#cleric d&d

[akkator]

Wayfarer Domain - Cleric

On the 7th day of JanBrewary, we travel to Hevan, Hell, and everywhere in between, with the travel-focused Wayfare domain cleric.

[spacedoutwitch]

Another belated Art Fight post!  This is @thanako‘s character Elion!  Along with a bird of questionable intentions.

[feyspeaker]

divine prints | patreon

[prokopetz]

Can you go over what is going on with Paladins and Clerics in DND, not from a mechanical or in universe perspective, but from what different sources/genres/tropes they are drawing on? They always seemed to have too much overlap in the basic concept to me to make sense as separate things in the dnd classes/stock character line up.

Clerics originated way back in the pre-OD&D days, when the game that would become Dungeons & Dragons was still a fantasy roleplaying add-on intended to be paired with your favourite historical wargame. One of the players in Dave Arneson's original Blackmoor campaign had an army whose commander/player character was a vampire named Sir Fang, who proved to be sufficiently overpowered that a mechanical "hard counter" was desired.

This ended up taking the form of a vampire-hunting priest character heavily inspired by Peter Cushing's turn as Abraham Van Helsing in the 1958 Christopher Lee adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula; that vampire-hunting priest in turn developed into what would become one of original flavour D&D's three core classes (the other two being the fighter and the wizard – the thief/rogue came later).

The paladin, meanwhile, was originally a direct, 1:1 lift of Holger Carlsen, the protagonist of Poul Anderson's 1961 fantasy novel Three Hearts and Three Lions, and was introduced as a subclass of the fighter – rather than a class of its own – in the 1975 Greyhawk supplement. Over the game's editions it's wandered from being a fighter subclass, to being a high-level "advanced class" to which qualifying characters can switch at 10th level, back to being a fighter subclass, and finally to a core class, where it's generally remained.

So, in short, the cleric was originally a purpose-built hard counter to vampire PCs loosely patterned after Peter Cushing's Abraham Van Helsing, while the paladin was originally for people who just really wanted to be one specific Poul Anderson character.

(I'm sorry if that's not a terribly satisfying answer, but you need to understand that practically everything in old-school D&D is a 1960s or 1970s pop culture reference – it just doesn't read that way to modern audiences because nobody gets the memes anymore.)

[outlandidol]

Mayazar Hashurai - my replacement character for our DnD campaign after Sada's death. Maya is a half-elf Death Domain Cleric, and temple maiden of the Cult of Orcus, having grown up within their temple's walls. In our DM's setting Orcus - along with a few other greater devils - aided in the defense of the world against -an even greater threat some hundred years ago (this was a part of our previous campaign). Despite the devils' own motivations for their aid, worship of these devils as gods as more socially acceptable, especially in the southern continent. She's actually quite pleasant and strikingly "normal" - a contrast to the necromantic elements of her religious values. The vibe I'm going for with Maya is something like a blend between a necromancer, a geisha, and a Spanish dancer.

[xiewho]

could i get a fabian pretty pls… possessed would be cool but anything with him is fine

based on that one fake bad kids twt thread that i Cannot find for the life of me

[retrogamingblog2]

Eeveelution RPG Class Pins made by YuenaShop

[sbeep]

Some primal aasimar cleric & druid ideas got really stuck in my craw last year so I'm revisiting. Tempest domain, gods of fury and prophecised purpose, my beloveds.

[cat-cosplay]

MONSTAH!

[chaoticcomposition]

also cleaned up this base & doodled some outfits for athalia!

[artharakka]

Sala, a cleric of Menura of Many Songs, a deity of imitations and art 🌙🦚

...unless it’s actually Eilir, fiancé of Deervale’s princess Aella, running from their arranged marriage.

[ithinkdogshouldvote]

My campaign just ended, so now you guys have to see my sopping wet ugly lizard warlock who's patron is his ex-wife.

[crab-milk]

foxglove

[feyspeaker]

moonmaiden prints | high res on patreon

[oldschoolfrp]

The party's healer calls on high level magic to raise a fallen warrior (Tim Truman, Dragon 140, December 1988). This appeared in an article about clerical healing, but I think it looks like the spellcaster has defeated the fighter and is celebrating his victory.

[elviragrey]

Baronet.