I recently started playing a second campaign, and was intrigued by the Twilight domain. I'm playing them as a changeling cleric of the Traveller. I play them as being about the liminality of Twilight, and helping people move from who they were to who they could be. "Sleep, and wake up feeling like a new person, or progressing towards being a new person."
There are a few ways you could interpret twilight. As Aeronaute above me said, you could make it about transition and accepting change as an inevitability, but my favorite interpretation is that Twilight is a "light in the dark"; Twilight is the lone beacon of protection and hope in darkness, and your job, as a twilight cleric, is to guide people through darkness, be it literal darkness, or metaphorical darkness. A lot of its spell kit reflects this sort of vanguard persona, with its domain spells being mostly buffing and defense.
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It's ok Ranger, you'll always be cool to me.. Unless druid gets another use for its wild shape charges.
I'm thinking about playing one of these... what deities would work well for this domain? I like the idea of being a "light in the darkness."
Planning to follow gabriel's lead and go v.Human with Warcaster. Maybe warhammer and a spear, as a ranged weapon. I expect Sacred Flame will soon "out hit" most weapons, though.
The class is mechanically strong, but I've struggled to roleplay around its narrative. I'm just not entirely certain why the transitional period between being awake and begin asleep justifies being its own domain.
I have had a lot of fun with the RP for the Twilight cleric, we are running that transitional period as when Evil is most likely to be on the move -- sort of like deer thirty on a rural road. This is also an undead monster hunter setting so that helps.
Most deities with Moon or Stars in their portfolio, like Selune in the Forgotten Realms make sense for the domain. Good or neutral death gods like Kelemvor can make use of it too, though the Repose domain is more tailored to them.
The domain may also be unique to a specialized order that focuses on hunting "creatures of darkness" in the service of a deity otherwise associated with light and the sun, such as Lathander and Amaunator, or maybe a branch of Bahamut's church dedicated to destroying dracoliches.
Twilight could also be a symbol for the passing of time and therefore fit a deity of time.
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Any ideas for a twilight domain cleric?
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Go Human and take the Warcaster feat at level 1.
I recently started playing a second campaign, and was intrigued by the Twilight domain. I'm playing them as a changeling cleric of the Traveller. I play them as being about the liminality of Twilight, and helping people move from who they were to who they could be. "Sleep, and wake up feeling like a new person, or progressing towards being a new person."
There are a few ways you could interpret twilight. As Aeronaute above me said, you could make it about transition and accepting change as an inevitability, but my favorite interpretation is that Twilight is a "light in the dark"; Twilight is the lone beacon of protection and hope in darkness, and your job, as a twilight cleric, is to guide people through darkness, be it literal darkness, or metaphorical darkness. A lot of its spell kit reflects this sort of vanguard persona, with its domain spells being mostly buffing and defense.
It's ok Ranger, you'll always be cool to me.. Unless druid gets another use for its wild shape charges.
I'm thinking about playing one of these... what deities would work well for this domain? I like the idea of being a "light in the darkness."
Planning to follow gabriel's lead and go v.Human with Warcaster. Maybe warhammer and a spear, as a ranged weapon. I expect Sacred Flame will soon "out hit" most weapons, though.
True, but you get martial proficiency and psychic divine strike, so if you really wanted to be melee you could totally manage.
It's ok Ranger, you'll always be cool to me.. Unless druid gets another use for its wild shape charges.
The class is mechanically strong, but I've struggled to roleplay around its narrative. I'm just not entirely certain why the transitional period between being awake and begin asleep justifies being its own domain.
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As such, probably it doesn't. But twilight as transition would seem to work well.
I have had a lot of fun with the RP for the Twilight cleric, we are running that transitional period as when Evil is most likely to be on the move -- sort of like deer thirty on a rural road. This is also an undead monster hunter setting so that helps.
Most deities with Moon or Stars in their portfolio, like Selune in the Forgotten Realms make sense for the domain. Good or neutral death gods like Kelemvor can make use of it too, though the Repose domain is more tailored to them.
The domain may also be unique to a specialized order that focuses on hunting "creatures of darkness" in the service of a deity otherwise associated with light and the sun, such as Lathander and Amaunator, or maybe a branch of Bahamut's church dedicated to destroying dracoliches.
Twilight could also be a symbol for the passing of time and therefore fit a deity of time.
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I'm running the class with a v. Human that worships Helm.