Part of Role Playing is making hard decisions for the character. Just don't have them eat pork. It presents a challenge in real life, it presents a challenge in the game. Kind of like when I'm role playing a character as myself I won't do evil.
Is there anything online that lays out the skills by class? I've only rolled a few defenders but I never had any use for them. The only ability that ever showed up was the "+5 defense when defending," which doesn't do much unless your defender just sits there. I'm sure there's more to it, just haven't gotten the luck roll. I guess you just load them up with armor and have them sit in the middle of the enemies? Seems like it would compliment my
Does anyone even use Life spells much? Out of the two of those schools I've only gotten much utility out of Blindness.