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Alternative Holy Magic for Dolmenwood's Pluritine Church

Alternative Holy Magic for Dolmenwood's Pluritine Church  Prelude  I swear this isn’t supposed to be a Luke Gearing fan blog. Also, this is at least nominally related to pseudo-pseudohistorical violence so I can pretend I am making progress on a current project instead of starting a new one. Basically required reading: Luke Gearing's Grand Unified Theory of Magic and Religion  Very highly suggested reading: Elmcat's Kill Clerics Become Warlocks  Dododecahedron's Classless Clerics  I found all three of these blog posts incredibly inspiring in the matter of “fixing” clerics. I have never been satisfied with the way clerics work as a class—much has been written about this, especially in posts from Prismatic Wastelands’s Cleric Blog Bandwagon—but invoking the power of a deity should not work the same as a wizard casts spells.  I am also just a sucker for bespoke and unique magic systems, I think having bespoke forms of supernatural powers can really make magic ...