Favorite Cleric

[Draksila]

Reginald of the Morninglord, a 2E Barovian priest and scholar in a Ravenloft game. Reginald was brilliant, wise, and charismatic... but he was also frail and sickly (random dice rolls straight down, he ended up with a 9 Str and 5 Con but over 15 in all his mental stats). As such, Reginald was the voice of the party and beloved by local communities while simultaneously being the group's very own 'boy hostage.' His very first adventure (Night of the Walking Dead), he was grabbed by a murderer the group was tracking and held at knife point while the killer tried to get the party to drop their weapons. Knowing full well by this point that the knife-wielder in question was hopelessly insane and likely to kill him anyway, I decided to try the traditional stomp of my captor's foot and use the mace I was still holding (the killer had just grabbed me from behind, not disarmed me) to smack him in the face, hoping to either force him to let go or take myself out of the equation when he retaliated. Reginald critted the attack roll, however. We described it as a frustrated roar of anger, a stomp to the killer's foot, and then pulling away and whirling the mace in a vicious arc at the suspect's face. Reginald one-shotted the killer. This led the party to warn anyone who kidnapped/captured Reggie from then on that they really should have taken the fighter instead.

The character was remade a few years later for an epic 3.5 Ravenloft campaign. I really didn't improve his physical stats much; Reginald played well as a slight, bookish, and unimpressive figure who doled out kind words and good advice, so I kept him that way. The young man was taken hostage again in that campaign by an ancient vampire. Reginald ended up obliterating him with a crit on a turn roll coupled with the expenditure of his Sun domain power.

... the vampire should have grabbed the fighter.

 

[ExploderWizard]

Brother Jules, a 3E former LE monk who once served Hextor turned NG cleric of Fhalanghn, who vowed to turn over a new leaf, meet people, and have adventures. (Big Samuel L fan here of course )

It was a very different playstyle mechanically from the typical, heavy armored knight cleric archetype. Being a monk, he could move quickly, and tumble into positions to heal allies. That was a really fun campaign.

 

[wedgeski]

Clarion, still essentially the highest level character I have ever played having got to 14th level in 2nd Edition AD&D. She'd been practically everywhere, hopping between campaigns in Greyhawk, FR, Ravenloft, Dark Sun. Still love her to bits. She managed a cameo in the 3E conversion of Tomb of Horrors which we did with some of our old characters as a one-off, and she rocked as hard in 3rd as she did in 2nd. Naturally, she'll be converted to 4th in the near future.

 

[Weregrognard]

Grent of Gond (Gnome cleric, AD&D 2E Forgotten Realms) - Started out as a DMPC for healing support and ended up as the party's personal magic weaponsmith. Signature features: bad irish accent, floppy hat, his "Magic Shillelagh", a magical mace with various "enhancements" a la Captain Caveman's club; some useful, some not.

Callistin (human cleric of Heironeous, D&D 3.5) - PC CoDzilla. Pretty much a paladin in all but class. Greatest achievement: Turned a captured monk of Hextor to the "light side" through kind treatment, philosophical talks, and a little "community service" labor on a fort's defenses.

 

[Storminator]

Denker Thorn... the Master.

Cleric of Bane. Dominating tyrant to his follower, sycophantic to his church superiors. He really brought the Evil to the evil campaign we played. I wrote sermons and nursery rhymes (evil nursery rhymes = awesome!). He insinuated himself into the Lathander church, murdered Lathanderite clerics and followers... and opened an orphanage for their children. Why do you think I made nursery rhymes?!

The DM and two other players incorporated him into their games as NPCs.

I'm currently playing a 4e dwarf cleric of Kord. He's awesome. He was raised far from any dwarves, so he totally overdoes his "dwarvishness." His idea of tactics is 1) charge to the front, 2) bash everything you meet there. He takes damage so fast I've renamed Second Wind. As far as Thrrak is concerned it's called Second Round.

PS

 

[Wormwood]

Szandor, Priest of Orcus circa 1985.

Modelled after Basil Fawlty, he was rude, officious and petty. Toadying to his superiors and cruel to his lessers---and he absoluitely hated healing the party.

"Really, you people with your complaints. I honestly don't know why I bother healing any of you. One more word and I'm letting you bleed to death.

There, now you've done it. Give my regards to Orcus."

 

[Remathilis]

Cleric of Atheism. Yep, good times.

Oh, you played an Athar priest in Planescape too?

 

[Mallus]

My favorite cleric? Why that would have to be Grenache Shiraz; adventurer, winemaker, and ever-faithful priest of Mouqol, the Most Mighty Master of all Matters Monetary, the Caliph of Commerce, the Vizier of Value, the Invisible Hand who... oh, you get the picture.

Shiraz was a simple man with an unwavering belief in the salvific power of commerce and a stalwart defender of free markets. He thought money was the root of all goodness. But he was far from a miser, he believed gold should be spent, and spend he did, always greasing the wheels of commerce.

He was known for tricks like using low-grade angels to make important wine deliveries and summoning a Celestial bison made of solid gold bouillon. He spoke in an accent that was somewhere between a Jewish gangster and a Long Island housewife (which I used exclusively, every session).

I miss Shiraz...