Why do the gods answer clerics in D&D? Pride or balance?

[Emirikol]

Why do the gods answer clerics in D&D? Pride or balance?
Isn't "Balance" a neutral alignment issue?

jh

 

[Presto2112]

Same reasons that wizards can cast spells by reading silly little scribblings when Jim the Tanner down the road can't. Focus and training. In the case of the cleric, the focus is in dogmatic faith and the channeling their prayers so that the divine power who is the intended recipent of the prayers in question hears and receives them, and is able to answer those prayers based on the merits of their faith.

Or, because the rules say that they do.

 

[moritheil]

Why do the gods answer clerics in D&D? Pride or balance?
Isn't "Balance" a neutral alignment issue?

jh

I'd suspect that there should be more than just two answers . . .

 

[Klaus]

Why do the gods answer clerics in D&D? Pride or balance?
Isn't "Balance" a neutral alignment issue?

jh

Because the clerics are doing the gods' work. If they ain't, the god witholds the power. And then the cleric has to find a new god.

 

[Mallus]

Playability.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey all!

Clerics are the 'middle-men' in the relationship between Gods and their worshippers. So in a way its a symbiosis of sorts.

Gods need clerics to control/expand their worship base. For that service these clerics are granted powers and abilities.

 

[Nightfall]

Em,

Well I can't answer why Core gods do what they do, but Scarred Lands gods do it to keep people from following silly Titans that would crush them as much as grant spells.

 

[WayneLigon]

Because cleric are the gods' chosen instrument on the material plane. I have no idea what you mean by 'pride'.

And why do you always file your posts lately under 'reviews'? You're not reviewing anything.

 

[Nightfall]

Wayne,

Maybe he's reviewing his brain.

 

[Storyteller01]

Why do the gods answer clerics in D&D? Pride or balance?
Isn't "Balance" a neutral alignment issue?

jh

A touch of both, but I think the balance is an unintentional result of the pride (constant one-upmanship). There are other motives, but I think most boil down to pride the the D&D pantheons.