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2020-08-03, 04:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
no more so than rogue/bard face or barbarian.
spiritual weapon, gaurdian, bonus damage, armor, martial weapons don't necessarily help others exceed but is common combat play...
giving allies resistance and good non-offense spell choices pushes this subclass high for me..
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2020-08-03, 10:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2006
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- Seoul
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2020-08-04, 02:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2020
Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
I'm throwing a vote for Trickery Cleric. Another player in a current game is using it really well to help make the whole party function in a more effective (stealthy) way.
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2020-08-04, 08:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2020
Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
I like forge for the free magic armor/ weapon or life cause it is a go to healer
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2020-08-04, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2015
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- Texas
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Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
Hard to pick just one.
My Tempest cleric allowed me to do a lot of stuff. Also, fog cloud domain spell ... and I love that spell ..
Life: in certain parties, my vhuman life cleric druid magic initiate keeps them alive.
Knowledge: I was late to the show on this one. Ran for about two levels, early tier 2. We had no rogue, no bard, and we discovered that our skill monkey was out cleric. Neat.
Arcana; started one, game died. Not sure how I'd have liked it any better.Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
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2020-08-04, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2018
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- NYC
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Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
I actually really like the Unity Domain, but I think it should've still been called the Love domain. There are many types of love; platonic, familial, romantic, communal. I think the new theming of the Unity Domain with the old name would've been 100% fine. I also really really like the Unity Domain's mechanics. Emboldening Bond is insanely good and the fact it stacks with bless makes it extremely good for supporting your allies.
I think the focus on charms and non-consensual enchantments should be pretty divorced from the Love domain; that feels more like it would fall under Trickery.Last edited by Trustypeaches; 2020-08-04 at 03:45 PM.
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2020-08-05, 07:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2017
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- Land of dreams
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Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
Nature, Light and Tempest are my favourite Domains.
Nature with the Druidic cantrip (I prefer thorn whip to drag enemies closer to my spirit guardians) and the dampen elements feature is quite good. I guess the channel divinity isn’t as grand in high level play but I’ve only ever played a Forge Domain Cleric in a one shot at level 17.
Light Domain. Who needs a weapon, some great blasting ability here.
Tempest has always been a favourite. I love the features, though I do wish they got lightning bolt or chain lightning as Domain spells.CENTER]
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2020-08-05, 07:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2020
Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
They're all good for their own reasons but I'm going to say I had fun recently with the Light cleric concept recently. As a DM I had my players attacking a small stronghold of a knightly order defended by a paladin, some basic warriors, and two clerics. Everyone expected a straight-up swordfight and clustered up but then they were hit by a fireball.
In general from a world-building POV the idea of light clerics sometimes taking up blasting/"artillery" roles in factions without wizards is an intriguing concept to me: in this case the order of knights having armed-and-armored clerics that can throw fire spells. But also a church that denounces "black magic and witches" but wields divine fire magic which is totally different because praise the sun god. Or the old fashioned view of Dwarves being unable to be wizards but having light clerics that can blast.
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2020-08-05, 10:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2016
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- Purgatory
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Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
I find clerics and druids to be the hardest classes to really get into.
I do not mind playing a support guy, I love playing a bard and things, but with things like wizard or even warlock I feel like I am just waiting for opportunities to cast all these cool spells, but cleric and druid is more of just a feeling of well I can throw that I guess.
I really did like playing an Arcana Cleric who took magic initiate druid.
I was captain cantrip. I was like the Swiss army caster.
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2020-08-05, 10:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2016
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Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
grave tied with death.
Grave domain is somehow better at healing then life and has a hint of necromancy witch has always been my favored school.
death domain is just a great alt to being a necromancer wizard.Have you accepted the Flying Spaghetti Monster as your Lord and Savior? If so, add this to your signature!
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2020-08-05, 11:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2016
Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
I feel you on this.
I am on the record as saying the Cleric is the best designed class in the game. All Domains get such a litany of features, especially 1-10 (including Domain spells) which do such a great job as giving each Domain its own identity, and makes them feel different from other classes. It grants that individual identity better than any other class in the game, in my opinion.
The downside of that is that for many Domains, its fairly a nuanced identity. Tempest Cleric? You make things blow up with thunder and lightning arguably better than anything else. And that's sweet! But outside combat, what're you up to? Knowledge Cleric! Pretty darn good at what you do, but are you more knowledgeable than the Bard or Rogue? Light Domain! You are certainly a capable blaster, and thematic at that, but...
Really its a list of Domains tacked on to a chassis. And that's OK. That's what 5E is, subclasses on to a main class. They're all unique. But perhaps because the Domains are all so thematic that its also fairly difficult to take it in weird, creative, different directions. Its almost too defined in a sense.
That, coupled with a largely support oriented vanilla spell list (Control for Druid) means that you're quite limited in scope for what you can do. You're pretty darn great at it, but it is a limited scope both in terms of ability and theme.
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2020-08-06, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2019
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- Somewhere over th rainbow
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2020-08-07, 02:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2017
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Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
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2020-08-07, 10:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2019
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2020-08-07, 10:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2018
Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
For me, Life cleric is the quintessential D&D cleric. Although I'm a little unclear as to why they get heavy armor. War and Forge I can see, but Life?
I'm thinking they could make do with medium armor and a little more power over undead.
Otherwise, I really like Light clerics. Healing and blasting; what's not to love? Warding Flare is a great last-second defense; and Radiance of the Dawn is just sweet.
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2020-08-07, 01:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2015
Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
I like the Light domain the best. Awesome blasting spells and a great ally-friendly AoE blast of one of the best damage types in the game.
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2020-08-07, 01:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2018
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Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
Makes the healing role more interactive. Now they can afford to be a front-line soaker, but also have features that heal themselves when they heal allies. This makes things a lot less 1-dimensional than "Wait for ally to hit ~50% HP, heal them with Healing Word" every turn.
Tying a lot of power to a self-heal also prevents undeserved benefits. It's still powerful, but now you actually gotta risk a little bit to perform at maximum efficiency. Otherwise it's a glorified healbot. The mechanical equivalent of a ranged attacker that only gets to attack and use his features when the target's at ~50% HP.Last edited by Man_Over_Game; 2020-08-07 at 02:16 PM.
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Prestige Options, changing primary attributes to open a world of new multiclassing.
Adrenaline Surge, fitting Short Rests into combat to fix bosses/Short Rest Classes.
Pain, using Exhaustion to make tactical martial combatants.
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2020-08-10, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2005
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- Virtual Austin
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2020-08-10, 09:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2006
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2020-08-11, 02:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2015
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- Texas
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Re: What's your favorite cleric domain and why?
I think it is because the original cleric was allowed heavy armor/plate armor in Original D&D, 1974 ish, which took its 'cleric' cue from the Crusades/Warrior Monks as well as the various medieval bishops who donned armor and headed for the battlefield.
I do agree with your idea on the life cleric having a bit more of an edge versus undead conceptually.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2020-08-11 at 02:28 PM.
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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