Bl00d Domain Variant

Followers of the Blood Domain are not as concerned with worshiping the spirit of any particular god, but instead more concerned with worshiping the divinity in the self. Clerics can control the life force of themselves, their enemies, and their allies.

Domain Spells

A Blood Domain Cleric gains the following spells as Domain Spells at the allotted levels:

1st level: Hellish Rebuke, Inflict Wounds

3rd level: Hold Person, Enhance Ability

5th level: Revivify, Animate Dead

7th level: Death Ward, Locate Creature

9th level: Greater Restoration, Raise Dead

 

Bonus Proficiency

When you choose this domain at 1st level, you gain proficiency with heavy armor.

Blood Magic

When you cast a spell, you can take 1d4+4 necrotic damage per spell level (which cannot be reduced) to cast the spell without a spell slot. Damage increases: 1d6+4 at 5th level, 1d8+4 at 10th, and 1d10+4 at 15th.

When you touch a creature, you can reduce your own health by any amount to heal that creature for the same amount of health as a bonus action. If you are dropped to 0 hit points from this feature, the spell goes off before you drop unconscious. The self-inflicted damage cannot be made non-lethal unless you are under the effect of another spell or ability, but it also cannot break your concentration.

Channel Divinity: Blood Drain

Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to steal life from your enemies. 

As an action, you can spend one of your channel divinity to make a melee spell attack on an enemy within 5 feet of you, dealing 2d4+4 necrotic or radiant damage on a hit. You gain the same amount of temporary HP.

Chanel Divinity: Flare Divinity

As an action, you can expend one use of Channel Divinity to stir the divine spark within you, aiding you in your endeavors. You have advantage on your next attack roll, saving throw or skill check. At level 8 this ability is extended to all these roles until the start of your next turn.

Potent Spellcasting

Starting at 8th level, you add your Wisdom modifier to the damage you deal with any cleric cantrip.

 

Divine Undeath

At 17th level, those who you return to life are raised as more powerful beings than they were before. If you cast any spell that returns a creature to life, you can choose for that creature to become immune to poison damage, the Poisoned condition, and any other types of poison. They are also resistant to necrotic damage, and can add their Wisdom modifier to death saving throws if they choose. A creature can only gain these benefits once, but they are permanent.

After you gain this feature, the first time you die as a result of your Blood Magic, you come back to life in 24 hours with full hit points and the above features. You may only return to life this way once, and only if you were reduced to 0 hit points by Blood Magic with no failed death saving throws which originated from a creature attacking you or forcing you to fail one.