Veltharis ap Rylix
Legend
Video Breakdown
Base Cleric Class Notes
- Divine Order at 1st level
- Choose between Protector (martial weapon and heavy armor proficiency) and Thaumaturge (extra cantrip and adds WIS mod to INT [Arcana/Religion] ability checks)
- Can swap out one cantrip at level up
- Channel Divinity at 2nd level
- Turn Undead redesigned - undead are now Incapacitated and Frightened for 1 minute
- New Divine Spark Channel Divinity option - can choose to either deal damage or heal
- Sear Undead at 5th level
- Deal Radiant damage when using Turn Undead - no longer automatically destroys lower CR undead
- Blessed Strikes at 7th level
- Choose between Divine Strike and Potent Spellcasting, independent on Divine Order choice
- Specifically notes that can't get both by using '24 cleric with older subclass that has one of these options baked in
- Divine Intervention at 10th level
- No longer a "Mother May I?" feature
- Cast any cleric spell of level 5 or lower that doesn't require a reaction, once per long rest
- Doesn't expend a spell slot or require material components (specifically notes reviving the dead without needing diamonds)
- Improved Blessed Strikes at 14th level
- Greater Divine Intervention at 20th level
- Can choose the Wish spell when using Divine Intervention
- Spell list has been expanded, with both new and old spells
Subclass Notes
- Life Domain
- Preeminent healer in the game
- Domain spell list revised somewhat
- Preserve Life now works on Undead and Constructs
- Light Domain
- Revised domain spell list - wanted to bring in spells related to vision, wiping away falsehood, etc., while also preserving "Fire! Fire! Fire!"
- Warding Flare at 3rd level
- No longer needs to wait until higher level to be used to aid an ally
- Improved Warding Flare at 6th level
- Warding Flare grants temporary hit points when used
- Regain all uses of Warding Flare on short or long rest
- Corona of Light
- Imposes disadvantage on saving throws against Radiance of the Dawn option, in addition to spells that deal Fire or Radiant damage
- Trickery Domain
- Blessing of the Trickster can now be used on self and lasts until end of next long rest
- Invoke Duplicity can be used as a bonus action and no longer requires concentration
- Can swap places with duplicate when summoning it
- Improved Duplicity
- No multiple duplicates, but duplicate can assist allies (confer advantage) and can heal someone next to it when it disappears
- Revised domain spell list
- War Domain
- Guided Strike at 3rd level
- Can benefit other people from the start
- War Priest at 3rd level
- Can make unarmed strike as bonus action, not just weapon attack
- Regain uses on short or long rest
- War God's Blessing at 6th level
- Revised - can now burn Channel Divinity uses to cast Shield of Faith or Spiritual Weapon spells, and they do not require concentration when cast this way
- Avatar of Battle
- Resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage no longer negated by magical weapons
- Revised domain spell list (for example, added Steel Wind Strike)
- Guided Strike at 3rd level
General Notes
- Clerics in particular will feel benefits of the buffs to healing spells
- Many healing effects now work on Undead and Constructs - old-school "damage undead with healing spell" effects now being explored as traits for specific monsters (mentions monsters made of shadow-stuff from Negative Energy Plane) rather than a blanket categorical weakness
- Wish spell has been expanded with new built-in options that don't risk the spell's "monkey's paw" effects
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