Cleric

Cleric: Base Class

Cleric Features

Base Traits

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per cleric level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 18 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per cleric level after 1st

Proficiencies and Training

Armour: Light armour, medium armour, shields

Weapons: Simple weapons, heavy maces, warhammers

Tools: None

Saving throws: Wisdom, Charisma

Skills: Choose two from History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

•          any simple weapon or a heavy mace

•          scale mail, leather armour, or chain mail (if you are proficient)

•          a light crossbow and 20 bolts or any simple weapon

•          a priest’s pack or an explorer’s pack

•          a shield and a holy symbol

Features

Clerical Tradition

Choose a clerical tradition. Your clerical tradition grants you special features at 1st, 5th, and 10th level.

Spellcasting

You know how to cast spells.

Cleric Spells

You learn and prepare spells from the divine spell list.

Armoured Casting

You ignore spell failure from armour when you cast cleric spells wearing light or medium armour.

Spellcasting Focus

You can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting focus for your cleric spells.

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from the divine spell list. You learn additional divine cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the cantrips known column of the cleric table.

Prepared spells of 1st level or higher

You prepare a list of cleric spells that are available for you to cast. The spells prepared column of the cleric table shows how many cleric spells you can prepare when you finish a long rest. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots. Until you prepare a different list of spells, you know these spells.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level cleric, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level in any combination.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of cleric spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell you change on your list.

Spell Slots

The cleric table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your cleric spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your cleric spells. The power of your spells comes from your devotion to your deity. You use your Wisdom whenever a cleric spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a cleric spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Ritual Casting

You can cast a cleric spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell prepared.

Divine Aspect

Beginning at 2nd level, your connection with your deity thickens. Your deity is aligned with an aspect of a divine plane granting you bespoke powers and spellcasting options.

Choose one divine aspect (see divine aspects below) to represent this divine connection. Your choice grants you an additional option for your channel divinity and allows you to prepare spells from an expanded spell list. The spells granted by your divine aspect are spell that doesn’t appear on the divine spell list, the spells of your chosen aspect are nonetheless cleric spells for you.

Channel Divinity

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to channel divine energy directly from your deity, using that energy to fuel magical effects. You start with two such effects:

•          Channel Divinity: Abjure Good and Evil. As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a prayer censuring aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead. Each such creature that can see or hear you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute, until it takes any damage, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). A turned creature can’t target you or any creature behind you with an attack or a harmful spell. This does not protect you or your allies from area effects, such as the explosion of a fireball. Also, a turned creature can’t willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you and must move away from you if it starts its turn within 30 feet of you. On your subsequent turns, you must use your action to maintain this effect.

•          Channel Divinity: Channel Aspect. You can expend a use of your channel divinity to channel your divine aspect granting you the associated effect.

When you use your channel divinity, you choose which effect to create. If a channel divinity effect requires a saving throw, the DC equals your cleric spell save DC. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your channel divinity again. Beginning at 6th level, you can use your channel divinity twice between short or long rests instead, and beginning at 14th level, you can use it three times between rests as shown in the channel divinity column on the cleric table.

Divine Domain

At 3rd level, you choose one domain related to your deity. Your choice grants you domain spells and other features when you choose it and as you gain levels in this class.

Domain Spells

Each divine domain has a list of spells - its domain spells. Once you reach a level in this class that allows you to cast spells of the appropriate level, you always have the listed spells prepared, and they do not count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.

If a domain spell does not appear on the divine spell list, the spell is nonetheless a cleric spell for you.

Feat

At 4th level, you gain a feat from the list of feats. You must meet the prerequisites for the feat.

You gain an additional feat at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level. 

Improved Channel Divinity

At 6th level, your ability to channel divine energy widens granting you additional magical effect. When you use your ‘channel divinity’, you have two additional options to choose from:

•          Channel Divinity: Harness Divine Power. You can expend a use of your ‘channel divinity’ to fuel your spellcasting. You can touch your holy symbol, utter a prayer, and can create a temporary 1st level spell slot that lasts until the end of your turn (no action required). The spell slot must be used to cast one of your ‘domain spells’. The level of the temporary spell slot increases at 9th level (to a 2nd level spell slot) and again at 17th level (to a 3rd level spell slot).

•          Channel Divinity: Channel Domain. You can expend a use of your ‘channel divinity’ to channel the divine energy granted by your domain (see divine domains below).

Divine Intervention

Beginning at 11th level, you can call on your deity to intervene on your behalf when your need is great.

Imploring your deity’s aid requires you to use your action. Describe the assistance you seek and roll a d20. If you roll a number equal to half your cleric level (rounded down) or lower, your deity intervenes. The DM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any divine spell, divine aspect spell, or divine domain spell would be appropriate.

If your deity intervenes, you can’t use this feature again for 1 week. Otherwise, you can use it again after you finish a long rest.

Theurge

At 18th level, your divine domain studies grant you such mastery over the basic incantations of your divine domain that you can cast them at will. You can cast the 1st-level and 2nd-level spells granted by your domain without expending a spell slot.

Miracle

At 20th level when you use your divine intervention feature, your call for intervention succeeds automatically, no roll required, you can request that the deity casts the wish spell in place of another appropriate spell. You can also use your divine intervention again after a long rest, except if you use the feature to request a wish spell. If you request a wish spell with this feature, you cannot use your divine intervention again for 1 month.

If you request a wish spell with this feature, you do not suffer stress from any of that spell’s effects.