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<blockquote data-quote="Cryptos" data-source="post: 4219152" data-attributes="member: 58439">Interesting.&nbsp; I think that after 30+ years of &quot;someone's got to play the cleric&quot; we're seeing some backlash. Regardless of how well they're built in 4e, &quot;healers&quot; and people wrangled into playing healers have a new option (and notice that's now the most popular choice.)Or it could simply be that in a more secular (or at least, monotheistic) world, it's a lot harder to relate to clerics... we see action movies with warriors, soldiers, generals, tomb raiders, and even assassins; caper movies with thieves and con artists; fantasy and superhero movies with magic and powers... but generally speaking, culturally, we don't see a whole lot of &quot;messenger and champion of 1/10th of a pantheon of gods.&quot;&nbsp; Notice also that Paladin is the second least favorite choice after cleric.Probably some combination of both.Other factors might include alignments being less important mechanically, and a shakeup of the planes to some unknown extent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cryptos, post: 4219152, member: 58439"] Interesting. I think that after 30+ years of "someone's got to play the cleric" we're seeing some backlash. Regardless of how well they're built in 4e, "healers" and people wrangled into playing healers have a new option (and notice that's now the most popular choice.) Or it could simply be that in a more secular (or at least, monotheistic) world, it's a lot harder to relate to clerics... we see action movies with warriors, soldiers, generals, tomb raiders, and even assassins; caper movies with thieves and con artists; fantasy and superhero movies with magic and powers... but generally speaking, culturally, we don't see a whole lot of "messenger and champion of 1/10th of a pantheon of gods." Notice also that Paladin is the second least favorite choice after cleric. Probably some combination of both. Other factors might include alignments being less important mechanically, and a shakeup of the planes to some unknown extent. [/QUOTE]

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