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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eloi" data-source="post: 2669095" data-attributes="member: 27826">This turned into: "Why Monks (don't?) Reek"   so I just wanted to steer us back to "perceptions of being a less desirable character".People are averse to playing a Cleric: I co-ran a game where I provided a pool of pregen characters, average level of 2-3 with one exception, and even was willing to allow one character to be generated on the spot, if they so chose (but that one would be level 1 with a few advantages.) The one exception? A level 9 Priestess. My co-GM thought it might be nice to make it really fun to play the Cleric, and I was on the same page.People made their selections, and what was left for the last choosing: the Priestess and the grow-your-own. The last two players to pick wanted _nothing_ to do with playing a Cleric, even though it was (by far) the most powerful option - they argued, and ended up generating two Swashbucklers, brothers, who refused to swash. *sigh*So the whole group turned down being a 9th level Cleric, because they didn't want to play a Cleric.I ended up recruiting my co-GM to play the character, since they did need a healer (and she agreed, thankfully). But it was very clear that, for whatever reason, Cleric was just not something people wanted to play - even with a 6 level advantage.</blockquote>