Re: Ptah specialty priest

In regard to the Specialty priest of Ptah.

As I understand it, a priest can worship a specific diety without being a
specialty priest.  When he does, he uses the general spheres of the priest
class, not the spheres listed for the particular diety.

If this is the case, then if you want to have your cleric be a specialty
preist of Ptah, you take the good with the bad.  You use the spheres
outlined, but you get special benefits.  If the PC does not think that it
is worth it, so be it, he can choose a different diety or be a normal priest.

As for the increased healing, I think that your system may be a bit too
much.  I agree that the higher level spells are a bit weak, but your
versions seem extreme.  (Just an opinion).

One house rule that works well for us.  When rolling healing.  We change
the roll from a d8 to a d6+2.  We have noted that the DM always let you
re-roll 1's and sometimes 2's anyway.  This seems to really help out.
Again, this is just a house rule.  The only problem with this is a healer
kit that I saw somewhere.  It's special ability was that it got to re-roll
1's.  I think I might change this in my campaign to reflect that all
healing is more powerful.


At 11:57 PM 7/3/98 +0930, you wrote:
>I get really annoyed with people who say "priests are useless except for
>healing" and of course the poor sod who has to put up with playing the priest
>because nobody else wants to. I had a player once taht was determined to find
>the use for the priest.
>
>My opinion is that a priest is a brilliant support character. It may not
stand
>in the thick of battle and fight, though it can, but it has spells that can
>boost another players chance to hit, such as bless, aid, faerie fire, etc.
>Command is brilliant, and my friend today use speak with animals and enthral
>to stop a pack of dogs from ripping him apart. There is far more to the
priest
>than healing. Anyway, I find that the healing spells don't really heal as
much
>as they could. Cure Critical is only 3d8 and at that level fighters are on
>like 50-70 hp. I boost the values up a bit as follows:
>
>Cure Light Wounds: 1d8
>
>Cure Moderate Wounds (S&M): 3d8
>
>Cure Serious Wounds: 5d8
>
>Cure Critical Wounds: 7d8
>
>And then there is heal.
>
>
>Darryl: I don't think the roof can support a mezzanine.
>Steve: Shall I give him a call and tell him not to worry about the Spiral
>	Staircase?
>The Castle: 1997
>
>On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Manuel Gonzalez wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> tlhawk@???-??.org wrote:
>>
>> > > I believe the official SJ specialty priests of Ptah appeared in SJR4
>> > > Rock of Bral.
>> >
>> > Check your sources.  The specialty priesthood in Rock of Bral is a
>> > reprint (plus TOM spheres) of what is presented in L&L.  Our
>> > whole point is that a priesthood without healing doesn't seem very
>> > appealing.  Deities can have multiple priesthoods with different
>> > powers, so we created one that is more well rounded.
>> >
>>
>> As a DM, I just ran into this problem.  The party's preist of Ptah is,
in fact,
>> useless except for his non weapon proficiencies.  So, I gave him minor
access
>> to the Healing sphere.
>>
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