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Given powerful low-level Clerical healing, how can sick, crippled or otherwise unhealthy people exist?
You need not change anything about the default setting in order to have people "left out" of the benefits of clerical magic.
I don't think that clerical spellcasting is as easy to come by as ...
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Can clerics use swords?
Any character can use any weapon; there are no limitations (except size - a medium creature can't use a storm giant's axe or a pixie's dagger). If they are proficient in that weapon they get their ...
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How can a Cleric be proficient in warhammers?
Two cleric domains get proficiency with martial weapons in DnD 5e, and dwarves have a racial proficiency
Cleric Domain
PHB p. 62 and 63 identify Tempest and War Domains as having martial weapon ...
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Is there a way to prevent a Forge Cleric from using Divine Intervention to escape from custody?
The father is using divine intervention to get help... from his child!
Of course the PC's father is seeking divine intervention from Moradin. And as a 10th level cleric, Moradin answers his call a few ...
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Can clerics create holy water?
Under "Chapter 5: Equipment" in the Player's Basic Rules and Player's Handbook:
A cleric or paladin may create holy water by performing a special ritual. The ritual takes 1 hour to perform, uses 25 ...
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How might a character transport hundreds of thousands of gold inconspicuously?
The only way to do this inconspicuously is to convert all that money into gems. A mundane backpack could easily carry 500,000 gp worth of gems with room left over for camping gear. Upon arrival, gems ...
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How does anyone ever die with a Cleric
Dying in Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition very rarely occurs by chance. Importantly being reduced to 0 HP only renders a player character unconscious.
Finishing off Unconscious Players
An intelligent ...
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How many spells can a cleric learn?
How many spells can a Cleric learn?
None, because Clerics 'Prepare' their spells without having to learn them.
Clerics, Paladins, and Druids are unique spellcasters in that, unlike every other ...
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What happens when I can prepare more spells than I have slots to cast them with?
There is a big difference between 'Spells Prepared for the Day' and 'Spell Slots.'
The spells you prepare is the library of options you have to pick
from when you go to cast a spell.
A Spell Slot is ...
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How much health will a Life Domain cleric regain from the Blessed Healer feature using the Mass Healing Word spell?
If the Cleric casts Mass Healing Word, targeting each of the 4 party members, how many times would the Cleric gain HP equal to 2 + Spell Level?
I would argue only once, because the trigger for ...
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How does anyone ever die with a Cleric
D&D 5e combat is low stakes
At least, in the sense that anyone is at serious risk of dying in any given combat. Each edition of D&D has progressively made dying less likely.
However, ...
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How can a jailer prevent the Forge Cleric's Artisan's Blessing from being used?
The cleric can't just transform their metal cell door to escape
It seems that your concern is that, should a Forge Domain cleric be imprisoned in a jail cell made of metal, they could use Artisan's ...
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How might a character transport hundreds of thousands of gold inconspicuously?
A Portable Hole
10,000 lbs of gold is about a 24-inch cube (0.235 m^3) and a Portable Hole doesn't have a weight limit. Since the interior of a portable hole is 6ft by 10ft, it can easily hold 500,...
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Would a cleric's domain ever preclude them from casting a general cleric spell?
Are there any official sources that these rules are based off?
Not that I know of. This does indeed seem to be a homebrew approach.
You might want to ask your DM to write down the full Cleric spell ...
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Why are Clerics and Druids Wisdom-based?
Wisdom: Prime Requisite versus Spell Casting Ability
The thing that originally made Clerics different was the prime requisite being the Wisdom score. Druids, being a sub-class of Cleric, were along ...
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How does Augury work exactly?
I'm going to take a markedly-different approach from many of the others; hopefully this perspective is useful, too.
Start by looking at the nearest-neighbor spell to augury: aura of life. 30' radius, ...
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Why would I use Scorching Ray?
The pros of Scorching Ray are:
Assuming no attacks miss, it does more damage than Guiding Bolt.
You have the option to attack multiple targets when using Scorching Ray.
Eventually, when you have ...
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Are there examples of priests/clerics having water creation abilities that predate D&D?
Numbers, Chapter 20, Verses 1 to 11
20 In the first month the whole Israelite community arrived at the
Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was
buried.
2 Now ...
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How can a Forge Cleric obtain proficiency with swords at first level?
Through your race, or possibly background
The easiest way to get the proficiency would be through a race that gives you proficiences, or through a background which might, with DM permission, grant you ...
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Given powerful low-level Clerical healing, how can sick, crippled or otherwise unhealthy people exist?
True Clerics are rare
The Player's Handbook points out that not all a deity's clergy are "clerics" who have magical healing powers.
Not every acolyte or officiant at a temple or shrine is a cleric....
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Does a Life Cleric casting Goodberry at higher spell levels get more potent Berries?
Yes!
This is a very interesting synergy that is viable.
Disciple of Life states:
Also starting at 1st level, your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to ...
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Redundant bonus spells for cleric peace domain
Domain Spells are always prepared and don’t count against your total prepared spells.
The rules for Domain Spells state:
Each domain has a list of spells — its domain spells — that you gain at the ...
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Is there an official way to effectively carry a holy symbol without breaking Vow of Poverty?
Pick your deity carefully
One of St Cuthbert's holy symbols is a wooden club, which you could take as your cheap simple weapon pick. It is possible that there are other deities with similar options.
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How often do I need to hand out spell scrolls as the DM in order to balance the Wizard's spell list with the Cleric's?
The wizard, without needing anything, is the most powerful* class in the game. They do NOT need handouts.
There are several things that I think are wrong about your question, but primarily you seem to ...
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How do I figure out how to roleplay my Cleric's faith?
As a Cleric I would have thought that piety and an overwhelming urge to do right would define my character's behaviour.
The onus of the Cleric class is to serve and represent their deity. Like all ...
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Does the Spiritual Weapon spell take a bonus action or an action to use?
This is a little confusing. You only ever get one bonus action on a turn — but this spell lasts a minute, which is ten turns. So, you can attack once with spiritual weapon as part of the casting — ...
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Casting Spells at close range as a Cleric
Aiming a ranged attack is more difficult when a foe is next to you. When you make a ranged attack with a weapon, a spell, or some other means, you have disadvantage on the attack roll if you are ...
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Do Cleric's domain spells add slots?
The domain spells do not count against your number of prepared spells per day; they are extra, and always prepared (PHB, p. 58):
Once you gain a domain spell, you always have it prepared, and it ...
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Can Goodberries heal a Life cleric when consumed by another?
No.
As others have noted, if Blessed Healer were triggered by Goodberry, it would happen when you cast the spell and not when one of the berries is consumed.
However, casting Goodberry does not ...
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Does the life cleric's Disciple of Life apply to revivify?
Yes it should apply
The life domain cleric disciple of life states (emphasis mine):
whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains ...
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