I have had one player take expertise in perception so they have +14 at 15th level, which then becomes +15 to +19 with Guidance, usually rolled with advantage.
Making expertise raise the floor& average on the d20 by changing 1d20 to 3d6 would make a huge difference in feel without raising the cap at all.
One other option is that expertise replaces your ability score bonus rather than stacking so it's more useful in abilities where you don't have a high stat.
One D&D strikes again!
Right. The cleric should absolutely talk about gods, and also have a portion talking about being able to be clerics of a philosophy or ideal like prior editions did. Then let the group figure out which it's going to be.
I can. There are a lot of us who don't base every decision around combat. I would use the clerical expertise option for some of my characters to be sure..........if I played enough to be able to use my ideas.
It's too strong for success to be guaranteed, and it's also mostly a waste to use it in combat. I view it as being primarily for non-combat aid.
Yeah. I don't like it, either. It feels like something you specialize in, so getting two out of three doesn't sit right.
It's not Mother May I since you are not asking the DM's permission to use it. You get to use it when you declare it to be used, just like any other action. Then the DM narrates the result, just like any other action.
It's infinitely more than that. Why would you A) think it's just resurrection, and B) think that the god will raise the dead as the result?
Why would a cantrip be able to basically mind control a god and make them more likely to respond?
I like the low chance for divine intervention from the deity. Deities are busy people. That said, there should be a greater chance if you fail of say an angel of some sort being sent to help. Like "If you roll a number equal to or lower than your Cleric level, the divine power intervenes. If you fail, but roll equal to or lower than 3 times your level, your god sends a divine servant to aid you."
I don't really like the idea of the melee battle cleric at all(at least outside of say a war domain). If you want to play a holy warrior, there's a class for that.
I'm assuming you'd have more luck guiding/inspiring the cleric to ask better, than you would by targeting the god. But I'm now tempted to give it a try next time I have cleric npc - they'd be due some heavy consequences! To be fair, the current "under-level" roll is more about the PC's reputation/seniority that it is about their skill (?proficiency) or talent/ability (?wisdom), so the current design intent may well be the god's roll rather than the cleric's
And yet, how wrong I was. I have aclear sense of what they are thinking with this class, even though I didn't expect to based on one subclass (in part since Holy orders appears to integrate at least two subclasses into the main chassis for clerics.)One D&D strikes again!
So are thge rest of us. We come together for a couple hours each week to play d&d. Divine intervention means that someone is going to burn up a couple minutes each session hoping for a minimal role just to make the effort. On the off chance that they actually succeed everyone spends more time staring at each other & someone needs to decide on a result that's both useful & relevant to "It's a new day so I might as well"
I don't see how success on one ability needs to be guaranteed for you to accomplish that. Are you going to ask for monsters to automatically miss all saving throws next? Because lots of caster turns are wasted on successful saves.
