Cleric

Clerics carry their faith into the world. They stand beside the wounded, shield those in need, and wield sacred power against the undead and the wicked. A cleric’s calling may lead them to a temple, a battlefield, or a forgotten shrine—but always toward a purpose greater than themselves.

Cleric Gameplay

Below is a list of information needed to play a Cleric at the various levels of play.

Requirements and Requisites

Requirements and Requisites

Class Keywords

Priest

Prime Requisite

Your prime requisite is reason, and you gain bonus experience points based on your reason score.

• If your reason score is 13 or higher, you gain a +5% bonus to all experience points earned.
• If your reason score is 16 or higher, you gain a +10% bonus to all experience points earned.

Proficiencies

Proficiencies

Armor Proficiency

You are proficient with light, medium, and heavy armor.

Shield Proficiency

You are proficient with bucklers, small, and medium shields.

Weapon Proficiency

Your starting weapon familiarities are determined by your chosen Order and Tradition.

Class Table

Level	XP To Level	Grit	Combat	Skill	Doom	Device	Binding	Breath	Spell
1	0	+1d6 + 2	+2	+1	15	15	14	16	15
2	900	+1d6 + 2	+2	+1	14	15	13	16	14
3	1,800	+1d6 + 2	+2	+1	14	14	13	16	14
4	4,500	+1d6 + 2	+3	+1	13	14	12	15	13
5	9,000	+1d6 + 2	+3	+1	13	14	12	15	13
6	18,000	+1d6 + 2	+3	+1	12	13	11	15	12
7	45,000	+1d6 + 2	+4	+1	12	13	11	14	12
8	90,000	+1d6 + 2	+4	+2	11	13	10	14	11
9	180,000	+1d6 + 2	+4	+2	11	12	10	14	11
10	270,000	+2	+5	+2	10	12	9	13	10
11	360,000	+2	+5	+2	10	12	9	13	10
12	450,000	+2	+5	+2	9	11	8	13	9
13	675,000	+2	+6	+2	9	11	8	12	9
14	900,000	+2	+6	+2	9	11	8	12	9

Spell Progression Table

Class Level	Cantrips		Spell Slots
	Preparations	Casts	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5
1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	3	4	2	-	-	-	-
3	3	4	3	-	-	-	-
4	3	5	3	2	-	-	-
5	4	5	3	3	-	-	-
6	4	6	3	3	2	-	-
7	4	6	3	3	3	-	-
8	4	7	4	3	3	2	-
9	5	7	4	3	3	3	-
10	5	8	4	4	3	3	1
11	5	8	4	4	3	3	2
12	5	9	5	4	4	3	3
13	6	9	5	4	4	3	3
14	6	9	5	5	4	4	3

Cleric Features

As a cleric, you gain the following class features.

1st Level: Holy Symbol

Holy Symbol

1st Level Cleric Feature

Many of your class features require you to present your holy symbol. A holy symbol is a physical representation of your faith and devotion. It may take nearly any form, such as an amulet, prayer beads, a reliquary, or another relic sacred to your beliefs.

To present your holy symbol, you must hold it aloft in clear view. This requires one hand. Alternatively, you may emblazon your holy symbol upon a shield. Wielding and openly displaying such a shield allows you to present your holy symbol.

1st Level: Order

Order

1st Level Cleric Feature

You belong to an Order: an organization, fellowship, or tradition dedicated to a shared purpose. Your chosen Order grants you unique features based on its teachings, practices, and methods. When you select an Order, you must also select one of its available Traditions. Your chosen Tradition determines the features you gain.

As a Cleric, you can select from the Military and Devotional Traditions.

You can find a list of Orders and their available Traditions in your campaign guides. However, the Orders and Traditions listed below are available in any generic campaign.

Brotherhood of the Ashen Cross

Mercy through sacrifice

Members of the Brotherhood of the Ashen Cross uphold the virtues of sacrifice, endurance, and compassion. They are renowned for their skill as healers, and many serve alongside knightly orders as battlefield medics and caretakers.

Regardless of whether you belong to its Military, Devotional, or Stewardship tradition, you gain the Brotherhood of the Ashen Cross Adventure Keyword.

Military Tradition

The Field Medics

Dedicated Ally

You begin play Familiar with Clubs and Maces, Hammers and Picks, Staves, and Crossbows.

Any time you use the Help action in combat, or cast a spell that restores Grit to an ally, you can perform the activity 1 Phase earlier than listed.

Devotional Tradition

The Keepers of Mercy

Merciful Caregiver

You begin play Familiar with Clubs and Maces and Staves.

When you preform the Caregiving downtime activity, characters under your care recover additional grit equal to 1/2 the level of the class that provided this feature.

If you are able to cast spells, when you cast any spell that restores grit based on a dice roll, increase the healing dice provided by 1 dice step.

Knights of the Black Lion

Honor and protection

The Knights of the Black Lion uphold the virtues of loyalty, honor, and martial excellence. They do not seek to destroy every threat they encounter, but instead dedicate themselves to maintaining order and defending those placed under their protection.

Regardless of whether you belong to its Military, Devotional, or Stewardship tradition, you gain the Knights of the Black Lion Adventure Keyword.

Military Tradition

The Shield Bearers

Consummate Protector

You begin play Familiar with Single-Handed Swords, Long-Gripped Swords, Spears, and Polearms.

For 1 Action starting in Phase 1, you can designate an adjacent ally as the target of your protection. So long as they are adjacent to you, they gain a +1 situation bonus to AC. This benefit lasts until you protect another ally.

Devotional Tradition

The Lionhearts

Steadfast Conviction

You begin play Familiar with Clubs and Maces and Staves.

Any time you use the Help action in combat, or cast a beneficial spell that targets an ally, the ally who was the beneficiary of your action or spell gain a +1 situation bonus to their AC and Saving Throws until this phase next round.

Confraternity of the Iron Crown

Order is the foundation of peace

Members of the Confraternity of the Iron Crown uphold the virtues of authority, command, and discipline. They believe strength and conviction are necessary to guide society, and that those entrusted with power have a responsibility to protect the common folk. Their methods often bring them into conflict with rulers and nobles, though they maintain that their cause is just.

Regardless of whether you belong to its Military, Devotional, or Stewardship tradition, you gain the Confraternity of the Iron Crown Adventure Keyword.

Military Tradition

The Commanders

Commanding Presence

You begin play Familiar with Single-Handed Swords, Long-Gripped Swords, Pikes, and Flails.

If your allies can see and hear you, they can utilize the Help Activity 1 Phase earlier than normal. Additionally, such allies increase the bonuses provided by taking the Focus on Defense action by +1.

Devotional Tradition

The Voices of Authority

Unyielding Authority

You begin play Familiar with Clubs and Maces, Staves, and Flails.

When an adjacent ally fails a Saving Throw against fear, charm, or an effect that would compel them to act against their beliefs, you may use your Reaction to allow them to reroll the Saving Throw.

1st Level: Turn Undead

Turn Undead

1st Level Cleric Feature

Clerics can channel sacred power to drive back the undead. To use this ability, you must openly present a symbol of your faith. Turn Undead requires 1 Master Action and may be performed beginning in Phase 1. You must present your holy symbol to Turn Undead.

Determine Highest Level

When you attempt to Turn Undead, first determine the highest-level Valid Creature you can affect.

Roll 1d20 and compare the result to your Presence Attribute using the table below. The result determines the highest creature level that can be affected by this attempt.

Valid Creatures 4 or more levels higher than your Cleric Level cannot be affected. Likewise, Valid Creatures 3 or more levels lower than your Cleric Level are always affected, regardless of your roll.

d20 Result	Highest Creature Level
Presence +6	Cleric Level -2
Presence +3	Cleric Level -1
Presence	Cleric Level
Presence -3	Cleric Level +1
Presence -6	Cleric Level +2
Presence -9	Cleric Level +3

Determine Turning Capacity

Next, determine the total number of creature levels you can affect. Roll 2d6 and add half your Cleric Level (rounded down). The result is your Turning Capacity.

Turn Undead Effect

Beginning with the lowest-level Valid Creature within 60 feet that can see you, subtract each affected creature’s level from your Turning Capacity until you either have insufficient capacity to affect another creature or there are no more Valid Creatures.

Affected creatures immediately flee from you by the safest available route. Instead of fleeing, creatures that are 5 or more levels lower than your Cleric Level are instantly destroyed, crumbling to dust.

Creature Interactions

Valid Creatures

• A creature with the Necros keyword is a Valid Creature.

2nd Level: Spellcasting

Spellcasting

2nd Level Cleric Feature

Through prayer and unwavering faith, you have learned to prepare sacred miracles within your mind. Each miracle is a blessing that can be held only temporarily. When invoked, it is expended and slips from memory until granted again through prayer.

Your spells are clerical spells, and you use the Sacred casting method. You otherwise follow the general rules in Chapter 09: Spellcasting.

Spell Preparation

As part of a Safe Rest, you may perform a personal ritual to prepare your spells. During this ritual, you offer prayers to a higher power and beseech it to grant you sacred miracles.

You may prepare any spell on the Cleric spell list for which you have a spell slot of the appropriate level. The spells you prepare take effect when you complete the Safe Rest. If the Safe Rest is not completed, the spells are not prepared.

Reversible Spells

Each time you prepare a reversible spell, choose whether you prepare its primary or reverse form. The chosen form is treated as the prepared spell.

Preparing one form does not prepare the other. To have both forms available, you must prepare each separately.

Casting Spells

You use the Sacred casting method described in the spellcasting chapter. You must present your holy symbol when casting a spell, and the hand used to present it is your Casting Hand. Your Holy Symbol feature explains how you present it.

Cantrips

Cantrips are simple prayers that require little devotion to prepare.

When you prepare your spells as part of a Safe Rest, you may also prepare the number of cantrips shown on your Spell Progression table from the Cleric cantrip list.

Your Spell Progression table also shows the number of cantrip casts in your shared pool. You regain all expended cantrip casts when you complete a Night’s Rest.

5th Level: Keyword Feature

Keyword Feature

5th Level Character Feature

Upon reaching 5th level, select one Keyword Feature whose prerequisites you meet. Keyword Features are presented in Chapter 11, and may also appear in campaign guides.

If you are a multi-class character, you gain this feature only once, when one of your classes first reaches 5th level. When determining whether you meet a feature's prerequisites, consider all keywords you possess, regardless of the level of the class that granted them.

10th Level: Establishment

Establishment

10th Level Character Feature

Upon reaching 10th level, your accomplishments have earned you the influence and resources needed to establish a lasting presence in the world.

You may construct, claim, or restore an establishment. The establishments available to you are determined by the keywords you possess. Each keyword grants access to one or more establishments, allowing you to found organizations, strongholds, places of learning or worship, centers of commerce, and other holdings appropriate to your expertise.

If you possess multiple keywords, you may select an establishment from any one of them, provided you meet its prerequisites. Additional establishments may also be available through your ancestry or campaign guides.

An establishment serves as more than a place to reside. It becomes the center of your growing influence, allowing you to attract followers, train retainers, conduct research, manage lands or organizations, craft items, and undertake other long-term endeavors. The benefits and requirements of each establishment are described with the establishment itself.

If you are a multi-class character, you gain this feature only once, when one of your classes first reaches 10th level. When determining whether you meet a feature's prerequisites, consider all keywords you possess, regardless of the level of the class that granted them.

Cleric Spell List

Cantrips

Minor Healing

Your touch restores a small amount of vitality.

1st-Level

Bless

Reverse: Curse

Bolsters allies with divine favor.

Command

Forces a creature to perform a short action.

Cure Light Wounds

Reverse: Inflict Light Wounds

Your touch restores vigor to an ally.

Curse

Reverse of: Bless

Afflicts foes with divine condemnation.

Darkness

Reverse of: Light

You create darkness to swallow light.

Detect Evil

Reverse: Detect Good

You can detect the presence of evil.

Detect Good

Reverse of: Detect Evil

You can detect the presence of pure good.

Inflict Light Wounds

Reverse of: Cure Light Wounds

Your touch drains vigor from a foe.

Light

Reverse: Darkness

You create light in the darkness.

Protection from Evil

Reverse: Protection from Good

Evil creatures have difficulty striking you.

Protection from Good

Reverse of: Protection from Evil

Good creatures have difficulty striking you.

2nd-Level

No spells matched the current filters.

3rd-Level

No spells matched the current filters.

4th-Level

No spells matched the current filters.

5th-Level

Augury

You seek answers for actions that you will take.