Acolyte

Your deity bestows magical powers upon you. Your power source is the Divine power source, but you can only learn spells from themes you know in the Holy and Unholy themes and 4 themes from any power source that is inline with your deity’s portfolio, with GM approval.

You know the Holy or Unholy theme and one theme from any power source.

You gain two divine blessings as shown on the Divine Blessings column of the Priest table. A divine blessing grants one of the following options:

• Learn two cantrips from themes you know in your power source.
• Learn a new spell from a theme you know in your power source. The spell must cost equal to, or less than, your mana limit. If the spell costs 2 or more mana, you must know a number of feats or spells from the spell’s theme equal to the spell’s mana cost minus 1.
• You can use two divine blessings to learn a new theme. If it is from your power source, you learn a cantrip from it.

When you gain a level, you gain additional divine blessings as shown on the Divine Blessings column of the Priest table and you can

• Choose a cantrip you know and replace it with another cantrip from a theme you know. You cannot replace a cantrip if you would then know zero cantrips from that theme.
• Choose a spell that costs 1 or more mana and replace it with another spell that costs 1 or more mana from a theme you know, following the restrictions above.

You know three cantrips and three spells of your choice from the themes you know.

The Priest table shows how much mana you have to cast spells. To cast a spell, you must expend mana based on the spell’s cost.

You regain half your total mana when you finish a short rest and all expended mana when you finish a long rest.

There is a limit on the amount of mana you can spend to cast a spell. The limit is based on your level, as shown on the Mana Limit column of the Priest table.

Spells using 4 or 5 mana are particularly taxing to cast. Once you cast a spell using 4 mana, you can’t cast another spell using 4 mana until you finish a short or long rest and once you cast a spell using 5 mana, you can’t cast another spell using 5 mana until you finish a long rest.

Choose wisdom or charisma as your spellcasting ability for your spells. If you choose Wisdom the power of your spells comes from your devotion to your deity. If you choose Charisma the power of your spells derives from the strength of your convictions. You use your wisdom or charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. The Divinity skill describes how to cast a spell.

You can cast a spell you know as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag.

Prerequisites: You know the fate or unholy theme

You can cast bane without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

Prerequisites: You know the fate or holy theme

You can cast bless without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

You can cast ceremony without expending mana.

Prerequisites: You know the holy theme

You can cast conviction without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

Choose one of the following when you use Divine Assistance.

Divine Inspiration. You take inspiration from your deity. On a long rest you can choose 1 spell you know and replace it with another spell from a theme you know, which must cost equal to, or less than, your mana limit. Once you use Divine Inspiration, you can’t use it again for 3 days.

Divine Intervention. As an action, you can call on your deity to intervene on your behalf when your need is great. Describe the assistance you seek and if the need is great and your deity is willing and able to intervene (GM discretion), your deity intervenes on your behalf. Your GM chooses the nature of the intervention; the effect of any spell would be appropriate. If your deity doesn’t intervene you regain mana equal to your mana limit. Once you use Divine Intervention, you can’t use it again for 7 days.

You can cast detect evil and good without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

You can cast protection from evil and good without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

You can cast shield of faith without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

You can cast find steed without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

You can cast daybreak weapon or umbral weapon (daybreak if you are good or neutral, umbral if you are evil) without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

Prerequisites: You know the unholy theme

You can cast hinder without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

Prerequisites: You know the holy theme

You can cast heal without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.

You smite the faithless at the command of your deity. Once on your turn when you hit a creature of the type you selected with an attack, you can deal 2d6 + your spellcasting ability extra damage of a type associated with your deity.

The damage associated with your deity can be acid, cold, concussion, fire, force, lightning, necrotic, poison, radiant, or psychic damage. It might be cold for a god of winter, concussion or lightning for a storm god, fire for a nature or fiendish god, force for a god of magic, necrotic or poison for a god of death, radiant for a sun god, or psychic for a god of madness.

If the creature’s true form is concealed by an illusion, shapeshifting, or other effect, that form is revealed for 1 minute.

You can augment this feature further by expending mana, increasing the damage by 3d6 for each additional mana expended, up to your mana limit as if the base of this feature cost 1 mana.

You can cast divine word without expending mana. If you have mana, you can augment it further by expending mana.