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Cleric


Hit Points

Hit Dice: d8 per Cleric level
Hit Points at first Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per cleric level after 1st

Proficiences

Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Choose two from History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion

Overview & Creation

Clerics combine the helpful magic of healing and inspiring their allies with spells that harm and hinder foes. They can provoke awe and dread, lay curses of plague or poison, and even call down flames from heaven to consume their enemies. For those evildoers who will benefit most from a mace to the head, clerics depend on their combat training to let them wade into melee with the power of the gods on their side.  

Divine Agents

Not every acolyte or officiant at a temple or shrine is a cleric. Some priests are called to a simple life of temple service, carrying out their gods’ will through prayer and sacrifice, not by magic and strength of arms. In some cities, priesthood amounts to a political office, viewed as a stepping stone to higher positions of authority and involving no communion with a god at all. True clerics are rare in most hierarchies.   When a cleric takes up an adventuring life, it is usually because his or her god demands it. Pursuing the goals of the gods often involves braving dangers beyond the walls of civilization, smiting evil or seeking holy relics in ancient tombs. Many clerics are also expected to protect their deities’ worshipers, which can mean fighting rampaging orcs, negotiating peace between warring nations, or sealing a portal that would allow a demon prince to enter the world.   Most adventuring clerics maintain some connection to established temples and orders of their faiths. A temple might ask for a cleric’s aid, or a high priest might be in a position to demand it.   The Cleric

-Spell Slots per Spell Level-

Level Proficiency Bonus Features Cantrips Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
1st +2 Spellcasting, Divine Domain 3 2 - - - - - - - -
2nd +2 Channel Divinity(1/rest), Divine Domain Feature 3 3 - - - - - - - -
3rd +2 - 3 4 2 - - - - - - -
4th +2 Ability Score Improvement 4 4 3 - - - - - - -
5th +3 Destroy Undead (CR 1/2) 4 4 3 2 - - - - - -
6th +3 Channel Divinity (2/rest), Divine Domain Feature 4 4 3 3 - - - - - -
7th +3 - 4 4 3 3 1 - - - - -
8th +3 Ability Score Improvement, Destroy Undead (CR 1), Divine Domain Feature 4 4 3 3 2 - - - - -
9th +4 - 4 4 3 3 3 1 - - - -
10th +4 Divine Intervention 5 4 3 3 3 2 - - - -
11th +4 Destroy Undead (CR 2) 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 - - -
12th +4 Ability Score Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 - - -
13th +5 - 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 - -
14th +5 Destroy Undead (CR 3) 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 - -
15th +5 - 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 -
16th +5 Ability Score Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 -
17th +6 Destroy Undead (CR 4), Divine Domain Feature 5 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
18th +6 Channel Divinity (3/rest) 5 4 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1
20th +6 Divine Intervention Improvement 5 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1
 
 


Class Features

Divine Domain

Choose one domain related to your deity: Arcana, Forge, Grave, Knowledge, Life, Light, Nature, Tempest, Time, Trickery, or War. The Life domain is detailed at the end of the class description and provides examples of gods associated with it. See the Player’s Handbook for details on all the domains.Your choice grants you domain spells and other features when you choose it at 1st level. It also grants you additional ways to use Channel Divinity when you gain that feature at 2nd level, and additional benefits at 6th, 8th, and 17th levels.  

Domain Spells

Each domain has a list of spells — its domain spells — that you gain at the cleric levels noted in the domain description. Once you gain a domain spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn’t count against the number of spells you can prepare each day.   If you have a domain spell that doesn’t appear on the cleric spell list, the spell is nonetheless a cleric spell 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: Turn Undead and an effect determined by your domain. Some domains grant you additional effects as you advance in levels, as noted in the domain description.   When you use your Channel Divinity, you choose which effect to create. You must then finish a short or long rest to use your Channel Divinity again.   Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your cleric spell save DC.   Beginning at 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity twice between rests, and beginning at 18th level, you can use it three times between rests. When you finish a short or long rest, you regain your expended uses.  

Channel Divinity: Turn Undead

As an action, you present your holy symbol and speak a prayer censuring the undead. Each undead 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 or until it takes any damage.   A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you. It also can’t take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there’s nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.  

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.   Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.  

Destroy Undead

Starting at 5th level, when an undead fails its saving throw against your Turn Undead feature, the creature is instantly destroyed if its challenge rating is at or below a certain threshold, as shown in the Destroy Undead table.
Cleric Level Destroys Undead of CR...
5th 1/2 or lower
8th 1 or lower
11th 2 or lower
14th 3 or lower
17th 4 or lower

Divine Intervention

Beginning at 10th 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 percentile dice. If you roll a number equal to or lower than your cleric level, your deity intervenes. The DM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any cleric spell or cleric domain spell would be appropriate.   If your deity intervenes, you can’t use this feature again for 7 days. Otherwise, you can use it again after you finish a long rest.   At 20th level, your call for intervention succeeds automatically, no roll required.


Starting Equipment

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

  • (a) a mace or (b) a warhammer (if proficient)
  • (a) scale mail, (b) leather armor, or (c) chain mail (if proficient)
  • (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
  • (a) a priest’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
    • A shield and a holy symbol

     


    Spellcasting

    As a conduit for divine power, you can cast cleric spells. See Spells Rules for the general rules of spellcasting and the Spells Listing for the cleric spell list.  

    Cantrips

    At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the cleric spell list. You learn additional cleric cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Cleric table.  

    Preparing and Casting Spells

    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.   You prepare the list of cleric spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the cleric spell list. When you do so, choose a number of cleric spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + your cleric level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.   For example, if you are a 3rd-level cleric, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn’t remove it from your list of prepared spells.   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 on your list.  

    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.  

    Spellcasting Focus

    You can use a holy symbol (see the Adventuring Gear section) as a spellcasting focus for your cleric spells.


    Subclass Options

    Divine Domains


    In a pantheon, every deity has influence over different aspects of mortal life and civilization, called a deity’s domain. All the domains over which a deity has influence are called the deity’s portfolio. For example, the portfolio of the Greek god Apollo includes the domains of Knowledge, Life, and Light. As a cleric, you choose one aspect of your deity’s portfolio to emphasize, and you are granted powers related to that domain.   Your choice might correspond to a particular sect dedicated to your deity. Apollo, for example, could be worshiped in one region as Phoebus (“radiant”) Apollo, emphasizing his influence over the Light domain, and in a different place as Apollo Acesius (“healing”), emphasizing his association with the Life domain. Alternatively, your choice of domain could simply be a matter of personal preference, the aspect of the deity that appeals to you most.    

    Arcana Domain


    Magic is an energy that suffuses the multiverse and that fuels both destruction and creation. Gods of the Arcana domain know the secrets and potential of magic intimately. For some of these gods, magical knowledge is a great responsibility that comes with a special understanding of the nature of reality. Other gods of Arcana see magic as pure power, to be used as its wielder sees fit.   The gods of this domain are often associated with knowledge, as learning and arcane power tend to go hand-in-hand.   Arcana Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Detect Magic, Magic Missile
    3rd Magic Weapon, Nystul's Magic Aura
    5th Dispel Magic, Magic Circle
    7th Arcane Eye, Leomund's Secret Chest
    9th Planar Binding, Teleportation Circle
     

    Arcane Initiate

    When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency in the Arcana skill, and you gain two cantrips of your choice from the wizard spell list. For you, these cantrips count as cleric cantrips.  

    Channel Divinity: Arcane Abjuration

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to abjure otherworldly creatures.   As an action, you present your holy symbol, and one celestial, elemental, fey, or fiend of your choice that is within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw, provided that the creature can see or hear you. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage.   A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly end its move in a space within 30 feet of you. It also can’t take reactions. For its action, it can only use the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there’s nowhere to move, the creature can use the Dodge action.   After you reach 5th level, when a creature fails its saving throw against your Arcane Abjuration feature, the creature is banished for 1 minute (as in the banishment spell, no concentration required) if it isn’t on its plane of origin and its challenge rating is at or below a certain threshold, as shown on the Arcane Banishment table.   Arcane Banishment
    Cleric Level Banishes Creatures of CR...
    5th 1/2 or lower
    8th 1 or lower
    11th 2 or lower
    14th 3 or lower
    17th 4 or lower
     

    Spell Breaker

    Starting at 6th level, when you restore hit points to an ally with a spell of 1st level or higher, you can also end one spell of your choice on that creature. The level of the spell you end must be equal to or lower than the level of the spell slot you use to cast the healing spell.  

    Potent Spellcasting

    Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.  

    Arcane Mastery

    At 17th level, you choose four spells from the wizard spell list, one from each of the following levels: 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th. You add them to your list of domain spells. Like your other domain spells, they are always prepared and count as cleric spells for you.  

    Forge Domain


    The gods of the forge are patrons of artisans who work with metal, from a humble blacksmith who keeps a village in horseshoes and plow blades to the mighty elf artisan whose diamond-tipped arrows of mithral have felled demon lords. The gods of the forge teach that, with patience and hard work, even the most intractable metal can be transformed from a lump of ore to a beautifully wrought object. Clerics of these deities search for objects lost to the forces of darkness, liberate mines overrun by orcs, and uncover rare and wondrous materials necessary to create potent magic items. Followers of these gods take great pride in their work, and they are willing to craft and use heavy armor and powerful weapons to protect them.   Forge Domain Features
    Cleric Level Feature
    1st Domain Spells, Bonus Proficiencies, Blessing of the Forge
    2nd Channel Divinity: Artisan's Blessing
    6th Soul of the Forge
    8th Divine Strike (1d8)
    14th Divine Strike (2d8)
    17th Saint of Forge and Fire
     

    Domain Spells

    You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Forge Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.   Forge Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Identify, Searing Smite
    3rd Heat Metal, Magic Weapon
    5th Elemental Weapon, Protection from Energy
    7th Fabricate, Wall of Fire
    9th Animate Objects, Creation
     

    Bonus Proficiencies

    When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor and smith’s tools.  

    Blessing of the Forge

    At 1st level, you gain the ability to imbue magic into a weapon or armor. At the end of a long rest, you can touch one nonmagical object that is a suit of armor or a simple or martial weapon. Until the end of your next long rest or until you die, the object becomes a magic item, granting a +1 bonus to AC if it’s armor or a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls if it’s a weapon.   Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.  

    Channel Divinity: Artisan's Blessing

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to create simple items.   You conduct an hour-long ritual that crafts a nonmagical item that must include some metal: a simple or martial weapon, a suit of armor, ten pieces of ammunition, a set of tools, or another metal object (see chapter 5, “Equipment,” in the Player’s Handbook for examples of these items). The creation is completed at the end of the hour, coalescing in an unoccupied space of your choice on a surface within 5 feet of you.   The thing you create can be something that is worth no more than 100 gp. As part of this ritual, you must lay out metal, which can include coins, with a value equal to the creation. The metal irretrievably coalesces and transforms into the creation at the ritual’s end, magically forming even nonmetal parts of the creation.   The ritual can create a duplicate of a nonmagical item that contains metal, such as a key, if you possess the original during the ritual.  

    Soul of the Forge

    Starting at 6th level, your mastery of the forge grants you special abilities:  
    • You gain resistance to fire damage.
    • While wearing heavy armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
     

    Divine Strike

    At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with the fiery power of the forge. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 fire damage to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.  

    Saint of Forge and Fire

    At 17th level, your blessed affinity with fire and metal becomes more powerful:  
    • You gain immunity to fire damage.
    • While wearing heavy armor, you have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.
     

    Grave Domain


    Gods of the grave watch over the line between life and death. To these deities, death and the afterlife are a foundational part of the multiverse. To desecrate the peace of the dead is an abomination. Followers of these deities seek to put wandering spirits to rest, destroy the undead, and ease the suffering of the dying. Their magic also allows them to stave off death for a time, particularly for a person who still has some great work to accomplish in the world. This is a delay of death, not a denial of it, for death will eventually get its due.   Grave Domain Features
    Cleric Level Feature
    1st Domain Spells, Circle of Mortality, Eyes of the Grave
    2nd Channel Divinity: Path to the Grave
    6th Sentinel at Death's Door
    8th Potent Spellcasting
    17th Keeper of Souls
     

    Domain Spells

    You gain domain spells at the cleric levels listed in the Grave Domain Spells table. See the Divine Domain class feature for how domain spells work.   Grave Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Bane, False Life
    3rd Gentle Repose, Ray of Enfeeblement
    5th Revivify, Vampiric Touch
    7th Blight, Death Ward
    9th Antilife Shell, Raise Dead
     

    Circle of Mortality

    At 1st level, you gain the ability to manipulate the line between life and death. When you would normally roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell to a creature at 0 hit points, you instead use the highest number possible for each die.   In addition, you learn the spare the dying cantrip, which doesn’t count against the number of cleric cantrips you know. For you, it has a range of 30 feet, and you can cast it as a bonus action.  

    Eyes of the Grave

    At 1st level, you gain the ability to occasionally sense the presence of the undead, whose existence is an insult to the natural cycle of life. As an action, you can open your awareness to magically detect undead. Until the end of your next turn, you know the location of any undead within 60 feet of you that isn’t behind total cover and that isn’t protected from divination magic. This sense doesn’t tell you anything about a creature’s capabilities or identity.   You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.  

    Channel Divinity: Path to the Grave

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to mark another creature’s life force for termination.   As an action, you choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you, cursing it until the end of your next turn. The next time you or an ally of yours hits the cursed creature with an attack, the creature has vulnerability to all of that attack’s damage, and then the curse ends.  

    Sentinel at Death’s Door

    At 6th level, you gain the ability to impede death’s progress. As a reaction when you or a creature you can see within 30 feet of you suffers a critical hit, you can turn that hit into a normal hit. Any effects triggered by a critical hit are canceled.   You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.  

    Potent Spellcasting

    Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.  

    Keeper of Souls

    Starting at 17th level, you can seize a trace of vitality from a parting soul and use it to heal the living. When an enemy you can see dies within 60 feet of you, you or one creature of your choice that is within 60 feet of you regains hit points equal to the enemy’s number of Hit Dice. You can use this feature only if you aren’t incapacitated. Once you use it, you can’t do so again until the start of your next turn.  

    Knowledge Domain


    The gods of knowledge value learning and understanding above all. Some teach that knowledge is to be gathered and shared in libraries and universities, or promote the practical knowledge of craft and invention. Some deities hoard knowledge and keep its secrets to themselves. And some promise their followers that they will gain tremendous power if they unlock the secrets of the multiverse. Followers of these gods study esoteric lore, collect old tomes, delve into the secret places of the earth, and learn all they can. Some gods of knowledge promote the practical knowledge of craft and invention.   Knowledge Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Command, Identify
    3rd Augury, Suggestion
    5th Nondetection, Speak with Dead
    7th Arcane Eye, Confusion
    9th Legend Lore, Scrying
     

    Blessings of Knowledge

    At 1st level, you learn two languages of your choice. You also become proficient in your choice of two of the following skills: Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion.   Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of those skills.  

    Channel Divinity: Knowledge of the Ages

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to tap into a divine well of knowledge. As an action, you choose one skill or tool. For 10 minutes, you have proficiency with the chosen skill or tool.  

    Channel Divinity: Read Thoughts

    At 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity to read a creature’s thoughts. You can then use your access to the creature’s mind to command it.   As an action, choose one creature that you can see within 60 feet of you. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature succeeds on the saving throw, you can’t use this feature on it again until you finish a long rest.   If the creature fails its save, you can read its surface thoughts (those foremost in its mind, reflecting its current emotions and what it is actively thinking about) when it is within 60 feet of you. This effect lasts for 1 minute.   During that time, you can use your action to end this effect and cast the suggestion spell on the creature without expending a spell slot. The target automatically fails its saving throw against the spell.  

    Potent Spellcasting

    Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.  

    Visions of the Past

    Starting at 17th level, you can call up visions of the past that relate to an object you hold or your immediate surroundings. You spend at least 1 minute in meditation and prayer, then receive dreamlike, shadowy glimpses of recent events. You can meditate in this way for a number of minutes equal to your Wisdom score and must maintain concentration during that time, as if you were casting a spell.   Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.   Object Reading. Holding an object as you meditate, you can see visions of the object’s previous   After meditating for 1 minute, you learn how the owner acquired and lost the object, as well as the most recent significant event involving the object and that   If the object was owned by another creature in the recent past (within a number of days equal to your Wisdom score), you can spend 1 additional minute for each owner to learn the same information about that creature.   Area Reading. As you meditate, you see visions of recent events in your immediate vicinity (a room, street, tunnel, clearing, or the like, up to a 50-foot cube), going back a number of days equal to your Wisdom score. For each minute you meditate, you learn about one significant event, beginning with the most recent. Significant events typically involve powerful emotions, such as battles and betrayals, marriages and murders, births and funerals. However, they might also include more mundane events that are nevertheless important in your current situation.  

    Life Domain


    The Life domain focuses on the vibrant positive energy — one of the fundamental forces of the universe — that sustains all life. The gods of life promote vitality and health through healing the sick and wounded, caring for those in need, and driving away the forces of death and undeath. Almost any non-evil deity can claim influence over this domain, particularly agricultural deities, sun gods, gods of healing or endurance, and gods of home and community.   Life Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Bless, Cure Wounds
    3rd Lesser Restoration, Spiritual Weapon
    5th Beacon of Hope, Revivify
    7th Death Ward, Guardian of Faith
    9th Mass Cure Wounds, Raise Dead
     

    Bonus Proficiency

    When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor.  

    Disciple of Life

    Also starting at 1st level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.  

    Channel Divinity: Preserve Life

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to heal the badly injured.   As an action, you present your holy symbol and evoke healing energy that can restore a number of hit points equal to five times your cleric level. Choose any creatures within 30 feet of you, and divide those hit points among them. This feature can restore a creature to no more than half of its hit point maximum. You can’t use this feature on an undead or a construct.  

    Blessed Healer

    Beginning at 6th level, the healing spells you cast on others heal you as well. When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points to a creature other than you, you regain hit points equal to 2 + the spell’s level.  

    Divine Strike

    At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 radiant damage to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.  

    Supreme Healing

    Starting at 17th level, when you would normally roll one or more dice to restore hit points with a spell, you instead use the highest number possible for each die. For example, instead of restoring 2d6 hit points to a creature, you restore 12.  

    Light Domain


    Gods of light promote the ideals of rebirth and renewal, truth, vigilance, and beauty, often using the symbol of the sun. Some of these gods are portrayed as the sun itself or as a charioteer who guides the sun across the sky. Others are tireless sentinels whose eyes pierce every shadow and see through every deception. Some are deities of beauty and artistry, who teach that art is a vehicle for the soul’s improvement. Clerics of a god of light are enlightened souls infused with radiance and the power of their gods’ discerning vision, charged with chasing away lies and burning away darkness.   Light Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Burning Hands, Faeire Fire
    3rd Flaming Sphere, Scorching Ray
    5th Daylight, Fireball
    7th Guardian of Faith, Wall of Fire
    9th Flame Strike, Scrying
     

    Bonus Cantrip

    When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain the light cantrip if you don’t already know it.  

    Warding Flare

    Also at 1st level, you can interpose divine light between yourself and an attacking enemy. When you are attacked by a creature within 30 feet of you that you can see, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll, causing light to flare before the attacker before it hits or misses. An attacker that can’t be blinded is immune to this feature.   You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.  

    Channel Divinity: Radiance of the Dawn

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to harness sunlight, banishing darkness and dealing radiant damage to your foes.   As an action, you present your holy symbol, and any magical darkness within 30 feet of you is dispelled. Additionally, each hostile creature within 30 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes radiant damage equal to 2d10 + your cleric level on a failed saving throw, and half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that has total cover from you is not affected.  

    Improved Flare

    Starting at 6th level, you can also use your Warding Flare feature when a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you attacks a creature other than you.  

    Potent Spellcasting

    Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.  

    Corona of Light

    Starting at 17th level, you can use your action to activate an aura of sunlight that lasts for 1 minute or until you dismiss it using another action. You emit bright light in a 60-foot radius and dim light 30 feet beyond that. Your enemies in the bright light have disadvantage on saving throws against any spell that deals fire or radiant damage.  

    Nature Domain


    Gods of nature are as varied as the natural world itself, from inscrutable gods of the deep forests to friendly deities associated with particular springs and groves. Druids revere nature as a whole and might serve one of these deities, practicing mysterious rites and reciting all-but-forgotten prayers in their own secret tongue. But many of these gods have clerics as well, champions who take a more active role in advancing the interests of a particular nature god. These clerics might hunt the evil monstrosities that despoil the woodlands, bless the harvest of the faithful, or wither the crops of those who anger their gods.   Nature Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Animal Friendship, Speak with Animals
    3rd Barkskin, Spike Growth
    5th Plant Growth, Wind Wall
    7th Dominate Beast, Grasping Vine
    9th Insect Plague, Tree Stride
     

    Acolyte of Nature

    At 1st level, you learn one druid cantrip of your choice. You also gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Nature, or Survival.  

    Bonus Proficiency

    Also at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor.  

    Channel Divinity: Charm Animals and Plants

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to charm animals and plants.   As an action, you present your holy symbol and invoke the name of your deity. Each beast or plant creature that can see you within 30 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails its saving throw, it is charmed by you for 1 minute or until it takes damage. While it is charmed by you, it is friendly to you and other creatures you designate.  

    Dampen Elements

    Starting at 6th level, when you or a creature within 30 feet of you takes acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you can use your reaction to grant resistance to the creature against that instance of the damage.  

    Divine Strike

    At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 cold, fire, or lightning damage (your choice) to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.  

    Master of Nature

    At 17th level, you gain the ability to command animals and plant creatures. While creatures are charmed by your Charm Animals and Plants feature, you can take a bonus action on your turn to verbally command what each of those creatures will do on its next turn.  

    Tempest Domain


    Gods whose portfolios include the Tempest domain govern storms, sea, and sky. They include gods of lightning and thunder, gods of earthquakes, some fire gods, and certain gods of violence, physical strength, and courage. In some pantheons, a god of this domain rules over other deities and is known for swift justice delivered by thunderbolts. In the pantheons of seafaring people, gods of this domain are ocean deities and the patrons of sailors. Tempest gods send their clerics to inspire fear in the common folk, either to keep those folk on the path of righteousness or to encourage them to offer sacrifices of propitiation to ward off divine wrath.   Tempest Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Fog Cloud, Thunderwave
    3rd Gust of Wind, Shatter
    5th Call Lightning, Sleet Storm
    7th Control Water, Ice Storm
    9th Destructive Wave, Insect Plague
     

    Bonus Proficiencies

    At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and heavy armor.  

    Wrath of the Storm

    Also at 1st level, you can thunderously rebuke attackers. When a creature within 5 feet of you that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to cause the creature to make a Dexterity saving throw. The creature takes 2d8 lightning or thunder damage (your choice) on a failed saving throw, and half as much damage on a successful one.   You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.  

    Channel Divinity: Destructive Wrath

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to wield the power of the storm with unchecked ferocity.   When you roll lightning or thunder damage, you can use your Channel Divinity to deal maximum damage, instead of rolling.  

    Thunderbolt Strike

    At 6th level, when you deal lightning damage to a Large or smaller creature, you can also push it up to 10 feet away from you.  

    Divine Strike

    At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.  

    Stormborn

    At 17th level, you have a flying speed equal to your current walking speed whenever you are not underground or indoors.  

    Time Domain


    The gods of time are a fickle bunch, many of them being distant and out of sync with the general workings of the cosmos. To them time is not a mere linear transition from one moment to another, but a twisting and winding course barely comprehensible to the mortal mind. Clerics of these gods begin to get the smallest understanding of these cosmic secrets, and with great devotion, the smallest ability to manipulate them.   Time Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Detect Magic, Expeditious Retreat
    3rd Hold Person, Gentle Repose
    5th Haste, Slow
    7th Divination, Freedom of Movement
    9th Hold Monster, Legend Lore
     

    Temporal Perception

    When you first take this domain you become more aware of the passage of time as it flow around you. You always know exactly what time it is, and you can perfectly estimate the passage of time. Should you travel to a different plane you instantly know if there is a difference in the passage of time and the difference in rate from the prime. Furthermore, when you roll Initiative you roll twice, and you may choose which of the two rolls you use.    

    Mender With Time

      Starting at 1st level you gain the slightest ability to manipulate time. By reversing the aging of an item you may return it to an undamaged state. Add the mending cantrip to your list of known cantrips if you do not already have it.

    Channel Divinity: Part the Mists of Time

    Beginning at 2nd level you may use your channel divinity ability to grant someone glimpses into the twisting possibilities of the future. For the next three turns they gain limited perception into the possibilities of fate. For the first two they gain Advantage on everything that they do. For the last turn the visions begin to break down, and for that turn they suffer Disadvantage on everything before shrugging off the visions.  

    Anchor In Time

    At 6th level you gain greater resistance against time manipulation. You are now immune to all forms of aging effects, and to the slow spell and similar effects. You also slow your metabolism greatly, massively extending your life span. You now age at 1/10th the normal rate for your race, and only need to eat and drink 1/10th the normal amount.  

    Temporal Distortion

    Starting at 8th level you may force all characters within 60ft to reroll their initiative. You may then choose which of the two rolls, this one or their previous one, they may use. Your own initiative is then set to 1. Once you end your turn the initiative starts over in the new order. You may use this ability once per long rest.  

    Reality Shift

    At 14th level you gain the ability to reorder past events more to your liking. As a standard action you may target a single object or character within 60 ft of you. The target temporally shifts to how they were at some points within 1 minute of when you used this ability. For a character this may adjust their hp, resource pool, etc. For just an object it may return it to a broken/mended state, return uses or charges, etc. The creature or object need not still exist as long as it was destroyed within 1 minute and you are within 60ft of where it was destroyed. This ability allows a Wisdom saving throw. Alternatively you may expend spells slots to extend how far back you may alter the item, according to the below chart. When you expend a spell slot in this way that spell slot becomes impossible to recover until the amount of time it allowed you to extend this ability by is reached naturally. So if you expended a 7th level spell slot to repair an artifact that was damaged 8 month ago, you may not regain that spell slot until 8 months have passed. The only limit to how many spell slots you can expend is the amount you have available. You may use this ability once per long rest, and should you use this ability on yourself you may not regain the use of reality shift from before you used it  
    Spell Slot Additional Minutes
    1st 5 minutes
    2nd 15 minutes
    3rd 30 minutes
    4th 1 hour
    5th 12 hours
    6th 1 day
    7th 1 month
    8th 1 year
    9th 1 decade
     

    Tides of Time

    At 17th level you master the ability to alter the ebb and flow of time in your vicinity. Add time stop to your list of Cleric spells. Furthermore you may, as a bonus action, initiate a time warp around yourself. This has a range of 30ft, centered on yourself and moves with you, and effects everyone in the radius with either the slow or haste spell, chosen by you when you initiate the effect. You are not affected by the spell, and you cannot stop someone within the radius from being affected. This ability requires concentration, does not allow for a save, and you can use it for as many turns as you have cleric levels. You may change between slow and haste as a bonus action. This effect does not allow a saving throw.    

    Trickery Domain


    Gods of trickery are mischief-makers and instigators who stand as a constant challenge to the accepted order among both gods and mortals. They’re patrons of thieves, scoundrels, gamblers, rebels, and liberators. Their clerics are a disruptive force in the world, puncturing pride, mocking tyrants, stealing from the rich, freeing captives, and flouting hollow traditions. They prefer subterfuge, pranks, deception, and theft rather than direct confrontation.   Trickery Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Charm Person, Disguise Self
    3rd Mirror Image, Pass Without Trace
    5th Blink, Dispel Magic
    7th Dimension Door, Polymorph
    9th Dominate Person, Modify Memory
     

    Blessing of the Trickster

    Starting when you choose this domain at 1st level, you can use your action to touch a willing creature other than yourself to give it advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. This blessing lasts for 1 hour or until you use this feature again.  

    Channel Divinity: Invoke Duplicity

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to create an illusory duplicate of yourself.   As an action, you create a perfect illusion of yourself that lasts for 1 minute, or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell). The illusion appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within 30 feet of you. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the illusion up to 30 feet to a space you can see, but it must remain within 120 feet of you.   For the duration, you can cast spells as though you were in the illusion’s space, but you must use your own senses. Additionally, when both you and your illusion are within 5 feet of a creature that can see the illusion, you have advantage on attack rolls against that creature, given how distracting the illusion is to the target.  

    Channel Divinity: Cloak of Shadows

    Starting at 6th level, you can use your Channel Divinity to vanish.   As an action, you become invisible until the end of your next turn. You become visible if you attack or cast a spell.  

    Divine Strike

    At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with poison — a gift from your deity. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 poison damage to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.  

    Improved Duplicity

    At 17th level, you can create up to four duplicates of yourself, instead of one, when you use Invoke Duplicity. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move any number of them up to 30 feet, to a maximum range of 120 feet.    

    War Domain


    War has many manifestations. It can make heroes of ordinary people. It can be desperate and horrific, with acts of cruelty and cowardice eclipsing instances of excellence and courage. In either case, the gods of war watch over warriors and reward them for their great deeds. The clerics of such gods excel in battle, inspiring others to fight the good fight or offering acts of violence as prayers. Gods of war include champions of honor and chivalry as well as gods of destruction and pillage and gods of conquest and domination. Other war gods take a more neutral stance, promoting war in all its manifestations and supporting warriors in any circumstance.   War Domain Spells
    Cleric Level Spells
    1st Divine Favor, Shield of Faith
    3rd Magic Weapon, Spiritual Weapon
    5th Crusader's Mantle, Spirit Guardians
    7th Freedom of Movement, Stoneskin
    9th Flame Strike, Hold Monster
     

    Bonus Proficiencies

    At 1st level, you gain proficiency with martial weapons and heavy armor.  

    War Priest

    From 1st level, your god delivers bolts of inspiration to you while you are engaged in battle. When you use the Attack action, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.   You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (a minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.  

    Channel Divinity: Guided Strike

    Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to strike with supernatural accuracy. When you make an attack roll, you can use your Channel Divinity to gain a +10 bonus to the roll. You make this choice after you see the roll, but before the DM says whether the attack hits or misses.  

    Channel Divinity: War God’s Blessing

    At 6th level, when a creature within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, you can use your reaction to grant that creature a +10 bonus to the roll, using your Channel Divinity. You make this choice after you see the roll, but before the DM says whether the attack hits or misses.  

    Divine Strike

    At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 damage of the same type dealt by the weapon to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.  

    Avatar of Battle

    At 17th level, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical weapons.
     


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