👉 The Priest (or Priestess) is an armored clerical spell caster who perceives the beatitude of items and can pray frequently.
📋 Character Creation
| Property | Options |
|---|---|
| Allowed Races | Human, Elf, Gnoll |
| Allowed Genders | Male ♂️, Female ♀️
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| Allowed Alignments |
Lawful ⚖️, Neutral ☯️, Chaotic 😈
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🧬 Class Traits
- Sees the beatitude of all objects
- Can pray twice as often as normal
- Gains extra score from learnt spells of unrestricted schools
- Special achievement is to successfully cast a spell of level 10 or higher
⚡ Intrinsic Abilities
| Level | Intrinsic |
|---|---|
| 7 | Warning of undead ⚠️ |
| 10 | Warning of demons ⚠️ |
| 13 | Warning of angels ⚠️ |
| 16 | Curse resistance 💀 |
| 19 | Death resistance 💀 |
❤️ Hit Points and Mana
| Stat | Starting Value | Increase Per Level |
|---|---|---|
| Hit points ❤️ | 12 | +1d7 (avg. +4) |
| Mana 🔮 | 1d3+6 (avg. 8) | +1d3+2 (avg. +4) |
🏁 Starting Items
| Item | Quantity | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Banded mail | 1 | Blessed; substituted with gnollish bone mail for Gnoll |
| Clerical gown | 1 | Blessed; substituted with gnollish haircloth robe for Gnoll |
| Holy symbol | 1 | |
| Potion of water | 4 | Blessed (holy water) |
| Clove of garlic | 1 | |
| Sprig of wolfsbane | 1 | |
| Ginseng root | 2 | |
| Spellbook of minor healing | 1 | Blessed |
| Spellbook of healing | 1 | Blessed |
| Spellbook of congregate | 1 | Blessed |
| Random spellbook | 2 | Neutral/uncursed |
| Leather bag | 1 | |
| Mace | 1 | +3 enchantment; 12.5% (1 in 8) chance to be of silver material (silver mace, substituted with silver flail for Gnoll); otherwise standard material (substituted with flail for Gnoll) |
| Spellbook of summon celestial dove | 1 | Standard for Lawful starting alignment |
| Spellbook of stick to snake | 1 | Standard for Neutral starting alignment |
| Spellbook of raise minor zombie | 1 | Standard for Chaotic starting alignment |
| Spiked shield | 1 | 10.0% chance to start with this shield (+0, silver material, blessed); otherwise starts with a small shield |
| Small shield | 1 | 90.0% chance to start with this shield (+0, blessed) |
Additionally, there are random chances to start with:
- 8.3% (1 in 12) chance: Gauntlets (+0, silver material, blessed)
- 10.0% chance: Magic marker
- 9.0% chance: Oil lamp (+1 enchantment)
Racial Variations:
- Elf Priests also start with a random musical instrument (e.g. wooden flute, brass horn, wooden harp, bell, bugle, or leather drum).
📊 Skills
⚔️ Combat Skills
| Skill | Starting Level | Maximum Level |
|---|---|---|
| Bare-handed combat | Unskilled | Skilled |
| Dodge | Unskilled | Skilled |
| Shield | Unskilled | Master |
| Wand | Unskilled | Skilled |
🪓 Weapon Skills
| Skill | Starting Level | Maximum Level |
|---|---|---|
| Bludgeoning weapon | Basic | Expert |
| Flail | Unskilled | Expert |
| Quarterstaff | Unskilled | Expert |
| Sling | Unskilled | Expert |
| Thrown weapon | Unskilled | Skilled |
🧙 Spell Casting Skills
| Skill | Starting Level | Maximum Level |
|---|---|---|
| Abjuration spell | Unskilled | Grand Master |
| Celestial spell1 | Basic | Grand Master |
| Clerical spell | Basic | Grand Master |
| Divination spell | Unskilled | Grand Master |
| Healing spell | Basic | Grand Master |
| Nature spell2 | Basic | Grand Master |
| Necromancy spell3 | Basic | Grand Master |
- 1 Lawful Priest only.
- 2 Neutral Priest only.
- 3 Chaotic Priest only.
🛠️ Miscellaneous Skills
| Skill | Starting Level | Maximum Level |
|---|---|---|
| Riding | Unskilled | Skilled |