Forsooth wrote:
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the knight faiths typically are dominated by the knight classes
Maybe this is the reason you aren't attracting enough F2-quality priests?
Yet even a single high priest should be enough. A high priest doesn't have to hand out every symbol personally.
If you don't have any priest, then admittedly your religion has a problem - an IC problem. Get used to being without a symbol until you fix it.
Actually, there isn't an issue with inactive priests. It's an RP thing I'd like to see 'fixed.'
I don't see how giving them CS is out of concept or somehow unbalacing or less meaningful to priests.
Let us check the list of things priests get that make them valuable:
Heal.
Sanctuary.
Resurrection.
Gate.
Enchant
Brew
Word of Recall.
Strange, I don't know about you, but when I've been fighting someone/something, I've never gtelled "quick! create a symbol!"
Knights are conduits of their Gods and are a CLERICAL class. They are holy/unholy templars and I don't see any reason why if they get their spells from their patron God, that they can not get the ability to forget a symbol.
The issue isn't with Knights dominating churches and thusly there are no clerics (in fact, I can name a church that's grown since it's come under a rather ruthless rule), but I just do not see (nor have I ever) why paladins/hellions do not conjure that power through their patron Gods, especially when dignity, honor, respect etc are so central to their RP.