Quote from: SilverlionHrms, I thought you said something that indicated "she", but I must have misread somewhere. My mistake (I recognize that witches are he's in a lot of places.)

Quote from: Ian AbsentiaThank you.  Please do.

In thinking on my previous proposal, I realise that it rather messes with a number of the accepted principles of D&D.

For one thing, if all magic has a divine source, and no arcane source, then clerics and wizards are essentially the same thing.  Presumably clerics minister to the adherents of the faith, while the wizards contemplate magical articles of faith in their libraries.  Also, not all clerics necessarily have healing spells, as that would be the domain of a healing god, though perhaps these spells could be shared with closely allied dieties.

The sorcerer, on the other hand, logically falls under the rubric of the rogue.  Always on the move, they might very well fall in to thievery, entertainment, what-have-you.  It's possible this might bring the bard into the equation as well.  I'd almost envisage the sorcerer and the bard as prestige classes of the rogue, much as Unearthed Arcana cast rangers and paladins as prestige classes.  Anyway, sorcerers are "spell-theives", clever rogues who serve their god by pilfering choice spells from the tomes and scrolls of the more socially upright clerics and wizards.  Once the spell is stolen, the sorcerer's god grants the power to cast it effectively.  This could conceivably include stolen healing spells, too.

So here's another reason for sorcerers to go adventuring -- plundering the lost libraries of long-forgotten magicians and their half-forgotten gods. Everyone else gets the gold and the jewels -- the sorcerer/rogue gets the scrolls and the books.  They'd almost become the de facto leaders of dungeon-delving expeditions, acting as the patrons who assemble teams of doughty warriors and mercenaries to accompany them on their quests.

!i!