The Cleric

The Cleric

A Dungeon World Playbook

ByDavid GuyllMelissa Guyll

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As with The Bard, The Druid, and The Fighter, this one deviates from it's Dungeon World iteration considerably: it's not merely a half-hearted and/or -assed reskin. For starters, there's no pseudo-Vancian magic system. You have a handful of Favor points (something we originally cooked up for FrankenFourth) that you can spend to protect yourself, heal others (over time), and increase the odds of succeeding at tasks that fall within your deity's purview. You can also perform services for your deity in exchange for XP, attempt to ward off whatever it is that your deity is opposed to (not just undead), perform divine rituals, and use WIS instead of INT to see what you know about your deity and things relating to it. The thirty advanced moves let you control how your cleric develops as you level up: you can repel your deity's enemies to a greater range (and even inflict harm if they're too close), lend allies some of your power, better protect yourself (and even your allies if they're close enough), call down your deity's wrath (which can decimate a group of enemies down the road), heal better and faster, gain more Favor, summon the servants of your deity (and even gain one of their abilities), and much more. Like many of our classes, there are even a handful of other moves crammed in the back that we couldn't fit on the sheet. For obvious reasons, holy symbols are also a pretty big deal (you're -1 to a lot of things without one), and there are rules for more expensive holy symbols, as well as symbols made from other materials and integrating them into a weapon or shield (both making your weapon or shield holy, and also freeing up one of your hands). While this class is intended to replace the "official" cleric with something less dependent on older Dungeons & Dragons traditions, they're different enough that you could feasibly use both in the same game, or even mix and match the two and get something completely different!

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Publication Date
Jun 21, 2025
Language
English
Category
Games
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All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): David Guyll, By (author): Melissa Guyll

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PDF

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