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Forthcoming Priest Change - posted on Tue Aug 5 at 22:37:03 by Timothy Collett

After some discussion on the Discord, I have put together a change to how Priests work, which I plan to send live tomorrow.

The Priest class is being disabled for the time being, and replaced by a new designation applied by Elders of the religion, which will be called Preacher. 

All current Priests will be automatically changed to Preachers.

Because Preacher is not a class, there are some differences between it and the Priest class.

• They will not use instant movement.
• They will not have access to the high-impact influence actions—Auto da Fe, Prosecute, and Claim Region.
• Their effectiveness with the other influence actions will be greatly reduced. (eg, Calm Peasants, etc)
• Their preaching effectiveness will not be affected; they can spread the religion just as easily.
• To become a Preacher, you need to be authorized by any elder member of the religion, then visit a temple and click the link that will show up there.
• Each religion will be limited to having up to 25% of their full members as Preachers. (No religion currently has more Priests than this; if this proves to be too low, I may raise it later).
• The requirement for religions to have a certain number of Elder Priests will be transferred over to Elder Preachers, with exactly the same numbers.

Aside from having access to the above subset of the Priest options, Preachers will otherwise act exactly like any other noble of their class.

If you have any questions about how Preachers will work, please feel free to pop by on the Discord (link is on the sidebar of your Account page), or send me an email at admin@battlemaster.org.