Iroa's gods are more active and involved than those of most worlds, so Clerics have an important role as intercessors between mortals and the divine. Acolytes and priests of various callings serve as shepherds of the faithful, oversee religious festivals, and give advice about the will of the gods. However, a Cleric is separated from a mere priest by the same gulf of ability which divides a Fighter from a common soldier. Clerics channel the actual power of their God, and most clerics will receive attention and omens from their God at some point in their lives, if not frequently.
The people of Iroa commonly make offerings in praise, bribery or appeasement of the Gods, and this tradition is no less required of Clerics. If you are about to take a long sea voyage, it does not diminish your standing with your deity to make an offering to
Thala as would be expected of anyone else - unless, of course, your deity specifically abhors Thala in particular or the other gods in general! You may in fact be better suited to guide others in making such offerings and raising up such prayers, due to your knowledge of the divine.
See
Deities and Religions
for the list of the gods and other important details.
Errata
TCoE lists the following changes to Clerics.
Additional Cleric Spells are allowed. Note that you do not automatically know these; they are simply added to the Cleric spell list.
Harness Divine Power is allowed, but
not free, because it is actually a stolen and reflavored Wizard class feature. You can give up one of your Channel Divinity options to get Harness Divine Power in its place, or may take it as a half feat that also grants your choice of +1 Wisdom or +1 Charisma.
Cantrip Versatility is just expanded retraining, so it is allowed and you have it.
Blessed Strike is MANDATORY and replaces both Divine Strike and Potent Spellcasting (the latter of which all casters now get anyway, see
Magic and Spellcasting), but see the revision below.
Blessed Strike
Once per turn when you hit an enemy or object with a weapon or cantrip attack, you can elect to cause the attack to deal an extra +1d8 damage, or +1d12 with a two-handed weapon. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to +2d8, or +2d12 with a two-handed weapon.
The damage type of this bonus damage depends on your choice of deity, and ignores Resistance but not Immunity to that damage type. For example, as a cleric of
Heliana, you choose with each Blessed Strike whether the bonus damage is Radiant or Fire, whereas a cleric of
Idaedon would choose between Lightning and Thunder. When the type is "Physical" your attack counts as a magic weapon, even with an improvised weapon or your bare hands, and deals whatever damage type your weapon does, or does Bludgeoning, Piercing, or Slashing at your option when applied to a cantrip.
Cleric Changes
Several other changes and additions are made to the Cleric. It otherwise functions as published.
Destroy Undead
The affected CR is increased to CR 1 at 5th level, CR 2 at 8th level, CR 3 at 11th level, CR 4 at 14th level, CR 5 at 17th level, and CR 6 at 20th level.
Divine Signature
Your god also determines the form taken by your
Spiritual Weapon spell and other such effects, and the domains that you have access to. When you learn any cleric spell that deals damage, you may make a one-time, permanent decision before casting it the first time that any damage type it normally does is replaced with one of the damage types favored by your God, regardless of the normal damage type matrix in the
Magic and Spellcasting rules; flavor the spell accordingly.
Subclasses
All subclasses (Domains) from the PHB, XGtE, and TCoE are allowed.
Unity Domain: The "Peace" domain from TCoE is renamed to the Unity domain, as it was in the playtest, because as published all of its abilities still have everything to do with unity and basically nothing whatsoever to do with peace. The domain is otherwise as published, except that the word "Peace" in abilities is replaced with "Unity."
The revised Arcane domain is also added as a subclass you can choose.
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