Player's Guide to Clerics and Druids.pdf

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PLAYER , S GUIDE TO CLERICS AND DRUIDS

P REFACE

I NTRODUCTION

B OOK O NE : C LERICS

C HAPTER O NE : T HE C OMING OF THE G ODS

C HAPTER T WO : C HURCHES OF THE S CARRED L ANDS

C HAPTER T HREE : L ITURGY OF THE G ODS

B OOK T WO : D RUIDS

C HAPTER F OUR : L EGACY OF THE T ITANS

C HAPTER F IVE : C ULTS OF THE F ALLEN

C HAPTER S IX : S HAMANS AND S PIRITISTS

A PPENDICES

A PPENDIX O NE : T HE W AYS OF F AITH

A PPENDIX T WO : T HE M ASTERS OF F AITH

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A PPENDIX T HREE : T HE T OOLS OF F AITH

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L EGAL A PPENDIX

I NTRODUCTION

Welcome to the third in the Player’s Guide series.

Our intent with this series is simple: We want to

examine the ways in which players can become a stron-

ger part of the setting in which their characters exist. By

providing ways in which characters may derive a back-

ground from and have a role in the setting’s development,

they become closely tied to the setting. In turn, players

adopt a more vested interest in both their characters and

in the setting as a whole. The more richly a setting is

developed, the more characters can “come to life,” cre-

ating memorable role-playing and exciting adventures.

Thus, our goal is to help your characters become a

living, breathing part of the game world.

More than that, though, we want to see how these

classes might shape and inspire a campaign setting. The

player characters — and characters like them, past and

present — are the movers and shakers in the game world.

Not every character in the setting has levels in the so-

called “PC classes.” In fact, those who do are in the

minority. But from these relatively few individuals come

the events, both heroic and monstrous, that forever

shape their world.

Therefore, this series uses the setting of the Scarred

Lands to help show you how diverse classes weave their

influence into every aspect of the tapestry of a game

world. As with the rest of the book, you can refer to it for

your own Scarred Lands game, or use it as inspiration in

any other campaign.

The Player’s Guide to Clerics and Druids is more

than suggestions and rules on how to play a certain type

of character. This is a book about determining how your

characters, and those like them, have affected the world.

To this end, we look at the powers granted to those who

serve the most ineffable powers, be they divine or dru-

idic. Regardless of whether the character takes up plate

mail and wields the powers of the heavens in his gods

name, or dons the mantle that is the druid's legacy of

earth, beast and plant, the actions of these priests helps

to shape the very nature of the campaign setting.

Within these pages are the faithful — but whether

that faith creates a healer and bringer of benedictions, or

a ravening destroyer and corrupter depends entirely on

that character.

So, welcome to a book filled with the pious and the

primal, a book on rising gods, warring clerics, the powers

of the land and shape-changing spiritists.

Welcome to the Player’s Guide to Clerics and Druids .

J OSEPH D . C ARRIKER , J R .

S CARRED L ANDS D EVELOPER

S WORD & S ORCERY S TUDIOS

PLAYER , S GUIDE TO CLERICS AND DRUIDS

While the Player’s Guide to Clerics and Druids is

designed for use in any d20 campaign, you’ll find that it

is undeniably focused on the Scarred Lands. Throughout

this book, you will read many references to that setting,

its history and its inhabitants.

Yet, it would be a mistake to assume that this

book’s utility is limited to the Scarred Lands. As

explained in the Preface, the purpose of the Player’s

Guide series is show how the various character

classes shape and inspire a campaign setting. The

Scarred Lands is used as a single example of this

process rather than the only one. Any references

to it are meant to inspire your own ideas regardless

of the campaign setting in which they occur.

Adapting material in this book to other set-

tings may require some work. This introduction

should make that easier, since it offers a compre-

hensive overview and plenty of suggestions. Armed

with its advice, players and Game Masters should

have little difficulty tailoring the rest of the book’s

content to campaigns set in other worlds, or even

to other conceptions of the Scarred Lands setting

than the standard one presented in Sword & Sor-

cery products.

As always, the key is for GMs to remember the oft-

quoted — though oft-forgotten — truism: you are the

final arbiter of what is and is not the case for your

campaign, wherever it is set. This book offers a multitude

of options, variants and alternate takes on many aspects

of the core classes of clerics and druids (not to mention

an exhaustive discussion of their place in the Scarred

Lands setting). If anything here runs counter to your

conception of things or would do violence to the estab-

lished truths of your campaign, feel free to ignore them!

That’s as true for campaigns in the Scarred Lands as in

any other setting. Use only what appeals to you and is

genuinely useful, and discard the rest.

So long as you bear that in mind, this book is

as valuable to players and GMs alike, regardless of

whether the campaign is set in the Scarred Lands

or in a game world of their own creation.

acters relate to the setting and the kind of impact

that they can have on it.

It’s important to note that some campaign settings

are broadly enough drawn that they can allow for mul-

tiple types of games depending on the interests of the

GM and the players. The following sections provide

some insight into the benefits and drawbacks of each

type. They also make it easier for those not playing in the

Scarred Lands to categorize their own campaign by its

type, so as to take fuller advantage of the material

presented in later chapters.

Simply read through the following to see where

your campaign best fits, and you’ll also find assis-

tance of how to adjust the rest of this book’s

contents accordingly.

H IGH F ANTASY

High fantasy is, in many ways, the default type

of fantasy roleplaying setting. Its name derives

from the fact that its fantastical elements — magic,

monsters, heroism — are at the high end of the

scale. High fantasy games are in no way “realistic.”

They pay little heed to notions of plausibility.

Instead, they rely on over the top plotlines, out-

landish locales and larger than life characters to

tell epic stories set in a mythical locale. Most high

fantasy games also have a strong component of

black and white morality to them. The forces of

good are virtuous and praiseworthy, while the

forces of evil are vicious and blameworthy.

High fantasy need not be simplistic, however.

In fact, many high fantasy tales contain very so-

phisticated examinations of the nature of evil and

the very real temptation to choose it over good as

a means to achieving an otherwise just end.

The Scarred Lands setting is largely a high

fantasy setting, so the majority of information in

this book is well suited to use in other high fantasy

campaigns. High fantasy regularly includes per-

sonal interactions with gods, demigods and their

servants. This means you should need to change

little of the content to accommodate a high fan-

tasy campaign setting, since nearly every element

is commonplace in such settings. All the GM

really must do is change the references to those

appropriate to his own setting rather than to the

Scarred Lands.

The same is true with the rules material in the

appendices. With proper adjustment, prestige classes,

feats and equipment could be added to other campaigns.

T YPES OF G AMES

Fantasy roleplaying games come in many fla-

vors, not all of which operate under the same

“rules.” That is, each type has its own distinct

mood, feel and tone, all of which influence how

the game is played and the types of stories that are

told within it. These in turn affect how the char-

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