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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6936283" data-attributes="member: 996">In 1e non/demi- human clerics were either NPC-only or very limited in level, so that's understandable.  The Cleric really was a powerhouse, long before CoDzilla.  Fighter-like AC, good hps, good combat abilities, /more/ spells at low level than the magic-user, and all spells available to memorize.  Crazy.  But the role and the concept made it brutally unpopular.  So true.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   I maintain that I played Druids so much because I was totally into thing Celtic back then, though.  That's kinda the point.  Cleric, you might sometimes have to 'rest' two days in a row (rest, memorize, cast everything as healing, rest again).  No magical healing, weeks - it just wasn't practical. There's not only the obvious risk of death at that point, there was the brutal mandatory week of complete rest after being reduced to 0 hps.I feel an impulse to take this line of reasoning a little too far, and don't feel like fighting it down, so...A 'flighty' character could fill the function of moving things along when more prudent heads are stuck debating difficulty options or stymied for lack of information, or taking a risk no one else is up for, etc...And, maybe it's reflected in the mechanics - a low WIS, for instance, which affects where he functions well.</blockquote>

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