If you look at the tables, the multiple target penalties go up MUCH faster than do the support bonusses. For example, four people gives +2 -9 = -7 total. 500 people gives +20 -80 = -W3 total!
This suggests that big cathedrals don't give useful blessings, oddly enough. More generally, you need a pretty good ability to give out much of a blessing even on a dozen people (say a few heroes and their followers....).
Maybe this was intentional, but the way the book phrases it suggests that these should be kind of even. So I'd be inclined just to house rule it and say that there are no multiple target penalties, but maybe still allow community support, because big gatherings do seem like they should be more potent that small ones.
--Bryan
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