#priest class

Inquisitorial sorcerers of a fallen kingdom. To this day, they hold great political power, wielding ancient magic and commanding spirits.

Equipment

Dual hatchets — a common armament in the land of Arruway

Dagger

Bow and arrows

Golta’s robe — a dense garment decorated with bones

Golta Abilities

Spirit Taming: A Golta may tame a wild spirit into a loyal companion.

Nullification: A Golta possesses the ability to nullify spirits and spiritual phenomena.

Prescience: A Golta possesses the ability to glimpse possible outcomes—especially useful for predicting enemy attacks.

The 'Truth and Lies' Update

Level 1-17 Playtest - V1.0

For people who haven't seen before, priest is a point-based, divine spellcaster, with a big focus on customisability

You can choose:

What your casting stat is (Int/Wis/Cha)

Your Method of Worship, a subclass that augments spellcasting (Prayer, Sacrifice, Song, Spirit, Study)

Your Divine Calling, a second subclass that impacts your general playstyle (Cultist, Judge, Oracle, Truthseeker)

Your Deity's Domain, a small expanded spell list with a bonus feature, as you level you gain more and can channel a different one each day (16 options currently)

The document also contains a bunch of spells, and a feat to let you tap into the power of the priest!

New to this update are level 14 features for all Methods of Worship, the Trickery Deity's Domain (as voted on by members of my Discord Server), the Truthseeker Divine calling, and the 8th and 9th level spells for the class!

If you want to keep up to date on teasers, help shape the design going forward, and/or vote on future inclusions, come join the Discord!

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeV4-0BSmNc)

Hunter's Mark is a great spell for Rangers, but what if they had more!

Over on my Discord Server, peple voted for what Deity's Domain they wanted next for priest, and Hunt was the winner, giving me the opportunity to try out some design space I've wanted to for a while.

EDIT: These are all now available in JayPea's Spell Compendium on itch, they're also all under CC, so feel free to use them in your games or in your own homebrew!

Ethereal Mark

Hunter's Mark helps you track, so surely these other marks should also help somehow with finding people. First up is ethereal mark, letting you see creatures that turn invisible, or punch and grapple ghosts.

Guiding Mark

Next up is Guiding Mark, this isn't really useful on melee rangers, and damage-wise isn't too much better than ethereal mark, but for ranged rangers, you can now shoot around corners the arrow or bolt magically finding it's mark

Seer's Mark

Lastly we have Seer's Mark, the logical endpoint of hunter's mark, as long as you've seen your mark, for the next day, you can find them wherever they are, or at least know pretty much exactly where they are.

A double whammy this time, not only a new spell for your paladins, but showing off a new Method of Worship for the priest to go with it!

Freezing Smite is, as you can probably guess, a new Paladin spell for your 5e games. While there's already plenty of different damage types represented in smite spells: thunder, fire, and psychic twice to name a few, there's not yet an official cold based smite spell.

Freezing Smite exists to fill that void, while it deals less damage than even some first level smites, the extra effects are where it becomes really useful, speed reduction and loss of reaction is extremely useful, helping your allies get away from enemies and not being chased down, or not having to worry about getting counterspelled this round for example.

Where this becomes really interesting though is when we look at the next new method of worship The Priest Class will be getting next update: Sacrifice

As with all of Priest's Methods of Worship, at first level this grants the priest a new spellcasting focus: a knife or weapon that deals slashing damage, requiring you to wave the weapon as you cast spells; and an improvement to some spells, in this case, smites.

If a priest hits a creature with a weapon attack, they can choose to cast a smite spell as part of that attack (much like Paladins do with their Divine Smite feature), this can be any smite spell that priests know, which will of course be all official smite spells. A feature stolen with permission from heavily inspired by @cardstockcaster's conviction paladin optional class feature.

Priests aren't the best in melee combat usually, not having very good weapon proficiencies for it, but combined with War as your Deity's Domain, or Judge as your Divine Calling, both of which grant you proficiency in all Melee Weapons, a Priest can become a monster in the front lines, smiting foes left and right in a way paladins could only dream of.

Level 1-13 Playtest - V2.2.1

The Priest is a highly customisable point-based spellcaster for your 5e games, between choice of Casting Stat, Deity's Domain, Method of Worship, and Divine Calling there's already 675 different possibly builds by level 2!

At level 1 you can choose between what spellcasting stat you want to use (INT, WIS, CHA), what Method of Worship you use, granting you a spellcasting focus and modifying some of your spells (e.g. Prayer, Sacrifice, Spirit, etc), what domain your god or pantheon are associated with, giving you a few spells and a feature (e.g. Hunt, Sea, Wealth, etc), and then at level 2, you can choose what your Divine Calling is, your more standard subclass (Cultist, Oracle, Judge)

There's also a bunch of new spells (mostly by other creators under CC but a few by me) and a feat that lets non-priests tap into the power of deity's domains!

If you're interested and want to keep up with updates, hear design talk, get a chance to vote on new content, or even get a chance to playtest, come join my discord server!