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DEITIES and DOMAINS Specialty Priests of the Forgotten Realms DEITIES AND DOMAINS Specialty Priests of the Forgotten Realms by Mark Craddock CrossPlanes.Com Special Thanks to Ben Bach, Sylvain Boucher, Matt Rieper, and Tom Woodall Cover Art: The Baptism of Christ by Aert de Gelder Sample file ! DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, D&D, Wizards of the Coast, Forgotten Realms, the dragon ampersand, Player’s Handbook, Monster Manual, Dungeon Master’s Guide, D&D Adventurers League, all other Wizards of the Coast produCt names, and their respeCtive logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast in the USA and other Countries. All CharaCters and their distinCtive likenesses are property of Wizards of the Coast. This material is proteCted under the Copyright laws of the United States of AmeriCa. Any reproduCtion or unauthorized use of the material or artwork Contained herein is prohibited without the express written permission of Wizards of the Coast. ©2016 Wizards of the Coast LLC, PO Box 707, Renton, WA 98057-0707, USA. ManufaCtured by Hasbro SA, Rue Emile-BoéChat 31, 2800 Delémont, CH. Represented by Hasbro Europe, 4 The Square, Stockley Park, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB11 1ET, UK. This work Contains material that is Copyright Wizards of the Coast and/or other authors. SuCh material is used with permission under the Community Content Agreement for Dungeon Masters Guild. All other original material in this work is Copyright 2016 by Mark CraddoCk and published under the Community Content Agreement for Dungeon Masters Guild. Page !1 SPECIALTY AURIL ICEPRIEST PRIESTS Prerequisite: Cleric with the Do you fondly remember the Nature or Tempest Divine Specialty Priests from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Second Domain Edition? This book uses feats Your worship of the goddess of to update additional abilities of winter is buried in layers of fear Specialty Priests to Dungeons and awe. You have willingly and Dragons Fifth Edition. opened your heart to Lady Within these pages you will Frostkiss’ chill who you aid to find thirty-nine feats for the thirty-seven Forgotten Realms cover all the land in ice. Your deities listed in the D&D Fifth ceremonial garb is an ice-white Edition Player’s Handbook. robe with blue piping. You The feats are listed carry your ceremonial ice axe alphabetically by deity. and wear a silver circlet at all Many of the ideas are times. translations of abilities featured in the amazing Forgotten Realms product, Faiths and Thanks to your devotion, you Avatars for AD&D Second gain the following benefits: Edition by Julia Martin withSample file Eric L. Boyd. • You have resistance to cold As a reminder, the Death Divine Domain and damage. Oathbreaker Paladin are found • You do not gain exhaustion in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, from freezing temperatures. and some cantrips and spells • You learn the frostbite and ray are drawn from the Elemental Evil Player’s Pack and the of frost cantrips. Sword Coast Adventurer’s • You learn the ice knife and Guide. snilloc’s snow ball swarm spell and they are domain spells for you. Page !2 AZUTH BANE MAGISTRATI DREADBRINGER Prerequisite: Cleric with the Prerequisite: Cleric with the War Arcana or Knowledge Divine Divine Domain Domain You devotedly serve the god of You are an apprentice to the god Tyranny. Your master, the Lord of wizards and mages. The Lord of Darkness only has only one of Spells has taught you that purpose for you, to spread his reason is your greatest weapon. Dark Fear. You always wear Your vestments are shimmering black with a a blood-red cape gray silk and alway wear and are never unarmed. Azuth’s symbol on your chest. Thanks to your devotion, you Thanks to your devotion, you gain the following benefits: gain the following benefits: • You have advantage on saving • When you cast a spell thatSample throwsfile against being has a casting time of 1 action, frightened. you can change the casting • You gain the Channel Divinity: time to 1 bonus action for this Dreadful Aspect from the casting. Once you use this Pathbreaker Paladin in the ability, you must finish a short Dungeon Master’s Guide. or long rest before you can use • You learn the lightning lure it again. cantrip (from the Sword Coast • You learn the mage hand Adventurer’s Guide). cantrip. • You learn the comprehend languages spell and it is a domain spell for you. Page !3 BESHABA BHAAL DOOMUSHER DEATHSTALKER Prerequisite: Cleric with the Prerequisite: Cleric with the Trickery Divine Domain Death Divine Domain You don’t so much venerate the You are a zealot in service to the goddess of doom as await her god of murder. You fanatically arrival. You wear robes of black, crimson, mauve, or purple and slay your victims as an offering are tattooed or branded with a to him. Your vestments are pair of antlers, know as robes with cowls that are black Beshaba’s badge. with slashes of violet and may Thanks to your devotion, you choose to wear a veil to cover gain the following benefits: your face. • Thanks to your devotion, you Thanks to your devotion, you have 3 misrule points. gain the following benefits: Whenever a creature within 30 feet makes an attack roll, an • When you use your Channel ability check, or a saving throw, as a reaction you can Divinity to use touch of death, spend one misrule point toSample yourfile damage equals 15 + twice give target creature your level. disadvantage on the roll. You • You gain proficiency in one of regain your expended misrule the following: Athletics, points when you finish a long Disguise kit, Poisoner’s kit, or rest. Stealth. • Bane is a domain spell for • You learn the true strike you. You may cast it as a cantrip. bonus action. • You learn the invisibility spell and it is a domains spell for you. Page !4 CHAUNTEA CYRIC SHAPER STRIFELEADER Prerequisite: Cleric with the Life Prerequisite: Cleric with the Divine Domain Trickery Divine Domain You have chosen to tend to the You have accepted the truth of goddess of agriculture’s world the god of lies. You will see your garden. It is your great pleasure enemies bow low before the to sew the seeds of peace for the Black Sun or be destroyed. Your Great Mother. Your vestments vestments are black or purple are white or sun-colored robes, trimmed in deep forest green. robes that are trimmed in silver You carry a stave at all times. and you wear silver bracers to symbolize your enslavement to Thanks to your devotion, you the Mad God. gain the following benefits: Thanks to your devotion, you • Choose a land—arctic, coast, gain the following benefits: desert, forest, grassland, mountain, swamp, or • When you use your Channel Underdark—and you learnSample file both of the Circle of the Land Divinity to invoke duplicity, Druid’s spells associated with you have advantage on 3rd level and they are Concentration checks. domains spells for you. • You have advantage on saving • You learn to speak and to throws against being leave and recognize secret frightened and illusion spells. messages in Druidic. • You can cast the phantasmal • You have advantage with one killer spell once per day as a of the following skills you are 4th level spell. Wisdom is your proficient in: Animal Handling, Nature, or Survival. spellcasting ability for this • You learn a druid cantrip of spell. your choice. Page !5.
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