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when comes to divine intervention this

is a incredibly powerful ability for

clerics yeah divine intervention for the

cleric is in the class what we think of

is the class is big swing in terms of

its class features it is very powerful

and it’s intentionally very powerful in

a way it’s a mini wish spell Wizards get

wish you know one and they can get wish

when they gain access tonight level

spells it’s about 17 thought while

usually yeah but clerics a tenth level

get this divine intervention ability and

we decided we wanted to embed it in the

core class itself because having a

relationship with your deity and your

deity listening to you is such a core

part of a clerics identity we thought

let’s not beat around the bush let’s

actually give you an ability where you

have a chance of getting your God to

listen and intervene on your behalf the

DM though decides if you succeed in

getting your deities ear the DM decides

the nature of that intervention and the

guidance we give is similar to at least

one piece of the wish spell and that is

the intervention it would be appropriate

for it to take the form of any cleric

spell or of a channel divinity ability

and so if a DM is you know racking their

brain thinking oh gosh what am I gonna

do I don’t want to bust open my campaign

as the god helps in some way a DM could

just pick a cleric spell that aligns

fairly closely to what the clerk

requested and have that be what happens

DM can go beyond that though but my

recommendation is whatever a DM does to

not destroy your campaign not a divine

intervention is not meant to be the

clerics I win button right it it is it’s

meant like the wish spell to give you

this powerful creative feature that

still has limitation and plus once you

use it you can’t use it again for seven

days right when you do use it and

and you succeed it using it you better

mean it because it’s gonna be a while

before you can take that big squid swing

again and is there like that threat of

like trying to like resurrect a

character over and over again like you

every time you fails you can just keep

on praying to your deity or focusing or

meditating to your philosophy over and

over again until you get what you want

is that danger is that something how

does the DM kind of handle that

situation so every DM can handle it

differently since there’s no rule

built-in to divine intervention on you

know right you’re you’re gonna be

penalized if you keep you know goodness

you know you’ve now you’ve now raised

Martha from the dead ten times

recomm or I mean just be attempt to do

it okay I failed the first time but I’m

gonna try again yeah just you can keep

trying which is kind of the point right

pray and pray and your DM might decide

that God gets cranky right the DM the DM

might decide that the more you know

there’s there is a term of a person

being with God botherer

the more you engage in God bothering

nomura the more likely I as a DM would

be tempted to have the God behave in

kind of a rascally manner and again I’ll

use the wish spell as an example in the

wish spell we say be careful sometimes

how you word the wish with this idea

that whatever entity or force is

granting your wish isn’t necessarily on

your side and might interpret the words

in a literal fashion that will not

always give you exactly what you want

now with God and especially the god you

serve unless you’ve been a really bad

cleric that God most likely is on your

side so they’re not gonna they’re not

going to probably if they actually

listen to your call for intervention try

to undermine you but if you’ve been a

bit of a pain they’re in there behind it

might give you what you want but with a

twist right plus it is a very common

thing in our worlds was

traditions for deities to be rascally

and to give people what they prayer

prayed for but not in the way they

expected because sometimes the things we

ask for not actually the things we need

and that’s the other thing for a DM to

consider is this isn’t some faceless or

personality less force right

it’s a deity that has an agenda of their

own now

you could of course decide that you are

a cleric of a force or a philosophy but

even there the DM has the if that force

or philosophy to guide how that divine

intervention manifests for instance if

you don’t follow a deity as a cleric but

instead maybe you’re a cleric of peace

and you are seeking divine intervention

from the concept of peace itself almost

you could think of it as like the

Platonic ideal of peace peace is

probably not going to give you exactly

what you want if your your request is

let’s start a war or you know something

like that yeah or or if if peace does

answer your prayer for you know and it

involves some kind of violence that

you’re requesting it might undermine you

in some way to push you toward peace so

it it’s it it told me it’s not

undermining you in the big picture it’s

just undermining you it’s a little

picture like as you said I want I want X

and pieces like well you’re gonna get Y

that maybe along the way you’ll get X

but Y is more important to to the this

force that wants this particular outcome

in the cosmos see this concerns me

greatly now when it comes to like the

trickery domain if you are an agent of

chaos and you just firmly believe and

that’s your philosophy is trickery when

you ask for divine intervention from a

universe like from whatever plane of

existence that that domain energy is

coming from what do you get like if

you’re trying to resurrect somebody

using divine intervention

what kind of like I expect that’s the

most dangerous clerical class to be part

of right well it turns out my internship

just you’ve got to be careful and and

that’s that’s one of the reasons why

there’s a distinction between divine

intervention and just casting a spell so

my recommendation to cleric players if

they if they want a reliable predictable

result cast a spell but if you want if

you want that big swing yeah that maybe

is beyond your reach

use divine intervention but especially

if your DM is in the mood to really get

into the storytelling of this divine

power and your relationship with it

the results will probably be

advantageous for you but also unexpected

you can just think of almost any of the

gods in the D&D multiverse not just

tricksters I mean even in a deity like

Morrigan god of dwarves I again give you

something you didn’t expect probably

it’s gonna things will show up with beer

steins and anvils or hammers or some

when you were like I you know I just

wanted to heal grandma I didn’t realize

the healing was going to come in this

beautiful souvenirs beer stuff that’s

German yeah but and that’s and I bring

that up because it’s also a chance for a

DM to really do some storytelling

interject personality the personality of

the god the personality of the culture

that the God might be associated with

really everything that a DM does whether

it’s divine intervention or something

else really is a chance and should be

seen as a chance to to tell more of the

story whether it’s the immediate

adventurer or it’s a story of the

campaign or it’s the story of the cosmos

and the cleric more than almost any

other class in the game as the class

that’s about the cosmic story we we

sometimes back when we are working on

5th edition would refer to the cleric as

the quest giver class the

because think about the number of D&D

stories that involve some clerics God

whether that cleric is a player

character or a non-player character

wanting something done and that desire

or that gods conflict with another God

being the fuel of an adventure and

sometimes an entire campaign and so

that’s why we often think of the cleric

is like the the quest giver class par

excellence and divine intervention is

one of the most amazing ways to

represent that because again you might

get the thing you want and then a whole

other adventure might be sparked by what

the God causes to happen right I like

that that’s charming

youLearn about the philosophy behind a cleric's Divine Intervention and suggestions for how DMs can make it work in their campaign in @ToddKenreck's interview with @JeremyECrawford! https://t.co/GeAcpjnKU0

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Gods, divine intervention, and clerics! Check out the conversation @ToddKenreck and I had about these divine topics. #DnD https://t.co/pi8rjSAGDe

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) July 30, 2019