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Turning Undead in 1st edition
I've been running the Temple of Elemental Evil for some young 'uns to show them that we really did have to walk 12 miles uphill to play AD&D and 18 miles uphill home afterwards back in the day. ...
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Turning checks and desecrate spell
My 3rd-level cleric attempted to turn skeletons in a room with an evil altar and a desecrate spell. I rolled a 12 + 2 for Charisma, for a total of 14. On the Turning Undead table, this gives you up to ...
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Can a Maurezhi raise an undead hit by a cleric's Destroy Undead?
The Maurezhi has:
Raise Ghoul (Recharge 5–6). The maurezhi targets one dead ghoul or ghast it can see within 30 feet of it. The target is revived with all its hit points.
A cleric has:
Destroy ...
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Giving NPC Priests Turn Undead
Last night the party was adventuring in Curse of Strahd.
In the previous session they had acquired the module-specific magic item
and given it to an NPC accompanying them,
In last night's session ...
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Does a UA Dhampir Cleric Turn Itself? What does that look like?
Dhampir have two types tags in the new Unearth Arcana, they are both humanoid and undead. There is even a nice rules reminder in D&D Beyond that points out:
If an effect works on at least one of ...
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How does the cleric's Destroy Undead feature interact with undead above its CR threshold?
Just to make sure this is all RAW:
A level 5 Cleric uses their one use of Channel Divinity to use the Turn Undead effect. The zombies in the area that fail the save are instantly destroyed; the ...
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Do skeletal templates that increase HD beyond 20 prevent that creature from being animated?
So assuming our cleric casts desecrate and attempts to reanimate a Storm Giant (19HD) which starts below the 20HD threshold of not being animate-able but adds the skeletal champion template to that (...
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Can Undead destroyed with the Sun Domain come back
The Sun Domain grants a Cleric that chooses it the following power:
Granted Power: Once per day, you can perform a greater turning against undead in place of a regular turning. The greater turning ...
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How do an Undead Lord Cleric’s two 50% healing bonuses combine?
I'm currently playing an Undead Lord (a Cleric archetype) with the variant Undeath Channeling.
Undeath Channeling enhances the healing of channel negative energy by 50%. At level 8, the Undead Lord ...
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Can a cleric turn undead repeatedly?
So it's first edition AD&D. You turn undead. You then attack the undead (they're cornered and can't retreat). I understand they can attack now, the turning being broken. Here is the question: ...
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Can you destroy a powerful creature with True Polymorph, Turning, and Destroy Undead?
As an Arcana Domain cleric, I cast true polymorph on a powerful enemy creature (say a Kraken), its statistics change to match a lower CR creature; I choose an undead (say a Skeleton).
If I then use ...
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Can a cleric approach an undead creature he rebuked without ending the rebuked condition?
The Player's Handbook on Evil Clerics and Undead only says, "A rebuked undead creature cowers as if in awe (attack rolls against the creature get a +2 bonus). The effect lasts 10 rounds" (159). ...
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Is the Turn Undead really usable only once a day at level 1 through 5?
I was re-reading the Cleric Channel Divinity section of the PHB on page 58 and now I see that the Turn Undead ability can only be used once per day.
In the old days, there was no limit and I have to ...
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Evil Clerics and Undead?
Do 5e clerics of an evil bent have many options regarding undead? Are there other abilities said cleric could gain to have a more favorable relationship with undead (that they may have themselves made)...
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Balancing undead encounters against large party with a cleric
I'm a new DM (and a relatively new player as well) and I'm leading a pretty large (6 players) group of newbies. We've done a few demos and whatnot just to show them the basics of combat, but now we're ...
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