@@tigerred1298 I'll get to them and I haven't forgotten! I am very busy and I do not want for other twists to be delayed. They'll be out when they are out and I'll let everyone know when that happens :)
Mercedes feels like Antonio heard "The healer's job is not necessarily to heal the party, but rather it's to keep them alive. And YES, there's a difference!" from JoCat's FFXIV Healers video and made a villain themed around it.
@lemuntpicard7482 Building a character around a good class is lame though. I did it once with a necomancy build. Never once did necromancy and was super bored with my abilities till I swaped over to something else that fit the character I ended up with.
My guy... In the video you recommended... The first 1 second had a CLEAR disclaimer saying it's a joke and not a serious guide to healers. Any jab at player preference is not to be taken seriously
in the immortal words of Jocat: “Seriously, with how versatile and independently strong you can build a cleric, you can make a party of purely priests, call it the A-men, and burst down Tiamat’s door, demanding her lunch money. And she would just build her toilet to give herself swirlies so she wouldn’t have to endure the kind of bullying you were about to give her.”
Cleric is one of the few classes with Paladin and maybe Warlock where you can realistically have a full party made from entirely variations of this class and it would still kind of mechanically function (though I'll say that none is as broken as a party made 100% of Rogue in a social/mystery centric campaign, like holy shit do half of these subclasses force you to consider very carefully or else they will break the campaign, so imagine having both Sherlock Holmes, Agent 47, Inspector Gadget and a ghost whisperer walk into your intrigue)
@@sephikong8323 Artificer is also a wild card in versatility: Tank? sure Martial? betcha. Ranged martial? of course. Ranged magic? pew pewpew pew. Suboptimal support subclass that will be mostly useless? Yes of course. Every single artificer subclass is just it's own class...
Thank you for acknowledging the Grave Domain as one of the BEST subclasses in the game! One of my go-to one shot/campaign characters is a grave domain cleric themed around the Hispanic culture of death and the Day of the Dead. His deity is a goddess of life and joy and his whole philosophy is “live your life to the fullest; live a life to be remembered”! He’s a chad on the battlefield and an unwavering source of optimism, comfort, and hope to his party members!! ^w^
Me: Ok enough expenses for the month I need to be a responsible adult A sentient Pointy Hat somehow: What about pretty pretty dice??? Me: *Sweats profusely*
Pointy, cute and stylish. The best hat I've ever seen in my whole life also makes great homebrews and characters to play. Nice work dude, greatly appreciated.
Once I played a campaign with a 3-person party where two of us(including me) were clerics.After we killed a dragon, I created a cult and our DM summarized the rest if the campaign as 'Speedrunning dystopian novels with totalitarian regimes'. It was fun
I think you have one of the best DnD channels on RUclips--your drawings, your humor, your style, your structure. It's all there. Well done!! PS - This is the first time I've ever actually enjoyed watching an ad section of a video.
Yes to grave domain. My favorite build with grave domain is playing as a kenku, since it just fits the plague doctor design. That and so I could play a "Saint Raven"
Clerics are my favorite class too! In one campaign I play a twilight cleric who is a doctor by trade (also homebrew background that just gives expert in medicine and proficiency in herbalism and alchemy kits). He is a devout follower of Illmater, despite the fact that he is also a vampire. Honestly I think Mercedes would be a great antagonist to him, as she stands for everything he and his God is against. Of course she would still be second to his vampire sire
Pointy is one of my people. Yes! Finally a fellow Cleric enthusiast. I can't help but be drawn to the class every time I create a character. It takes a lot for me to choose something else.
My first ever character was a Life Domain Cleric of Selûne, an absolute healbot named Saviorass Frimdeth. And he’s still my favorite character, the only thing I’d change is now that I know about more of the gods of the forgotten realms I would 10000% pick Ilmater
In Apoc World you must juggle dwindling stock of supplies. Every use of your skills consumes stock. In Esoteric Enterprises you can always go to the regional hospital. But you play people who they call the cops on when they show up with gun wounds.
Pointy, Mercedes is an amazing concept, and one that I may use in the sequel campaign to the campaign I'm currently running. Love, love, LOVE your videos!
I'm playing a centaur who, after receiving prosthetic limb enhancement to help her with her crippling scoliosis, decided she wanted to dedicate her life to promoting well-being to every species. Centaurs don't have to suffer from rhumitoid arthritis, oris don't need to struggle with gingivitis and goblins and kobolds with proper medical care can actually live a very long lifespan. She's a free healthcare girlie 💖
Can I just say I absolutely adore the way you create videos? You make narrating and homebrewing seem so easy which is a f*cked up thing to do because it's really is not! It takes a lot of work to make something seem easy, keep up the good work 👍
I did DnD as a family game once, and when I explained role playing to my mom, she said she wanted to be Jesus, so I kitted her out with a 50th level Cleric, she had a blast
Obviously I love your videos and look forward to them but the more I watch them, the more I find myself loving your art especially. It's always so visually fun to look at. Mercy with her flowing locks and scarred eyes was both terrifying but also mysterious. Can't wait to continue seeing your channel grow.
Wait. Wait okay. Maybe I missed something, but I think you skipped over one cleric subclass. The Trickery domain! It's my personal favorite subclass, due to all the weird mind and illusion things you can do. I imagine it was cut for time and such. Otherwise, wonderful video as always!
Looking at your Cleric, I think you’ve made a better version of the City Domain UA. Supporting and protecting your ally’s while building up your environment is really cool. Gotta see if I can find a DM who will let me do this.
I love Selune and making my characters look up to the stars a lot. So when I saw Twilight Domain 👀 And Twilight Domain is making the cleric a little bit of sneaky paladin (just put them into boots of elvenkind). Guidance being like sprinkling allies with moondust is awesome. That 300 ft of darkvision driving GM crazy, Twilight Sanctuary keeping the party alive. I just love everything about this subclass, it's the most diverse as well. You can play it like a paladin, with all the auras and channel divinity standing always in the middle. You can play it more sneaky with all advantages and passive abilities activating in the darkness. You can play as just a buffer/debuffer. You can play as regular healer. Or... ditch the shield and take glave/halberd instead and play a the reaper.
Dude your channel consistently demonstrates the best parts of DnD, creativity, narrative indulgence, care, I can't believe how amazing this channel is! The art, the stories, the advice and the humour. Your channel is one of the most impressive things I've seen on RUclips. Thank you for all the work you put in. Love you * muuhwa*
Cleric and Druid party combos are awesome, because they can take turns on healing and do the other things that make their classes great; as they both are (in my opinion) the most versatile classes in the game.
You are definitely correct about how awesome grave domains are. I'm playing in my first campaign as not a dm and my character is a grave cleric because I just adore their flavor honestly
The best part is how the difference between the dieties is so immense that you can be basically any personality. Like, sure we have Illmater who is just Jesus, but you also have ones like Talos who are just "Haha lol get lightninged." Being a cleric does not necessarily mean being a stereotypical priest
The fact that you take the time to break down the lore and make new stuff on top of it, and all of that for free, just makes your content some of the best I have watched. Love the videos, keep it up !!!
Pointy Hat: "Mercedes is an evil cleric who uses her healing magic to torture corrupt merchants and politicians who use their power and lies to oppress others." Me: "Ok, but what makes her evil?" Edit: Good lord, over a year later and I'm still getting "Um, actually"ed on this comment. Morals are nuanced, obviously. That was the joke.
i think torture in modern versions of dnd is a no-no but if you play with more mediaeval morality (like in the older editions of dnd) that might even be lawful good thing
@@ashadeofblue6815 It's why there used to only be law and chaos. Good and evil were far less important than whether you were defending civilization or not.
@@Sarsenwood yeah i know is that gygax even said once that lawful good people might torture to bring justice or get information that might help bring justice the same way a non corrupt catolic inquisitor would be considered lawful good by their society
Yeah gonna be honest Mercedes is very suspiciously the "Baby punching villain" trope, where a villain is actually the good guy but has a dumb caveat that invalidates what they stand for. And thus whatever good points they have are never addressed by the (usually more privelaged) heroes. Examples of this are Killmonger (MCU), Sylas (LoL), Riddler (The Batman), Butterflies (Peacemaker), etc... Gonna be honest as much as I love the content the implications of this trope and Mercedes being "evil" are really disappointing. Like this is just a DnD character concept and not some high budget film that'll influence society or anything so it isn't a big deal, but the trope is still just really dumb and problematic that I just hate seeing all the dang time. Standing up to oppression and actually doing what's necessary to root out said oppression is NOT EVIL.
@@robno1033 So the end justifies the means? If Merc' god sees no problem with psychic damage achieved through evidence-less psychical abuse it is okay? How is Merc' not tyrannical?
If I had a nickel for every time this clip 0:46 was played in a DND video, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that if happened twice.
Recently made a multiclassed Warlock Grave cleric with an Undead patron. Now, she's not some edgy sad brooding character, she's actually a very bubbly young woman with a very nice demeanor and great listening ability! That's because she comes from a family of morticians, her father being the owner of the family business. Which is precisely why she doesn't like the undead, because she believes that what is dead should be able to rest in peace, and she's really not fond of the local Necromancy students coming to their graveyard to find corpses to experiment on. She left her home to seek adventure when she met with a lost ghost in the graveyard while she was making her rounds fixing graves and refreshing flowers, as well as checking for signs of intrusing. The ghost didn't remember anything from his previous life, and didn't even know his own name, only that a nearby medallion used to be very important to him. So, being the serviceable young lady she is, she offered to help him find his memory and identity to help him leave to the other side. They made a pact, and the ghost helps her as well as he can. Her parents didn't see it as evil play, the terms of the pact were clear, and, as former adventurers themselves (her dad was a grave cleric himself, coming from that family of morticians and stopped adventuring when his own father retired, and her mum was a sorceress, and they were part of the same party), they were in fact happy she would go on an adventure on her own before she would have to take on the family business. They helped her prepare her backpack, gave her a sending stone and some paper and ink, and there she left, with her ghost in tow seeking for adventure. I found it funny to think that she didn't inherit her mother's magic, but still received some abilities, such as seeing and talking to ghosts, and though she has a very nasty scar on her left eye, it was merely an accident when she was a child. Now she does all she can to defend life and help the undead, all the while getting boosts from her ghost patron. ^^ And I love her!!
Started playing as a Cleric the first time, and loving this class. First combat went well. Casted Silence on a room as we attacked everyone. Just sat in the middle, taking very few hits. Although I did forget to set up healing spells, so almost lost the rest of the party.
Man, the quality of your videos just keeps improving, it's amazing! The Faewyld video is gonna be a BOMB, can't wait for it. You deserve so many more subscribers
Mercedes reminded me of a cleric character concept I had and a hypothetical scene I imagined for them. The idea was a lizardfolk that plays into the lore of “no compassion true neutral completely amoral” that lizardfolks have. They don’t care about people, only prioritize their own survival, but they’re smart and they realize that they can grow stronger and be surrounded by strong allies by becoming an adventurer. They want to have their party prioritize keeping them alive, so the obvious solution is become the healer, everyone knows that you keep the healer alive no matter what, so they became a cleric (also getting a free ticket into heaven when they eventually do die makes the deal all the sweeter). Part of making sure their party wants to keep them alive is also winning their affection, so they’re super nice and friendly because that makes them likable which means people care enough to keep them safe. They keep an innocent act that they’d almost never break since even if it seems beneficial in the moment to go full heartless cruel/betrayal mode they know that in the long run never giving their party a reason to see them as a bad guy is the best decision, so they would almost always be played as lawful good despite being true neutral. I did however imagine a moment of them interrogating someone with no one to witness them and imagined they’d go full evil and start eating the flesh of the person they’re interrogating and making them watch only to heal the wounds right after leaving no evidence and allowing the torture to continue if that wasn’t horrific enough to make the person spill their guts, so hearing Mercedes’ similar torture methods reminded me of that.
Cleric Domain of the American Healthcare System: Exchange an absurd amount of gold for healing and healing spells. Makes your party more self sufficient on using potions and makeshift heals
Thank you Hat Man, very cool. I think Mercedes is my favorite of the characters you've done so far. I love evil characters, I wish more campaigns were able to accommodate them.
Two things I've always thought were neat. The idea of a sort of anticleric that 'steals' divinity from a god to use for their own aims. And a cleric stepping a bit further into divinity and becoming an avatar of sorts- sorta like how the paladin does for their big whammy.
Dang the concept of Mercedes was such a freaking cool idea for a villain I almost wish I used her as the final villain for my near ending d&d criminals campaign. My bbeg right now is an elven Archdruid who lived for thousands of years that he discovered a way to ascend as an Archfey.
In the place that I live D&D is something that no one even knows about so I played CRPGs inspired by D&D because I was interested, first I made a barbarian and honestly I was bored then the next time I made a character I made them into a cleric, I could engage in combat like a fighter and I could use spells, and so far cleric is my favorite class.
Before I watch the video: Short version: Thank you! Long version: Just wanted to say that I thought you were a long-term channel when you popped up on my home feed, and lo-and-behold you only just started! Honestly, the quality of your work is top notch, and I greatly appreciate the creativity you try to spin into everything, not to mention making it accessible for free. I'm a new player, and this is helping me a lot with ideas as well as just being entertaining. Please keep doing what you're doing. You're doing fantastically.
I have another suggestion for using that cleric as a villian: give her the ability to cast touch range spells from 60 ft away like the 3.5 Hierophant, possibly with some lair actions because boss character.
Should have known you were a Cleric main hahaha As always the video is fantastic, as is the art and ideas; and congrats to the editor, the humor and top notch references truly make the content all the better. Loved the cool presentation of the Wyrmwood sponsorship, way to go to integrate it and make it fun, bravo!
I make kobolds the most hated race in the world, even goblins look down on them. All except for one race, humans. When a tribe of kobolds move into a city sewers, the humans noticed the rat population start to dwindle, by a lot. Turns out the kobolds saw the sewers as a perfect place to live, with both shelter and a steady food supply. So the humans made a deal with the kobolds, they could live in the sewers if they promised to keep the place maintained, and even agreed to throw in some bonus food like old ham bones and food scraps to help feed them. Every other race on the planet thinks that humanity are fools for trusting kobolds, but the deal seems to be working for the two races.
One of my favorite subclasses for cleric is the war domain for the flavor, there are many ways to fight in a war wether it’s through tactical and strategic thinking or brutality and might, not to mention the fact that the class gives you some pretty neat abilities in terms of damage dealing
It is actually astonishing how much damage clerics do between Spiritual Weapon and Spirit Guardians not taking an action once set. They honestly outdamage most martial classes even when they are also healing party members.
Great video! I was hoping you would make one on this class seeing as I am currently on my first ever campaign as a Cleric and it's nice to see people who can see beyond me being a walking med-kit. The number of times I've made my DM cry in despair at the fact that almost nothing he throws at my Pathfinder Cleric ever puts her more than slightly off is hilarious.
I have this image of a cleric of creation that's themed as a maid or butler of sorts, they always present their summoned creations in a platter or if it's bigger than they could hide they go somewhere to "retrieve" it, coming back seconds later, think Janet from the good place, their summoning of walls could be flavored as them "tyding up" reality, by turning cave walls into lavish palace walls, and creating statues, vanisters, stairs, and such, and the envoys could be painted as them calling for reinfocements, as a crowd of tinier maids and pages to follow the cleric's commands, like, an envoy of harm could be one crowd stampeeding the enemy, the envoy of healing could be like a crowd gathering around the target as if they were cleaning them up for an event, and an envoy of protection could be a crowd running from one place to another in a hurry as if they were preparing something, obstructing the path of the enemy with furniture and their general prescence, I just like the chaotic and almost incidental imagery, and the juxtaposition of this refined and collected person just bringing a frantic gaggle wherever they go, and the idea of the exalted envoy being another crowd just twice the size as usual is kinda funny. Pandora's palace by toby fox's vibes.
Ok all of this idea, but the Cleric is the Head maid/butler and has multiclassed into artificer to created subordinate servants that won't rely on the Head's divine power instead having some of their own to a lesser extent.
Always loved the cleric class, just cause I like the war zealot or the aasimar seeking glory roleplay and the ability to interact directly with angels and gods, loved the character and subclass you gave us. This video is a surprise but a welcome one
I did not realize you've only been doing this for half a year, the quality is really good considering how long you've been doing it. Easily became one if my favorite dnd channels.
I love playing a twilight drow cleric of eilistraee. They are the warrior type cleric using dex and wisdom to fight with longswords and cast spells. Clerics can be absolutely anything you want them to be, they are amazing
I've been playing a 6th level Light Domain Cleric Tiefling with anxiety issues in a campaign where the world is overrun with vampires. I had never played cleric before, but it was so much fun when I downed 2 ghouls attempting to catch up with our cart by using spirit guardians to smack em each time they got in range.
I’m here for the queer representation in DnD. Also, this person is hands down one of the most unique contributors to this space, full stop. Nothing but praise, I watch all the videos multiple times bc they are so packed full of good content, puns, and gifs. #gaydnd #badatmath #kataya
Pointy Hat, you should check out Emily Axeford in Dimension 20 and not another dnd podcast. I feel like what the two of you do with characters is akin to harmonic convergence. 😂😂 it’s incredible
Cleric is one of my favorite classes up there with fighter (which I find fun because it is a challenge to figure out things to do outside of combat) and druid (because I love their subclasses and spells). My favorite subclass of cleric is the Peace Domain because its signature ability encourages teamwork within the party and it allows you to ask play the healer role without being as dedicated to it as Life Domain. As a result you can play a more balanced character who can heal on one turn and blast on the next turn while your allies (and maybe yourself) get benefits from helping each other out.
I've played clerics a few times and have not come close to being tired of them. I've played mainly Grave Clerics, but next time it will be a Twilight Cleric. I like your creation cleric. Looks like a lot of fun in the right kind of game.
Played a 5e tempest cleric in a campaign that ran for over a year. That was such a blast, literally and figuratively. I used Healing Word when somebody hit zero HP and spent the rest of my time very effectively blowing shit up - a perfect balance of activities, IMO. Cleric is indeed a delight to play.
I play a tiny Owlin Twilight Cleric, and it's been so good in the campaign story line as well as with the party make-up. With Twilight domain's Channel Divinity "Twilight Sanctuary" (1 minute, 30 foot radius dome centered on you and moves with you) you can choose to give temp hit points or end a charm/frighten effect when a creature ends its turn in the dome radius. It's been a lot of fun so far, several sessions in, and I see many opportunities for it to continue being fun.
Loved the NPC idea. Me and some friends did a cleric team into Avernus, and on making them, we talked about a Trickery domain cleric using the Light cantrip on a vial to make it appear to be a Potion of Healing, only to be really filled with toilet water and wyvern poison.
My personal favorite cleric subclass is the light domain, simply because of the spells it gives you for free, example burning hands and fireball.the channel divinity is good aswell being a huge AOE making you a literal and figurative beacon
My all time fav character I have played was a tempest cleric. As evil as only a middle manager of a failing grocery store can be. He was a sort of failing middle managment of the Tempest (homebrew) religion. It was a religion with a very devoted following, but a bad habit of recruiting in the form of seeing if a recruit could witstand lighting directly blasted into their body longer than a fully fledged member could. In theory this would make it so only the powerful could join, but in practise this often just killed one recruit and a member in one go. Therefore he was tasked by the elders to go look for more recruits, a task that was not delibirated on much further than ''bring back more than we lost last year, and that should keep us afloat for at least half a year''. He joined a military expansion as a mercenary to decemate the local populace of a small island nation, so that the empire that was going to pay for the services rendered could swoop in and take over. His real goal was to capture as many of the islanders and mercenaries as he could as slaves and bring them to the Tempest HQ before the main force of the empire would arrive to meddle in his affairs. He portrayed him self as a benevolent good natured healer who would only use force if needed and tried to convince his allies to take enemies prisoner instead of disposing of them. This was of course just to get as many people on the boat as he could before the time would come to sail off back home. By the middle of the campagin he was dubbed ''the warden of mercy'' since he filled the local prison up with people to the point where he requested they be held in one of the ships to ease the stress of the prison guards having to watch all the PoW's in not all that great moods pile up. Secretly he was killing off any weak prisoners and moving the stronger ones to the ship. Very late in the campagin when the big bad was dead and all that was left was to tie up lose ends he betrayed his party, killed the captain of the ship holding all the strong prisoners, took every guard and sailor on the prison ship hostage and commanded them to set sail back to the empire or he would fry them alive and feed whatever ashes that would remain of them to the seaguls. So he made off with the people he needed and HE lived happy ever after, all the sailors, guards and prisoners not so much.
i see you're a man of culture.currently playing a twilight cleric in my current campaign and the DM also lets us use the piety mechanic from Theros, but he modified it to make it by domain
My first DnD character was a cleric in an Elder Scrolls flavored campaign. He was a half-orc, (half-Nord) named Hriskmir, a warrior devoted to Talos, though life had set him on the path of being a career monster hunter. He was a Tempest cleric with the Haunted zone background, but rather than being an edgelord, he swiftly fell into the role of the party mom, not just healing their booboos, but cautioning them against danger, stepping into the forefront to make sure things were safe for them, providing emotional support, etc. I designed him to be a melee combat, who used his spells as a backup, and oh man it was so much fun. The DM rewarded Hriskmir with a lightning mace early on, so every solid hit Hriskmir dealt would send enemies flying. His martial and magical might was such that he could even solo a boss the whole party wasn’t supposed to be able to beat yet. Spiritual Weapon is truly a godsend of a spell.
Pick a God and Pray 😍☺🤪🙏
Also do y'all like that little crow i drew for the wyrmwood spot?? I love him.
I hate that I now want to stop the video to find where the heck you got that nun clip. Dude you and your editor are wild
Um... you forgot to add your link for Wyrmwood. Just pointing it out. 🙂
@@MichaelStJohn-lr7el youtube messed that one up, it was on my end. Just checked on a different account and it's there! Sometimes it takes a sec.
@@tigerred1298 I'll get to them and I haven't forgotten! I am very busy and I do not want for other twists to be delayed. They'll be out when they are out and I'll let everyone know when that happens :)
Is the creation domain supposed to have domain spells? because currently it doesn't.
Mercedes feels like Antonio heard "The healer's job is not necessarily to heal the party, but rather it's to keep them alive. And YES, there's a difference!" from JoCat's FFXIV Healers video and made a villain themed around it.
Druids are better healers/tanks/support. Clerics only surpass their potential at level17.
Mostly I guess. Clerics have far more *middle finger* potential tho until Druid hits like lvl 17 or something.
@lemuntpicard7482 Building a character around a good class is lame though. I did it once with a necomancy build. Never once did necromancy and was super bored with my abilities till I swaped over to something else that fit the character I ended up with.
That's just, like, your opinion, man.
My guy... In the video you recommended... The first 1 second had a CLEAR disclaimer saying it's a joke and not a serious guide to healers. Any jab at player preference is not to be taken seriously
One of my players actually had a really good flaw to their life domain cleric in that they refused to let people die.
Good role play
"People are only allowed to die when I say they need to die"
in the immortal words of Jocat:
“Seriously, with how versatile and independently strong you can build a cleric, you can make a party of purely priests, call it the A-men, and burst down Tiamat’s door, demanding her lunch money. And she would just build her toilet to give herself swirlies so she wouldn’t have to endure the kind of bullying you were about to give her.”
Cleric is one of the few classes with Paladin and maybe Warlock where you can realistically have a full party made from entirely variations of this class and it would still kind of mechanically function (though I'll say that none is as broken as a party made 100% of Rogue in a social/mystery centric campaign, like holy shit do half of these subclasses force you to consider very carefully or else they will break the campaign, so imagine having both Sherlock Holmes, Agent 47, Inspector Gadget and a ghost whisperer walk into your intrigue)
@@sephikong8323 Artificer is also a wild card in versatility: Tank? sure Martial? betcha. Ranged martial? of course. Ranged magic? pew pewpew pew. Suboptimal support subclass that will be mostly useless? Yes of course. Every single artificer subclass is just it's own class...
@@kikikillian1208
For a moment there I though you were going to say "Yes of course. Every Artificer subclass is a suboptimal healer."
@@ODDnanref that is true though xD
Yep, basically
Thank you for acknowledging the Grave Domain as one of the BEST subclasses in the game! One of my go-to one shot/campaign characters is a grave domain cleric themed around the Hispanic culture of death and the Day of the Dead. His deity is a goddess of life and joy and his whole philosophy is “live your life to the fullest; live a life to be remembered”! He’s a chad on the battlefield and an unwavering source of optimism, comfort, and hope to his party members!! ^w^
That is such a wonderful character! I love the idea of the deity being one of life and not death!
He’s the opposite of my life domain that worships lady death Lmao
I love love love grave domain. It's like being a necromancer except your a cleric.
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Sick with covid, seeing you call Alphinaud an “anime girlie” is the kind of laugh I needed
That's not Alphinaud, that's Blue Alisaie!
Pointy, cute and stylish. The best hat I've ever seen in my whole life also makes great homebrews and characters to play. Nice work dude, greatly appreciated.
It also makes julienne fries! It will not break! It will not.... it broke...
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honestly, using healing to prolong torture is something i have been doing for years now. and i have also been exploring the darker uses of healing
And sometimes you relax with a game of DND :p
Simple. Train until your muscles break then heal and start again. You will become a greek god in a week, probably
Dude, you sound X10 more confident compared to your first videos. This content is absolute gold.
Once I played a campaign with a 3-person party where two of us(including me) were clerics.After we killed a dragon, I created a cult and our DM summarized the rest if the campaign as 'Speedrunning dystopian novels with totalitarian regimes'. It was fun
I think you have one of the best DnD channels on RUclips--your drawings, your humor, your style, your structure. It's all there. Well done!!
PS - This is the first time I've ever actually enjoyed watching an ad section of a video.
Yes to grave domain. My favorite build with grave domain is playing as a kenku, since it just fits the plague doctor design. That and so I could play a "Saint Raven"
Clerics are my favorite class too! In one campaign I play a twilight cleric who is a doctor by trade (also homebrew background that just gives expert in medicine and proficiency in herbalism and alchemy kits). He is a devout follower of Illmater, despite the fact that he is also a vampire. Honestly I think Mercedes would be a great antagonist to him, as she stands for everything he and his God is against. Of course she would still be second to his vampire sire
“Wish isn’t a Cleric spell”
It is for Arcana clerics.
It is if you're confident enough in your divine intervention
It is with an added $20 slipped to the DM under the table.
Pointy is one of my people. Yes! Finally a fellow Cleric enthusiast. I can't help but be drawn to the class every time I create a character. It takes a lot for me to choose something else.
My first ever character was a Life Domain Cleric of Selûne, an absolute healbot named Saviorass Frimdeth. And he’s still my favorite character, the only thing I’d change is now that I know about more of the gods of the forgotten realms I would 10000% pick Ilmater
I'm usually a healer in every game that has classes in it. I don't heal my friends and allies; I choose who lives and who dies.
Who tells your story
@@tijn0770 The survivors
@@TheTrueFeleas it's a Hamilton reference
@@tijn0770 Unfortunately I'm too old to know who Hamilton is. My apologies
In Apoc World you must juggle dwindling stock of supplies. Every use of your skills consumes stock.
In Esoteric Enterprises you can always go to the regional hospital. But you play people who they call the cops on when they show up with gun wounds.
Pointy, Mercedes is an amazing concept, and one that I may use in the sequel campaign to the campaign I'm currently running. Love, love, LOVE your videos!
Next one should be about Lizardfolk.
Would love to see a twist on them.
Ok but that Wyrmwood Ad Lore was an absolute slap if not (you could say) *Divine*
I'm playing a centaur who, after receiving prosthetic limb enhancement to help her with her crippling scoliosis, decided she wanted to dedicate her life to promoting well-being to every species. Centaurs don't have to suffer from rhumitoid arthritis, oris don't need to struggle with gingivitis and goblins and kobolds with proper medical care can actually live a very long lifespan. She's a free healthcare girlie 💖
Can I just say I absolutely adore the way you create videos? You make narrating and homebrewing seem so easy which is a f*cked up thing to do because it's really is not!
It takes a lot of work to make something seem easy, keep up the good work 👍
Matt mercer effect round 2 *FIGHT* (insert twitter uprising)
I did DnD as a family game once, and when I explained role playing to my mom, she said she wanted to be Jesus, so I kitted her out with a 50th level Cleric, she had a blast
50th?
@@WAMTATit was jesus
i can imagine mom roleplaying as the son of the allmighty is pretty fun until she starts counting to 3
Roll for blasphemy
Like how do you do 50th? Just put all her scores at 20?
I’m upset I found you before you were able to post hundreds of videos. Each one is a banger and I hate having to wait for more content
Obviously I love your videos and look forward to them but the more I watch them, the more I find myself loving your art especially. It's always so visually fun to look at. Mercy with her flowing locks and scarred eyes was both terrifying but also mysterious. Can't wait to continue seeing your channel grow.
Wait. Wait okay. Maybe I missed something, but I think you skipped over one cleric subclass. The Trickery domain! It's my personal favorite subclass, due to all the weird mind and illusion things you can do. I imagine it was cut for time and such. Otherwise, wonderful video as always!
*YOU HAVE BLASPHEMED AGAINST THE ALL-SEEING EYE, HERETIC* 👁
I also didn't see the Forge domain clerics mentioned, which is my personal favorite cleric to play. Super strong, and a total tank.
@@penguinlad19 Believe they were mentioned as playing minecraft in D&D - not a super deep dive on them though.
Looking at your Cleric, I think you’ve made a better version of the City Domain UA. Supporting and protecting your ally’s while building up your environment is really cool. Gotta see if I can find a DM who will let me do this.
I love Selune and making my characters look up to the stars a lot. So when I saw Twilight Domain 👀 And Twilight Domain is making the cleric a little bit of sneaky paladin (just put them into boots of elvenkind). Guidance being like sprinkling allies with moondust is awesome. That 300 ft of darkvision driving GM crazy, Twilight Sanctuary keeping the party alive.
I just love everything about this subclass, it's the most diverse as well. You can play it like a paladin, with all the auras and channel divinity standing always in the middle. You can play it more sneaky with all advantages and passive abilities activating in the darkness. You can play as just a buffer/debuffer. You can play as regular healer. Or... ditch the shield and take glave/halberd instead and play a the reaper.
Dude your channel consistently demonstrates the best parts of DnD, creativity, narrative indulgence, care, I can't believe how amazing this channel is! The art, the stories, the advice and the humour.
Your channel is one of the most impressive things I've seen on RUclips. Thank you for all the work you put in. Love you * muuhwa*
Cleric and Druid party combos are awesome, because they can take turns on healing and do the other things that make their classes great; as they both are (in my opinion) the most versatile classes in the game.
You are definitely correct about how awesome grave domains are. I'm playing in my first campaign as not a dm and my character is a grave cleric because I just adore their flavor honestly
That was the best ad I’ve ever seen in my live. I think no other RUclipsr ever put that much effort in an ad before.
Clerics are awesome, one of my players chose a Tempest Cleric in the our first campaign, I learned first hand how well they can wreck house
The best part is how the difference between the dieties is so immense that you can be basically any personality. Like, sure we have Illmater who is just Jesus, but you also have ones like Talos who are just "Haha lol get lightninged." Being a cleric does not necessarily mean being a stereotypical priest
The fact that you take the time to break down the lore and make new stuff on top of it, and all of that for free, just makes your content some of the best I have watched. Love the videos, keep it up !!!
Pointy Hat: "Mercedes is an evil cleric who uses her healing magic to torture corrupt merchants and politicians who use their power and lies to oppress others."
Me: "Ok, but what makes her evil?"
Edit: Good lord, over a year later and I'm still getting "Um, actually"ed on this comment. Morals are nuanced, obviously. That was the joke.
i think torture in modern versions of dnd is a no-no but if you play with more mediaeval morality (like in the older editions of dnd) that might even be lawful good thing
@@ashadeofblue6815 It's why there used to only be law and chaos. Good and evil were far less important than whether you were defending civilization or not.
@@Sarsenwood yeah i know is that gygax even said once that lawful good people might torture to bring justice or get information that might help bring justice the same way a non corrupt catolic inquisitor would be considered lawful good by their society
Yeah gonna be honest Mercedes is very suspiciously the "Baby punching villain" trope, where a villain is actually the good guy but has a dumb caveat that invalidates what they stand for. And thus whatever good points they have are never addressed by the (usually more privelaged) heroes. Examples of this are Killmonger (MCU), Sylas (LoL), Riddler (The Batman), Butterflies (Peacemaker), etc...
Gonna be honest as much as I love the content the implications of this trope and Mercedes being "evil" are really disappointing. Like this is just a DnD character concept and not some high budget film that'll influence society or anything so it isn't a big deal, but the trope is still just really dumb and problematic that I just hate seeing all the dang time.
Standing up to oppression and actually doing what's necessary to root out said oppression is NOT EVIL.
@@robno1033 So the end justifies the means? If Merc' god sees no problem with psychic damage achieved through evidence-less psychical abuse it is okay? How is Merc' not tyrannical?
If I had a nickel for every time this clip 0:46 was played in a DND video, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that if happened twice.
13:27 I DIED when you used this clip from Trixie Mattel and Katya's show! A man of good taste, I see.
That is such a cool idea I'm totally stealing it. I needed a final bbeg and this might just be what I was looking for
BEST ad I've ever seen on D&D content on YT ! That gave me ideas for some homebrew content too ! Thanks !
Recently made a multiclassed Warlock Grave cleric with an Undead patron. Now, she's not some edgy sad brooding character, she's actually a very bubbly young woman with a very nice demeanor and great listening ability! That's because she comes from a family of morticians, her father being the owner of the family business. Which is precisely why she doesn't like the undead, because she believes that what is dead should be able to rest in peace, and she's really not fond of the local Necromancy students coming to their graveyard to find corpses to experiment on. She left her home to seek adventure when she met with a lost ghost in the graveyard while she was making her rounds fixing graves and refreshing flowers, as well as checking for signs of intrusing. The ghost didn't remember anything from his previous life, and didn't even know his own name, only that a nearby medallion used to be very important to him. So, being the serviceable young lady she is, she offered to help him find his memory and identity to help him leave to the other side. They made a pact, and the ghost helps her as well as he can.
Her parents didn't see it as evil play, the terms of the pact were clear, and, as former adventurers themselves (her dad was a grave cleric himself, coming from that family of morticians and stopped adventuring when his own father retired, and her mum was a sorceress, and they were part of the same party), they were in fact happy she would go on an adventure on her own before she would have to take on the family business. They helped her prepare her backpack, gave her a sending stone and some paper and ink, and there she left, with her ghost in tow seeking for adventure.
I found it funny to think that she didn't inherit her mother's magic, but still received some abilities, such as seeing and talking to ghosts, and though she has a very nasty scar on her left eye, it was merely an accident when she was a child. Now she does all she can to defend life and help the undead, all the while getting boosts from her ghost patron. ^^
And I love her!!
That's fucking great.
Give us a stat block!
❤💖 amazing character! I could read a story about all of this and listen to it
Started playing as a Cleric the first time, and loving this class.
First combat went well. Casted Silence on a room as we attacked everyone. Just sat in the middle, taking very few hits. Although I did forget to set up healing spells, so almost lost the rest of the party.
A new Pointy Hat video, must be a blessing from my god.
Man, the quality of your videos just keeps improving, it's amazing! The Faewyld video is gonna be a BOMB, can't wait for it. You deserve so many more subscribers
Mercedes reminded me of a cleric character concept I had and a hypothetical scene I imagined for them. The idea was a lizardfolk that plays into the lore of “no compassion true neutral completely amoral” that lizardfolks have. They don’t care about people, only prioritize their own survival, but they’re smart and they realize that they can grow stronger and be surrounded by strong allies by becoming an adventurer. They want to have their party prioritize keeping them alive, so the obvious solution is become the healer, everyone knows that you keep the healer alive no matter what, so they became a cleric (also getting a free ticket into heaven when they eventually do die makes the deal all the sweeter). Part of making sure their party wants to keep them alive is also winning their affection, so they’re super nice and friendly because that makes them likable which means people care enough to keep them safe. They keep an innocent act that they’d almost never break since even if it seems beneficial in the moment to go full heartless cruel/betrayal mode they know that in the long run never giving their party a reason to see them as a bad guy is the best decision, so they would almost always be played as lawful good despite being true neutral. I did however imagine a moment of them interrogating someone with no one to witness them and imagined they’d go full evil and start eating the flesh of the person they’re interrogating and making them watch only to heal the wounds right after leaving no evidence and allowing the torture to continue if that wasn’t horrific enough to make the person spill their guts, so hearing Mercedes’ similar torture methods reminded me of that.
I love these videos cause they make me want to create my own subclass or character in a less surface level way. Literally feeds my creativity
Cleric Domain of the American Healthcare System: Exchange an absurd amount of gold for healing and healing spells. Makes your party more self sufficient on using potions and makeshift heals
If only we had some sort of gold debt system to make this viable
Haha great idea
Aaaah! you used a Padre Marcelo Clip! as a Brazilian I feel seen
love this, love you. can't wait for more
also, we need a JoCrap and Hat collab
Thank you Hat Man, very cool.
I think Mercedes is my favorite of the characters you've done so far. I love evil characters, I wish more campaigns were able to accommodate them.
She's not evil, she's just a reformer, with a torture dungeon...
@@joshuarichardson6529Torture is evil.
Two things I've always thought were neat. The idea of a sort of anticleric that 'steals' divinity from a god to use for their own aims. And a cleric stepping a bit further into divinity and becoming an avatar of sorts- sorta like how the paladin does for their big whammy.
Dang the concept of Mercedes was such a freaking cool idea for a villain I almost wish I used her as the final villain for my near ending d&d criminals campaign.
My bbeg right now is an elven Archdruid who lived for thousands of years that he discovered a way to ascend as an Archfey.
In the place that I live D&D is something that no one even knows about so I played CRPGs inspired by D&D because I was interested, first I made a barbarian and honestly I was bored then the next time I made a character I made them into a cleric, I could engage in combat like a fighter and I could use spells, and so far cleric is my favorite class.
You may be a hat, but your humor, wit, and intelligence never wears on me.
Before I watch the video: Short version: Thank you! Long version: Just wanted to say that I thought you were a long-term channel when you popped up on my home feed, and lo-and-behold you only just started! Honestly, the quality of your work is top notch, and I greatly appreciate the creativity you try to spin into everything, not to mention making it accessible for free. I'm a new player, and this is helping me a lot with ideas as well as just being entertaining. Please keep doing what you're doing. You're doing fantastically.
I have another suggestion for using that cleric as a villian: give her the ability to cast touch range spells from 60 ft away like the 3.5 Hierophant, possibly with some lair actions because boss character.
Should have known you were a Cleric main hahaha
As always the video is fantastic, as is the art and ideas; and congrats to the editor, the humor and top notch references truly make the content all the better. Loved the cool presentation of the Wyrmwood sponsorship, way to go to integrate it and make it fun, bravo!
I'd love to see a kobold-themed video, they're my favourite race/monster. Also, keep up the good work!
I make kobolds the most hated race in the world, even goblins look down on them. All except for one race, humans. When a tribe of kobolds move into a city sewers, the humans noticed the rat population start to dwindle, by a lot. Turns out the kobolds saw the sewers as a perfect place to live, with both shelter and a steady food supply. So the humans made a deal with the kobolds, they could live in the sewers if they promised to keep the place maintained, and even agreed to throw in some bonus food like old ham bones and food scraps to help feed them. Every other race on the planet thinks that humanity are fools for trusting kobolds, but the deal seems to be working for the two races.
One of my favorite subclasses for cleric is the war domain for the flavor, there are many ways to fight in a war wether it’s through tactical and strategic thinking or brutality and might, not to mention the fact that the class gives you some pretty neat abilities in terms of damage dealing
It is actually astonishing how much damage clerics do between Spiritual Weapon and Spirit Guardians not taking an action once set. They honestly outdamage most martial classes even when they are also healing party members.
Every video I watch of this guy’s just confirms and re-confirms how similar his taste is to mine. Cleric truly is the best class!❤
Please keep up the amazing content
Great video! I was hoping you would make one on this class seeing as I am currently on my first ever campaign as a Cleric and it's nice to see people who can see beyond me being a walking med-kit.
The number of times I've made my DM cry in despair at the fact that almost nothing he throws at my Pathfinder Cleric ever puts her more than slightly off is hilarious.
I have this image of a cleric of creation that's themed as a maid or butler of sorts, they always present their summoned creations in a platter or if it's bigger than they could hide they go somewhere to "retrieve" it, coming back seconds later, think Janet from the good place, their summoning of walls could be flavored as them "tyding up" reality, by turning cave walls into lavish palace walls, and creating statues, vanisters, stairs, and such, and the envoys could be painted as them calling for reinfocements, as a crowd of tinier maids and pages to follow the cleric's commands, like, an envoy of harm could be one crowd stampeeding the enemy, the envoy of healing could be like a crowd gathering around the target as if they were cleaning them up for an event, and an envoy of protection could be a crowd running from one place to another in a hurry as if they were preparing something, obstructing the path of the enemy with furniture and their general prescence, I just like the chaotic and almost incidental imagery, and the juxtaposition of this refined and collected person just bringing a frantic gaggle wherever they go, and the idea of the exalted envoy being another crowd just twice the size as usual is kinda funny. Pandora's palace by toby fox's vibes.
Ok all of this idea, but the Cleric is the Head maid/butler and has multiclassed into artificer to created subordinate servants that won't rely on the Head's divine power instead having some of their own to a lesser extent.
Always loved the cleric class, just cause I like the war zealot or the aasimar seeking glory roleplay and the ability to interact directly with angels and gods, loved the character and subclass you gave us. This video is a surprise but a welcome one
new pointy hat lets go gamers
I did not realize you've only been doing this for half a year, the quality is really good considering how long you've been doing it. Easily became one if my favorite dnd channels.
The unearthed arcana for One DND has recently just come out, and I'm curious what do you think of it?
I love playing a twilight drow cleric of eilistraee. They are the warrior type cleric using dex and wisdom to fight with longswords and cast spells. Clerics can be absolutely anything you want them to be, they are amazing
Just wanna take a moment and say Pointy Hat made lore for Wyrmwood. I love it.
Also..clerics are neat.
I've been playing a 6th level Light Domain Cleric Tiefling with anxiety issues in a campaign where the world is overrun with vampires. I had never played cleric before, but it was so much fun when I downed 2 ghouls attempting to catch up with our cart by using spirit guardians to smack em each time they got in range.
O padre Marcelo sendo empurrado me pegou de jeito, kkkkkkkk
Sim, mano kkk nn esperava
Tadinho kkkkkk
9:54 the description of who this domain is for has got me feeling soooo called out! I love this domain it is really really fun to play
I’m here for the queer representation in DnD. Also, this person is hands down one of the most unique contributors to this space, full stop. Nothing but praise, I watch all the videos multiple times bc they are so packed full of good content, puns, and gifs. #gaydnd #badatmath #kataya
Pointy Hat, you should check out Emily Axeford in Dimension 20 and not another dnd podcast. I feel like what the two of you do with characters is akin to harmonic convergence. 😂😂 it’s incredible
I would love to see the Yuan-ti get some love. They're constantly overlooked in play and Video essays in general.
like if you don't play but you still watch all of Pointy hat's content.
Point hat being a fe fan makes so much sense on why I enjoy everything he makes so much
That wyrmwood spot was amazing. While knowing it is an advisement it was soaked in lore that is right out the mytho of our hearts and minds.
My first character was a Cleric!
He's still one of my favorites to re-use.
Thank you for the great video!
Cleric is one of my favorite classes up there with fighter (which I find fun because it is a challenge to figure out things to do outside of combat) and druid (because I love their subclasses and spells). My favorite subclass of cleric is the Peace Domain because its signature ability encourages teamwork within the party and it allows you to ask play the healer role without being as dedicated to it as Life Domain. As a result you can play a more balanced character who can heal on one turn and blast on the next turn while your allies (and maybe yourself) get benefits from helping each other out.
Never played a single D&D game IRL, but as fantasy fan I enjoy your videos so much
PH’s love of clerics really showed in the energy in this video. Nice to see. “Tip of the hat”, sir.
This is by far the best dnd channel, the HUMOR, the ART, the BEAUTY.
bravo 🙌 🎉👏
I just want to say I'm overjoyed every time I see a new vid of yours 💜
I'm really glad I found this channel, I don't get to play it a lot, but this is really fun.
I've played clerics a few times and have not come close to being tired of them. I've played mainly Grave Clerics, but next time it will be a Twilight Cleric. I like your creation cleric. Looks like a lot of fun in the right kind of game.
I do not even play d&d 5e
But I watch your videos because you're such an excellent storyteller and a wonderful presenter. Keep up the excellent work
Played a 5e tempest cleric in a campaign that ran for over a year. That was such a blast, literally and figuratively. I used Healing Word when somebody hit zero HP and spent the rest of my time very effectively blowing shit up - a perfect balance of activities, IMO. Cleric is indeed a delight to play.
I play a tiny Owlin Twilight Cleric, and it's been so good in the campaign story line as well as with the party make-up.
With Twilight domain's Channel Divinity "Twilight Sanctuary" (1 minute, 30 foot radius dome centered on you and moves with you) you can choose to give temp hit points or end a charm/frighten effect when a creature ends its turn in the dome radius.
It's been a lot of fun so far, several sessions in, and I see many opportunities for it to continue being fun.
The fact u use RPDG footage makes me so happy i love u pointy
Loved the NPC idea. Me and some friends did a cleric team into Avernus, and on making them, we talked about a Trickery domain cleric using the Light cantrip on a vial to make it appear to be a Potion of Healing, only to be really filled with toilet water and wyvern poison.
My personal favorite cleric subclass is the light domain, simply because of the spells it gives you for free, example burning hands and fireball.the channel divinity is good aswell being a huge AOE making you a literal and figurative beacon
My all time fav character I have played was a tempest cleric. As evil as only a middle manager of a failing grocery store can be. He was a sort of failing middle managment of the Tempest (homebrew) religion. It was a religion with a very devoted following, but a bad habit of recruiting in the form of seeing if a recruit could witstand lighting directly blasted into their body longer than a fully fledged member could. In theory this would make it so only the powerful could join, but in practise this often just killed one recruit and a member in one go. Therefore he was tasked by the elders to go look for more recruits, a task that was not delibirated on much further than ''bring back more than we lost last year, and that should keep us afloat for at least half a year''.
He joined a military expansion as a mercenary to decemate the local populace of a small island nation, so that the empire that was going to pay for the services rendered could swoop in and take over. His real goal was to capture as many of the islanders and mercenaries as he could as slaves and bring them to the Tempest HQ before the main force of the empire would arrive to meddle in his affairs. He portrayed him self as a benevolent good natured healer who would only use force if needed and tried to convince his allies to take enemies prisoner instead of disposing of them. This was of course just to get as many people on the boat as he could before the time would come to sail off back home.
By the middle of the campagin he was dubbed ''the warden of mercy'' since he filled the local prison up with people to the point where he requested they be held in one of the ships to ease the stress of the prison guards having to watch all the PoW's in not all that great moods pile up. Secretly he was killing off any weak prisoners and moving the stronger ones to the ship. Very late in the campagin when the big bad was dead and all that was left was to tie up lose ends he betrayed his party, killed the captain of the ship holding all the strong prisoners, took every guard and sailor on the prison ship hostage and commanded them to set sail back to the empire or he would fry them alive and feed whatever ashes that would remain of them to the seaguls. So he made off with the people he needed and HE lived happy ever after, all the sailors, guards and prisoners not so much.
Duuude. Wow what a good concept. You are so creative man. Sincerely, like I thought my imagination was good, but you knock it out of the park.
yesssss another cleric lover!! i used to be a rogue guy, but then i played a lawful evil grave cleric and i never went back. clerics my beloved
I see you are a man of culture, grave domain cleric also is my favorite subclass in the whole game
The concept around Mercedes is amazing! I love it
i see you're a man of culture.currently playing a twilight cleric in my current campaign and the DM also lets us use the piety mechanic from Theros, but he modified it to make it by domain
the cult of the all seer is so cool!!! its creepy but in a way that feels real and believable
My first DnD character was a cleric in an Elder Scrolls flavored campaign. He was a half-orc, (half-Nord) named Hriskmir, a warrior devoted to Talos, though life had set him on the path of being a career monster hunter. He was a Tempest cleric with the Haunted zone background, but rather than being an edgelord, he swiftly fell into the role of the party mom, not just healing their booboos, but cautioning them against danger, stepping into the forefront to make sure things were safe for them, providing emotional support, etc. I designed him to be a melee combat, who used his spells as a backup, and oh man it was so much fun. The DM rewarded Hriskmir with a lightning mace early on, so every solid hit Hriskmir dealt would send enemies flying. His martial and magical might was such that he could even solo a boss the whole party wasn’t supposed to be able to beat yet. Spiritual Weapon is truly a godsend of a spell.