D&D 5E - Character Creation for Beginners (Cleric)
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- In this one I show you how to create a Cleric for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. This is Zamrin Winddriver, a human cleric of the war domain. This one is a little longer than most of my other character creation videos because I tried to do more explanation for newcomers D&D 5E. We'll roll up stats, select a race, class, equipment and even spells. As always, I welcome your questions and comments.
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Making my first character in DnD and found the player’s handbook to be overwhelming and confusing. This video was extremely informative and helpful to better understand the process. Thank you!
So far, this has been very helpful for a newb such as myself . It helped clarify a lot of the things i couldn't quite grasp trying to read the book alone.
This man, as helpfully as possible: Got the healing capabilities, which it always feels good to help out your brothers and sisters in arms.
Me, putting together a necromancing, chaotic evil cleric: Huh, interesting.
I’m new to dnd and this is the one of if not the best character guides I’ve seen yet!!
CORRECTIONS:
1) Ignore my note about Cure Wounds at 24:15. This part of the book is just an example of the idea that you can always cast a spell using a spell slot of that level OR ABOVE. So if I'm out of 1st level spell slots, I can always cast a 1st level spell using a 2nd level spell slot if I have any 2nd level spell slots unused.
2) Cure Wounds is not special. You can actually cast any spell more than once. In other words if I have two 4 first level spell slots, I can cast 4 different 1st level spells from my prepared list, or I can cast one spell twice and another one twice, or for that matter I could cast one spell 4 times! Etc. For more clarity on the rules of magic, check out this video: th-cam.com/video/hTl_4unUc64/w-d-xo.html
3) Divine Domain spells described at 27:10 DO INDEED need to use a spell slot in order to be cast. They do NOT, however, count against my total prepared spells.
Back to the good old pencil and paper, FINALLY, SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS!
Keep putting out good stuff!
dukenukemthreed Thank you. :D
Those were some insane rolls! Especially with the blanket +1 that humans get. I love watching character creation videos. Always makes me want to go roll one up myself. Cleric is my favorite class, along with rogue, and the battle-priest is my preferred "flavor."
Insane rolls indeed. Rolling up characters is an addiction for me, so I hear ya. :) There are just so many interesting characters to discover!
Thanks, man!
I'm extremely thankful for you for making this and actually taking your time to explain everything clearly! I'm making my first ever PC along with my friends and we all have no clue what we were doing since none of us had ever played d&d before. We all watched your videos to help us and you are so well at explaining everything that we all understood it! Thank you so much!
That's awesome. Happy gaming!
thank you for making these videos. they've been really helpful as I'm looking at playing d and d for the first time with my flatmates. I'm going to be the dungeon master and setting up the character sheets and stuff for them. your videos have helped me get a grasp of what's needed to play :)
+Mystical Space Potato -- Cool! Happy gaming to you! Hope it goes well :)
Thanks so much Nate. I play pathfinder and my cousin in running this tonight. Ironically I was going to play a 3rd level human cleric and your video was perfect. :)
Hey, that's great. Have a blast!
Great overview. I’m new to being a DM, and this will help me run people through the character creation process. Side note: I think I’ll always have players create a character instead of using pre-gen. I feel like it’ll help them understand the modifiers, etc. as we start to play. Thanks!!
Amazing video, probably my favorite character creation videos out there. Thanks man
Awesome. Great to hear, thanks.
Thanks this is really helped out a lot I am making my first cleric for a campaign and I was stuck for a long time I normally play as barbarians or Fighters but I want to change things up again thank you I'm going to tell all my friends about this page and now I am a permanent subscriber
super helpful! I am new and joining my first campaign pretty late in the game. this set me for sure!
Great! Happy gaming!
Thanks for putting this together and walking us through the process. I’m working on my first character which will be a cleric!
Cleric is easily the least-utilized class in the game - well, at least in the campaigns I've been involved in. People play them either like glorified medics or tree-hugging warriors when they can be far more valuable than that.
Ya I was reading the rule book or whatever and it’s talking about calling flames down from the heavens and shit and it’s like that sounds awesome af. I’m working on building my first ever character and have zero idea what I’m doing outside of reading the general rules and whatnot and using common sense lol
Clerics depends on your domain or god u serve. That where will be ur basis for character creation
Great video, thanks for making it easy to follow. Please do a video (or series?) on the spels you choose for your magic using characters and why.
Nice work. I'm late to the game, but I'm enjoying 5e.
Cool! Thanks for watching.
0:23 - LOL. Hand eye coordination.
WASD20 lol i never realized that XD Hilarious
excuse me i have not understood a thing and i can't find it in the manual
the thing is what is the total of the points that you add to the basic caratteristic and to what it depend'?
thanks
for example wisdom 16+ THREE
The modifier is used mainly for spell casting and checks. The mod is taken off your ability score, 8, 9 is a -1, 10, 11 is a +0, 12, 13 is a +1, 14, 15 is a +2, 16, 17 is a +3, 18, 19 is a +4, and 20, the usual cap, is a +5.
WASD20 you rolled a 2 on that, roll a one you break your finger
Hi, some clarification needed I think regarding Prepared Spells vs Spell Slots. The WIS + Cleric level is regarding prepared spells, those are spells held "in mind" available to cast, and can be changed each long rest. The domain spells are extra spells that are always prepared and do not use up your capacity for preparation (WIS+level).
Spell slots are used to cast/power the spells and can be used freely between spells known. A 1st level slot can be used to cast any 1st level spell prepared, the spell preparation is never lost, so any 1 spell could be repeatedly cast, not just Cure Wounds. As you said, a higher level spell slot can be used for greater effect.
Hope this helps people trying to understand spell preparation and casting in 5th edition.
Thanks for the comment. Yeah, I think I was pretty clear on that except for the last part - all spells being able to be repeated, not just cure wounds. The PHB (p. 58) says "If you prepare the 1st level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell doesn't remove it from you list of prepared spells." So is that just a part of the "for example" then? The same principle is true of all spells? If so, that's news to me and I should probably add an annotation :D
WASD20 Yeah, the Cure wounds example is talking about spell slot usage not removing spells from "being prepared", and the fact that the spell can be cast using a higher level slot. If you look at the other spell preparing classes (Druid, Paladin, Wizard) they each have a section saying the same thing, and 2 of them also use Cure wounds as the example. The Magic chapter goes over this too, but unfortunately doesn't spell out clearly the fact that any 1 spell could be cast multiple times. This is one of the more notable changes from 3rd edition etc, and I feel should have been laid out more clearly and specifically, possible not using "Cure wounds" as the example, just to drive the point home.
Domain preparation I felt wasn't fully recognized also, that, these spell "2 per spell level) do not take up your preparation capacity. So for your cleric, at 1st level, would have prepared Divine Favor, Shield of Faith, plus 4 other cleric spells of 1st level. Those four could be changed day by day, but the first two would always be there.
Vaughan Cockell Yeah, I figured out the domain spell thing after digging around and asking my gaming group, but I definitely think the multiple uses for all spells thing could be a lot clearer. Anyway, thanks for the clarification! I'll make a note in the video.
WASD20 I think what clinches the issue, is that at no point do the rules ever say if a spell is cast, it is lost from the list of prepared spells, as was the case in 3.5 and further back. Indeed, some casting classes could not function if that was the case in 5th edition such as the Ranger from 5th level, where they know only 4 spells but can cast 4 1st level spells and 2 2nd level spells. Spells slots as a separate resource to spells known/prepared, with the ability to multiple cast from prepared spells is the only way the system makes sense.
Just to lock down the logic of the argument. But yes, it is not well explained in the book. Glad I could help.
Makes sense. I consider it locked down. :) I noticed that that would have been the case with this cleric too if my WIS was only +2 rather than +3. I'd only be able to prepare 5 spells per day, with 6 spell slots.
I like using the human variant race for this class. getting the warcaster feat at 1st lvl is huge. then i emblazon my holy symbol onto my shield. so between the warcaster feat and my shield being my holy symbol, i dont have to drop my equipment to cast most spells in the game. A decent trick my friend showed me a little while back.
I'm going to name my cleric thelegend27
L e a v e
My war cleric is an elven archer the extra attacks are great and it is easy for me to move in for heals or even shout an encuraging healing Word spell
I love your videos, they get straight to the meat and potatoes. Quite the enjoyable experience! You got yourself a +1 sub! :)
my friends and I are very new to d&d, we've been playing twice a week for two months, and we've only done 3 quests 😂 alot of time was taken because we only have 1 "lightly seasoned" player and he's our dm, and we've been just discovering and organizing our characters, I chose a cleric, and when I leveled up to LV. 2 I chose life domain, I'm aiming for a support cleric, but I do have a pretty OP spell called Inflict wounds that does up to 30 necrotic damage, provided that all saving throws fail and I hit all crits on d10 :p but anyway, I really enjoyed the video, learned some new things about the cleric, and I'll try to implement them during our session tonight, thanks!!
Cool. Thanks for watching and enjoy your game!
hey, love your channel. this is just a suggestion. I think it'd be cool if you put time stamps in description. Keep up the good work!
Great video, thanks!
this is really hellpful
I think that I could do the human variant with certain classes(cleric wouldn't be one of them, though IMHO), but if I took a feat at level one, I'd take either War Caster or Resilient(Constitution) to help with concentration checks!! Would it be possible for you to do a video explaining all the feats from the Players' Handbook? You could also give your top recommendations for feats to take if given the opportunity!!
This vid is goddamn amazing, thanks man, much love.
Thanks!
Well done Sir!
So if I play a level 1 cleric of the life domain I have cure wounds and bless prepaid automatically, and additionally I can prepare two more spells from the entire list of level 1 cleric spells (total 4) after a long rest?
And I can cast 2 of those prepared spells - my 2 slots, and I regain the slots after a long rest?
Just want to check if I've got that right 😉
Domain spells (magic weapon/spiritual weapon @ 27:10) are not spells to cast 1/long rest, but are just sort of extra always prepared spells. witch do cost a slot to cast, right? Are you confused with channel divinity, maybe? (off course: tnx for all your good explanatory vid's, they are of great help to me learning this game :) )
Thanks for the awesome help man!
Tmvcom Gaming My pleasure. Thanks for watching.
Thank you so much, a great guide indeed!!
you are the best
Is this supposed to be the first video in the playlist? Just watching out for you WASD20, love your logo by the way.
+TriCornWich -- Yes it is. Although it's not the chronological first, I feel it is the most clear and best one for beginners. :) Let me know if you feel otherwise, however. I actually messed up a few things on my VERY first character creation video (chronologically speaking).
+WASD20 I don't know what I was thinking, this video DOES go way more in depth than your first video on the subject.
Nate thank you so much for both doing this video and pointing me in this direction! This definitely helped me understand better about character creation. I created a Knowledge Cleric named Thezanar Uuthrakt alongside watching this video and things made so much sense! I did have a few questions for you...
First, you mentioned at the beginning that you make most of your characters on the computer, what do you use to make them? I used the fillable pdf provided on the official site, and will probably mostly be using roll20 for all my characters and such, but didn't know if there was something else/better. The one I used on Android seemed good at first, but after understanding more, I think it's a bit off.
And second, what is the difference between prepared spells and spell slots? For example, at level one the Cleric has 2 level 1 spells, I'm assuming that's Prepared spells", right? What is spell slots?
Thanks again! This went a long way in helping me understand what I was doing.
Hi Jeremy. I use Foxit Reader to edit form fillable PDFs on my PC. Works well.
For spell slots, I'm going to point you to this video. It should start the video right at the part where I explain that. th-cam.com/video/hTl_4unUc64/w-d-xo.htmlm19s
If you still don't understand it after, I'm happy to try to explain it in another way. :)
That was a perfect explanation! I hadn't gotten to that video yet, only watched the first two in that series, but it makes sense!
Very helpful, will be recommending 👍🏻
Thanks!
Thanks for the video man!
The whole spells prepared vs. spell slots vs. domain spells vs. known spells has me confused. I think I may have it, but please correct me if I am wrong:
I'll use a 1st level Cleric w/ life domain and a +3 Wisdom modifier as an example.
1) I know (and have prepared) my two domain spells at all times. I can cast them and they do not effect my spells slots for the day. In fact, I can cast them multiple times per day.
2) I have two spell slots to use for "level spells" period. After I use the two slots, they are gone until I rest.
3) I can "prepare" a number of spells equal to my level (1) plus my Wisdom modifier (3). So, I can prepare 4 spells (from the entire list of 1st level spells), but I can only cast two of them per day (based on the number of slots I have). I can prepare the same spells, or different spells, after resting.
4) As a Cleric I "know" all of my 1st level spells, but can only prepare 4 at a time.
Did I get it right?
1) The domain spells use your spell slots for the day. So if you cast Cure wounds 2 times in a day, you can't cast another 1st level spell that day.
"I like to gamble."
DM: "You died."
"Damn."
Thank you!
Cleric was my first as well.
I'm new to this and I have a question
how do the hit dice work?
Like roll a D8 (for example) plus your Constitution modifier?
There is a suppliment for Cleric Domain Spells and some of the Domain spells are not included in the Cleric box may be in there.
So when you are calculating the attack of a weapon you are profficient in you add the proficiency bonus and 2x(the appropriate)modifier (once for proficiency and once for normal)?
Not quite. You add the appropriate modifier, and if you are proficient you also add the proficiency bonus. You don't multiply anything by 2.
Question regarding Clerics and a Shield: Is your shield considered to only add to your armor class when you are holding it?
Where do you put your shield when you are walking around with your Light (2HD) Crossbow?
When you are using the crossbow at range are you -2 AC that your shield provides because it may be on your back?
I guess what is the logistics on a shield?
+sador42 You are correct. You must be wearing it on your arm (no two-handed weapons) to get the +2 bonus.
+WASD20 So when I am using my Light Crossbow before I get into Melee I am -2 (no shield bonus) to my AC.
What actions would you think have to be performed in combat to put the crossbow away and then pull out the Shield and Sword to get into melee and attack?
I usually allow a player to drop the crossbow on the ground and pull out the sword and shield, but technically that's not what the rules allow. According to the rules, putting a shield on is an action, I believe. So that means one could drop the crossbow, pull out sword and shield, but would not be able to make an attack after that. Again, that's rules as written, but I play loose with those.
Ok, following along and making a barbarian instead of a Cleric. So am at Barbarian/Human/Folk Hero/War Domain and i was looking at the barbarian equipment at pg48 and i don't see an option to choose. Can i just pick anything from the armor table at pg145?
Look under Barbarian class and find the 'Class Features' section. Under that there should be a heading for 'Equipment'. Those give you your choices. I can't remember if Barbarians come with armor, but that should tell you. Many classes don't wear armor and Barbarians actual excel in unarmored defense, if I remember correctly. Don't have my book with me.
The other option is to forego that standard equipment from class and background and roll for gold using the chart on the first page of ch. 5. Then you shop for your own stuff. :) Good luck.
i came here to learn something about D&D because im new here but he skip a lot of the stuff because so much text apeared at 6:50 out o f nowhere!!!!
Yeah, I filmed it out of order, but if you go ahead to about 10:05 you'll see I did explain it all at that point. :)
oh ok thx
thank you
15:20 "but I like to gamble". Yeah me too. lol xD
Thanks for making the vid, I was having a rough time understanding the concepts and this helped me a lot! Question, on 26:30, you gained level 3 domain spells but you put it under the level 2 spells, is there a reason for this? I am really confused about that part. Thanks!
When I first played D&D I was a cleric too but I played the game differently because I had none of the gear
Thanks for your videos; they have been a big help. I used to play in the early 80's, and I picked it up again. I have a question about the starter set, specifically the Ability scores and Modifiers for the PreGenerated characters. It seems that they have the values reversed on the sheet. For example, Strength has a plus 2 in the big square and a plus 14 in the small oval bubble. So in this case, the Ability Modifier would be 2??? Any info is appreciated! I am sure it does not matter where we put the values, just as long we know which value is which. I am trying to reverse engineer this character so I can understand a little better how it was put together. Your videos have been huge. I like the campaign episodes with a fist full of dice too. Thanks again for helping everyone get into the realm!!! -Dave
Well thanks, Dave. My scores are the ones that are backwards, actually, but that's the way I like it so I'm sticking with it! :) I've seen people do them either way. But the official way is to have modifiers in the big box and ability scores in the small oval.
+WASD20 thanks for such a quick reply. I binge watched your videos this weekend. I am getting to the bottom of these pre-made characters, and it is your videos that made it happen. Keep up the good work Nate! -dave
Got a "bag of dice" picks up a 12 lb flower bag. ;)
Shenanigans on that ability roll ! Get those dice from a rogue ?! 5e is full on for new players and/or really really lazy/old/experienced players lol
I don't get the ability score thing at all. Looks like your making the numbers up. It's going right over my head.
What I'm asking is that can you make a video on make an elvish wizard using the basic rules. please.
Question: for the preparing and casting spells it gives an example stating that using cure wounds doesn’t remove it from your prepared lists. Does this mean that your domain spells are free to use without using a spell slot? Likes you can use it as much you want? Or does it take a spell slot to cast it?
What is the main objective of the game?🗝
You are wrong on switching Cure Wounds for any other spell Thats from 3.5 And also You don't cast Domain Spells once for free You have that spell in your chosen spell list permanently Just clarifying
Thanks for that. I actually have a note on the Domain Spells bit to correct that, but unfortunately TH-cam doesn't show annotations on mobile views. In terms of the Cure Wounds thing, I'm not sure what I was talking about there. :) Maybe I was remembering something from Pathfinder.
Anyway, thanks for the clarification.
Dixon Ticonderoga. Nice.
What if I roll like all ones or twos) I mean horrible results. Am I allowed to reroll some results? Or all of them. I didn't find that information in the rulebook.
P.S. By the way thanks a lot for you videos and replies to my questions, it helped a lot. I am now almost ready to run the starter adventure with my friends. The biggest problem is that d&d books are not published in my country so I have to translate pretty big part of adventure text and rules, so all of my friends will understand it.
+TonyPizzaPie Technically you probably shouldn't re-roll, but I would say you could ask your DM and they might throw you a bone and let you re-roll a couple or just add a couple points to a couple abilities. It's nice to roll up characters as a group for this reason. The DM can observe and make calls on that sorta thing. Or if it's a concern, simply taking the 'standard array' as described in the book is a great way to determine ability scores. I've used it quite a bit in the past.
That's tough that the books aren't in your language, man. What country are you in? Don't be afraid to wing it on some of the rules here and there. As long as your are fairly consistent and everyone is having fun, that's what matters! Happy gaming!
+WASD20 I'm from Ukraine (mostly russian language). I personaly could handle running a game in english, but not all of my friends could. There are some amateur translations on the internet, but so far there is only player's handbook 5e. And I'm working on translating the starter set adventure, about half done=)
Well good for you!
Anton Podolnyy Sick I'm also Ukrainian unfortunately my dad never taught it to me so I can't help with translating =(
I just had a quick question: when determining the damage of your weapons, you add your ATK bonus and weapon damage, right? Doesn't that mean that (for your warhammer) your strength bonus gets added in to the mix twice since you add STR bonus and PROF bonus to get ATK and you add STR bonus to damage?
Attack bonus and damage bonus are separate things. You don't add your attack bonus to your damage.
The attack roll determines IF you hit, and the bonus should be your proficiency bonus plus your relevant ability modifier (STR in this case).
The damage is what you roll WHEN you hit. The damage bonus is nearly always smaller than the attack bonus because it doesn't include your proficiency bonus, only your ability modifier.
Haha, I was rolling with you and ended up wish six 14s. What are the chances?!
Not bad! :)
I wanna play this game but no one wants to play with me :(. Once they saw how big the rule book was they said no ;A;. Any suggestions?
+eon star Try again, but don't show them the rulebook. Try the starter set (amzn.to/1LHKj7H) or get the free PDFs if you haven't already and become familiar enough with the basic rules that the players can tell you what they want to do, and then you can tell them what they have to roll to do it. That's a challenge, but hopefully they'll enjoy it enough eventually that they might WANT to read some of the rules :) Good luck.
WASD20 Thank's a lot ^.^. I've been watching a lot of D&D videos to try to understand how to play better and how it works. So far your vid's have been the most helpful ^.^. SO thank you for making them :).
Awesome video man! you deserve a like! =D
on another note: could you please tell me the song you have at the end? =)
Thanks, man. I got the song from the free youtube music actually, so I can avoid legal junk :) It's called 'Hot Heat' I believe.
WASD20
thank you very much, kind sir! =D can't wait to see you as Aerdon in action again! =)
Very kind of you. :) Sunday can't come fast enough!
true, so true.. :P
So, the spellcasting is different for a wizard. When they level how do they get spells?
A cleric receives their spells as they level but I don't know how a wizard does it.
I have a question, why didn't you pick Thieves' Cant as your second language?
Jens Heika Simonsen Ooh. Didn't cross my mind, but that would totally make sense for this character.
WASD20 There is a lot to think about, so it is understandable.
Hello there, I've been interested in playing D&D for a while now and just recently started watching your videos and worked up the courage to try and create my own character. Now I'm creating a High Elf Cleric with an Acolyte background using the basic rules PFD but something about the Languages has me confused, I've realized that they mention the language and a scrypt but I was wondering, are the laguages I write specifically the languages or do I write the scripted language? Would really apretiate your help in this and thank you so much for your videos.
What about the inspiration box? I am super curious about that one
Spell Slots. Is it accurate that you can only cast each spell once? Or can you cast the same spell as many times as you have spell slots available?
+sador42 You CAN cast the same spell as many times as you have spell slots available. :)
Go for the eyes boo
So lemme get this straight.... The book says you choose a number of spells from the cleric spell list equal to your WIS modifier + your cleric level... the cleric spell list? Does that mean I can just choose any spell (taking into account spell level) from the list? or is there some way to determine my known spells??
So for a cleric, your known spells are ANY on the cleric list. Some may not fit well with your cleric's domain. It's hard to see a cleric of life who serves a good deity, for example, casting a necromancy spell (which are on the cleric spell list). But other than those cases, you may choose any. Each day after 1 hour of prayer/meditation the cleric can select any spells from the cleric list that fit their level.
Isn’t the life cleric better because he/she doesn’t need heal wounds?
Can you please do a video on creating a Ranger. I know nothing about this game, like nothing... at all.
SpacePip I do hope to do all the classes before the end of 2015, but it might be a while - sorry. There are other videos out there on the tubes that show Ranger creation. Good luck!
+WASD20 Great, Don't worry I have plenty of time... I still have to try to get my friends to play the game. They all say its a game for nerds and losers, I hate when people have an old mindset. Also i hate it when they use the word Nerd as a bad thing. Any tips on trying to get my friends to play with me?
SpacePip That's tough, man. Keep trying. Bribe them with free pizza or something :) But also realize its not for everyone, so don't push too hard. For me, getting into this hobby I just had to make new friends. Some of my friends have been willing to give it a shot and we've had an okay time. But their level of interest is way below mine, so I've gone out and made friends online and I game with them, engage in good discussions with them and they are genuinely some of my best friends. A year ago I hardly knew them.
A few weeks back I showed my wife an episode of Titansgrave (Wil Wheaton's rpg show). For her that was significant because these are good-looking successful people who enjoy RPGs and have a good time 'playing make-believe'. Maybe it's dumb that it took that to change her view, but hey, I'll take it :)
SpacePip Also - that "old" mindset sucks. Might be time for new friends anyway :)
Oh, also look up Vin Diesel D&D. Dude is a huge d&d nerd. Again - stupid that we have to show supposedly 'cool' people enjoying this hobby to convince some, but might be worth a shot.
+WASD20 ikr thanks for the help!
I have no experience with D&D (or RPGs), but I take it this Cleric is pretty strong, right? What if you are plaving with a group where the other players have moderate or unlucky rolls? Is it still fun for them, or would your character do everything?
Also, is it more fun to play a character with everything at 12+ or would you rather play one with everything
Jallallalla The cleric is a good class, but I can't really say its much stronger than other classes. I think they are pretty well balanced. For people who feel like they want to 'win' unlucky rolls can ruin a game, but if you are in it for the fun of collaborative storytelling, low stats and unlucky rolls get in the way of fun a lot less. It can still be frustrating though :)
where do you write the spells if you dont have the third page
I was wondering if you give me some advice with my cleric my cleric the best way to describe her is she's like the Brotherhood of Steel from Fallout she wants to protect knowledge and yes I fall the knowledge domain I was just wondering which God would you suggest I follow
I am currently making an Elvin cleric and I am having trouble finding a deity. My alignment is chaotic good and I want to lean more towards healing and I have no clue as to what I am doing.
AvidNightmareFan My recommendation would be to talk to the DM. He/she might have a good suggestion for a deity, and sometimes they may even have custom deities for their world or you could create your own. :) But for your domain you would probably go with life domain (big heals) and then you just want to find a deity that aligns with life domain in the back of the Player's Handbook. For alignment try to find one that is chaotic good, chaotic neutral, neutral good or just straight up neutral. Or change your alignment to get a little closer to your desired deity if you want to. Hope that helps. Also, if you don't have a PHB just search for D&D deities on the googles :)
WASD20 Thank you very much, this was really helpful I think I found my deity now ^_^
Cool!
do the monsters in 5e deal less dmg? because in 4e you had your constitution score for HP. and the bosses were still able to 1hit the party.
I've never played 4E, but I know that in general armor class has been scaled way back and I imagine hit points and damage may have been too.
Little late to the party Im super super new but why does it say that you have four 1st level spells and you have six and 2 2nd level spells but theres 4?
Are cleric's spells affected by your intelligence? How high should I make my intelligence when I'm making my cleric?
+.:Gears98:. Wisdom
+.:Gears98:. -- Yes. Mechanically speaking, wisdom is the important state for spellcasting and such for a cleric.
I just got a 18 with one of my rolls and I felt too guilty so I re rolled it 🤧
What hapends if i get a 20 in a ability score with 4d6?
4d6 is not an option for character creation. 4d6 and AND you drop the lowest. So it ends up being 3d6.
can you make an elvish wizard because i don't understand that
the mod and clerics level = spells they can have? I am a level 7 cleric with mod of +4 so I can only have 11 spells plus the domain?
Can you do a dragon born I want to make one but I don't know how
I feel like you glossed over how all the proficiencies and skills modifiers are extrapolated. I'm comfused
Can you tell me what page it says you add Dex to hit "and damage" on ranged weapons?
Sure. I don't have it with me at the moment, but this is what I found by googling.
pg.14 of your 5e PHB.• For attacks with melee weapons, use your Strength modifier for attack and damage rolls. A weapon that has the finesse property, such as a rapier, can use your Dexterity modifier instead.• For attacks with ranged weapons, use your Dexterity modifier FOR ATTACK AND DAMAGE ROLLS. A weapon that has the thrown property, such as a handaxe, can use your Strength modifier instead.
I just started playing d&d this week, i'm a half-elf cleric lvl1. I have to ask, do you only get 1 hit dice?
+Marko Suorsa At level 1 you get 1. Level 2 you get 2. Etc. And hey, welcome to tabletop RPGs! :D
+WASD20 Thanx, I just asked cause u had 1d8 at the end of the video :)
Oh yeah. I just leave that quite often, and then in that tiny little 'total' spot I'll put a 3. I don't think i did in this one but .. .
Why don't all the videos in this series have their own playlist?
On another note, the War Hammer has its features horribly simplified. If you take a look at the historic War Hammer, which I highly recommend, you will notice it has a spike on the end opposite of the hammer'head, which means it can also do piercing damage.
i'm trying to learn but it just gets too confusing.
Does someone have tips for how to learn the game pls?
I make a Wood Elf Cleric. Can I use a short sword?
Angel David Martinez Martinez I think so, but I honestly don't know off the top of my head. Check the book or the free basic rules PDF. :)
can i make a cleric that worships a god of sadism that wields a mallet of healing that when hitting with full force does 1d6 damage and heals for 1d8
Not sure if the rules would allow for it, but you can always work with your DM to go about this sort of madness. :)
Hey, your HP perfectly averaged out, so it's like you just chose to take 7 HP each time instead of rolling. So there's nothing to be upset about when it comes to that HP.
Oh definitely. Can't complain - just got my hopes up for high HP :D Thanks for watching!
is there any online character builder that i could use (my handwriting is awful) any info would help
+MinecraftHaxor69 Yes. Click on the Fifth Edition sheets and it'll give you a folder full of sheets. You want the form fillable PDFs. It's not online, but you can type right into the PDF with Foxit PDF reeader or something. Works great! dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/character_sheets
WASD20 thank you that will help immensly
It's easier to remember every even number above 10 is a plus 1.
That is easier to remember, but unfortunately it’s not the way it works.
can this be used with the starter set?? tia x
Perhaps. It would probably be easier to use the cleric that comes with the set as I'm pretty sure the tempest domain that I took here is not included in the basic rules with the starter set. Also, this is a level 3 character and your DM may have you starting at level 1.
I am currently a cleric