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It help people like me, that are not english speaking, to understand better the video.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