Continuing my recent exposure to and fascination with Dungeons and Dragons, here is another rule book, Complete Divine. This one is focuses in on the divine/spiritual/religious aspects of a possible D&D campaign world. There are lists of prestige classes beyond the standard found in the player's manual, a consolidation of information about deities (I think most, if not all, of these are from the official Greyhawk setting), holy magic items, etc.
　
So many classes and all of them made distinct; I was surprised just how big the "divinely-empowered" category could be. This is more than just mechanical terms but also how these characters fit within the world of the game itself.
　
There are sections at the start describing the class in-universe terms and then how they function as part of a setting and then as part of a player's campaign; like bifocal glasses. There are even quotes from or about this class and an illustration that matches the equipment list. It's well-thought out stuff from a lore perspective, and as I have started reading the Dungeon Master's manual, this is just as important in an immersive campaign as stats and rules.
　
Reading this book made me want to roleplay a Bard who becomes religious by multi-classing to an Evangelist, and then after becoming unsatisfied with only that class (perhaps after acquiring all of its class abilities), switches to Holy Liberator (because they are basically Chaotic Good Paladins, and Bards are always chaotic).
　
The list of deities was one of my favorite sections and I found myself flipping to it often, because of the interaction with the alignment of the classes, and also because of the magic item/artifact and spell lists. There is connecting lore for all these sections.
　
Trickster Eric Novels gives Dungeons and Dragons rule book: Complete Divine an A+

Not the best "Complete" book, to be honest. Maybe this is just because of the eternal bias against clerics, who knows. ;-) There's just not much compelling in here. I'd say it's my least favorite of the seven. (I guess eight, with Psionics?)

Basic Premise: A rules supplement for D&D 3.5, meant for players of religion-based characters.

There are prestige classes, feats, spells, and more in this book. It's very useful for players and also gives some new tools to GMs. Lots of information on the deities of the Greyhawk world are included, which is useful even for non-divine characters.

I only gave it three stars if it's compared to Defenders of the Faith, by itself it's just two stars. The major flaw of this book is that it feels like a rehash of its predecessor.

Most of the updated prestige classes were weakened, and although there were a few new ones, they were not enough to be impressive. One thing I did like was the adaptation section, to help bridge campaign setting gaps, since the majority of this book deals with the Oerth pantheon.

There's quite a bit of info on the deities of Greyhawk but these are going in other resources, so it ends up as a compilation only.

This source book also suffers from bad editing, Unmentioned saves in spell descriptions, incorrect page number references, spelling errors, etc. For some reason, an index is not provided.

Recommended if you don't have Defenders of the Faith, otherwise not recommended at all.

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The only complaint I really have with this choc-o-block book full of happy divine prestige classes, spells, feats, etc, is that there's not all that much in there for druids (beyond a much improved selection of druid spells which will definitely give the druid a bit more of a punch).

That said, for all I know, there's a "Complete Nature" or somesuch on its way...

The least useful of the Complete series the Complete Divine mostly falls flat when it comes to where it's greatest strength should be, flavor. Those classes and feats that aren't focused on a specific god (and therefore requiring customization to any setting other than core) is so devoid of descriptive text to be uninspiring. I'm a fan of Clerics and Paladins and do occasionally mine this source for tidbits, but for the most part I recomend  Complete Champion.