spellcraft in Gamelit

[marycatelli]

 In both countries, it is well-known that it is forbidden to use divine magic when more mundane means suffice.  You don't use create food when you can buy it from cook shops, or even farmers.  

But in one land, they also hold that it would be ungracious not to enjoy the divine bounty to the fullest, and they generally opt for healing magic in that respect.  Every cleric with healing magic also masters the heal skill and uses it whenever he can, but in a kingdom, there is generally room for both.

All the more in that the home-brew uses the first edition rule that they get XP just for casting.  Thus, a cleric healing and healing the peasants in a small village will go up in level.  0:)

Which has its plot consequences, but I'm thinking of the culture clash when a cleric from one kingdom finds herself in the other, and expected to go every day to the hospital to use up her spells.

Comments

[nodrog]

Plus the erosion of the well-meant edict above, as the healing magic works a Victorian India effect (beneficial knowledge and effort reduces the death rate, but contraception is impious and discussion of the subject is obscene:  By Kipling’s day India already had the population we in the USA would not see for another century, and by then over a billion people had turned India into a giant latrine…)

https://slate.com/tag/trying-really-hard-to-like-india

“Create food” becomes a stark daily necessity for millions who would do so anyway, albeit “create Soylent Green”…!

[marycatelli]

Ticking off your source of divine magic is more dangerous than that.

Anyway, they can use magic to increase agricultural output.