Lordarain Brigmore

Lawful Level 1 Cleric of Iaestis, Father Moon
Played by: Matt

STR: 12
DEX: 10
CON: 11
INT: 6
WIS: 11
CHA: 16 (-1 reaction)

Hit Points: 2
Armor Class: 3 (4 w/o shield)

Special Traits/Abilities: Natural climber (87% chance to climb walls)

Languages: Common, High Vertias

Weapons: Mace
Armor: Slpint & Shield
Magic Items: None

Objects of questionable value:

Experience: 106
Last Update: 5/8/11

Clerics and Weapons

While I'm on a clerical kick, here's the official "Why can't clerics use pointy things?" explanation for the campaign world. This originally appeared on the Obsidian Portal wiki, but I never got around to reposting it here.

As stated in all the early editions of D&D, clerics are restricted to blunt weapons, leaving it up to the referee to enforce and/or explain this restriction. Here’s mine:

In the year 941, the nobles of both the Great Empire and Nan-Matal were concerned with the growing influence of the various sects within their borders. Looking to strip these priests of the ability to raise private armies, the nobles attempted to outlaw the carrying of weaponry by any servant of an established temple. The clergy was outraged at the proposal and threatened to withhold services, rites, and prayers from anyone of noble birth. The nobles counter-threaten to evict every clergyman from their borders. Ultimately, cooler heads stepped in to work a compromise, and at the Diet of Tides held during Starfall of that year, the clergy agreed to limit their arms to the mace, hammer, cudgel, staff, and sling. For more than six centuries, it has been illegal for any cleric to carry an edged weapon and any found doing so faces immediate arrest. This restriction does not apply to the so-called martial clergy of some non-human churches. Thus, fighter/clerics and the like are allowed to bear any weapon legally so long as they adhere to the normal laws of weapon possession in the Uncertain Lands.

Now, since there is currently one cleric running around the campaign who came from another world where the rules were a little different, what might this limitation mean to Mars Markus? Mars has been operating under the grandfather clause and is still allowed to use his edged weapons that he's trained in. The reason he escapes incarceration is that the cult of Mog is unknown in the Kinan-M'Nath and is therefore not covered by the Diet of Tides. Should our servant of the Spider ever decide to start pushing that old time Arachnid Religion (or establish a stronghold), he might attract the attention of ecclesiastical law and risk incarceration. But for now, Mars can get away with it.

Updates to Clerical Spell Lists

With two PC clerics having reached 2nd level, I've modified the clerical spell lists by deity. The new lists have been added to the existing ones and they may be found here.

Waren Loss

Lawful Level 2 Cleric of Donblas the Law Lord
Played by: Joey

STR: 14 (+1 to attack, damage, and open doors)
DEX: 12
CON: 14 (+1 hp)
INT: 9
WIS: 15 (+1 save vs. spells)
CHA: 7 (+1 reaction)

Hit Points: 9
Armor Class: 2 (3 w/o shield)

Special Traits/Abilities: Turn undead

Languages: Common, High Veridaz (Lawful)

Weapons: Mace
Armor: Plate mail & shield
Magic Items: None

Objects of questionable value: Letter if credit (1,500 gp value)
Spells: 1/-

Experience: 6,641 (+5%)
Last Update: 1/27/11

Aieglos Greenleaf

Lawful Elven Level 3/3 Cleric (of Hyrn the Horned Lord)/Fighter
Played by: Pete

STR: 9
DEX: 17 (-2 AC, +2 missile, +1 initiative)
CON: 14 (+1 hp)
INT: 13
WIS: 15 (+1 to save vs magic)
CHA: 9

Hit Points: 14
Armor Class: 3 (2 with shield)

Special Traits/Abilities: Infravision 60', immune to ghoul paralysis, find secrets 2 in 6

Weapons: Longbow, longsword
Armor: Chain mail
Magic Items: scroll of cure light wounds (x2), potion of flying
Objects of questionable value: tanglevine ball, letter of credit (1,500 gp value)

Experience: 5,406/4,523 (+5%/+0%)
Last Update: 8/21/11

Immeral the White

Lawful Level 1/1 Cleric/Fighter
Played by: Pete

STR: 11
DEX: 16 (+2 missile, -2 AC, +1 initiative)
CON: 11
INT: 11 (literate)
WIS: 17 (+2 to save vs. magic)
CHA: 11

Hit Points: 6
Armor Class: 1 (2/4)

Special Traits/Abilities: Find secret doors 2 in 6; immune to ghoul paralysis; infravision 60'

Languages: Common, elven, Veridaz (Lawful), gnoll, hobgoblin, orc

Weapons: mace, long bow
Armor: Splint mail
Magic Items: None

Objects of questionable value: ball of restless vines

Experience: 1,034/1,009 (+10%/+0%)
Last Update: 7/28/10

Velma of Isis

Neutral Level 1 Cleric (Isis)
Played by: Dave

STR: 10
DEX: 14 (+1 to missile, -1 to AC, +1 initiative)
CON: 10
INT: 10
WIS: 14 (+1 to all magic saves)
CHA: 8 (+1 reaction, retainers 3, loyalty 6)

Hit Points: 2
Armor Class: 2 (3)

Special Traits/Abilities: Eye for Horseflesh

Weapons: Scimitar, shot bow, whip
Armor: Banded mail & shield
Magic Items: None
Weapon proficiencies: whip; swords, long; bow, short

Spells: 0/-

Objects of questionable value:

Experience: 159 (+5%)
Last Update: 7/04/10

Clerical Spell Lists by Deity

Seeing as how the party’s two surviving clerics are about to advance to 2nd level and gain the ability to cast spells, I thought it was time to reveal what those spells are. Each has access to eight 1st level spells, but they are not the exact same eight. Without getting into the complex notion of spheres and domains that are artifacts of later editions, I do want to make clerics a little different from one another. With that in mind, I’ve replace one spell off of the 1st level list with a prayer that duplicates the effects of another spell, possibly from another class’ spell list. For ease of reference, the spell name remains unchanged. I intend to do this with each level of spells, but we’ll concentrate on the beginning spells for now. Additional adjustments to the class may occur once the clerics reach 4th level, but my final decision on that can wait for now.

This list will be updated as additional deities enter the campaign and clerics advance to higher levels.

Donblas the Law Lord

1st Level
1) Command (see AEC p. 32)
2) Cure Light Wounds
3) Detect Evil
4) Detect Magic
5) Light
6) Protection from Evil
7) Remove Fear
8) Resist Cold

Initiation: Upon being indoctrinated into the first circle of mysteries (i.e. reaching 2nd level), all clerics of the Law Lord receive a silver holy symbol depicting the upward pointing arrow of Donblas. This symbol allows the cleric to know if a single statement spoken by another living individual is true or false once per day with 100% accuracy.

Hyrn the Horned Lord

1st Level
1) Cure Light Wounds
2) Detect Magic
3) Light
4) Invisibility, Animal (see AEC p. 45)
5) Locate Creature (see AEC p. 45)
6) Purify Food & Drink
7) Remove Fear
8) Resist Cold

Initiation: Upon being indoctrinated into the first circle of mysteries (i.e. reaching 2nd level), all clerics of the Horned Lord are gifted with a forester’s floak with a bone cloak pin bearing the Twin Antlers of Hyrn. This cloak gives the cleric a +1 bonus to surprise when in wooded areas. Multi-classed priests allowed to use bows are further given a quiver of 20 sureflight arrows (+1 bonus to hit good for a single use each. If recovered after battle, they may be used as normal arrows, but the stress of hitting their targets affects their exquisite balance permanently).

Mog the Spider God

1st Level
1) Cure light wounds
2) Detect evil
3) Detect magic
4) Light
5) Protection from evil
6) Purify food & drink
7) Remove fear
8) Spider climb (as the 1st level magic-user spell; see AEC p. 77)

2nd Level
1) Bless
2) Find Traps
3) Know Alignment
4) Hold Person
5) Resist Fire
6) Silence 15’ Radius
7) Speak with Animal
8) Web (as the 2nd level magic-user spell; see LLR p. 41)

Initiation: Upon being indoctrinated into the first circle of mysteries (i.e. reaching 2nd level), all clerics of the Spider God are gifted a silver holy symbol depicting the spider form of Mog. When worn, the symbol grants the priest a +1 bonus to saving throws vs. spider venom.

Deity Specific Power (gained at 4th level): Clerics of Mog gain the ability to Turn spiders (but not spiderlike creatures) as if they do the undead. This ability use is resolved as if the cleric were three levels less in power (i.e. a 4th level cleric Turns spiders as if he were a 1st level cleric), but is otherwise identical to normal Turn attempts.

Yg the Father Serpent

1st Level
1) Cure light wounds
2) Detect evil
3) Detect magic
4) Hypnotism (as the 1st level illusionist spell; see AEC p. 51)
5) Protection from evil
6) Purify food & drink
7) Remove fear
8) Resist cold

Mars Markus

Lawful Level 4 Cleric (Mog the Spider God)
Played by: Jack

STR: 6 (-1 to hit, damage, open doors)
DEX: 12
CON: 16 (+2 hp)
INT: 8 (partially literate)
WIS: 10
CHA: 13 (-1 reaction, 5 retainers, 8 loyalty)

Hit Points: 18
Armor Class: 2

Special Traits/Abilities: I Know Something (Location of the Temple of the Goat)

Weapons: Short sword
Armor: Plate mail & shield

Magic Items: holy symbol (+1 to save vs. spider poison), scroll of detect magic, ward against magic (1o' radius), short sword of unknown enchantment (+1?)

Weapon proficiencies: Sword, short; polearms; bow, long

Spells: 2/1

Objects of questionable value: Letter of credit (1,000 gp value)

Experience: 13,156
Last Update: 4/09/11

Bannath

Lawful Level 2 Cleric (Yg the Serpent)
Played by: Eric

STR: 13 (+1 to hit, damage, open doors)
DEX: 8 (-1 to missile, +1 to AC, -1 initiative)
CON: 10
INT: 10
WIS: 16 (+2 to all magic saves)
CHA: 8 (+1 reaction, retainers 3, loyalty 6)


Hit Points: 10
Armor Class: 4

Special Traits/Abilities: Swims like a Fish

Weapons: Dagger (x2), sling, staff
Armor: Banded mail & shield
Magic Items: Dagger
Weapon proficiencies: staves; sling; dagger

Spells: 1/-

Objects of questionable value: Robe (midnight-blue)

Experience: 2464 (+10%)
Last Update: 6/03/10