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Cleric Divine Domains

At 1st level, a cleric gains the Divine Domain feature. Here are two homebrew options for that feature: the Darkness Domain and the Madness Domain.

Blessed by the Darkness

Also starting at 1st level, you gain darkvision out to 60 feet. If you already have darkvision from other sources, the range of your darkvision is increased by 30 feet.

Additionally, while you are in the dim light or darkness, you have advantage on the Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

Channel Divinity: Veil of Darkness

Starting at 2nd level, you can use an action to present the holy symbol and evoke the name of your deity, conjuring a magical veil that wipes senses of a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your cleric spell save DC or becomes blinded and deafened for 1 minute or until your concentration is broken (as if concentrating on a spell).

Channel Divinity: Cloak of Darkness

When you reach 6th level, as an action, you can use your Channel Divinity to choose yourself or a willing creature you can see within 10 feet of you.

If the chosen creature is in an area of dim light or darkness, it turns invisible for 1 hour or until it moves out to an area of bright light or takes an action, a bonus action, or a reaction.

Favored by the Darkness

Starting at 8th level, you gain blindsight out to 60 feet, and you can see normally in both magical and nonmagical darkness within the radius of your darkvision.

Additionally, creatures in the area of darkness have disadvantage on saving throws against your cleric spells and your Channel Divinity options.

One with the Darkness

By 17th level, while you are in the area of darkness, you can use the Cloak of Darkness feature on yourself without expending a Channel Divinity use.

Additionally, while you are in the area of dim light or darkness, you can use a bonus action to teleport into an unoccupied you can see within 30 feet of you, which also should be in dim light or darkness.

Madness Domain

Gods of madness, as their domain suggests, are simply mad, or at least works in such way that mortals perceive as insane or incomprehensible. Notable deities of madness include: Azathoth, the Binld Idiot God; Discord, the Dracoequines of Chaos and Disharmony; Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness; and Xom, the Unpredictable God of Chaos.

Deities of madness seldom have churches, temples, or other organized system of belief and faith, nor do their followers need such rules. Instead, the deities and the believers often contact directly, with a little help from mind-affecting substances, such as boozes, drugs, smokes, and even cheese.

Contrary to the widespread notion, followers and clerics of the deity of madness is not always mad by themselves. Often they are seekers of knowledges and guidance that deities provides, although in a cryptic, inconceivable and outlandish nonsense, that are sometimes actually well-intended and genuinely caring to their believers.

Mad Savant

When you reach 6th level, your deity's madness grants a strain of knowledge that is temporarily bestowed upon you. Whenever you roll on the Insane Incidents table, choose a skill or tool of your choice. You gain proficiency in the chosen skill or tool until you finish a long rest or you roll on the Insane Incidents table again.

Alternately, whenever you roll on the Insane Incidents table, you can speak, read, and write one language of your choice until you finish a long rest or you roll on the Insane Incidents table again.

Relatively Sane Incidents

Starting at 8th level, whenever you roll on the Insane Incidents table, you can roll twice and use either number.

Additionally, when an effect from your Insane Incident designates a random creature or object, you can choose to designate an appropriate target you can see within 30 feet of you. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Veil of Madness

By 17th level, your deity's blessings safeguards your mind, presenting a scrambled of irrational and incomprehensible thoughts to those who attempts to read your thoughts. Your thoughts cannot be read by telepathy or other means, and if a creature attempts to read your thoughts, it takes psychic damage equal to 1d8 plus your cleric level.

Additionally, no matter what you say, magic that would determine if you are telling the truth indicates you are bing truthful, if you chooses, and you cannot be compelled to tell the truth by magic.

Paladin Sacred Oath

At 3rd level, a paladin gains the Sacred Oath feature. Here are three homebrew options for that feature: Oath of Silence, Oath of Vigilance, and Shadowspy.

Aura of Magic Disruption

Starting at 7th level, you emanate a divine aura within 10 feet of you that disrupts the flow of magic. You and a creature within your aura can use an action to end one spell that affects it. A creature that gained benefit from this aura cannot do so until it finishes a long rest.

At 18th level, the range of this aura increases to 30 feet.

Divine Abjuration

Starting at 15th level, you have resistance to damage from spells, and have advantage on all saving throws made to avoid or resist the effect of spells.

Envoy of Silence

When you reach 20th level, you are the bringer of solemn silence and doom to all vile magic. As an action, you can present the holy symbol to create a zone of magical silence in a 30-foot sphere centered on you.

No sound can be created within or pass through the zone, and all creatures that are entirely within the zone are deafened and cannot speak, cast a spell, or concentrate on a spell. When a creature first enters the zone or starts its turn there, it must make a Charisma saving throw against your paladin spell save DC or cannot speak, cast a spell, or concentrate on a spell for 1 minute, even after it leaves the zone.

The zone lasts for 1 minute or until you are incapacitated. Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Oath of Vigilance

The Oath of Vigilance is for a paladin who is sworn to fight against the vile creatures of the unknown and the evil in order to protect the world from their menace. Often, a league of paladins who follows the Oath of Vigilance can be found among ranger conclaves, hunter's guilds, or as an independent vigilant group. Vampire hunters, lycanthrope killers, and exorcists are also familiar with the Oath of Vigilance, if they are not part of the oath themselves.

Notable gods, entities, and organizations that practice the Oath of Vigilance include Cernunnos, the Host of the Wild Hunt; the Healing Church of Yharnam; and the Hunters of the Grimm of the world of Remnant.

Eye of the Divine

At 20th level, as a bonus action, you can channel the power bestowed upon you to awaken extraordinary senses. For the next minute, you gain the following benefits:

• You are under the effect of the true seeing spell.
• Once on each of your turn, you can use your Guided Shot feature without expending a Channel Divinity use.
• Whenever you hit a creature with a ranged weapon, the creature takes an extra 1d6 radiant damage. If you also use your Divine Shot feature with an attack, you add this damage to the extra damage of your Divine Shot.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Shadowspy

An agent of Pelor's Shadow Guard, a Shadowspy voluntarily steps into the shadow of the night and the lawless in order to preserve the light and the innocent. Shadowspies are recruited by Shadowstrikers, the openly known associates of the churches of Pelor and Hieroneous, who trust the agents' devotion to their faith and the zeal to vanquish the evil by all means and costs.

Life as a Shadowspy is lonely and secret. Shadowstrikers deny the very existence of secret service that collects rumors and witnesses of the wrong side of the town, and inhumes the evil overlords and criminal masterminds. But a Shadowspy always know that somewhere there is a crime happening, and the culprits will be coming with them, dead or alive — in most cases, and preferably, dead.

Master Shadowspy

At 20th level, you can enter the state of focus and concentration, channelling the divine power to become a sleepless vigilante of your deity. For 1 minute, you gain the following benefits:

• You gain truesight out to a range of 30 feet.
• You have advantage on all Intelligence (Investigation) and Wisdom (Perception) checks, and no attack roll has advantage against you.
• You gain immunity to psychic damage, your thoughts cannot be read by telepathy or other means unless you allow to do so.
• Once on each of your turn when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can deal 5d8 radiant damage with the attack if you have advantage on the attack roll.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Divine Agility

4th-level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (holy water and powdered pearl, sprinkled on the target)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You bless one creature you touch, assuring divine protection against harmful effects. During the spell's duration, when the blessed creature is subjected to an effect that allows to make a Dexterity saving throw to take half damage, it instead takes half damage on a failed save, and no damage on a successful one.

Divine Trial

2nd-level enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, M (a holy symbol)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You present your holy symbol to one creature you can see within the spell's range, putting it to test with divine authority. The target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or becomes affected by this spell.

Until the spell ends, when the creature fails on an ability check, an attack roll, or a saving throw, the creature takes 1d8 psychic damage immediately after the roll.

At the each of its turn, the target can make a Charisma saving throw. If it succeeds, the spell ends.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.

Divine Visage

5th-level conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (a statuette of the deity decorated with ruby and diamonds worth 500 gp, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You channel your deity's divine authority, becoming a proxy for your deity for a short period of time. When you cast this spell, choose one option from the list below:

• When you cast this spell, and again at the start of each of your turn until the spell ends, each creature within 30 feet that can see or hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature is charmed or frightened of you (your choice). On a successful save, a creature becomes immune to this effect for the next 24 hours.
• When you cast this spell, and again at the start of each of your turn until the spell ends, you and up to three creatures within 30 feet of you that you choose regains 2d8 hit points.
• Until the spell ends, you gain resistance to up to three of the following damage type: bludgeoning, necrotic, piercing, radiant, slashing.
• Until the spell end,s you gain resistance to damage from spells.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th or 8th level or higher, you can choose two options from the list. When you cast this spell using a 9th-level spell slot, you can choose three options from the list.

Haven

4th-level abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, M (a holy symbol)
• Duration: 1 minute

You bless one creature you touch, assuring your protection for it. Until the spell ends, whenever the affected takes damage, you can use a reaction to halve the damage it takes, and you take psychic damage equal to damage it took. This damage ignores your resistance and immunity.

Additionally, as long as the affected creature is within 30 feet of you, you can cast a spell with a range of touch against the creature without touching it.

Heroic Second Wind

3rd-level enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, M (a parchment with holy scribes written in rare ink worth 50 gp, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: 1 minute

You channel a strain of vitality through your divine power, allowing you to overcome one fatal blow. When you drop to 0 hit point while under the effect this spell, you drop to 1 hit point instead, you gain temporary hit points equal to 2d10 plus your spellcasting ability, and the spell ends.

Inspiring Smite

2nd-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

The next time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell’s duration, your attack deals an extra 2d6 radiant damage, and you can choose yourself or one friendly creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The chosen creature gains temporary hit points equal to damage you dealt with the attack.

Purifying Blaze

5th-level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a pinch of ash, powdered charcoal, or sawdust, sprinkled on the target)
• Duration: Instantaneous

When you touch a creature as you cast this spell, the creature bursts into magical flame that burns away poison, diseases, and magical effects on the target. Any disease, poison, and spell of 5th level or lower on the target ends.

If the target is unwilling, it must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 3d6 fire damage and 3d6 radiant damage, in addition to the spell's normal effect. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and is unaffected by the spell's normal effect.

Credits

All contents are created by Weirdo Whoever unless noted otherwise. Special thanks to D&D Wiki, NaturalCrit Homebrewery tool, and GM Binder for providing the templates for my imaginations.

Cleric Domain: Darkness Domain. Originally posted on the Homebrewery tool.

All deities from the example are derived from other works: Azura and Nocturnal is from Elder Scrolls; Dithmenos is from Dungeon Crawl; Nyx is from Greek mythology, but influenced by Persona 3 here; and Pitch Black is from Rise of the Guardians.

Cleric Domain: Madness Domain. Originally posted on the Homebrewery tool.

All deities from the example are derived from other works: Azathoth is from Cthulhu mythos; Discord is from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic; Sheogorath is from Elder Scrolls; and Xom is from Dungeon Crawl.

Paladin Sacred Oath: Oath of Silence. Originally posted on D&D Wiki and the Homebrewery tool.

All deities and organizations from the example are derived from other works: Trog is from Dungeon Crawl; Shala Karanok is from the Forgotten Realms setting; the Order of the Aeol Dria is from Dota 2; and the Order of Seropaene is from NetHack.

Paladin Sacred Oath: Oath of Vigilance. Originally posted on the Homebrewery tool.

All deities and organizations from the example are derived from other works: Cernunnos is from Celtic mythology; the Healing Church is from Bloodborne; and Hunters of the Grimm is from RWBY.

Paladin Sacred Oath: Shadowspy. Converted from 3.5rd edition supplement Complete Champion. Originally posted on the Homebrewery tool.

Some lines from the film Robocop are quoted for the description.

The "We Work In The Dark" and "We Serve The Light" is from the videogame Assassin's Creed. The "We Never Sleep" is from real-life detective agency Pinkerton, formerly known as Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Spells. Some spells are converted from and/or inspired by spells and feats from 3.5rd edition supplements Complete Champions and Complete Divine.