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Four GLOG Clerics (sorta kinda? not really?)

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The Universal Cleric a glog-ish class for the whole party partner post  (concept, design, my thoughts, etc.)   Templates You gain one template for each level you earn, for your first four levels. Higher tier templates can only be taken after their prior templates have been taken (A > B > C > D). Some subclasses have two templates for a letter. If so, take both templates as if they were one. At first level, choose a subclass and take its first template. For each subsequent level, you may continue taking templates in that subclass, or take templates in other subclasses (starting again at A). [_] Faith Dice (Default Ability) You have Faith Dice (FD) which you may spend to make appeals to fantastical creatures. Earn one faith die per template taken (max 4). To start, choose one appeal from the provided list. Learn additional appeals directly from clerics of higher level, gods, or monsters. Faith dice are recovered by praying and leaving appropriate offerings at shrines. A...

Oops, all clerics! Implementing party-wide GLOG clerics for mythic fantasy TTRPGs

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I feel like I've been reading way too many research papers recently. The [snazzy remark] [content description] format has been branded into my brain. Before I get into it, no, I didn't write this with AI (ew + I like fun and creativity, actually), and if you don't like reading stuff this way, just skip down to the Results and Discussion, I drop the   research paper bit there.   Introduction  Mythic fantasy is a fantasy-fiction subgenre heavily inspired by mythology and folklore, often emphasizing the role of deities, demigods, and spirits in the narrative and as the primary sources and users of magic ( Living for Literature 2025 , World Foundry ). This magic is often of the softer, less straight-forward kind, where the effects (and even the domains) of deities and spirits are rarely laid out ( The Valakirian 2026 ). Mythic fantasy then, is defined by the fantastical being largely A) external and B) nebulous. Within the Old School Renaissance (hereafter "OSR") scen...