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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plecostomus" data-source="post: 9703534" data-attributes="member: 7040041">Feel like there should be a sidebar in the DMG that tells DMs clerics can do the following things by the time they have 5th Level Cleric spells, largely without saves:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Identify and cure any disease or poison*</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">End any curse or attunement to a cursed item</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">End any possession/charm/fright by extraplanar invaders (invaders are anything with the following creature types: Aberration, Celestial, Fey, Fiend, Undead)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Locate any extraplanar invader or desecrated/consecrated area within 30 feet</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Instantly create food and water for a decent number of people, or cleanse food/water sources</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Raise the dead or Undead</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(with save) Cause the Undead to flee in terror or instantly disintegrate</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">(with save + 1 min concentration [Banishment] -or- melee spell attack [Dispel Evil and Good]) Send an extraplanar invader back to their home plane</li> </ul>Then DMs might be more prepared for how the presence of a cleric may affect their plots/bosses.I think 7th Level spells are when wizards start warping all of reality and doing whatever they want, so a cleric's specialized anti-invader list is less important. But a lot of the cleric's special spells are low level (Lesser Restoration, which cures any disease, is 2nd Level). Special shout-out to the cleric-only Forbiddance at 6th Level though - what a weird spell!*Under 2014 rules. In 2024 non-magical diseases are scrubbed from the text/converted to a poison with riders and this does some weird things to cleric abilities related to disease. Detect Poison and Disease still exists as a spell though.</blockquote>

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