">(About Dark Sun elemental clerics)No. Elemental Clerics were around in the very first Dark Sun boxed set. In Dark Sun, they replaced the regular 2e sphere system (which was used to determine which priest spells were available to what priests) with an elemental one - clearly elemental-themed spells were put in the spheres of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, and all the rest in the sphere of Cosmos. Elemental clerics had major access (all spells) to their own element, and minor access (up to 3rd level spells) to Cosmos. Druids had major access to one element based on their guarded land, major access to Cosmos, and possibly minor access to a second element if appropriate to their land (e.g. a druid whose guarded land is a volcanic spring would have major access to Water and minor to Fire). You also had templars serving the sorcerer-kings, who got major access to all five spheres but had a different spellcasting table (for the most part inferior to the cleric one, but at really high levels they caught up and became even stronger).In the sourcebook Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, about Dark Sun priests, they added Para-elements and clerics of those: Sun, Silt, Magma, and Rain. They also made regular elemental clerics more environmentally conscious (even fire clerics - fire wants things to burn after all), and made para-elemental clerics environmentally hostile (except rain clerics).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 6796245, member: 907"] (About Dark Sun elemental clerics) No. Elemental Clerics were around in the very first Dark Sun boxed set. In Dark Sun, they replaced the regular 2e sphere system (which was used to determine which priest spells were available to what priests) with an elemental one - clearly elemental-themed spells were put in the spheres of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water, and all the rest in the sphere of Cosmos. Elemental clerics had major access (all spells) to their own element, and minor access (up to 3rd level spells) to Cosmos. Druids had major access to one element based on their guarded land, major access to Cosmos, and possibly minor access to a second element if appropriate to their land (e.g. a druid whose guarded land is a volcanic spring would have major access to Water and minor to Fire). You also had templars serving the sorcerer-kings, who got major access to all five spheres but had a different spellcasting table (for the most part inferior to the cleric one, but at really high levels they caught up and became even stronger). In the sourcebook Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, about Dark Sun priests, they added Para-elements and clerics of those: Sun, Silt, Magma, and Rain. They also made regular elemental clerics more environmentally conscious (even fire clerics - fire wants things to burn after all), and made para-elemental clerics environmentally hostile (except rain clerics). [/QUOTE]

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