Re: Clerics and Deities - Was: What a 3e domain is.

--- "Rian A. McMurtry" <Whalejudge@???.com> wrote:

> I think you're complicating things unnecessarily. 
> The original box deals 
> with things well enough. 
> 
> If a sphere requires people who cast "divine" spells
> worship a deity, that's 
> the requirement for the sphere.  A "divine"
> spellcaster without a deity will 
> have problems.  He can pick a local god, or accept
> that he won't be casting 
> spells.  If he casts no spells, he can't spelljam;
> there's nothing to power the 
> helm.  Since he doesn't have a deity at all, I'd say
> that "contact home power" 
> doesn't work for him at all and he's up the fecal
> creek with out a paddle.  
> Spelljamming between spheres has always been a bit
> hard on clerics, druids, and 
> the like.

My question about deities and clerics is about the
cause and effect of trying to convert people in other
crystal sphere. In my campaign you need to at least
convert at least one person, a true believer, from
that sphere to access low level spell in that specific
sphere. You need the energy generated by prayers of
10,000 believers and casual converts (I think this is
high, looking at it now) for the clerics to contact
his Deity in that crystal sphere. It takes about
50,000 true believers and casual converts (again, I
think this is high) for the cleric to receive higher
level spells. There is a mechanism for the Deity in my
campaign to gain access to the pantheon in that new
sphere, but I don't think in the course the cleric
adventuring time that could happen.

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