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A Guidebook to Clerics and Paladins

Rich Redman and James Wyatt

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Updated for errata as of July 10, 2001

DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH

A Guidebook to Clerics and Paladins

Rich Redman and James Wyatt

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Resources: Sources for this work include the following: the DUNGEON MASTER'S Guide ,

Player's Handbook, and Monster Manual by Monte Cook, Jonathan Tweet, and Skip Williams;

"Heaven's Trump" in DRAGON ® Magazine #263 and "Playing the Priestly Part" in DRAGON Magazine # 282,

both by James Wyatt; Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog by J. Robert King and company;

and Bastion of Faith by Bruce Cordell. The Hunter of the Dead , by Monte Cook,

first appeared in DRAGON Magazine #276.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Church Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

How to Use this Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Missions for the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Contacts within the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Church Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Churches and Other Organizations . . . . . . . . . 29

Lawful Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Neutral Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Solarium (Temple of Pelor) . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Chaotic Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Lawful Neutral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

The Mausoleum Hall (Temple of Wee Jas) . . . . 33

Neutral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Chaotic Neutral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Lawful Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Neutral Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Chaotic Evil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

The Cup of Blood (Temple of Erythnul) . . . . . . 38

Justice Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

The House of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

A House of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Council of Blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Laughing Knives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Order of the Chalice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Stargazers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Mount Baden Chapterhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

If I Ran the Temple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Church Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Adventuring Clerics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

What This Book Is and Is Not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

How to Use This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 1: Clerics and Paladins . . . . . . . . 5

Playing an Effective Cleric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Turning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Evil Clerics and Undead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Divination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Divination and the DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Clerics in Combat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Advancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Playing an Effective Paladin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Where Paladins Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Code and the DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Paladin Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Turning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Duty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Duties and the DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Advancement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Special Mounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Variant Special Mounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Aging and Retiring Mounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Dragon Mounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Training Your Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Keeping Your Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Losing Your Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Leadership and Mounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Dragon Cohorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Special Dragon Mounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Channeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Neutral Alignment and Channeling . . . . . . . . . 16

Divine Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Converts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

New Craft and Profession Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Same Skills, New Uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

New Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Virtual Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Divine Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Sacred Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Chapter 3: Prestige Classes . . . . . . . . . . 51

Church Inquisitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Consecrated Harrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Contemplative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Divine Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Holy Liberator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Celestial Companion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Hospitaler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Hunter of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Knight of the Chalice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Knight of the Middle Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

The Inner Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

The Stargazers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Master of Shrouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Summoning Undead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Sacred Exorcist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Sacred Fist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Templar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Warpriest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Chapter 2: Churches

and Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

The Role of Churches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Joining the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 4: Divine Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

New Cleric Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

New Paladin Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

New Druid Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

TABLE OF CONTENTS

New Ranger Spell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Prestige Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Granted Power Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

New Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Appendix: Monstrous Clerics . . . . . . . . 93

The Dragon Deities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

The Giant Deities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Outsider and Elemental Lords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

TABLES

1-1: Special Mounts (Medium-size Paladin) . . . . 13

1-2: Special Mounts (Small Paladin) . . . . . . . . . . 13

1-3: Paladin Special Mount Abilities . . . . . . . . . . 13

1-4: Dragon Cohorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

1-5: Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

1-6: Sacred Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

1-7: Armor and Shield Special Abilities . . . . . . . . 23

1-8: Specific Armors and Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

1-9: Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

1-10: Rods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

1-11: Wondrous Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

3-1: The Church Inquisitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

3-2: The Consecrated Harrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

3-3: The Contemplative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

3-4: The Divine Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

3-5: The Holy Liberator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

3-6: Celestial Companion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

3-7: The Hospitaler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

3-8: The Hunter of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

3-9: The Knight of the Chalice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

3-10: Knight of the Middle Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

3-11: The Master of Shrouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

3-12: The Sacred Exorcist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

3-13: The Sacred Fist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

3-14: The Templar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

3-15: The Warpriest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

A-1: Monstrous Deities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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