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akkator · 4 months
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Wayfarer Domain - Cleric
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On the 7th day of JanBrewary, we travel to Hevan, Hell, and everywhere in between, with the travel-focused Wayfare domain cleric.
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Hi! I'm looking for song suggestions for a Light Domain Cleric in D&D. Ideas?
Making a playlist ☺️
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spacedoutwitch · 1 year
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Another belated Art Fight post!  This is @thanako‘s character Elion!  Along with a bird of questionable intentions.
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feyspeaker · 6 months
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divine prints | patreon
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prokopetz · 6 months
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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.)
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xiewho · 1 month
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could i get a fabian pretty pls… possessed would be cool but anything with him is fine
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based on that one fake bad kids twt thread that i Cannot find for the life of me
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sbeep · 3 months
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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.
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cat-cosplay · 8 months
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MONSTAH!
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artharakka · 1 year
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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.
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retrogamingblog2 · 6 months
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Eeveelution RPG Class Pins made by YuenaShop
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chaoticcomposition · 8 months
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can't stop making dumaran ocs
here's athalia the diamond silk, a high priestess and knowledge cleric of lolth! she's got a dry personality and wants to smooch the spider queen and her parents are very proud of her station. I might come back and render her portrait later
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ivrisinwonderland · 9 months
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Porcelain my Warforged Cleric
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oldschoolfrp · 2 months
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Help, our friend has been stabbed 23 times in the curia by persons unknown (David Dorman, from the AD&D 2e Dungeon Master's Guide, TSR, 1989)
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redtallin · 6 months
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A Tempest Cleric for a commissioner! I'm super pleased with his armour, even if it took forever 😅
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feyspeaker · 7 months
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moonmaiden prints | high res on patreon
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lich-loved · 3 months
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i could make you worse
durge x shadowheart
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