Tell me about your Clerics!!

I love the idea of unwilling clerics. like a God of War that seeks out a pacifist because they know the true cost of violance (or the opposite). A cleric choosen ny the god of a race they are at war with (like a drow cleric of lathander). Or a random person who learned of a forgotten god abd were forced to be their cleric because they're the closest thing the god can find to worshiper.

My grave domain cleric worshipped the spirits of those who passed on rather than any concrete faith or deity. They were a paranormal investigator, and a blast to play.

One of the players in our campaign was blessed by a god for their power and they don't even know the god. So, they don't understand the power they're given. It's a blast to role play with him.

"The unwilling_____" is always a good source of stories. But I also like the "Faith in Abstract". like a Light Cleric who just believes that every mortal has a bit of the sun in them that needs to be nurtured through the blood of enemies. as they grow in power, they gain followers, and more belief and more power. the natural conclusion of this arc is Apotheosis at level 20. kind of a mix of two you mentioned

I just started a game where i play a death domain cleric that was a combat medic with ptsd and has seen into the 'other side'. A death god delayed his certain death on the battlefield. Now, years later, my cleric has been drinking his way from town to town doing odd jobs. Running from his oath but with the knowledge that, in the end, death always wins.

I remember a video by The Dungeon Dudes about clerics - I really like the idea of a cleric who's basically a magnet for a god's power. I'm playing a cleric of Auril (tempest domain): a pirate who was left stranded after his crew got slaughtered, and on Midwinter he gave Auril - the goddess of winter - a desperate prayer. He saw a ship just in swimming distance. He attributes his miraculous survival as a deed of Auril, but he never knows if he's doing well. He's a well-meaning person who wants to strengthen and support people, but under Auril's tenets he needs to usher in eternal winter. He doesn't really understand why a goddess of death and eternal winter saved him, nor why she blesses him with her power, but for the time being he wants to use it to do good in the world.

I was toying with the idea of a cleric of themselves. My idea basically broke down into an Aasimar private I death cleric who has frequent dreams of a figure cloaked in darkness and a vibe of inevitable doom. I eventually wanted the character to realize that they are becoming the figure they see. I kinda combined it into an attempt at a gunslinger cleric, but no dice getting that to work right now.

If someone wants to play a Priest but not a Cleric, which are warrior priests, you can take the Wizard but use Cleric Spells and use a Prayer Book as your Spellbook. I do like to think that Cleric Spells are more like prayers to their deity, so when a Cleric is casting a spell they are preforming a specific prayer.

Mr. Cleric, this might be one of my favorite videos because my first handful of characters were clerics for various reasons. Haha I love the class and need to get back to playing it. I love the Roleplay and story potential you imbue into characters.

Clerics are my favorite class as well. I am on Cleric 8 right now. I have done Arcana, Death, Knowledge, Life, Nature, Order, Tempest & War so far. I am currently playing an Order Domain Cleric. Part of why I love playing them is that I know they are always useful due to their ability to revive allies, but I also like how versatile they are.

on the "believe in yourself" cleric: i am playing a cleric that was bookish and young, and found their power in their faith in how the world worked an how they could manipulate it with magics. but they were always low charisma, shy, nervous, but devoted to keeping their friends safe. as the story of the campaign has evolved, they have become this individual, standing up to the BBG when they confront the party and, even with their 8 charisma, nervously trembles in front of this powerful creature to stand up for their friends and help end their mind control (which they saved against thankfully). seeing this section has helped me better understand how i can continue portraying this character as the campaign continues to evolve :)

Thanks to this videos and ideas in the comment, I'm creating my very first player character. I don't know about her race yet (I was thinking about tiefling because i like those horns and it could make things interesting for her backstory), but she has been abandonned at birth and Hestia has been taking care of her since then. She loves her adoptive mother and the both of them tried to make her a Life Cleric, following Hestia's Domain... but it couldn't work, because she already had the power of a Domain without them knowing why or where it comes from (I have an easy culprit in mind but I will let my future DM decide and maybe surprise me) : she is a Tempest Cleric. So she has a personnality more fitting of a Life Cleric who has spent whole her life with Hestia aka the best goddess : she loves fiercely and want to protect those she loves. But she will probably have to learn to do it with storms and lighting, and not only by healing. Every healing spells will come from her study with Hestia, and she will also have offensive spells coming from who knows where. I think she got some training with other gods, and that Hephaistos gave her a spare training weapon, not anything really fancy.

Okay. So, hi, guy from the Warlock video. I've played three kinds of Clerics so far, but the most unique one of them all was Father Lyle D'agerou, a philosopher whose devotion to four tenets about conflict caused Tempus to favor him at a distance, especially since he was the neutral god of War and honorable battle. Lyle also wasn't a priest by any means, but he was seen by many to be holy because he used his magic primarily to aid those in need, and chose to support his allies oftentimes over joining in outright conflict. He also was the voice of reason, convincing our murder happy king to mete out just punishment. Now, Tempus only granted him Channel Divinity and Divine Intervention, Lyle manifested his magic through discovery, action and self reflection. Now...the tenets he followed: Is conflict justified in this instance? If not, focus on supportive spellcasting. Can conflict be avoided? If not, swiftly handle it, but if so, focus on diplomacy. Is this conflict being partaken of in anger? If so, walk away. If not, be the deciding factor. (Also, no multiclassing into Barbarian.) Can this conflict be fought fairly? (No using poison or underhanded/cheap tricks.) He's definitely one of the more unique characters I've played, as his goal was to create a school of philosophy based on these tenets to raise powerful clerics to keep kingdoms in check.

Oooh got a pair for this one. One was a Vedalken Knowledge Cleric that I played as a bookish archaeologist. Between his high Int, proficiency or expertise in all the Int skills, and his Researcher feature from his sage background, dude was a lore sponge. I even was allowed to take the Historian UA feat, so I could support the party while diegetically inserting lore dumps. Peony Everpetal on the other hand was an attempt at making a better Beast Master Ranger via Nature Cleric. Bonding with multiple 'companions' through the Animal Friendship and Speak with Animals spells. She commanded them in combat with the Animal Handler UA feat and thanks to her Wood Elf traits and skills, was a decent archer, scout, and survivalist outside of urban areas.

Clerics are my favourite class, I have a half orc tempest cleric of the Kraken, a twilight cleric inspired by the works of Edgar Allen Poe, a fairy (the party tank) forge cleric and a grave cleric inspired by The Conjuring movies (ghost investigators, with my partner playing her husband a Paladin).

I technically have two clerics. One is a literal heal-bot (warforged life domain cleric) that was made by the adventurer's guild to keep adventurers alive. My plan is to give him as many healing and support spells as possible, and clerics happened to have access to the most. I may give him a 3-level dip into a dreams druid, for goodberry and their Balm of the Summer Court feature for further healing potential. The other is a gold dragonborn that led a church of Bahamut, and swore vengeance upon a mysterious entity that annihilated her home village, save for the church that she was still in. When I made her, I initially made her as a cleric since I didn't really like the flavor of the paladin (this was back before I learned about reflavoring, and I didn't like the idea of the oath). Then, a couple years later, I decided to respec her into a vengeance paladin, which fit her story both thematically and mechanically.

Personally I've always seen arcana domain clerics as pulling from the arcane weave itself instead of a god

Thanks!

10:22 Might use this idea for an aasimar light cleric. Celestial blood running through their veins as A better version of the divine sorcerer XD

Priesthood, oh yeah always wanted a scientology cleric.

How about a Cleric who got their powers through maths? I have a Life Cleric who spent his life deciphering the Life Equation (ala DC Comics) and he finally solved it in his old age. He tore open a portal to the Positive Energy Plane which de-aged him from 80 to 20 - and with a superhuman physique. Now he spends his time trying to resolve the equation and open the portal to revolutionise medicine. In other words, as he levels up, he solves another piece of the equation and gets new spells. When he hits level 10, the portal starts reopening (Divine Intervention).

I'd love a series on siting your PC in the world. For example, your Tempest domain cleric Thunderblast McBumfart walks into the tavern, boasting of their party's latest exploit. He's greeted by a weeping mother, holding out a baby, dead. What do you do?

I'm playing a character who was once a devote Paladin, and a pious man of a Goddess of Life. He died saving somebody (not knowing he did) and his last thought was to his Goddess to try and save them. Decades later his skeleton rose as a sentient corpse without knowledge of why. He is wandering to help people, slowly being called toward the bloodline of those he once saved as they are now in danger from dark forces. It's a weird one for me, but fun to play with as something different.

For the "Your Followers" Idea it could play out almost like Artagan/The Traveler's story in Crit Role Campain 2. I plaied a Life Domain Cleric who was a Minatour, raised in the church, disliked by most of the church excpet one or two people, socially awkward. Made for some really good role play.

Oooooh I love the idea of a benevolent Death cleric (or grave, but death works best for this concept for the mechanics) that's more of a shaman who summons the spirits of their ancestors to help the group fight, perhaps possessing the corpses of others temporarily. I think it skirts the edge of what a cleric is, but that's cool. Could also work as an Undying or Undead pact warlock. (I consider both of those subclasses to be viable but focused on different things)

I created a Cleric based on the Whitelighters from the show charmed. I really like him. More of a healer than a fighter.

I have a cleric who's power is based off of the Hippocratic Oath. So long as she does no undue harm, and additionally does not lie, her power is strong. As soon as she breaks that oath, the divine protection hiding her from her past is removed, and her power is weakened

I played a "Pirate Priestess" of Tamora who blessed sailors with luck!

I have a light cleric idea that is a dhampir. So using the darkest within to bring out the light in people. Perhaps fell during an attack or something.. Almost like a hunted one or investigator.

I mostly liked the beginning of this video as it's what I stumble upon every time I end up deciding to make my character concept just another Cleric. Also, funny note: you sound like Leonardo 🗡🐢🗡

Hold on, a Magic Helmet that the user can't take off and gives them supreme divine powers through contact with a outside divinity unknown to the planet in which the helm is found. Does it come with Ice power and the fancy title of Litch King? Jokes aside, I like this video because you encourage creativity and coming up with your own things in a hobby that can get caught up in the exact wording of the text. That's the kind of stuff I love. I look forward to your next video.

I had once an idea for double team with other PC where my cleric had vision how he will serve the chosen one in his crusade Which my cleric would think is the other PC He would be wrong but still kinda fun

My current cleric, Hofri, is a peace Cleric former solider who went AWOL after his unit was getting a bit too aggressive and harming innocents. Now, he wants to make amends and find out why his unit was so willing to act so aggressively.

I want to do a spell sword type character using a long sword no shield and casting offensive spells but I can't seem to find a good way to do it with out the character being too weak on AC and HP

I've once played a Blood of Vol life cleric who was also very casual about raising the dead which did turn some heads when first introduced. For those who don't know Eberron works on faith gives power rather than the gods as no one is really sure if the gods are real or not this gives a lot of leeway for alignments there can evil clerics of good gods taking their faiths into the extreme and good clerics of evil gods reinterpreting the faith as something kinder and benevolent. And the blood of Vol is a interesting faith being closest to #5 the seekers they call themselves believe that divine power comes from within and life itself while be kinda atheistic believing that the gods are either malevolent or nonexistent they overall seek to ascend to a higher state through the faith they have a casual view of undead seeing them as hollow husks or as martyrs and having a nihilistic world view meaning while they can be villains most are quite kind and community driven knowing that their life is the only one and seek to make a better world because of it.

Cleric power source idea Discovery of a new path in tension with (not necessarily in opposition to) the official path of their religion, at least at first. Becoming more clear in their beliefs and articulating them and defending their orthodoxy is leveling up until a certain point, but either you or your religion will have to bend at a certain point as you keep leveling. If there aren't enough high level clerics, you might win the battle of wills. If there are, then you will have to find a different religion (and potentially a different God and perhaps a different domain or worse class).

One idea could be you are a spirit or some kind of divine being or something. And the body you have is just a vessel you are using you need it to manifest your power in the world

I feel you probably either Love domain or Grave/Death domain

Similar to scripture is devotion to a philosophy. I had a cleric of order who developed a social philosophy. They were allied to the gods of order, but didn't get their power from them

Number 5: charisma as spellcasting ability instead of wisdom doesn’t impose a lot of advantages or disadvantages, but it does open doors to multiclassing that can be really powerful. Consider that before allowing this as a DM :)

Played a cleric who found an ancient religious tome and became a cleric of that God. Not knowing that tat particular god in question was replaced by another. Through out the campaign I assumed the new God just saw his prayers to the old God as ment for them. That was untill we found the old God trapped, bound and all but dead. My characters believe the only thing keeping them in existence. Only after freeing the old God did the party learn the old God was not as nice and gentle as the ancient CULTISTS tome suggested. It was an "interesting" character ark to say the least.

Wasn't number 8 basically Goldmoon's role in the first Dragonlance series?

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What would your cleric subdomain be? You are creative and you like to coat concepts in new outfits. So, forge domain.

A few Domains I want them to add... Earth Domain Fire Domain Air Domain Water Domain Darkness - if they have Light they have to have Darkness War I know that a few existing Domains could cover these but they just don't really feel like it.

I feel like some people might say "just play a paladin or divine soul if you want a charisma cleric" but it's soooooo not the same thing

I have 2 life clerics. 1) a life cleric who wishes he could be a death cleric, but his faith's seminary didn't have that training. 2) A life cleric/Spore Druid multiclass who is all about both life and death.

This video was exactly what I needed. I always wanted to try clerics but religious trauma stopped me from playing a character reliant on gods

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Idea: a self manifesting cleric whose holy symbol is their personal symbol or crest?

Trickery domain

Going from wisdom to a different casting stat isn't really a problem since Int and Cha are generally worse then wisdom.

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The Cleric benefits from playing it straight rather than re-flavouring. However for the more creative player here are a few ideas. The Alignment: Your behaviour determines your Subclass. This requires a discussion with the game master. The idea is at the end of a long rest, there is a chance that the game master might change your Subclass based on how you have been playing. The Cleric Subclasses for this build are a manifestation of your behaviour. If you are protecting people then Protection Domain. If you are healing others and preserving life then Life Domain. If you are fighting your way through problems then War Domain. The flavour for this wacky concept is, the Deities do not respond to you worshipping them. They respond to you living your life in accordance with their values. As such they only grant you their power if your behaviour aligns with their objectives. The Dancer: This Dancer has been learning techniques passed down from generation to generation. However one day as they are dancing magical effects start flowing from them. They have no idea what is going on. Slowly but surely throughout the campaign they uncover that the dances are techniques that communicate with the weave causing magical effects to blossom in the world. Any Subclass works. Just grab proficiency in Athletics, Acrobatics and Performance. Oddly enough no proficiency in Religion since they only know the dance routines but not their meaning. The Enchanter: This is your magical tatoo/magic item Cleric. You are Divinely inspired but your magic does not come from the Gods. Your magic is all done through runes and magical tattoos. You are a crafter who does not cast spells. Instead of a Holy Symbol, you have an array of enchanted items that enable you to "cast spells". Enchant your items. This a The Forge Domain Cleric. The Learned: In a setting where there are no deities, you learnt your magic in a way not to dissimilar to how a Wizard would. Whilst there are no deities in this setting, a combination of religious study and your faith powers your magical talents. Arcana Domain works here. The Pantheon: This Cleric does not follow one deity. They follow a whole Pantheon. You can divide up the spells in the main Cleric spell list and decide which deity they come from. This creates all kinds of interesting role play situations where you appease different deities. Any Domain works here. The Paragon: This is a Cleric who gets their power from legendary warriors. Go War Domain Cleric. Pick spells that aren't flashy in appearance but could be flavoured as combat techniques and inspiring other people. You are not actually casting spells with this character. Rather you are a Martial character. It also helps to get Medicine skill proficiency and Herbalism Kit to justify those healing spells. The Royal: In a world where Deities are King's and Queens, the Royal belongs to a Lineage. The Divine spells are gifted to members of the Divine Royal family. As such you are a sheltered privileged individual whose Divine powers cine from your bloodline. This could also be a Divine Sorcerer idea. The Power of Friendship: Your magic doesn't come from Deities but from friendship. That's right. You are that adventurer who keeps casting guidance. You are the Cleric who only thrives when the party is thriving. You have the very essence of friendship within you. A power that can slay any foe. The party is unstoppable. Persuasion and Insight are essential for all of the encouragement you're going to give.

I always thought number 3 was the official explenation and you could theoreticly be an Atheist cleric. Just believing in a concept. Like a cleric of human dignity or a cleric of communism.