D&D 5E Xanathar's Guide To Everything Cleric Grave Domain

[Mistwell]

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In some ways this reminds me a lot of the Old Kingdom series (Abhorsen) characters. Which I adore by the way.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

As long as they fix up the reservations I had about this subclass before.

I think it'll be interesting to make a cleric of Anubis.

 

[Jester David]

Yay!
I have a death god in my campaign inspired by the Raven Queen, so this was needed.

 

[Chaosmancer]

First, [MENTION=2525]Mistwell[/MENTION] Abhorsen is an amazing book series.


Moving on, this domain definitely fills a very important niche and fills it better than the "undead" (Death) domain. Super excited to see this one hit the table.

 

[Mephista]

Definitely an improvement over the evil cleric Death Domain. Necrotic energy specialist was fun, but definitely not what I wanted for Wee Jas, Kelemvor, or the Raven Queen.

Not realy sure how to feel about the domain as a whole. Its another undead hunter, but its not a bunch of +damage (that's the Devoted Paladin's stick anyways). And, yeah, undead show up a lot, but... it still feels like a lot of abilities seem to revolve around undead? Despite saying they didn't want to have a guy that's got dead levels when not doing undead?

I feel conflicted.

 

[Leatherhead]

Looking at the spell list, I have a feeling that they are going to have the same problem of relying on necrotic damage to fight undead.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Definitely an improvement over the evil cleric Death Domain. Necrotic energy specialist was fun, but definitely not what I wanted for Wee Jas, Kelemvor, or the Raven Queen.

Not realy sure how to feel about the domain as a whole. Its another undead hunter, but its not a bunch of +damage (that's the Devoted Paladin's stick anyways). And, yeah, undead show up a lot, but... it still feels like a lot of abilities seem to revolve around undead? Despite saying they didn't want to have a guy that's got dead levels when not doing undead?

I feel conflicted.

I don't really worry about the subclasses as shown in the UA reviews. They've already seen our input (if we provided it) on those and attempted to revise them. So I assume the final products will be different in almost every case.

 

[Li Shenron]

Of all UA subclasses this is the one I would have wanted to be in the core most. I was starting to feel nervous that they hadn't announced it yet. Now I am glad

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Yes. A domain for kelemvor was sorely needed. Death domain was quite inappropriate.

 

[Bitbrain]

The Main DM in my group LOVES to both use and explore the concepts and themes surrounding undeath.
The grave domain as a sort of "watcher at the gates" will totally fit the themes he likes to explore.