DON'T PLAY CLERIC (D&D 5E)

Apparently missed Grave Domain, so here's the funny quip I would have made: It lets you one-shot any creature in the game, and breaks the rule of healing unconscious people even more. I don't tend to ban official subclasses from my table, but this one would get an exception.

The best nerf for cleric was calling them the healer class.

"With how versatile and independently strong you can build a Cleric you can make an entire party full of purely priests, call it the 'A-Men' and bust down Tiamat's door demanding her lunch money, and she would just build her own toilet to give herself swirlies so she wouldn't have to endure the kind of bullying you're about to give her." -Jocat, A Crap Guide to Cleric

Cleric: The only class in the game so versatile that you can have an entire party of them and have them each fit specialized roles with little to no overlap.

Cleric in a nut shell Party Members: "You're the healer right" Forge Cleric: "I'm literally wielding heavy armor, and a warhammer. WHY DO YOU THINK IM A HEALER?"

I will play every cleric

Monk: Has neat little gimmicks and can attack twice along with ever growing AC. Cleric: G O D yeets Monk out the window like its a baby

"Cleric too powerful! Don't use it!" Hmm yes... don't play it because of the reason I like to play it. Makes sense.

"At level 1 you have healing so potent that some party members can be restored to full health with a single spell" And totally not because they have a max HP of 5.

Title:don't play a cleric Me immediately:I should make a cleric

Played the party of five clerics, DM had to double the CR, still it was a steamroll. Most awesome game i've ever played!

“Clerics are too powerful for their own good” What, am I NOT supposed to clutch perma-death situations with the snap of my fingers and a lucky d100 roll~?

Honestly, we coulda used a cleric instead of starting with three paladins in our campaign. For those that wanna laugh at that, we're down to one paladin because one paladin switched to a warlock, another's only purpose is just good for throwing at large monsters and kept away from any decision making, and the third is dead. The Arcane Trickster rogue f***ed off to investigate something and has never returned, our bard/warlock is a bad roll away from his weapon possessing someone's soul, my battle master JUST got de-petrified, and the wizard is actually very competent but she's still kinda new to it. A cleric in D&D Silent Hill/Bloodborne would be helpful.

I'm playing a cleric in my friends campaign that they might potentially run sometime ever and I included a trait for them that they specifically don't fight much or with their full power in part because this is said friends first time dming and I wanted to play a bit more support

One reason I really like playing cleric is that they’re so mechanically powerful that I can play up flaws more without being worried about just dying horribly

Honestly as a cleric in all of my friend’s campaigns while yes it’s already stated to be over exaggerated this actually is pretty accurate since the only people to ever die in any of the campaigns I play are funnily enough the ones that aren’t in a 100 mile radius of me

I think cleric was going to be my next class i use. Because going off my first campaign...we NEED A HEALER!!!

See as a DM I actually I LIKE when my players are strong. The party has like 3 clerics and that means that I can push them crazy ludicrously hard and have the enemies be vicious, and know that somebody probably had a healing word. I’ve had the monsters attack PCs 5 times while they are down and get 2 auto failed death saves and they managed to save the player each time. It was crazy intense every time and their victory and survival felt like a rollercoaster ride. Perfect dnd if you ask me.

The more power you give a player, the more power you can throw at a player. When imagination is the limit, there is quite literally an infinity of potential on both sides of the spectrum.

"Don't play Cleric" Me, who was about to choose Aasimar Paladin: "Well yes, but actually no."