Cleric Subclass: Plague Domain

Disease is not the opposite of life, just another aspect, it grows and spreads like everything else, and you’ve been given power by the gods to bend it to your will. Whether that was gifted to stop a great plague or to start one depends on who you serve, either way the great cities will not soon forget you.

 

Plague Domain Spells

1st Detect Poison and Disease, Ray of Sickness

3rd Blindness/Deafness, Protection from Poison

5th Stinking Cloud, Slow

7th Blight, Sickening Radiance

9th Cloudkill, Contagion

 

Lingering Ailment. When you take this domain at 1st level you gain the ability to prolong the effects of your more malicious spells. Whenever a creature fails their initial save against one of yours spells that has an ongoing effect it lasts one round longer than it should. If the spell allows for recurring save on the creatures turn and they save, the effect still lasts one more turn before it ends.  

 

Toxin Savant. At 1st level you learn the Poison Spray cantrip and proficiency with the poisoners kit.

 

Channel Divinity: Caustic Disease. Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity as a free action when you deal poison damage to decrease the AC of harmed creatures by 1 and reduce their speed by 10 feet, as it burns through their armour and causes them to cough and hack. This lasts for 1 minute and can only affect a number of creatures equal to your proficiency modifier.

 

Cleansing Heal. Starting at 6th level, when you restore hit points to an ally with a spell of 1st level or higher, you can also end the poisoned condition or a disease. In addition, when restoring hit points the spell is of 3rd level or higher you can instead remove one basic curse afflicting them.

GM Note. A basic curse refers to the options presented in bestow curse, and only those options. Lycanthropy or any form of narrative curse would not be affected by this ability.

 

Divine Strike. At 8th level, you gain the ability to infuse your weapon strikes with divine energy. Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 poison, acid or necrotic damage (your choice) to the target. When you reach 14th level, the extra damage increases to 2d8.

 

Baneful Plague. You have become a master of disease and decay, healing and harming those as you and your deity see fit. You gain the following benefits:

• When you take a long rest, you can choose to become immune to either poison, acid, or necrotic damage. You can change this next time you take a long rest.
• When you deal damage to a single creature you can force them to also succeed a saving or become poisoned until the start of your next turn.

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