"An appropriate God"
 

Before one gets a God, and casts a spell like Cause Light Wounds, it says that the spell is worthless unless you have an appropriate God. Therefore, is it so that different Gods have better bonus' to such spells as Holy word and Cause Light wounds?

Re: "An appropriate God"
 

Certain prayers can't be used by some gods, and the "holy word" prayer works differently for each god. For example, holy word cast by a follower a Brigid would damage only undead creatures, while holy word cast by a follower of Ogma would damage only fairies and dwarves.

Brigid and DianCecht are the only gods that disallow wounding prayers like cause light wounds.

An example of a god's effect on a prayer, other than with holy word, would be with Ogma. Sometimes, when hit by a cause wounds prayer cast by one of Ogma's followers, an enemy will be poisoned. This is just a small example. I'm not entirely sure of the sort of effects other gods have on this prayer, as I've not followed every one.

Also, certain gods are "attuned" to particular spell-types, like Brigid's attunement to Restoration and Summoning prayers. Being attuned to a particular type means that the prayer will be more powerful.

When a god "repels" a certain type, it lowers that types power (as far as I can tell, I have had little experience with this). It's basically the opposite of attunement. Oh, and obviously, denied means you can not cast that sort of prayer at all.

I hope that helps.

Yes, it helps much! I decided after trying Brigid that she wasn't worth it so I'm the lightning guy, for his attack spells. You see, I'm a Priest with the steal ability and the fact of the matter is that I have terribly low stats, and have little need to use healing powers. I hope this one pays off with his spells... When it says (High) (Medium) or (Low) next to granted spells, does that mean it's harder to get or you have to be that type of level?

Sort of both, really .. as far as my experience has shown. If you're a lower level going for something with "(High)", it will take much longer than it would a higher level player (level in wisdom that is). Ogma's weapon enchant is "(High)", and it took me about 15 minutes at level seven (maybe it was six) wisdom. At level one it would have taken more time. Same sort of thing applies for the other two, (Medium) and (Low).

I have no experience in Wisdom whatsoever... So I guess it's gonna take almost forever to get what I want from Leucetious...

How do I level up Wisdom? I mean, I don't have Woodslore or anything like that.

The skill woodsman, gotten from the wood lore scroll, gives mental experience.

Wisdom experience can be gained by killing monsters with prayers like cause light wounds.

Yeah, I see that now. Thanks for all of your help. I'm level 3 in wisdom from killing T rexes, though it took me forever... I'm going to pray to get the other spells.

Thanks again, Priests are my favorite class again now that I know how to use them properly.

Heh, glad to be of help.

Do tell if your god grants you anything.