Clerics rely on divine beings to provide them with the power to overcome challenges. This means that a cleric is not only a follower strong enough to further the deity’s interests, but he is often called upon to recruit new members into the faith. Clerics find themselves at home in all areas of the world. Often times, clerics will be welcomed into smaller communities with open arms, regardless of the deity they worship, in the hopes of receiving the healing touch of the cleric’s spells.

Characteristics: A variety of faiths means that clerics find a variety of feats to benefit them. A cleric of the god of war finds different feats useful than a cleric of the god of the sun. The same is true of spell selection. Clerics have a limited skill selection and limited skill points, so it’s usually best for them to focus their skill points in a few areas.

Religion: Religion and clerics go hand in hand. It is a cleric’s faith that powers his class abilities and provides him with spells. While the greater gods are finite in number, the quantity of intermediate and lesser gods means a cleric character always has a god to worship. In fact, without a deity to worship, clerics lose their spellcasting and turning.

Role: The strengths of the cleric class are in his spells. With such a wide variety of spells available to them, clerics can fill many different spellcasting roles within an adventuring group. Most often, it’s a cleric’s curative magic that is called upon to aid his companions.

Game Rule Information

Clerics have the following game statistics.

Abilities: As divine casters, Charisma and Wisdom are important to clerics.

Hit Die: d6+2

Starting Gold: 5d4x10

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fortitude Save	Reflex Save	Will Save	Class Abilities
1	+0	+1	+0	+2	Turning, Domain I, +1 divine spellcasting level
2	+1	+2	+0	+3	+1 divine spellcasting level
3	+2	+2	+1	+3	+1 divine spellcasting level
4	+3	+2	+1	+4	+1 divine spellcasting level
5	+3	+3	+1	+4	Domain II, +1 divine spellcasting level
6	+4	+3	+2	+5	+1 divine spellcasting level
7	+5	+4	+2	+5	Favored Weapon, +1 divine spellcasting level
8	+6/+1	+4	+2	+6	+1 divine spellcasting level
9	+6/+1	+4	+3	+6	Domain III, +1 divine spellcasting level
10	+7/+2	+5	+3	+7	+1 divine spellcasting level
11	+8/+3	+5	+3	+7	Favored Weapon, +1 divine spellcasting level
12	+9/+4	+6	+4	+8	+1 divine spellcasting level
13	+9/+4	+6	+4	+8	Domain IV, +1 divine spellcasting level
14	+10/+5	+6	+4	+9	+1 divine spellcasting level
15	+11/+6/+1	+7	+5	+9	Favored Weapon, +1 divine spellcasting level
16	+12/+7/+2	+7	+5	+10	+1 divine spellcasting level
17	+12/+7/+2	+8	+5	+10	Domain V, +1 divine spellcasting level
18	+13/+8/+3	+8	+6	+11	+1 divine spellcasting level
19	+14/+9/+4	+8	+6	+11	+1 divine spellcasting level
20	+15/+10/+5	+9	+6	+12	Ascendancy, +1 divine spellcasting level

Class Skills: The cleric’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (arcana, planes and cosmology, religion)(Int), and Spellcraft (Int). See Player’s Handbook Chapter 4: Skills for skill descriptions.

Skill Points per Level: 2 + Int modifier

Class Features

All the following are class features of the cleric

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Clerics have proficiency with Basic Weapons Group, one other weapon group of their choice, and the weapon group that their deity’s favored weapon appears in. They are proficient with all armor and shields (except tower shields).

Domain: At level 1, all clerics gain access to a domain granted by their deity. The domain granted power is available as soon as the cleric has access to that domain. The first domain is granted at level 1 and the second domain is granted at level 8, and the third domain is granted at level 14.

Spells: A cleric casts divine spells, which are drawn primarily from the cleric spell list.

When a cleric first gains access to a domain, he may choose any spells from the domain spell list as a spell known as if it appeared on the cleric spell list. He does not gain these spells in addition to his normal spells known, but must select them as normal spells that appear on the cleric spell list.

Domain spells are considered class specific spells and only clerics may access them. A character must meet the minimum number of cleric levels to gain access to these domain spells. All domain spells are divine spells, even if they normally appear on a different list. Use the following chart to determine the minimums necessary.

Domain Spell Level	Minimum Cleric Level
1st level	1st
2nd level	3rd
3rd level	5th
4th level	7th
5th level	9th
6th level	11th
7th level	13th
8th level	15th
9th level	17th

Because clerics now cast any spell they have prepared spontaneously, they no longer gain the ability to spontaneously convert spells into cure or inflict spells.

Turning (su): Clerics may call upon the power of their deity to fight creatures opposed to their deity’s spheres of influence. A character’s Turning Level is equal to all levels of classes that have the Turning ability. Upon first gaining this ability, he must choose to damage creatures, control creatures, or frighten creatures. He must also choose one of the following types:

Table: Turning
Creature Type	Description
Fey	Any creature with the Fey type
Vermin	Any creature with the Vermin type
Plants	Any creature with the Plant type
Animals	Any creature with the Animal type
Undead	Any creature with the Undead type
Anarchic Outsiders	Any creature native to natives of The Abyss, Arborea, Limbo, Pandemonium, or Ysgard
Axiomatic Outsiders	Any creature native to Acheron, Arcadia, Baator, Celestia, or Mechanus
Celestial Outsiders	Any creature native to Arborea, Beastlands, Bytopia, Celestia, or Elysium
Fiendish Outsiders	Any creature native to the Abyss, Baator, Carceri, Gehenna, or Hades
Transitive Plane Outsider	Any creature native to the Astral Plane, the Ethereal Plane, or the Shadow Plane
Air Creatures	Any creature of the Air subtype
Earth Creatures	Any creature of the Earth subtype
Fire Creatures	Any creature of the Fire subtype
Water Creatures	Any creature of the Water subtype

When a cleric makes a turning check, he chooses one creature of the chosen type within short range (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels). The targeted creature must make a save (type detailed below; DC 10 + ½ turning level + Cha modifier) or suffer the effect appropriate to what he chose when first gaining Turning.

Damage: If he chose to deal damage the creature types, he deals 1d6 damage / turning level (Reflex save for half damage).

Frighten: If he chose to frighten the creature types, the creature flees from the cleric making all possible haste for 1d10 minutes (Will save to negate). This works even on creatures that are normally immune to resistant to Fear effects.

Command: If he chose to command the creature types, the creature is affected as if with a Compulsion effect (Will save to negate). This even works on creatures normally immune to compulsion effects. Clerics may command a number of HD equal to their cleric level. Commanded creatures with an Int of 2 or less may not break free of the turning, and obey the letter and intent of any orders given. Commanded creatures with Int 3 or higher may not break free, and they must obey the letter of any orders given, but not necessarily the intent of the orders. In either case, the creature cannot directly harm the cleric, cause the cleric harm through their actions, or allow the cleric to be harmed through their inaction.

A creature with Turn Resistance adds that number to its saving throw to resist the turning.

A cleric may lower the DC to resist the turning. For each 1 point he reduces the DC, he may affect one additional creature with his Turning attempt. Clerics also gain a +1 bonus to the save DC if they have at least 5 ranks in a knowledge skill appropriate to that creature’s type or subtype.

Knowledge Skill	Creature Type
Nature	Plants, Vermin, Fey, Animals
Religion	Undead
The Planes	Outsiders
Arcana	Air, Earth, Fire or Water creatures

Turning feats (those with the [Turning] tag) can be applied to this process. See each feat’s description for how they interact with turning, and at what stage of the process they should be applied. This is a Cha based effect, and has an effective level equal to your class level.

Favored Weapon: Each deity has a favored weapon listed and clerics gain a special boon when using that weapon.

At 7th level, clerics receive a +1 to hit when wielding that favored weapon.

At 11th level, clerics receive +2 to damage when wielding that favored weapon.

At 15th level, clerics double the threat range when wielding that favored weapon.

Ascendancy: At level 20, a cleric becomes a mortal embodiment of his deity’s principals and ideals. He gains the outsider type with his native plane as the material plane. Aging no longer gives the cleric penalties, though age bonuses still accumulate, he still appears to age, and he still dies when his maximum age is reached.