The Cleric

Class Details

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per cleric level.
• Hit Points (1st-level): 8 + your Constitution modifier.
• Hit Points (Higher Levels): 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per cleric level after 1st.

Proficiencies

• 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.

Equipment

Choose one of the following equipment options—preset or custom. You gain these items in addition to any other gear you might have (such as from your background):

A. Preset Equipment

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

B. Custom Equipment

You gain 5d4 x 10 gold pieces (or 120 gp). You may spend some or all of this gold to purchase your own equipment.

Class Features

As a cleric, you gain the following class features.

1Divine Domain

Choose a Divine Domain. You gain features from your Divine Domain at 1st, 2nd, 6th, and 8th-level.

Commandments

Each domain has a set of three guiding principles—its commandments—that help to direct you in the service of your deity. Honor these commandments to gain—and maintain—the favor of your deity.

Divine Favor: If you make a notable effort to honor a commandment, you may be blessed with divine favor. You can hold a maximum number of divine favors at one time equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1).

On your turn, as a free action, you may spend one point of divine favor to do one of the following:

• Gain Stamina: Regain 1 expended hit die.
• Gain Power: Regain 1 expended 1st-level spell slot.
• Twist Fate: Reroll 1 ability check, attack roll, or saving throw. You must accept the second result.
• Cause Pain: Reroll all damage dice of an attack you have just made. You may accept either result.
• Forgiveness: Forgive one transgression you have made.

Transgression: If your deity decides that you have actively broken or rejected a commandment, some of your divine power may be stripped away for a time.

Roll a d6 and check the Transgression table below to find out which class feature you lose access to. Reroll any result that doesn't fully apply to you.

Transgression

d6	Feature Lost
1	Domain Spells
2	1d4 Faith Points
3	1 Channel Divinity
4	Divine Intervention
5	Ritual Casting
6	Another Feature

Penance: If you have transgressed, you will have to perform a penance to regain your deity's favor. The scale of this penance may vary depending on the severity of your transgression, but some common forms include:

• Donate: You make a charitable donation of goods, coin, or time to a worthy cause.
• Confess: You confess your transgression to a higher-ranking agent of your faith and are forgiven.
• Pray: You spend a period of time in dedicated prayer to and worship of your deity.
• Serve: You undertake a divine quest in the service of your deity and their domain.
• Sacrifice: You give up something of significant personal value.

If your penance is accepted, you regain one lost feature.

 

 

 

 

 

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 still a cleric spell for you.

1Spellcasting

You gain the ability to cast cleric spells by channeling divine power.

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 Class Features (Cleric) table.

Replacing Known Cantrips: When you gain a cleric level, you may choose one of the cleric cantrips you know and replace it with another cantrip from the cleric spell list.

Spell Slots

The Class Features (Cleric) table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st-level and higher. To cast one of your 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.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell cure wounds and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast cure wounds using either slot.

Preparing Spells

You prepare the list of cleric spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the cleric spell list.

Preparing Your Spell List: 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. Casting a spell doesn't remove it from your list of prepared spells.

For example, if you are a 3rd-level cleric with a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared spells can include six spells of 1st or 2nd-level, in any combination.

Changing Your 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: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your cleric spells. Use your Wisdom modifier to determine the saving throw DC or attack modifier for a cleric spell you cast.

Spellcasting Ability

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

Divine Versatility

When you finish a long rest, you can spend one point of divine favor to replace one of your known cleric cantrips with another cantrip from the cleric spell list.

2Faith

You have a number of faith points, as shown in the Faith Points column of the Class Features (Cleric) table. You can spend faith to channel power from your deity and ask for aid—and you may learn other applications from your Divine Domain.

You recover all expended faith points when you finish a long rest.

 

 

 

 

2Channel Divinity

You gain two divine powers from your Divine Domain. Some domains may grant you additional effects as you advance in levels, as noted in the domain description.

Saving Throws: Some Channel Divinity effects require saving throws. When you use such an effect from this class, the DC equals your cleric spell save DC.

4Ability Score Improvement

You can increase one ability score of your choice by +2, or two ability scores of your choice by +1. You can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Greater Ability Score Improvement: At 8th-level, you gain another ability score improvement.

6Benedictions

You are able to empower your Channel Divinity powers with Benedictions. Choose one benediction from your Divine Domain. Whenever you finish a long rest, you may change your selected benediction.

10Divine Intervention

You spend an action to call upon your deity for aid. Describe the assistance you seek, roll a d20, and check the result on the Divine Intervention table. The GM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any cleric spell or cleric domain spell (such as those included in the Divine Effects table below) would be appropriate.

You can use this feature once, and you regain expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Empowered Request: You can spend any number of faith points and divine favor to increase your chance of success—to a maximum equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). Add +1 to your result for each point you spend. You must decide how many points you wish to spend before you make your roll.

Divine Intervention

Result	Effect
1-2	Your deity is greatly offended. You have transgressed. In addition, you can't use this feature again until you finish 2d4 long rests.
3-6	You sense that your deity is displeased. You can't use this feature again until you finish 1d4 long rests.
7-18	There is no response from your deity.
19+	Your deity intervenes—though not necessarily in the way you had hoped.

Divine Effects

d100	Effect
01-03	Antimagic Field
04-06	Astral Projection
07-09	Blade Barrier
10-12	Conjure Celestial
13-15	Control Weather
16-18	Create Undead
19-21	Divine Word
22-24	Earthquake
25-27	Etherealness
28-30	Find the Path
31-33	Fire Storm
34-36	Forbiddance
37-39	Gate
40-42	Harm
43-45	Heal
46-48	Heroes' Feast
49-51	Holy Aura
52-54	Mass Heal
55-57	Planar Ally
58-60	Plane Shift
61-63	Power Word Heal
64-66	Regenerate
67-69	Resurrection
70-72	Symbol
73-75	Temple of the Gods
76-78	True Resurrection
79-81	True Seeing
82-84	Word of Recall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cleric Spells

Spell List

• Class Feature
• Cleric

Cantrips

d100
01-11	Guidance
12-22	Light
23-33	Mending
34-44	Resistance
45-55	Sacred Flame
56-66	Spare the Dying
67-77	Thaumaturgy
78-88	Toll the Dead
89-99	Word of Radiance

1st-level

d100
01-05	Bane
06-10	Bless
11-15	Cause Fear
16-20	Ceremony
21-25	Command
26-30	Create or Destroy Water
31-35	Cure Wounds
36-40	Detect Evil and Good
41-45	Detect Magic
46-50	Detect Poison and Disease
51-55	Guiding Bolt
56-60	Healing Word
61-65	Inflict Wounds
66-70	Protection from Evil and Good
71-75	Purify Food and Drink
76-80	Sanctuary
81-85	Shield of Faith

2nd-level

d100
01-05	Aid
06-10	Augury

d100
11-15	Blindness/Deafness
16-20	Calm Emotions
21-25	Continual Flame
26-30	Enhance Ability
31-35	Find Traps
36-40	Gentle Repose
41-45	Hold Person
46-50	Lesser Restoration
51-55	Locate Object
56-60	Prayer of Healing
61-65	Protection from Poison
66-70	Silence
71-75	Spiritual Weapon
76-80	Warding Bond
81-85	Zone of Truth

3rd-level

d100
01-04	Animate Dead
05-08	Beacon of Hope
09-12	Bestow Curse
13-16	Clairvoyance
17-20	Create Food and Water
21-24	Daylight
25-28	Dispel Magic
29-32	Feign Death
33-36	Glyph of Warding
37-40	Life Transference
41-44	Magic Circle
45-48	Mass Healing Word
49-52	Meld into Stone
53-56	Protection from Energy
57-60	Remove Curse
61-64	Revivify
65-68	Sending
69-72	Speak with Dead

d100
73-76	Spirit Guardians
77-80	Tongues
81-84	Water Walk

4th-level

d100
01-12	Banishment
13-24	Control Water
25-36	Death Ward
37-48	Divination
49-60	Freedom of Movement
61-72	Guardian of Faith
73-84	Locate Creature
85-96	Stone Shape

5th-level

d100
01-05	Commune
06-10	Contagion
11-15	Dawn
16-20	Dispel Evil and Good
21-25	Flame Strike
26-30	Geas
31-35	Greater Restoration
36-40	Hallow
41-45	Holy Weapon
46-50	Insect Plague
51-55	Legend Lore
56-60	Mass Cure Wounds
61-65	Planar Binding
66-70	Raise Dead
71-75	Scrying
76-80	Skill Empowerment
81-85	Wall of Light