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The cleric is one of the standard playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. [1] Clerics are versatile figures, both capable in combat and skilled in the use of divine magic, a form of theurgy or thaumaturgy. Clerics are powerful healers due to the large number of healing and curative magics available to them.
Keith H. Eisenbeis reviewed Cleric's Challenge in a 1994 issue of White Wolf. On a scale of 1 to 5, he rated the module a 2 for Complexity and Value, a 3 for Appearance and Concepts, and a 4 for Playability. [1] He stated, "All-in-all, this is a good adventure, and it should be valuable to players of priest characters."
A well-rounded party of characters requires a variety of abilities offered by the classes found within the game. Dungeons & Dragons was the first game to introduce the usage of character classes to role-playing. [1] Many other traditional role-playing games and massively multiplayer online role-playing games have since adopted the concept as well.
Cleric's Challenge II is a solo adventure in which the player character is a cleric of level 4-6, who is sent to a rural town. The town's temple was destroyed years ago and its priest disappeared, and the rivalry between its competing wineries turned ugly.
Up until 1987, a number of games inspired by Dungeons & Dragons had appeared, such as the Wizardry and Ultima series, but these were not licensed from TSR. TSR considered making their own video games and passed on the idea, and instead announced in 1987 that it was looking for a game development partner to make officially-licensed games.
These spells require the cleric to go upon a quest to gain the right to cast it once, or petition their god to grant the spell to deal with an immediate crisis. Such spells might be used to end a famine or cure a plague, or to wound or slay large groups of enemies. Several of these spells became 9th-level spells in the 3rd Edition of the game.
d20 Modern is a modern fantasy role-playing game system designed by Bill Slavicsek, Jeff Grubb, Rich Redman, and Charles Ryan.The system's core rulebook was published by Wizards of the Coast on November 1, 2002; by 2006, ten additional supplements were released.
In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, game mechanics and dice rolls determine much of what happens. These mechanics include: Ability scores, the most basic statistics of a character, which influence all other statistics; Armor class, how well-protected a character is against physical attack