There is this blog post.

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... clerics are just church-sanctioned sorcerers...

I also like the idea of "colors of magic" so clerics are not communing with gods, but rather they are white sorcerers. Rhetorical: didn't Dragonlance and Final Fantasy do that?

Well, if I were to go down that route, I'd probably still remove the Cleric playbook. I would then divide the spell list into "High" magic and "Dark" magic, then give the Human wizard one spell from the Dark list (like they currently get "from any spell list"), and the Elf wizard a similar set-up with High magic.

I'm hoping to run a DW game early next year, set in a world of my own creation. This world doesn't have clerics, as the gods don't generally go around handing out flashy spell-powers to folks. The most divinely-powered character would be the paladin.

Now, this isn't really a problem for DW, it's not like you need a cleric in the party to survive, unlike some games. But it does mean I'll have to tweak a few things that rely on the existence of the cleric playbook - the fact that both rangers and paladins have a move to copy the cleric's spellcasting, and the human wizard gets to pick a spell from the cleric list (which no longer exists).

Anybody got any suggestions for replacement moves for these?