Choose to wear less armor, pray for laser spells, choose feats that make your laser spells better and bolster your defenses, etc. Play a WoW priest if you want all of those choices made for you. My second-favorite cleric of all time was a 2E priest of Liira in the Forgotten Realms. I put a decent score into dex, got bracers of defense and a ring of protection, and threw all of my weapon profs into martial arts from the Fighter's Handbook. I loved my dance-fighting spellcasting chick.
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My second-favorite cleric of all time was a 2E priest of Liira in the Forgotten Realms. I put a decent score into dex, got bracers of defense and a ring of protection, and threw all of my weapon profs into martial arts from the Fighter's Handbook. I loved my dance-fighting spellcasting chick.
actually, I have no problem at all with that. If they want to make a Build, Background, or Theme of "Priest" "Follower of" or "Holy Chosen of" or whatever, I'm down with that as a solution. Keep the Cleric as the general pantheist, and if you want to be a follower of a specific god, with holy granted powers, take the appropriate customization to do it off your base class. Nothing wrong with the so-called "feat-tax" there either, as your trying to step into more than one set of shoes, that's...
View full commentactually, I have no problem at all with that. If they want to make a Build, Background, or Theme of "Priest" "Follower of" or "Holy Chosen of" or whatever, I'm down with that as a solution.
Keep the Cleric as the general pantheist, and if you want to be a follower of a specific god, with holy granted powers, take the appropriate customization to do it off your base class. Nothing wrong with the so-called "feat-tax" there either, as your trying to step into more than one set of shoes, that's what feat-taxation is for, isn't it?
My second-favorite cleric of all time was a 2E priest of Liira in the Forgotten Realms. I put a decent score into dex, got bracers of defense and a ring of protection, and threw all of my weapon profs into martial arts from the Fighter's Handbook. I loved my dance-fighting spellcasting chick.
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Keep the Cleric as the general pantheist, and if you want to be a follower of a specific god, with holy granted powers, take the appropriate customization to do it off your base class. Nothing wrong with the so-called "feat-tax" there either, as your trying to step into more than one set of shoes, that's...
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