The Warpriest

Singing the praises of Kord, the dwarf crashes his hammer into the ground, shattering the earth and repelling his foes. Using this moment of respite, he heals himself and his allies as the next wave of undead emerge from below.

A half-orc clasps the anvil around her neck, blessing her greatsword causing it to burst into flame. She smiles at the aproaching hoard of goblins, and runs into the fray.

A gnome whispers a prayer as he levels his raven feather fletched arrow at the death cultists. Three worshipers of Orcus hit the stone floor without a sound, and the natural order of life is restored.

Warpriests travel far and wide to spread the word of their deity, and snuffing out the antithesis of their beliefs. They live and breathe warfare, and are comfortable in a temple, battlefield, or town.

Called to Glory

A warpriest is the more specialised cousin of the paladin, and the more martial sibling to the cleric. Content to heal or harm with their magics, depending on what needs to be done at the time, a warpriest has little patience for those who oppose their gods will.

Power bestowed on a warpriest is to be used how they see fit, but can be revoked if they stray too far. A fallen warpriest can seek atonement to be able to use their granted powers again.

Class Features

As a warpriest, you gain the following class features

Channel Energy

Also at 2nd level, you can release a wave of energy by channeling the power of your faith through your holy (or unholy) symbol. This energy can be used to deal or heal damage, depending on the type of energy channeled and the creatures targeted. Using this ability is an action that expends any number of your Channel Energy Dice up to your proficiency bonus, as shown in the warpriest table. You must present a holy (or unholy) symbol to use this ability.

A good warpriest (or one who worships a good deity) channels positive energy and can choose to heal living creatures or to deal damage to undead creatures. An evil cleric (or one who worships an evil deity) channels negative energy and can choose to deal damage to living creatures or heal undead creatures. A neutral cleric who worships a neutral deity (or one who is not devoted to a particular deity) chooses which type of energy they channel when they gain this feature.

Whenever you channel energy, you roll the amount of Channel Energy dice you expended, and use the result as either healing or damage, depending. Channeling energy effects all creatures in a 30 foot radius. Creatures damaged by this feature may attempt a Wisdom saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier to halve the amount of damage they take.

You regain all expended Channel Energy dice upon completing a long rest.

Blessings

Your deity influences your alignment, what magic you can perform, your values, and how others see you.

Beginning at 2nd level, you may select two blessings from among those granted by your deity (each deity grants blessings tied to its domains). If you aren't devoted to a particular deity, you still select two blessings to represent your spiritual inclinations and abilities, subject to GM approval. Your choices are listed at the end of the class description.

Each blessing grants a minor power at 2nd level and a major power at 9th level. You can call upon the power of your blessings a number of times per day (in any combination) equal to half your warpriest level (rounded up). You regain expended blessing uses upon completing a long rest.

Save DC

Wisdom is your ability score for your blessings. If a blessing calls for an attack roll or saving throw, use the following calculations to determine it:

Blessing Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +

your Wisdom modifier

Blessing attack modifier = your proficiency bonus +

your Wisdom modifier

Warpriest Cloister

When you reach 2nd level, you choose an warpriest cloister, shaping your practice of divine warfare through one of many schools of thought. Your choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at 6th, 10th, 14th, and 18th level. Your choices are listed at the end of the class description.

Fervor

Beginning at 3rd level, your fanatical devotion to your deity pushes you to overcome any obstacle. You may use a bonus action to gain one of the following benefits for 1 minute:

• You may add your Wisdom modifier to Athletics or Acrobatics rolls.
• You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your warpriest level plus your Wisdom modifier.
• You may add your Wisdom modifier to attack rolls made with your Sacred Weapon.
• You may add your Wisdom modifier to Persuasion or Intimidation rolls.

You may only have one one of these benefits active at a time. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long or short rest.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 11th level in this class.

Sacred Armor

Beginning at 6th level, you can anoint a set of armor that you are proficient with in holy oils, prayers, and blessings to grant it supernatural resilence as part of a long rest. Choose from the following damage types: fire, lightning, cold, acid, or radiant. You can change this damage type by performing the ritual again during a long rest. Your Sacred Armor grants you resistance to the chosen damage type while you are wearing it.

At 13th level, your Sacred Armor grants immunity to the chosen damage type instead.

Aspect of War

At 20th level, you can empower yourself with the martial power and prowess of the most devout champions of the gods. As a bonus action, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute:

• You are under the effects of all of your fervor bonuses, without expending any uses of the feature.
• You have advantage on saving throws against magic and magical effects.
• If you are reduced to 0 hit points, you do not lose consciousness and begin rolling death saving throws until this feature ends.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Warpriest Blessings

Unless otherwise stated, using a blessing is a bonus action.

Death Blessings

From the Grave (minor): At 2nd level, you can take on a corpse-like visage for 1 minute, making you more intimidating and giving you undead-like protection from harm. You gain advantage on Intimidation checks, as well as on saving throws against disease, mind-affecting effects, paralysis, poison, and stunning effects.

Death's Touch (major): At 9th level, as an action, you can make a melee blessing attack against an opponent to deliver grim suffering. If you succeed, you reduce the attacked creatures maximum hit points by 2d8. Alternatively, you can replace one of your attack during the Attack action with a use of this blessing. A creature reduced to 0 maximum hit points dies instantly.

Destruction Blessings

Destructive Attacks (minor): At 2nd level, you can touch a friendly creature and bless it with the power of destruction. For 1 minute, that creature gains a bonus on weapon damage rolls equal to half your level (minimum 1).

Heart of Carnage (major): At 9th level, you can touch a friendly creature and bless it with even greater destructive power. For 1 minute, if that creature scores a critical hit, it rolls damage dice three times.

Earth Blessings

Acid Strike (minor): At 2nd level, you can touch one weapon and enhance it with acidic potency. For 1 minute, this weapon emits acrid fumes that deal an additional 1d4 points of acid damage with each strike.

Armor of Earth (major): At 9th level, you can touch a friendly creature and harden its armor or clothing. For 1 minute, that creature gains resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical weapons.

Fire Blessings

Fire Strike (minor): At 2nd level, you can touch one weapon and enhance it with the grandeur of fire. For 1 minute, this weapon glows red-hot and deals an additional 1d4 points of fire damage with each hit.

Armor of Flame (major): At 9th level, you can touch an ally to wreath it in flames. This works as fire shield spell (warm shield only) with a duration of 1 minute.

Glory Blessings

Glorious Presence (minor): At 2nd level, you can touch a friendly creature and grant it a glorious blessing. For 1 minute, that creature becomes mesmerizing to her foes. This functions as sanctuary spell, except if the creature attacks a hostile creature, this effect ends with respect to only that opponent.

Demoralizing Glory (major): At 9th level, when you successfully damage a hostile creature with a melee attack or attack spell, as a bonus action you can attempt to frighten that creature. That creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or be frightened of you for 1 minute.

Healing Blessings

Powerful Healer (minor): At 2nd level, you can add power to a healing spell as you or an ally casts it. As a reaction to a spell that heals hit points being cast within 30 feet of you, you can add your level to the hit points healed.

Paragon of Vitality(major): At 9th level, you can touch a friendly creature and grant it the benefits of the aura of life spell for 1 minute. This spell does not require concentration.

Knowledge Blessings

Lore Keeper (minor): At 2nd level, you can touch a creature to learn about its abilities and weaknesses. With a successful melee blessing attack, you gain information as if your result on the appropriate skill check were equal to 10 + your warpriest level + your Wisdom modifier.

Monster Slayer (major): At 9th level, when you succeed at a Knowledge check against an opponent to learn about its abilities or weaknesses (or succeed at a melee blessing attack using the lore keeper blessing, above), you can as a reaction gain advantage bonus on attacks, saving throws, and ability and skill checks, as well as to your AC against that creature. This effect lasts for 1 minute.

Luck Blessings

Lucky Presence (minor): At 2nd level, you can touch a friendly creature and grant it a lucky presence. The target of this luck can call upon it to roll any one ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check with advantage. The decision to use this ability must be made before the roll is made. Once used, or once 1 minute passes, the effect ends.

Unlucky Enemy (major): At 9th level, as a reaction you can force an adjacent hostile creature to reroll an attack, saving throw, or skill or ability check it just attempted; it must take the lower of the two rolls.

Magic Blessings

Hand of the Acolyte (minor): At 2nd level, you can cause your melee weapon to fly from your grasp and strike an opponent, then instantly return to you. You can make a single blessing attack using a melee weapon at a range of 30 feet. This attack is treated as a ranged attack with a thrown weapon, except that you add your Wisdom modifier to the attack roll instead of your Dexterity modifier (you still add your Strength modifier to the damage roll as normal).

Blessed Magic (major): At 9th level, you can cast any cleric spell of 4th level or lower. The spell must have a casting time of 1 action. Use your blessing attack modifier or save DC if one is needed.

Nobility Blessings

Inspiring Word (minor): At 9nd level, as an action you can speak a few words to a creature within 30 feet that fill them with inspiration. You can grant that creature Inspiration. This effect lasts for 1 minute, and if the Inspiration is not used, it is lost.

Lead by Example (major): At 9th level, as a bonus action you can inspire your allies to follow your lead. If the following action on your turn is an attack roll or skill check, all friendly creatures within 30 feet who take the same action against the same foe or obstacle on their next turn gain advantage on that roll.

Plant Blessings

Creeping Vines (minor): At 2nd level, upon hitting with a melee attack, as a bonus action you cause the creature you hit to sprout entangling vines that attempt to hold it in place, forcing the creature to succeed at a Dexterity saving throw or be restrained for 1 minute. A creature can attempt this saving throw again at the end of each of it's turns, ending the blessing on a success.

Battle Companion (major): At 9th level, you can summon a battle companion. This ability functions as the summon fey spell, with a duration of 1 minute. The fey spirit summoned takes the form of any plant. This spell does not require concentration, but you can only have one fey spirit summoned by it at a time.

Protection Blessings

Increased Defense (minor): At 2nd level, as a bonus action you can gain a +1 bonus on saving throws and a +1 bonus to AC for 1 minute. The bonus increases to +2 at 10th level and +3 at 20th level.

Aura of Protection (major): At 9th level, you can emit a 30-foot aura of protection for 1 minute. You and friendly creatures within this aura gain resistance against acid, cold, fire, lightning and thunder damage.

Shadow Blessing

Flicker of Shadows (minor): At 2nd level, you can cause a weapon you touch to warp and become insubstantial for a split second before an attack. The first attack made with this weapon each round ignores any bonus to Armor Class other than from worn armor, as well as bonuses from cover. Total cover still provides a creature its full benefit. This effect lasts for 1 minute.

Swift as Shadow (major): At 9th level, you can spend a bonus action to empower yourself or a friendly creature within 30 feet to move over the ground as easily as its shadow. The subject’s walking speed increases by 10 feet and it takes no movement penalties for darkness, difficult terrain, or slickness. The creature can safely move over areas of ice and even those affected by a grease spell. When a creature affected by this ability hits with an attack, that attack deals an amount of additional cold damage equal to your level.

Strength Blessings

Strength Surge (minor): At 2nd level, as a bonus action you can focus your own strength. You gain a bonus equal to 1/2 your warpriest level (minimum +1) on melee attack rolls, Strength-based skills, and Strength checks for 1 round.

Strength of Will (major): At 9th level, as a bonus action you can ignore the movement penalties caused by carrying a medium or heavy load. This effect lasts for 1 minute. During this time, you can add your Strength modifier on saving throws against effects that would cause you to become restrained, stunned, or paralyzed.

Sun Blessings

Blinding Strike (minor): At 2nd level, as a reaction, you can create a flash of sunlight in the eyes of a hostile creature you have hit with a melee attack. The target is blinded for 1 round. If it succeeds at a Dexterity saving throw, it us unaffected. Creatures with light sensitivity have disadvantage on this saving throw. Sightless creatures are unaffected by this ability.

Cleansing Fire (major): At 9th level, you can touch a weapon and grant it the ability to deal an extra 2d6 radiant damage on a hit for 1 minute.

Travel Blessings

Agile Feet (minor): At 2nd level, as a bonus action you gain increased mobility. For 1 round, you ignore all difficult terrain (including magical terrain) and take no penalties for moving through it.

Dimensional Hop (major): At 9th level, you can teleport up to 20 feet as a bonus action. You can increase this distance by expending another use of your blessing—each use spent grants an additional 20 feet. You must be able to see your destination. You can bring other willing creatures with you, but each such creature requires expending one additional use of your blessing, regardless of the distance traveled. (For example, transporting yourself 40 feet costs 2 uses of your blessing, and transporting an additional person this distance costs 1 more use.)

Trickery Blessings

Double (minor): At 2nd level, as a bonus action you can create an illusory double of yourself. This double functions as a single mirror image, and lasts for a number of rounds equal to your warpriest level, or until the illusory duplicate is dispelled or destroyed. You can have no more than one double at a time. The double created by this ability doesn’t stack with the additional images from the mirror image spell.

Greater Invisibility (major): At 9th level, as a bonus action you can become invisible for 1 round (as greater invisibility).

War Blessings

War Mind (minor): At 2nd level, you can touch an a friendly creature and grant it a tactical advantage for 1 minute. At the start of its turn each round, it can select one of the following bonuses:

• +10 feet to walking speed
• +1 bonus to AC
• +1 bonus on attack rolls
• +1 bonus on saving throws.

Each bonus selected lasts for 1 round.

Battle Lust (major): At 9th level, you can touch a friendly creature and grant it a thirst for battle. The creature gains the benefits of the Boon of Combat Prowess for 1 minute.

Water Blessings

Ice Strike (minor): At 2nd level, you can touch one weapon and enhance it with the power of water. For 1 minute, this weapon glows with a blue-white chill and deals an additional 1d4 points of cold damage with each strike.

Armor of Ice (major): At 9th level, you can touch any one ally and wreath it in freezing mist. This works as fire shield (chill shield only) with a duration 1 minute.

Weather Blessings

Storm Strike (minor): At 2nd level, you can touch one weapon and grant it a blessing of stormy weather. For 1 minute, this weapon glows with blue or yellow sparks and deals an additional 1d4 points of electricity damage with each hit.

Wind Barrier (major): At 9th level, you can create a barrier of fast winds around yourself for 1 minute. This acts as a wind wall on all sides of your square, protects you with feather fall, and doesn’t interfere with your ranged attacks.

Warpriest Cloisters

Every cloister teaches the warpriests in its membership their own unique tenets, magical tricks, and divine powers.

This is a short list of some of the many warpriest cloisters active in the multiverse.

Cloister of the Champion

These Champions of the faith are crusaders who use the power of their divine patron to annihilate the faith’s enemies. They are similar to divine paragons in many ways, but tend to focus more on their deity’s combat prowess rather than seeking to become a physical manifestation of the deity’s will.

Bonus Proficiencies

Beginning at 2nd level when you select this cloister, you gain proficiency with shields and martial weapons.

Channel Energy: Divine Wrath

Also at 2nd level, you can channel your deity's energy into powerful strikes. Whenever you deal weapon damage to a creature, you may expend any number of Channel Energy dice, up to your proficiency bonus, to roll as radiant damage as part of the attack.

Additional Blessings: War

Additionally at 2nd level, you gain the War Blessings as a bonus Blessing. This does not count against your total number of Blessings.

Know the Infidel

At 6th level, your deity allows you to sense evil and good alike in creatures around you. You can cast detect evil and good at will. Additionally, you can cast protection from evil and good using this feature. Once you do so, you must complete a long or short rest before you can do so again.

Fervor: Blade of Rightousness

Beginning at 10th level, you gain the following additional options when using your Fervor feature;

• Your Sacred Weapon ignores resistances to any damage type it deals.
• Your Sacred Weapon gains the thrown (20/40) quality.

Fervent Boon

At 14th level, you can beseech your deity to cast one of the following spells on your behalf; mass heal, sunburst, resurrection, planar ally. Roll a d20, and if the result is equal to or lower than your warpriest level, your deity casts the spell at 9th level for you, in the most helpful way it can. Once you have successfully used this feature, you cannot use it again for 7 days.

Obedient Champion

At 19th level, your connection with your deity is so absolute that you gain a powerful boon. Choose one Epic Boon associated with your deity, with the DM's approval. You gain that boon.

Cloister of the Commander

Some warpriests are called to lead great armies and face legions of foes. These divine commanders live for war and fight for glory. Their hearts quicken at battle cries, and they charge forth with their deity’s symbol held high. These leaders of armies do so to promote the agenda of their faith, and lead armies of devoted followers willing to give their lives for the cause.

Greater Battle Tactician

At 19th level, your skill in leading armies is legendary. You can take the Help action as a bonus action, and may target any friendly creature you can see with it.

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Mass Battle: Once per battle, you may have any unit win a Skirmish without needing to roll, as a Leader Action

Cloister of the Sacred Fist

Unlike many warpriests, sacred fists leave behind armor and shield and instead rely on their fists and whatever protection their deity bestows on them.

Endless Vigor

At 19th level, if you have no Channel Energy dice available when you roll initiative, you gain 3 Channel Energy Dice.