Right now you can have your character pray and nothing will happen unless a DM happens to see it. Clerics are supposed to get people to pray to their respective god more, but this feels lame when everyone knows nothing ever comes of it.

For your consideration, I submit the idea that there should be a "prayer" DM, or prayer forum so that DMs can easily and quickly see what people are praying about.

For instance, lets say ten Sharrans are persistently praying that a blanket of total darkness will smother the town for 24 hours.

Each of them would put their typed out prayer in this forum, or PM it to that DM. If the DM team deemed the prayers good and numerous enough, they might have this dark blanket actually happen.

As it is, nobody will ever roleplay praying for that because they know they're just flogging their keyboard to no purpose.

In the forgotten realms, the gods are very real, and prayer is a powerful force to get the attention of the agents of a Deity, or maybe even the deity itself. This is the suggestion I have for perhaps bringing more of this religious feel to the server.

That sounds like something a tad difficult to keep track off! If I had ten Sharrans with me praying for darkness I'd just annoy a DM on /DM until he watches us and drops 20 Impro Invis'd Shadow Slayers on our group ("To test your devotion!").

But no, I don't think it's very feasible. But that's just me! I'm curious what the others think.

Yes, we clerics should have more power! I mean our deities should have more power . . . yeah that.

I like the idea! :D

I don't believe it's reasonable to expect any sort of response in the majority of your prayers. As far as I know, the divine ignores the mortal realm to a great extent. It would take a dire event to incur a response from the heavens or hells.

Although, that doesn't mean you shouldn't roleplay a prayer if you'd desire. Feel free to send a quickie to the DM channel and I'm sure someone will drop some roleplay XP, or even do a little something. Though remember, do what's fun for you. If praying is what you dig, go for it, but if you absolutely need incentive to pray, you may want to consider a second avenue of playing your cleric. After all, most of our successful clerics did not have a big prayer session in their career. There's a difference between daily prayer and spreading faith.

You get prayers answered every time you get spells to cast. If you want bigger miracles, I'd imagine that's something that is once in a life-time or less.

If you get ten clerics/paladins/faithful of a single faith, all praying for the same thing, there is very little doubt in my mind that a DM will be around to help out. These guys are pretty darn good about supporting well played, well thought out goals that incorporate a lot of people. I think ten Sharrans praying would count.

Don't support this one, I'm afraid.

Except in exceptional circumstances, your god is going to have a fairly standardized means of dealing with you (regimented prayer reflected in resting for spells).

A cleric's relationship with their god isn't so much about the cleric, but the people the cleric will come into contact with. Vigorously (and consistently) spread the good (or evil) word and you might get something beyond the typical cleric mechanics (usually without asking!). Do nothing to include other non-clique players before asking for cool stuff, and you'll probably get discouraged.

Clerics already have a powerful arsenal of spells mechanically available. The real trick is making use of your deity's dogma to enhance your roleplay and show others that your deity is cool (or to make ideological enemies, which is also cool).

I agree with scotty if you show the Dms convering people and doing alot of stuff you will get boons.

KOSSUTH!