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Cleric

You are an ordained priest of your deity and have even learned how to cast a few divine spells. Though your main training lies elsewhere, your religious calling provides you divine gifts.

Cleric Dedication Feat 2

Archetype Dedication Multiclass

Prerequisite(s) Wisdom 14

You cast spells like a cleric. You gain access to the Cast a Spell activity. You can prepare two common cantrips each day from the divine spell list in this book or any other cantrips you learn or discover. You’re trained in spell attack rolls and spell DCs for divine spells. Your key spellcasting ability for cleric archetype spells is Wisdom , and they are divine cleric spells. Choose a deity as you would if you were a cleric. You become bound by that deity’s anathema. You become trained in Religion and your deity’s associated skill; for each of these skills in which you were already trained, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You don’t gain any other abilities from your choice of deity.

Special You cannot select another dedication feat until you have gained two other feats from the cleric archetype.

Basic Cleric Spellcasting Feat 4

Archetype

Prerequisite(s) Cleric Dedication

You gain the basic spellcasting benefits. You can prepare your deity’s spells in your spell slots of the appropriate level from the cleric archetype.

Basic Dogma Feat 4

Archetype

Prerequisite(s) Cleric Dedication

You gain a 1st- or 2nd-level cleric feat.

Advanced Dogma Feat 6

Archetype

Prerequisite(s) Basic Dogma

You gain one cleric feat. For the purpose of meeting its prerequisites, your cleric level is equal to half your character level.

Special You can select this feat more than once. Each time you select it, you gain another cleric feat.

Divine Breadth Feat 8

Archetype

Prerequisite(s) Basic Cleric Spellcasting

You can cast more divine spells each day. Increase the spell slots you gain from cleric archetype feats by 1 for each spell level other than your two highest cleric spell slots.

Expert Cleric Spellcasting Feat 12

Archetype

Prerequisite(s) Basic Cleric Spellcasting, master in Religion

You gain the expert spellcasting benefits.

Master Cleric Spellcasting Feat 18

Archetype

Prerequisite(s) Expert Cleric Spellcasting, legendary in Religion

You gain the master spellcasting benefits.

Multiclass Cleric Characters

The cleric archetype is a great way to create a character of another class who’s a devotee of a particular deity.

The many domains available to clerics of different deities present a variety of options for focus spells.

  • Alchemist clerics work well with the chirurgeon field, Healing various ailments with either alchemy or spells.
  • Martial clerics are typically looking for a potent domain spell or some Healing to use in a pinch.
  • Divine sorcerer clerics double down as the ultimate divine spellcasters.
  • Other spellcaster clerics diversify their options, becoming theurgic characters who combine two magical traditions.
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