Are evil clerics allowed to use the cure spells? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Are evil clerics allowed to use the cure spells? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
vejono
03-22-04, 07:20 PM Just wondering since I played an evil cleric and this situation came up.
BlaineTog
03-22-04, 07:23 PM Yes. You just can't convert prepared spells to cure spells.

On the flip side, Good Clerics can cast Inflict spells. Neither make any sense whatsoever other than to further overpower the cleric. But I digress. :rant:
Jaerom Darkwind
03-22-04, 07:23 PM Yes, but they can't cast them spontaneously. Cure spells are Conjuration (healing), but don't possess the [good] descriptor, which would be the only situation under which an evil cleric couldn't cast a given spell.
vejono
03-22-04, 07:24 PM I always thought it was. Damn ego.
Hengwrt Ellesmere
03-22-04, 07:59 PM I've made clerics a spontaneous casting class in my campaign, which gives them fewer spells known but more per day. Their domain spells comprise a good portion of their spells known, and they learn their domain spells a level earlier than the few that they choose from the cleric list.

As a result, a cleric's spells closely reflect the nature of his deity. Only good deities offer the healing domain, and only evil ones offer destruction. So while a good cleric could choose to learn inflict and an evil one could choose to learn cure, they'd have to give up a precious spell-knowledge slot for each one, and they'd learn them at a sorcerer's level progression, while they'd get their domain spells at a wizard's.

Even in this case, though, a good cleric could still cast an inflict spell off a scroll even if he didn't know it himself.
Sir Ferdinand
03-23-04, 08:11 AM Neither make any sense whatsoever other than to further overpower the cleric.

And why is that? Clerics can't cast spells of opposed alignment and it takes away some power from them compared to Wizards for example.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
vejono 03-22-04, 07:20 PM	Just wondering since I played an evil cleric and this situation came up.
BlaineTog 03-22-04, 07:23 PM	Yes. You just can't convert prepared spells to cure spells. On the flip side, Good Clerics can cast Inflict spells. Neither make any sense whatsoever other than to further overpower the cleric. But I digress. :rant:
Jaerom Darkwind 03-22-04, 07:23 PM	Yes, but they can't cast them spontaneously. Cure spells are Conjuration (healing), but don't possess the [good] descriptor, which would be the only situation under which an evil cleric couldn't cast a given spell.
vejono 03-22-04, 07:24 PM	I always thought it was. Damn ego.
Hengwrt Ellesmere 03-22-04, 07:59 PM	I've made clerics a spontaneous casting class in my campaign, which gives them fewer spells known but more per day. Their domain spells comprise a good portion of their spells known, and they learn their domain spells a level earlier than the few that they choose from the cleric list. As a result, a cleric's spells closely reflect the nature of his deity. Only good deities offer the healing domain, and only evil ones offer destruction. So while a good cleric could choose to learn inflict and an evil one could choose to learn cure, they'd have to give up a precious spell-knowledge slot for each one, and they'd learn them at a sorcerer's level progression, while they'd get their domain spells at a wizard's. Even in this case, though, a good cleric could still cast an inflict spell off a scroll even if he didn't know it himself.
Sir Ferdinand 03-23-04, 08:11 AM	Neither make any sense whatsoever other than to further overpower the cleric. And why is that? Clerics can't cast spells of opposed alignment and it takes away some power from them compared to Wizards for example.