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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.
The second version of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set combines the idea of race and class; non-human races do not have classes. Hence, a character might be a (human) Cleric or else simply an "Elf" or "Dwarf". The Basic Set presented four human classes: Cleric, Fighter, Magic User, and Thief, and three demi-human classes: Dwarf, Elf, and Halfling.
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.
The Fighter is strong and focuses on weapon-based combat, the Mage, renamed Wizard in later editions of Dungeons & Dragons, is a ranged fighter equipped with a variety of magical abilities for combative and utilitarian purposes, and the Thief, renamed Rogue in later editions, is not physically strong but focuses on speed or stealth.
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.
Dungeons & Dragons Rules Expansion Gift Set, a boxed set, contains Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse (2022) along with new printings of Xanathar's Guide to Everything and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (2020); it was released on January 25, 2022. An exclusive edition, with white foil alternate art covers by Joy Ang, is only ...
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."
Critical Role is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons with Mercer as the Dungeon Master and creator of the world Exandria. [23] A number of licensed works based on the show have been created, such as the Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting (2017) and The Legend of Vox Machina (2022).