That's definitely one potential approach with this sort of thing. Especially if the site is in an isolated region that would struggle to support high level characters, this allows there to still be high level magic available (e.g. a mountaintop monastery, or a sacred grove). In cities I find myself using the Demographics of Heroism more, to determine how many and what class the high level characters are, and that's worked pretty well for me especially with ACKS II fleshing out that framework.
I like this concept a lot. I think it could tie interestingly into a difficulty I've had world building which is how to figure out how powerful local priests are. Maybe less thought has to be put into that if most of the services are instead directed toward the god instead of the priest(s).
Hey Arb! Due to discord not working in Russia I'm having some trouble reaching out to you there. I remember you made some calculations on how much the ceremonial spellcasting for hire will cost. I remember it being 15gp for 1st level, but not the rest of them. Could you help me out? It's crucial for my current campaign
For 1st-6th level, it's 10/35/125/700/3000/12000gp, respectively, for white ceremonies (and x4 for black ones). Ceremonies get considerably more expensive than slotted spells because buying one involves the caster spending a full dedicated activity methodically casting it safely, so casters can only sell at most one per day.
That's definitely one potential approach with this sort of thing. Especially if the site is in an isolated region that would struggle to support high level characters, this allows there to still be high level magic available (e.g. a mountaintop monastery, or a sacred grove). In cities I find myself using the Demographics of Heroism more, to determine how many and what class the high level characters are, and that's worked pretty well for me especially with ACKS II fleshing out that framework.
I like this concept a lot. I think it could tie interestingly into a difficulty I've had world building which is how to figure out how powerful local priests are. Maybe less thought has to be put into that if most of the services are instead directed toward the god instead of the priest(s).
Hey Arb! Due to discord not working in Russia I'm having some trouble reaching out to you there. I remember you made some calculations on how much the ceremonial spellcasting for hire will cost. I remember it being 15gp for 1st level, but not the rest of them. Could you help me out? It's crucial for my current campaign
See the bottom of this post: https://arbrethil.substack.com/p/eldritch-magic-in-acks-ii
For 1st-6th level, it's 10/35/125/700/3000/12000gp, respectively, for white ceremonies (and x4 for black ones). Ceremonies get considerably more expensive than slotted spells because buying one involves the caster spending a full dedicated activity methodically casting it safely, so casters can only sell at most one per day.