tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post6728403416641579522..comments2024-03-14T10:32:29.233-05:00Comments on Blood of Prokopius: Saintly Saturday: St. Titus the WonderworkerFrDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459281821319914530noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-22715353738741193142011-04-02T12:10:05.246-05:002011-04-02T12:10:05.246-05:00I've also come around to thinking that the gai...I've also come around to thinking that the gaining of level 3 spells is a good time to make a cleric "get serious."<br /><br />I've taken a different demographic approach to investiture - rather than granting all clergy spell casting ability, I've been using the idea that the ability to cast spells is divine fiat - who gets given the necessary grace is a mystery. It fits the real world model a bit more - not everyone who accepts holy orders or a calling throws around flashy magic; their day to day work is more of the transforming lives/helping the less fortunate variety. (A fantasy world certainly could be more fantastic, but it lets me dodge questions around too much clerical magic and how that changes the medieval assumptions).<br /><br />One of these days I'll put in the work to forecast (or research what others have said) how a fantsy world would be different if every priest was level 3 and every bishop was a 7th or 8th level cleric!Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031181424520125213noreply@blogger.com