6.4 Cleric

Rank (Level)	Divine Magic ✨	Divine Spell Mastery ✨	Domain Influence	Healer ✨	Preacher
1 (1)	Divine spells	Metamagic	Domain gifts	Divine aid	Denounce the heathens
2 (4)	Divine spells+	Turn undead	Domain aspect	Healer’s grace	Persuasive certainty
3 (7)		Spell-trained mind	Domain aspect+	Vital restoration	Bless the worthy
4 (10)	Divine spells+	Metamagic+	Domain essences	Called to the needy	Inspiring oration
5 (13)		Attunement point	Miracle	Healer’s grace+	Condemn the fearful
6 (16)		Experienced spellcaster	Domain masteries	Revivify	Persuasive certainty+
7 (19)	Divine spells+	Metamagic+	Miracle+	Called to the needy+	Convert the irresolute

Clerics are divine spellcasters who draw power from their worship of a single deity. The powers of any individual cleric can vary greatly depending on their deity, and the specific aspects of that deity they choose to emulate. Many clerics have exceptional healing or oratory talents, which are powerful tools in spreading the influence of their deity.

Deities are a constant background presence in the world of Rise. Commoners acknowledge the influence of many deities on their life, and offer gifts or prayers to each deity according to their purview. Clerics are the primary conduits through which deities answer these prayers. In exchange for their mighty divine power, clerics are charged with serving the deity’s interests in the world.

Clerics are the most common spellcasting class in the world. The path to becoming a cleric is easier than for any other spellcasting class except for sorcerers, and unlike sorcerers, clerics require no special birthright. Many clerics have responsibilities to their deity that preclude adventuring. For example, some clerics provide healing services to anyone who enters their temple.

Adventuring clerics can exist for a variety of reasons. They may be charged to help spread knowledge of their deity, and becoming well-known as an adventurer can serve that end. Alternately, they may simply be charged by their deity to grow their personal power. Deities need powerful clerics to maximize their influence on the mortal world.

Paladins and druids are closely related to clerics, since all three draw power from their veneration of external entities. However, the specific nature of each connection is quite different. Clerics can always be confident that they serve their deity’s best interests. In contrast, paladins and druids have no oversight and unclear responsibilities. This makes them unreliable allies at best and ideological foes at worst.

Druids and clerics have a degree of intrinsic tension. Clerics generally want to expand the worship of their specific deity. That task is easiest in civilized areas where many potential worshippers can be found. However, it is contrary to the typical druidic preference against civilization.

The standard pantheon of deities is listed below. You can also talk to your GM about worshipping an unusual deity.

Deity	Alignment	Domains
Gregory, warrior god of mundanity	Lawful good	Law, Protection, Strength, War
Guftas, horse god of justice	Lawful good	Good, Law, Strength, Travel
Lucied, paladin god of justice	Lawful good	Destruction, Good, Protection, War
Simor, fighter god of protection	Lawful good	Good, Protection, Strength, War
Ayala, naiad god of water	Neutral good	Life, Magic, Water, Wild
Pabs Beerbeard, dwarf god of drink	Neutral good	Good, Life, Strength, Wild
Rucks, monk god of pragmatism	Neutral good	Good, Law, Protection, Travel
Vanya, centaur god of nature	Neutral good	Good, Strength, Travel, Wild
Brushtwig, pixie god of creativity	Chaotic good	Chaos, Good, Trickery, Wild
Camilla, tiefling god of fire	Chaotic good	Fire, Good, Magic, Protection
Chavi, wandering god of stories	Chaotic good	Chaos, Knowledge, Trickery
Chort, dwarf god of optimism	Chaotic good	Good, Life, Travel, Wild
Ivan Ivanovitch, bear god of strength	Chaotic good	Chaos, Strength, War, Wild
Krunch, barbarian god of destruction	Chaotic good	Destruction, Good, Strength, War
Sir Cakes, dwarf god of freedom	Chaotic good	Chaos, Good, Strength
Mikolash, scholar god of knowledge	Lawful neutral	Knowledge, Law, Magic, Protection
Raphael, monk god of retribution	Lawful neutral	Death, Law, Protection, Travel
Declan, god of fire	True neutral	Destruction, Fire, Knowledge, Magic
Mammon, golem god of endurance	True neutral	Knowledge, Magic, Protection, Strength
Kurai, shaman god of nature	True neutral	Air, Earth, Fire, Water
Amanita, druid god of decay	Chaotic neutral	Chaos, Destruction, Life, Wild
Antimony, elf god of necromancy	Chaotic neutral	Death, Knowledge, Life, Magic
Clockwork, elf god of time	Chaotic neutral	Chaos, Magic, Trickery, Travel
Diplo, doll god of destruction	Chaotic neutral	Chaos, Destruction, Strength, War
Lord Khallus, fighter god of pride	Chaotic neutral	Chaos, Strength, War
Celeano, sorcerer god of deception	Chaotic neutral	Chaos, Magic, Protection, Trickery
Murdoc, god of mercenaries	Chaotic neutral	Destruction, Knowledge, Travel, War
Ribo, halfling god of trickery	Chaotic neutral	Chaos, Trickery, Water
Tak, orc god of war	Lawful evil	Law, Strength, Trickery, War
Theodolus, sorcerer god of ambition	Neutral evil	Evil, Knowledge, Magic, Trickery
Daeghul, demon god of slaughter	Chaotic evil	Destruction, Evil, Magic, War

Alignment: Any.

Archetypes: Clerics have the Divine Magic, Divine Spell Mastery, Domain Influence, Healer, and Preacher archetypes.

6.4.1 Base Class Effects

If you choose cleric as your base class, you gain the following benefits.

Attributes

You gain a +1 bonus to your Willpower. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to either your Perception or your Intelligence.

Hit Points

You have 8 hit points + your Constitution, plus 1 hit points per level beyond 1. This increases as your level increases, as indicated below.

• Level 7: 18 hit points + twice your Constitution, plus 2 hit points per level beyond 7.
• Level 13: 35 hit points + five times your Constitution, plus 5 hit points per level beyond 13.
• Level 19: 70 hit points + ten times your Constitution, plus 10 hit points per level beyond 19.

Defenses

You gain a +2 bonus to your Mental defense.

Resources

You learn three trained skills from among your class skills (see Skills). You also gain an additional attunement point and an additional insight point.

Weapon Proficiencies

You are proficient with simple weapons.

Armor Proficiencies

You are proficient with light and medium armor.

Class Skills

You have the following class skills:

• Intelligence: Deduction, Knowledge (arcana, items, local, religion, planes), Medicine.

• Perception: Awareness, Deception, Persuasion, Social Insight.

• Other: Intimidate.

6.4.2 Special Class Abilities

Deity

You must worship a specific deity to be a cleric. For details, see Table 12.1: Deities.

Seek Guidance ✨

You can seek guidance from your deity through a ten minute ritual or prayer. This provides a vision, emotional instinct, or other guidance on how you can best serve your deity’s interests. You cannot ask specific questions of your deity, and this is not a general method for sharing information. Deities tend to disapprove of clerics who seek guidance to solve mortal problems that they should be able to deal with themselves. You are generally informed what your current responsibilities are, such as “tend to the wounded who enter my temple” or “do battle with those who serve evil”.

6.4.3 Divine Magic ✨

This archetype grants you the ability to cast divine spells. All abilities from this archetype are magical ✨.

Rank 1 – Divine Spells ✨

Your deity grants you the ability to use divine magic. You gain access to one divine mystic sphere, plus the universal mystic sphere (see Divine Mystic Spheres). You may spend insight points to gain access to one additional divine mystic sphere per two insight points. You can only learn divine spells from divine mystic spheres that you have access to.

You automatically learn all cantrips from each of your mystic spheres. In addition, you learn two rank 1 divine spells. You can also spend insight points to learn one additional rank 1 spell per insight point.

Divine spells require verbal components to cast (see ??). For details about mystic spheres and casting spells, see ??.

When you gain access to a new mystic sphere or spell rank, you can forget any number of spells you know to learn that many new spells in exchange, including spells of the higher rank.

Advancement: The maximum rank of divine spells that you can learn is equal to your rank in this archetype. Divine spells also increase in power in unique ways based on your rank in this archetype, as indicated in their descriptions.

Rank 2 – Divine Spells+ ✨

You learn an additional divine spell.

Rank 4 – Divine Spells+ ✨

You learn an additional divine spell.

Rank 7 – Divine Spells+ ✨

You learn an additional divine spell.

6.4.4 Divine Spell Mastery ✨

This archetype improves the divine spells you cast. You must have the Divine Magic archetype from the cleric class to gain the abilities from this archetype. All abilities from this archetype are magical ✨.

Rank 1 – Metamagic ✨

You learn how to further refine your spellcasting abilities. Choose two metamagic abilities from the list below.

Some metamagic abilities affect specific spells. You can only choose spells with a rank no higher than your rank in this archetype. In addition, you cannot choose the same spell with more than two metamagic abilities. Whenever you learn a new spell, you may change which specific spells your metamagic abilities affect.

Distant Spell: Choose a divine spell you know with a standard range: Short (30 ft.), Medium (60 ft.), Long (90 ft.), Distant (120 ft.), or Extreme (180 ft.). You increase that spell’s range to the next standard range category, to a maximum of Extreme range. You can choose this ability multiple times, choosing a different spell each time.

Precise Spell: Choose a divine spell you know. You gain a +2 accuracy bonus with that spell. You can choose this ability multiple times, choosing a different spell each time.

Rituals: You gain the ability to perform divine rituals to create unique magical effects (see Spells and Rituals). The maximum rank of divine ritual you can learn or perform is equal to the maximum rank of divine spell that you can cast. In addition, you automatically learn one free divine ritual of each rank you have access to, including new ranks as you gain access to them. You cannot choose this ability multiple times.

Smiting Spell: Choose a divine spell you know. You gain a +2 power bonus with that spell. In addition, your allies are immune to damage from that spell. You can choose this ability multiple times, choosing a different spell each time.

Widened Spell: Choose a divine spell you know with a standard area: Small (15 ft.), Medium (30 ft.), Large (60 ft.), Huge (90 ft.), or Gargantuan (120 ft.). You increase that spell’s area to the next standard area category, to a maximum of a Gargantuan area. You can choose this ability multiple times, choosing a different spell each time.

Rank 2 – Turn Undead ✨

Rank 3 – Spell-Trained Mind ✨

You gain a +1 bonus to your Willpower.

Rank 4 – Metamagic+ ✨

You gain an additional metamagic ability.

Rank 5 – Attunement Point ✨

You gain an additional attunement point.

Rank 6 – Experienced Spellcaster ✨

You gain a +1 accuracy bonus with spells.

Rank 7 – Metamagic+ ✨

You gain two additional metamagic abilities.

6.4.5 Domain Influence

This archetype grants you divine influence over two domains of your choice.

Rank 1 – Domain Gifts

You choose two domains which represent your personal spiritual inclinations. You must choose your domains from among those your deity offers. The domains are listed below.

Each domain has a corresponding domain gift. A domain gift is a passive ability that reinforces your ability to embody your domain. You gain the domain gift for both of your domains (see Cleric Domain Abilities).

• Air
• Chaos
• Death
• Destruction
• Earth
• Evil
• Fire
• Good
• Knowledge
• Law
• Life
• Magic
• Protection
• Strength
• Travel
• Trickery
• War
• Water
• Wild

Rank 2 – Domain Aspect

Each domain has a corresponding domain aspect. A domain aspect is an active ability that allows you to exert the influence of your domain in the world. You gain the domain aspect ability for one of your domains (see Cleric Domain Abilities).

Rank 3 – Domain Aspect+

At rank 3, you gain the domain aspect for another one of your domains.

Rank 4 – Domain Essences

Each domain has a corresponding domain essence. You gain the domain essence for both of your domains (see Cleric Domain Abilities).

Rank 5 – Miracle ✨

You can request a miracle as a standard action.

Rank 6 – Domain Masteries

Each domain has a corresponding domain mastery. You gain the domain mastery for both of your domains (see Cleric Domain Abilities).

Rank 7 – Miracle+ ✨

Your miracle ability does not increase your fatigue level. In addition, you can perform two miracles per week instead of only one.

6.4.6 Healer ✨

This archetype grants you healing abilities. All abilities from this archetype are magical ✨.

Rank 1 – Divine Aid ✨

Rank 2 – Healer’s Grace ✨

You gain a +1 bonus to all defenses. Whenever you attack or deal damage to a living creature, you briefly lose this bonus.

Rank 3 – Vital Restoration ✨

Rank 4 – Called to the Needy ✨

At the end of each round, you automatically learn the identity and location of each living ally within Long (90 ft.) range of you that lost hit points during that round. In addition, you can choose to teleport to any one of those allies. You arrive in the unoccupied square on solid ground closest to that ally.

Rank 5 – Healer’s Grace+ ✨

The defense bonus increases to +2.

Rank 6 – Revivify ✨

Rank 7 – Called to the Needy+ ✨

This ability no longer requires line of sight or line of effect, and the range increases to Extreme (180 ft.) range.

6.4.7 Preacher

This archetype grants you the ability to inspire your allies and denounce or even convert your foes.

Rank 1 – Denounce the Heathens

Rank 2 – Persuasive Certainty

You gain a +2 bonus to the Persuasion skill. In addition, you are immune to being stunned (-2 defenses).

Rank 3 – Bless the Worthy

Rank 4 – Inspiring Oration

Your allies who can hear you in a fight are immune to being stunned (-2 defenses) and confused (-2 defenses, randomly attack or defend). You must generally say inspiring words every few rounds to grant your allies this effect, though they can be brief, so this does not take an action.

Rank 5 – Condemn the Fearful

Rank 6 – Persuasive Certainty+

The Persuasion bonus increases to +4. In addition, you are immune to being confused (-2 defenses, randomly attack or defend).

Rank 7 – Convert the Irresolute

6.4.8 Cleric Domain Abilities

These domain abilities can be granted by the domain influence cleric archetype.

Air Domain

If you choose this domain, you add the aeromancy mystic sphere to your list of divine mystic spheres (see Mystic Spheres). In addition, you add the Jump skill to your list of class skills.

Gift ✨: You gain a +10 foot bonus to your maximum horizontal jump distance (see Jump). This increases your maximum vertical jump distance normally. In addition, you take half damage from falling damage.

Aspect ✨: You gain a glide speed equal to the base speed for your size (see Gliding).

Essence ✨:

Mastery ✨: You gain a fly speed equal to the base speed for your size with a maximum height of 60 feet (see Flight). As a free action, you can increase your fatigue level by one to ignore this height limit until the end of the round.

Chaos Domain

Gift ✨: You reduce your explosion target by 1 (see Exploding Attacks).

Aspect: You are immune to Compulsion attacks.

Essence ✨:

Mastery ✨: The reduction from this domain’s gift increases to 3.

Death Domain

Gift: You gain a +1 bonus to accuracy against creatures that are below their maximum hit points. You can also automatically identify whether creatures you see are below their maximum hit points.

Aspect: The bonus from this domain’s gift increases to +2.

Essence ✨:

Mastery: The bonus from this domain’s gift increases to +3.

Destruction Domain

Gift: You gain a +1 bonus to your power with all abilities.

Aspect ✨:

Essence ✨:

Mastery: The bonus from this domain’s gift increases to +2.

Earth Domain

If you choose this domain, you add the terramancy mystic sphere to your list of divine mystic spheres (see Mystic Spheres).

Gift: You gain a +2 bonus to your Fortitude defense.

Aspect: You gain a bonus equal to three times your rank in the Domain Mastery archetype to your damage resistance.

Essence ✨:

Mastery: The defense bonus increases to +3, and the damage resistance bonus increases to four times your rank in the Domain Mastery archetype.

Evil Domain

Gift ✨:

Aspect ✨: You can use this domain’s domain gift to target any ally within Medium (60 ft.) range.

Essence ✨:

Mastery ✨: You can use your domain gift to redirect your hit point loss to an adjacent unwilling creature. You cannot target the same unwilling creature more than once with this ability between short rests.

Fire Domain

If you choose this domain, you add the pyromancy mystic sphere to your list of divine mystic spheres (see Mystic Spheres).

Gift: You are impervious to Fire attacks.

Aspect ✨: Your Fire abilities cannot deal damage to your allies.

Essence ✨:

Mastery ✨: You are immune to Fire attacks. In addition, whenever you hit a creature with a Fire attack, you repeat that ability’s effects against that target during the next round. You must make a new attack roll for the repeat with a -4 accuracy penalty. Hitting with the repeated attack causes another repeat during the next round, though the accuracy penalty increases by -4 with each repeat.

Good Domain

Gift ✨: Whenever an adjacent ally suffers a vital wound, you may gain a vital wound instead. You gain a +2 bonus to the vital roll of each vital wound you gain this way. The original target suffers any other effects of the attack normally.

Aspect ✨: This domain’s domain gift affects any ally within a Medium (30 ft.) radius emanation from you.

Essence ✨:

Mastery ✨: Once per round, when an ally within a Medium (30 ft.) radius emanation from you would lose hit points, you may lose those hit points instead. The target suffers any other effects of the attack normally, though it is not treated as if it lost hit points from the attack for the purpose of special attack effects.

Knowledge Domain

If you choose this domain, you add all Knowledge skills to your cleric class skill list.

Gift: You gain an additional trained skill (see Trained Skills).

Aspect: Your extensive knowledge of all methods of attack and defense grants you a +1 bonus to your Fortitude, Reflex, and Mental defenses.

Essence ✨:

Mastery: You gain a +1 bonus to accuracy with all attacks. In addition, you can use your share knowledge ability to affect all creatures, not just your allies.

Law Domain

Gift ✨: When you roll a 1 on an attack roll, it is treated as if you had rolled a 6. This does not affect bonus dice rolled for exploding attacks (see Exploding Attacks).

Aspect: You gain a +2 bonus to your Mental defense.

Essence ✨:

Mastery ✨: When you roll a 1 or a 2 on an attack roll or check, it is treated as if you had rolled a 6.

Life Domain

Gift: You gain a +1 bonus to your vital rolls (see Vital Wounds).

Aspect: You gain a bonus equal to three times your rank in the Domain Mastery archetype to your hit points.

Essence ✨: At the end of each round, if you became unconscious from a vital wound during that round, you can use one magical ✨ ability that removes vital wounds on yourself without taking an action. You cannot affect any other creatures with this ability.

Mastery: The vital roll bonus increases to +2, and the hit point bonus increases to four times your rank in the Domain Mastery archetype.

Magic Domain

If you choose this domain, you add the thaumaturgy mystic sphere to your list of divine mystic spheres (see Mystic Spheres).

Gift: You gain a +3 bonus to the Knowledge (arcana) skill (see Knowledge).

Aspect ✨: You learn an additional divine spell from a mystic sphere you have access to.

Essence ✨: You gain a +1 bonus to your power with magical ✨ abilities.

Mastery ✨: The power bonus increases to +2.

Protection Domain

Gift ✨:

Aspect: You gain a bonus equal to three times your rank in the Domain Mastery archetype to your damage resistance (see Damage Resistance).

Essence ✨: The target of your divine protection ability also takes no extra damage from critical hits.

Mastery: The bonus from your divine protection ability increases to +2. In addition, the damage resistance bonus from this domain’s gift increases to four times your rank in the Domain Mastery archetype.

Strength Domain

If you choose this domain, you add the Climb and Swim skills to your cleric class skill list.

Gift: You gain a +2 bonus to the Climb and Swim skills.

Aspect ✨: You can increase your Strength.

Essence ✨: You gain a +1 bonus to your Strength for the purpose of determining your weight limits (see Weight Limits). In addition, when you use at least two free hands to carry burdens, you can carry implausibly cumbersome loads without worrying about volume limits, and without incurring damage to the carried objects as a side effect of transportation. For example, you could pick up an entire house if your Strength was high enough, even though a house would normally fall apart under the strain if you tried to pick it up.

Mastery: You lose access to the divine strength ability. Instead, you simply gain a +1 bonus to your Strength.

Travel Domain

If you choose this domain, you add the astromancy mystic sphere to your list of divine mystic spheres (see Mystic Spheres). In addition, you add the Knowledge (nature), Survival, and Swim skills to your cleric class skill list.

Gift: You gain a +10 foot bonus to your land speed while you use the sprint ability (see Sprint). This speed bonus is doubled as normal from sprinting.

Aspect ✨: You can ignore difficult terrain from inanimate natural sources, such as heavy undergrowth.

Essence ✨:

Mastery ✨: When you would move using one of your movement speeds, you can teleport the same distance instead. This does not change the total distance you can move, but you can teleport in any direction, including vertically. Being grappled or otherwise physically constrained does not prevent you from teleporting in this way.

You can even attempt to move to locations outside of line of sight and line of effect, up to the limit of your remaining movement speed. If your intended destination is invalid, the distance you tried to teleport is taken from your remaining movement, but you suffer no other ill effects.

Trickery Domain

If you choose this domain, you add the Deception, Disguise, and Stealth skills to your cleric class skill list.

Gift: You gain a +2 bonus to the Deception, Disguise, and Stealth skills.

Aspect ✨: Any magical ✨ abilities which detect lies are unable to detect lies you speak. In addition, magical ✨ Compulsion effects cannot affect your speech in any way. This means you can still talk and lie normally even while dominated (must obey commands), though you cannot control the rest of your body.

Essence ✨:

Mastery ✨: You are undetectable to all magical ✨ abilities. They cannot detect your presence, sounds you make, or any actions you take. For example, a scrying sensor created by a Scrying effect would be unable to detect your presence, and a creature with magical darkvision would not be able to see you without light.

War Domain

Gift: You gain proficiency with all non-exotic weapons.

Aspect: You gain a +1 accuracy bonus with strikes.

Essence: You gain a +1 bonus to your Armor defense.

Mastery: The bonus from this domain’s aspect increases to +2.

Water Domain

If you choose this domain, you add the aquamancy mystic sphere to your list of divine mystic spheres (see Mystic Spheres). In addition, you add the Flexibility and Swim skills to your cleric class skill list.

Gift: You gain a +2 bonus to the Flexibility and Swim skills.

Aspect ✨: You can breathe water as easily as a human breathes air, preventing you from drowning or suffocating underwater.

Essence ✨:

Mastery ✨: Your body becomes partially aquatic, allowing you to manipulate it more easily. The bonuses from this domain’s gift increase to +10. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to Armor and Reflex defenses.

Wild Domain

If you choose this domain, you add the verdamancy mystic sphere to your list of divine mystic spheres (see Mystic Spheres). In addition, you add the Creature Handling, Knowledge (nature), and Survival skills to your cleric class skill list.

Gift: You gain an additional trained skill (see Trained Skills).

Aspect ✨: You gain one wild aspect, as the druid ability from the Shifter archetype (see Shifter). You cannot spend insight points to learn additional wild aspects. The aspect’s effect improves based on your rank in the Domain Mastery archetype. If you already have that ability, you simply learn an additional wild aspect, and the aspect’s effect continues to scale with your Shifter archetype rank.

Essence ✨: You learn an additional wild aspect.

Mastery ✨: When you use your aspect ability from this domain, you can take on two wild aspects at once, gaining the full benefits of both. When you do, you increase your fatigue level by two. This hybrid wild aspect only lasts for ten minutes, at which point you choose which single wild aspect remains active.

6.4.9 Ex-Clerics

If you grossly violate the code of conduct required by your deity, you lose all spells and magical cleric class abilities. You cannot regain those abilities until you atone for your transgressions to your deity.