Cleric Archetype
Pathfinder Core Rulebook (Second Edition), page 224
You are an ordained priest of your deity and have even learned how to cast a few divine spells. Though your main training lies elsewhere, your religious calling provides you divine gifts.
Multiclass Cleric characters
The cleric archetype is a great way to create a character of another class who’s a devotee of a particular deity. The many domains available to clerics of different deities present a variety of options for focus spells.
- Alchemist clerics work well with the chirurgeon field, healing various ailments with either alchemy or spells.
- Martial clerics are typically looking for a potent domain spell or some healing to use in a pinch.
- Divine sorcerer clerics double down as the ultimate divine spellcasters.
- Other spellcaster clerics diversify their options, becoming theurgic characters who combine two magical traditions.
Cleric Dedication
Level 2
Archetype Dedication MulticlassPrerequisites: Wisdom 14
You cast spells like a cleric. You gain access to the Cast a Spell activity. You can prepare two common cantrips each day from the divine spell list in this book or any other cantrips you learn or discover. You’re trained in spell attack rolls and spell DCs for divine spells. Your key spellcasting ability for cleric archetype spells is Wisdom, and they are divine cleric spells. Choose a deity as you would if you were a cleric. You become bound by that deity’s anathema. You become trained in Religion and your deity’s associated skill; for each of these skills in which you were already trained, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You don’t gain any other abilities from your choice of deity.
Special You cannot select another dedication feat until you have gained two other feats from the cleric archetype.
Basic Cleric Spellcasting
Level 4
ArchetypePrerequisites: Cleric Dedication
You gain the basic spellcasting benefits (page 219). You can prepare your deity’s spells in your spell slots of the appropriate level from the cleric archetype.
Basic Dogma
Level 4
ArchetypePrerequisites: Cleric Dedication
You gain a 1st- or 2nd-level cleric feat.
Advanced Dogma
Level 6
ArchetypePrerequisites: Basic Dogma
You gain one cleric feat. For the purpose of meeting its prerequisites, your cleric level is equal to half your character level.
Special You can select this feat more than once. Each time you select it, you gain another cleric feat.
Divine Breadth
Level 8
ArchetypePrerequisites: Basic Cleric Spellcasting
You can cast more divine spells each day. Increase the spell slots you gain from cleric archetype feats by 1 for each spell level other than your two highest spell levels.
Expert Cleric Spellcasting
Level 12
ArchetypePrerequisites: Basic Cleric Spellcasting, master in Religion
You gain the expert spellcasting benefits (page 219).
Master Cleric Spellcasting
Level 18
ArchetypePrerequisites: Expert Cleric Spellcasting, legendary in
Religion You gain the master spellcasting benefits (page 219).