Cleric Divine Domain: Data!
Added 2024-08-07 19:00:01 +0000 UTCHello everybody!
This week I have for you the Data domain cleric! This cleric is all about information gathering and exposing your enemies and serves as a counterpart to the Knowledge cleric with a focus on the digital era! I may have gone a liiiitle eldritch with the flavor text regarding the concept of the Machine God, BUT, its flavor can be adjusted in any which way so long as it includes information at the forefront!
Obviously this is a very utility focused Cleric that is getting the majority of its benefits out of combat with various knowledge-gathering abilities! If you're a DM who LOVES writing lore, you will absolutely adore a player who is playing this Cleric as you can give them tons and tons of information! Its not all utility out of combat, as their Channel Divinity will be really useful for their reaction economy all throughout the levels, plus with an added support help ability by making some friends reroll some attacks against Exposed enemies!
Furthermore, Expose might seem a little crazy with giving so much information just out the gate to players, but from what I've found from DMing and doing research, is that finding a vulnerability or resistance from a monster happens very quickly, as its not very often that players will have a wide variety of damage types under the belt; and furthermore they usually have a specific spell that they are going to lead with and continue with unless there is a better option presented. So oftentimes its 'oh yay! my main spell makes them vulnerable!' or 'oh damn, my main damage type they are resistant to. Time to never use that again this fight!' Subsequenetly, Expose kind of just expedites this process so players will immediately know, "oh shit, I probably shouldn't use Blight on this undead creature," if they couldn't figure it out already before they 'waste' a spell slot!
