Sam'ika

@GoddesSammi

She/They/Kaysh
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Tabletop gamer. Perpetually tired. I lift sometimes? I'm on the internet!

Sam'ika @GoddesSammi9/6/2024, 1:00 AM

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Brock @DeusExBrockina9/5/2024, 10:21 PM

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Sam'ika @GoddesSammi9/6/2024, 1:00 AM

Tempest Cleric, my beloved

But yeah, as an ex-evangelical, hit the nail on the head for my own feelings on clerics for a long time.

But! Rolled up a Cleric for Curse of Strahd, and I've been playing Priss for almost 2 years now.

Supports the team by making sure the battfield is turned to ash before any enemies can hurt her friends! Also, thunderbolt strike is delightful.

Her god was always vibes based, and never directly talked to her. (She was, like, 32 before she learned the name of her god) AND! Last session we learned that her god is sustained by her, rather than the other way around. She dies, her god goes with her.

Despite a pretty decent Wis, she does make bad decisions. Bound her soul to a dread lord, but it's okay, because she was hot. And only lost some of her soul in the divorce!

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Jama @Jama9/5/2024, 10:24 PM

Become a Proxy for your God of vengeance and smite things.

banneduser @banneduser9/5/2024, 10:29 PM

I need healing

adelaide.@ill-omens9/5/2024, 10:34 PM

Honestly those limits are why I like clerics so much. You're not intended as The Guy, you're devoted to some other being. How do their and presumably the clerics values differ from the norm, and also just how weird you can get with conceptions of faith, dang I should play a clericy type next time I've the chance

Abs @nowitsabby9/5/2024, 11:29 PM

I have always liked the versatility of the pathfinder (1e) cleric. You can fill any role and specialize however you desire

crow ✨ JOIN AULDNOIR @giant-crow-from-dark-souls9/5/2024, 11:37 PM

(asked as a person who doesn't have opinions on this yet and has only just really started thinking about it) do you think that with the modern interpretation of clerics there's any meaningful difference any more between clerics and paladins?

crow ✨ JOIN AULDNOIR @giant-crow-from-dark-souls9/6/2024, 8:14 AM

responses were all very tasty, thank you :)

Glenatron @Glenatron9/6/2024, 11:37 AM

Clerics and paladins exist on a continuum for sure, which is interesting because to me the only difference between a Paladin and a Monk is orientalism, so maybe Monks are also basically part of this block...

Binary @binary9/5/2024, 11:40 PM

Yeah this was a whole thing in 3.X - clerics were solid enough at the fighty bits that the spells they also got made them like worlds better at actually fighting than, y'know, fighters. Or paladins. Or any martial class, really. (Druids were equally good but for slightly different reasons.)

D W the Gutless @dwoboyle9/6/2024, 1:25 AM

The coolest thing about classical Clerics is they got heavy armor and maces. The fact that a lot of games/systems have moved away from them being Buff Tanks and more like squishy mage types is a little sad to me.

Scampir @Scampir9/6/2024, 1:32 AM

Clerics still get heavy armor in games these days (D&D, Pathfinder etc.) where are you seeing this trend?

D W the Gutless @dwoboyle9/6/2024, 1:37 AM

mostly in video games. Like the how the Final Fantasy White Mage became the default healer type in a lot of stuff.

Scampir @Scampir9/6/2024, 1:39 AM

this post is tagged #ttrpg

D W the Gutless @dwoboyle9/6/2024, 1:42 AM

Divergent designs though. They share the same origin.

Scampir @Scampir9/6/2024, 1:51 AM

hell of a reach to say they share an origin when the ttrpg is the origin of the video game.

D W the Gutless @dwoboyle9/6/2024, 2:02 AM

:eggbug-tuesday: early RPGs/dungeon crawlers were emulating the mechanics of D&D specifically though? Like to the point of pulling directly from the monster manual. That is what I am saying. The video games grew out of ttrpgs.

sarantine @sarantine9/6/2024, 1:59 AM

I think I’ll always be a devotee of the esoteric Fighter/Wizard guide, but that’s because I unfortunately read The Wheel of Time at a formative age and it warped my brain.