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A Cleric of a trickster god may feel comfortable with knife-fighting, but it doesnвЂ™t match the image of a Pelorian ideal. The only finesse weapon he has access to is a dagger, but that doesnвЂ™t feel very appropriate for the character. Decent hit dice and a good Constitution also give him 99 hit points, so while he may not be a front-line bruiser he can certainly take his licks in combat.

When combined with a shield (emblazoned with a golden sun, obviously) itвЂ™s enough to give him a perfectly respectable AC of 18.

The church he is personally involved with is fairly involved with a Golden Dragon so shimmering scale mail is the obvious вЂ“ if not quite mechanically optimised вЂ“ choice for armor.

#CLERIC SCALE MAIL MINI MANUAL#

Intelligence is probably next, as while he isnвЂ™t stupid he more of a feeler than a thinker.ДЄs a cloistered acolyte of Pelor who definitely doesnвЂ™t want to be on the front lines it makes sense to pick Strength as his lowest score вЂ“ heвЂ™s more of a thoughtful day-dreamer than a brawler and probably doesnвЂ™t mind getting others to do his manual work for him.ДЄs far as equipment goes he travels fairly light. With these mechanics-heavy attributes nailed down the rest become more of a matter of personal preference.ДЄs a representative of a sun god he has a fairly inspiring and warm nature, which leads us onto picking Charisma as a good choice for the best score remaining (a 13 after the +1 from being human). Brother Umbra will be wearing medium armor, which has a maximum Dexterity bonus of +2, so it makes sense to concentrate on his Constitution and leave his Dexterity at 14. These both help to increase his survivability, either by boosting his AC and saves or by bumping up his hit points. The next two abilities he needs to focus on are Constitution and Dexterity. This is an extremely powerful ability that allows us to impose disadvantage on any attack made on an ally within 30 ft., and while this may look a little uninspiring at first glance it can reduce incoming damage considerably if used well. The first two Ability Score Increases go straight into Wisdom, bumping it up to 20 as soon as possible and improving not just his damage output but also the amount of times he can use his Improved Warding Flare. The fact that the Light Domain is almost entirely based around spellcasting вЂ“ as opposed to War or Tempest Clerics that smash people with hammers as much as they heal вЂ“ means that thereвЂ™s no hesitation over what we should max out first. With this is mind, Brother Umbra was a fairly simple character to create. He also needs to be a regular, non-variant human with no particularly fancy magic items and certainly no multi-classing. At the same time, the party has access to 6th-level spells that are incredibly powerful but not quite game-breaking. This means that we have to create him with a few restrictions.ДЇor one, he вЂ“ and the rest of our mini-party вЂ“ come into the game at level 12, which is an interesting point in the 5E progression.Д«y this point everybody should be rocking a 20 in their primary attribute and a 16 or so in their secondary, but they havenвЂ™t quite got to the point where they can reach a +10 to hit without magic weapons. This particular Character Craftroom is a live-fire exercise of sorts, as I will actually be playing Brother Umbra in an upcoming mini-campaign showing how one of the main roster returned to the party after an unfortunate incident involving a Sun Sword and Vampirism. When it comes to D&D 5E this role is neatly filled by Light Domain Clerics. While a well-crafted support character can be an absolute joy to play, sometimes it helps if you can reduce an entire group of bandits to smouldering ash too.

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