The True Power of the Cleric.

I have often been known to say the the Cleric is the most broken class in the D&D Verse because it can do everything. I have also been known to say that death in the D&D verse is like the cold. You get over it.

Which I mean to say is that in your typical fantasy game, the Cleric/Healer has multiple ways to stop death from claiming a person. From using simple first level cure light spells to stabilize someone to his abilities to resurrect the dead at higher levels. No one who dies in a D&D type game will stay dead if there is a Cleric around.

One thing that is hardly ever thought about in a RPG though is just what having a Magic healing person actually means for the world, (or just how powerful that person would be in our world right now.)

Thanks to a Cleric, no one in a typical D&D world would ever have to worry about disease, poison,plague,wounds or even death. Babies would be born with no risk to them selves or the Mother thanks to a cleric and no one would ever die unless they wanted to. No one would ever starve because a Cleric can create food and water. No one would ever have to worry about Thieves or Assassins due to the Clerics ability to create a Sanctuary. Disease and plague would be a thing of the past, poisons would be instantly dealt with. No on could ever tell a lie thanks to the Clerics Zone of truth powers and the threat of the Forthcoming Zombi Apocalypse would be nothing more then a bed time story thanks to a Cleric.

Polio,Ebola,Cancer,Brain Damage, 3^rd Degree Burns, Broken Bones,Starvation,Poison, and every other medical Symptom would be dealt with in a blink of an eye thanks to a Cleric.

Crime would be pointless as the Cleric's powers would alone him to locate the Suspect,replay the Crime and make sure the Criminal suffered the appropriate punishment. There would be no question of Guilt as the Cleric can make the bad guy tell the truth. Heck, he can make the Crime Scene talk and tell him what happened.

Never mind all those religion arguments and crusades, the cleric proves 100% that there is a God, possibly more then one.

AND! Should the cleric ever run in to a problem his powers cant solve, well he would just summon a Angel to help him!

There would be no need for Science to progress since a Cleric would be able to provide everything that motivates industry.

The n there is the DEATH thing. No One stays dead if the Cleric wills it so. Dispute over a Will or who is the next in line to sit on the Throne? Nonsense,the Cleric just brings the dead back to life and asks them. Only one woman on earth can solve this problem but she died 20 year ago? No big thing, the Cleric can bring her back.

Overpopulation and starvation because of the death thing? Not a problem as the Cleric can create an endless amount of food and shelter and should the world get over crowded? The Cleric just opens a Portal to the next?

Every thing that ever plagued a Fantasy medieval setting would not exist because of the Cleric, thus making him the most important, powerful and BROKEN class in the game

Now imagine a Cleric in today’s world? It's mind boggling what one Cleric could change in One day on our world., and a few dozen clerics? They would be ruling the World by the end of the Week!

So the next time someone does not want to run a Cleric in the D&D game because he thinks they are Just Heal bots. Make them read this article and fear the Power of the Cleric.

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