Lay Cleric (Apath)

Unofficial rules compendium

This is a work in progress.

A lay cleric is not a professional cleric, but a religious member of the community who carry the role of spiritual leader besides her ordinary obligations. Church authorities try to keep lay clerics on a short leash and subservient to central authority, often with very mixed results. And not all lay clerics are good and lawful, bandits make a form of community too.

Class Information

This is a cleric archetype

Hit Die: d8.

Class skills

The lay cleric puts a greater emphasis on skills than the normal cleric. Replace the cleric's list of class skills with the following. Skills in italics are new class skills.

Appraise (Int), Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Disable Device (Dex), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (any) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Perception (Wis), Perform (Cha), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Sense Motive (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), Survival (Wis), Swim (Str), and Use Magic Device (Cha).

Lay clerics gain 4 skill points per level. This replaces channel energy.

Class Abilities

The lay cleric has all normal cleric class abilities, except as noted.

Single Domain

The lay cleric knows only a single domain, and has no domain spell slots. Instead the spells granted by the lay cleric's domain are added directly to the lay cleric's spell list.

A complete listing of domains can be found here: Domains.

Summary of Changed Class Abilities

These abilities of the original class are lost or modified in this archetype:

• Class Skills
• Skill points per level
• Spells
• Domains

See Also

• Domains - List of complete domains and subdomains.

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