The Complete Priest's Handbook

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• Credits
• Introduction

Chapter 1: Priests, Gods, and the World

• Priests, Gods, and the World
• Creation
• Propagation
• Characteristics of the Gods
• Humans, Humanoids, Animals, Plants
• Fall From Grace
• The Challenge
• The Future
• The Pantheon
• Events
• Forces and Philosophies
• Mythic History Creation Sheet

Chapter 2: Designing Faiths

• Designing Faiths
• God, Force, or Philosophy
• Ethos and Requirements of the Faith
  • Goals and Purposes
  • Alignment
  • Minimum Ability Scores
  • Races Allowed
  • Experience and Spell Progression
  • Gender Requirements
  • Nonweapon and Weapon Proficiencies
• Duties of the Priest
  • Devotions
  • Guidance
  • Marriage
  • Missions
  • Omen-Reading
  • Vigilance
• Rights of the Priesthood
  • Church Trial
  • Coronation
  • Other Confirmations
  • Tithes
  • Separation From the Faith
  • Rule
  • The State Religion
• Restrictions on the Priest
  • Armor
  • Celibacy
  • Chastity
  • Clothing
  • Contamination
• Hit Points
  • Magical Items
  • Mutilation
  • Weapons
• Spheres of Influence
• Granted Powers
  • High Powers
  • Medium Powers
  • Low Powers
  • Other Powers
• Followers and Believers
  • What Are They?
  • Who Are They, and How Do They Know to Arrive?
  • How Many and How Strong Are They?
  • How Much Control Does the Priest Have?
  • What If They Die Or Gain Experience?
  • What If The Priest-Character Is Scum?
• Role of the Faith
  • Relations With Other Faiths
  • Relations With the Aristocracy
  • Relations With the People
  • Relations With Foreign Faiths
• Rites and the Calendar
• Hierarchy of the Faith
  • Experience Levels and the Hierarchy
  • PC Priests and the Hierarchy
  • Finances of the PC's Temple
  • Non-Priests Working For the Faith
  • PCs, Forces and Philosophies
• Faith Design Sheet

Chapter 3: Sample Priesthoods

• Sample Priesthoods
• Priesthoods
  • Agriculture
  • Ancestors
  • Animals
  • Arts
  • Birth, Children
  • Community
  • Competition
  • Crafts
  • Culture (Bringing Of)
  • Darkness, Night
  • Dawn
  • Death
  • Disease
  • Divinity of Mankind (Philosophy)
  • Druid
  • Earth
  • Elemental Forces (Force)
  • Everything
  • Evil (Philosophy)
  • Fate, Destiny
  • Fertility
  • Fire
  • Fortune, Luck
  • Good (Philosophy)
  • Guardianship
  • Healing
  • Hunting
  • Justice, Revenge
  • Life-Death-Rebirth Cycle (Force)
  • Light
  • Lightning
  • Literature, Poetry
  • Love
  • Magic
  • Marriage
  • Messengers
  • Metalwork
  • Mischief, Trickery
  • Moon
  • Music, Dance
  • Nature
  • Oceans, Rivers
  • Oracles, Prophecy
  • Peace
  • Prosperity
  • Race
  • Redemption
  • Rulership, Kingship
  • Seasons
  • Sites
  • Sky, Weather
  • Strength
  • Sun
  • Thunder
  • Time
  • Trade
  • Vegetation
  • War
  • Wind
  • Wisdom (CPrH)
• Combining Traits in One Priesthood
  • Multiple Priest Classes
  • Revised Priest Classes
• Multi-Class Characters

Chapter 4: Priest Kits

• Priest Kits
• Kits and the Priest Classes
• Kits and Character Creation
• The Priest Kits
  • Amazon Priestess
  • Barbarian/Berserker Priest
  • Fighting-Monk
  • Nobleman Priest
  • Outlaw Priest
  • Pacifist Priest
  • Peasant Priest
  • Prophet Priest
  • Savage Priest
  • Scholar Priest (Character Kit)
• Recording Kits on the Character Sheet
• Multi-Class and Dual-Class Characters
• Abandoning Kits
• Modifying and Creating Kits

Chapter 5: Role-Playing

• Role-Playing
• Priest Personalities
  • The Crusader
  • The Earnest Novice
  • The Hypocrite
  • The Motivator
  • The Philosopher
  • The Politician
  • The Proselytizer
  • The Sage Counselor
  • Changing Personality Types
  • All Sense and No Brains
• Priest Adventures
  • Advisor of the Faithful
  • Agent of the Priesthood
  • Defender of the Faith
  • Defender of the Faithful
  • Martyr for a Cause
  • Servant of the God
• Rites and Role-Playing
  • Atonement
  • Calendar Ceremonies
  • Communion
  • Confirmation of Adulthood
  • Confirmation of Birth
  • Fast
  • Feast
  • Funeral
  • Libation
  • Meditation
  • Mysteries
  • Naming
  • Prayer
  • Purification
  • Sacrifice
• Priests and Punishment
  • Minor Offenses
  • Inappropriate Weapon and Armor Use
  • Betrayal of Goals
  • Divine Retributions
  • Society's Punishments
  • When Priests Renounce Their Faith
• When Gods Bestow Spells
• Priestly Followers
• Toning Down the Cleric

Chapter 6: Equipment and Combat

• Equipment and Combat
• Priestly Items
  • The Canon
  • Holy Symbol
  • Holy Water
  • Priestly Vestments
• New Weapons
  • New Weapons List
  • New Weapons Descriptions
• Unarmed Combat
  • Attacking Without Killing
  • Knowing Punching, Wrestling, Martial Arts
  • Martial Arts Results
  • Specializing in Punching
  • Specializing in Wrestling
  • Specializing in Martial Arts
  • More Than One Style
  • Continuing Specialization