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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7667418" data-attributes="member: 907">They were a lot of fun, but broken as heck. The cleric was already pretty powerful, and F&amp;A introduced specialty priests that both upped the power significantly and had a much nicer XP table for the levels that really counted (I think levels 5-12 or so). Why the better XP table? Because the designer looked at the druid table, saw &quot;OK, they cost more at the start and at the end, I guess they cost more overall as well&quot;, and used that (just adding the special Hierophant XP to the regular XP instead of resetting to 0 after level 15). I think Powers and Pantheons fixed that part though.The cleric class is, and pretty much always has been, a secondary warrior. 4e allowed a bit more &quot;laser cleric-ing&quot;, but they've rarely been good at direct damage magic. Most cleric spells are protective, healing, and damage tends to come in the form of weapon surrogates (e.g. spiritual weapon). If you look at the domains in the PHB, most of them gain an ability based on hitting things harder (dealing +1d8 damage of some type with a weapon attack), with the Knowledge and Light domains adding cantrip damage instead.Some options for your evil drow priest:1. Trickery domain, eventually getting envenomed weapons via Divine Strike.2. Death domain, with the ability to learn a necromancy cantrip from any other spell list. Currently, that basically means chill touch.3. Play as some other class, take the Acolyte background, and be a priest without being a cleric.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 7667418, member: 907"] They were a lot of fun, but broken as heck. The cleric was already pretty powerful, and F&A introduced specialty priests that both upped the power significantly and had a much nicer XP table for the levels that really counted (I think levels 5-12 or so). Why the better XP table? Because the designer looked at the druid table, saw "OK, they cost more at the start and at the end, I guess they cost more overall as well", and used that (just adding the special Hierophant XP to the regular XP instead of resetting to 0 after level 15). I think Powers and Pantheons fixed that part though. The cleric class is, and pretty much always has been, a secondary warrior. 4e allowed a bit more "laser cleric-ing", but they've rarely been good at direct damage magic. Most cleric spells are protective, healing, and damage tends to come in the form of weapon surrogates (e.g. [I]spiritual weapon[/I]). If you look at the domains in the PHB, most of them gain an ability based on hitting things harder (dealing +1d8 damage of some type with a weapon attack), with the Knowledge and Light domains adding cantrip damage instead. Some options for your evil drow priest: 1. Trickery domain, eventually getting envenomed weapons via Divine Strike. 2. Death domain, with the ability to learn a necromancy cantrip from any other spell list. Currently, that basically means [I]chill touch[/I]. 3. Play as some other class, take the Acolyte background, and be a priest without being a cleric. [/QUOTE]

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