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Updated #dnd grave domain cleric in #unearthedarcana
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May 14, 2025
Updated #dnd grave domain cleric in #unearthedarcana. Less interesting to optimize, but probably more fun to play. #dnd5e #2024dnd #ttrpg #characteroptimization #dungeonsanddragons
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the new horror subclasses Unearthed
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Arcana gave us an updated version of the
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grave domain cleric uh now the grave
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domain cleric in 2014 their whole thing
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was you know when it's time for things
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to be dead it's time for them to be dead
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and no one undead none of that um kind
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of their signature feature was path to
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the grave which gave one target
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vulnerability to the next attack that
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they suffered so it was a really great
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combination for like if you had a rogue
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in a party especially assassins like if
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you could hit an enemy with one really
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big attack especially a crit you could
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do an insane amount of damage but it
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relied pretty heavily on your allies and
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it relied heavily on the makeup of your
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party so it was kind of you know by
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nature it was a little bit inconsistent
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so the updated version of the subclass
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is built to be much more consistent much
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more reliable but it might be a little
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bit less interesting uh path to the
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grave no longer gives vulnerability to
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an attack it's now disadvantage on all
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of the targets saves for one round which
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is fantastic as a spellcaster because it
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means you can hit them with a big save
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or suck like allied spellcasters allies
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who have special abilities they can all
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pile in on that target and it's going to
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be more consistently useful regardless
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of your party makeup and it you know as
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it gets close to your turn you can
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choose to end the effect early to deal
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some extra damage um as a bonus on top
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of an attack that hits that creature so
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there is that still that damage boost
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there but it's not as like crazy amazing
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and abusable as it was the subclass
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feature that let you turn critical hits
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into regular hits has also been replaced
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now instead of that it's a few times per
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day you can reduce some incoming damage
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on an attack so um the old version was
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only useful if your allies got crits so
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it's entirely possible that it would
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just never matter which is frustrating
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like it's great that it was there but
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it's not reliable the new version will
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be more consistently useful again less
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exciting but it'll be much more
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consistent
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