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As a Respondent in the employ of a specific temple or order, your nominal job is to be a "quick response healer and long-term liaison between the church and the local community at large", but your actual duties can stray pretty far from that mark. 

 
Skill Proficiencies: You are taught in the ways of the church and temple, as well as in a secondary specialization that can be of use to your cause. You are proficient in Religion and one of the following: Medicine, Persuasion, Intimidation, Insight.
Tool Proficiencies: You are capable of delivering mundane healing efforts and getting to your destinations quickly by simple vehicles. You are proficient with Herbalism Kits and one of the following:  Vehicles (select land, air or water).
Languages: Respondents are not typically required to nor particularly supported in efforts to learn new languages, though many will undertake such endeavors of their own volition to better serve the community or people they regularly contact or to better understand the scriptures upon which their faith's tenets are based.
Equipment: a holy symbol for one of your temple's gods or a temple-specific badge of office, a walking stick (use stats as a club), vestments, a set of fine clothes, a healer’s kit, and a belt pouch containing 1 pp
 
Feature: Leverage

You can exert leverage over one or more individuals below you in the temple's hierarchy and demand their help as needs warrant. For example, you can have a message carried across a neighborhood, procure a short carriage ride without paying, or have others clean up a minor bloody mess you left in an alley. The DM decides if your demands are reasonable and if there are subordinates available to fulfill them. As your status in the temple hierarchy improves, you gain influence over more people, including some in greater positions of power.

 
Spell List

Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic class feature. Expanded spell lists. Manifestation auras.

Spell Level Spells
Cantrip guidance, spare the dying
1st command, healing word
2nd enthrall, ray of enfeeblement, zone of truth
3rd speak with dead, spirit guardians
4th death ward, secret chest
5th geas

Your magic tends to manifest as usual, but accompanied by ghostly symbols, creatures and effects known to be closely associated with the primary god of your order or temple and a dim glow of the same color as the primary color of your temple’s holy symbols. Your spells might tend to shake the nerves of your enemies, enrage them against you, or even directly touch their souls with a mildly calming influence. These effects seem to only affect those who would normally be so affected by displays of power by those in your order or hierarchy. For you, the spells on the Temple Respondent Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these
spells are added to all of your lists.)

 
Suggested Characteristics

Members of a temple respondent order range from the masters of healing and the war council at the top of the oligarchy to the gate guardians and emergency medics at the bottom. You fall somewhere between those extremes, so you might behave with the arrogance of the very powerful or the humility of the embattled.

d8 Personality Trait
1 I am always willing to act in accordance with church directives.
2 I show compassion for the wounded, sick and afflicted.
3 I am accustomed to enjoying the finest pleasures money can buy.
4 No one could doubt that I am a moral but self-determined person of the cloth.
5 I can't stand to spend even one copper more than necessary to purchase what I need.
6 I hate it when people try to make light of a serious situation.
7 I want to make sure everyone is aware of how wonderful my god and church are
8 I can't think of anything to look forward to but the humdrum of daily labors.
d8 Ideal
1 Church. My church and god are all that really matter. (Any)
2 Wealth. I will do whatever it takes to become as rich as an oligarch. (Evil)
3 Power. One day, I will be the one giving orders to everyone. (Evil)
4 Prestige. I want to be admired, respected, feared, or even hated for my position and wealth. (Evil)
5 Stability. Society functions best when chaos is kept under control and everyone knows their place. (Lawful)
6 Eternity. I want to live forever—in the flesh as long as possible, and as a spirit afterward. (Any)
7 Compassion. The wounded, sick and afflicted must be helped first and foremost. (Good)
8 Flexibility: Each moment we live should be the majority of our focus and concern. (Chaos)
d6 Bond
1 The unbearable weight of my debt has driven me to desperation.
2 I'm duty-bound to obey the dictates of a specific member of the higher clergy.
3 I value the immortal souls of myself, my companions, and all others more highly than any worldly goods.
4 An oligarch publicly humiliated me, and I will exact revenge on that whole family.
5 My faith in my god and church never wavers.
6 I want to prove myself more and more worthy of praise.
d6 Flaw
1 I hold a scandalous secret that could ruin the church—but could also earn me the favor of the high clergy.
2 I'm convinced that everyone I know is plotting against me.
3 I'll brave any risk if the fall of a good soul is at risk.
4 I am convinced I am far more important than anyone else is willing to acknowledge.
5 I have little respect for anyone who isn't in a position of authority in my church or one related to it.
6 I'll steal from the rich but can’t stand to hold on to it if the poor have a pressing need.
 
 
Contacts

Temple Respondents operate according to a strict hierarchy based on the needs of the temple, its staff, and the followers who worship there. Your position and reading might provide important contacts, while your order's connections to local residents and leaders can provide a certain amount of leverage and freedoms not available to most. Roll twice on the Temple Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Temple Contacts table.

d8 Contact
1 The spirit of an ancestor in the care of my god has taken an interest in me.
2 An older cousin has the ear of a powerful clergyman
3 I know a knight who is responsible for collecting debts from powerful people.
4 A vampire pontiff tried to use me as a pawn in past schemes. Where do we stand now?
5 A silent spirit follows me around, taking note of all my doings. He is quick to show a visible response.
6 A sibling has keys to parts of the temple vaults, some of which are dangerous to enter or even know about.
7 A high ranking clergyman finds me to be of interest and full of potential.
8 I regularly offer tribute to an angel, and the angel has paid me a considerable amount of attention.
d10 Non-contact
1 An investigator of the watch or guard is always snooping into the clergy’s business transactions.
2 A paladin was forced to save my life, to my everlasting shame.
3 I know a shopkeeper who is secretly a foreign agent and tries to make sure that I keep that secret hidden.
4 I'm fascinated by the culture of an unaligned church, and formed a friendship with one of their high priests.
5 A druid hates me for putting the church above the needs of nature, but would never dare to touch me.
6 I know an engineer who is desperate to pay off a debt accrued by a deceased relative.
7 Roll an additional temple contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
8 My childhood friend is now a state torturer or executioner. We still meet for drinks occasionally.
9 I have the key to a vault where an opponent is hiding an item of secret shame.
10 I was married to someone who was declared a heretic by my religion.
 
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