Canticle
Litany of Living Current
Your next melee or electro-weapon attack deals additional lightning damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus.
Electro-Priest
A fanatical living conduit of sacred current. Shock fields, voltaic fury, machine-mysticism, unarmored zeal, and religious devotion transformed into lightning and violence.
Forge World ClassesVoltaic ZealotAvailable in 1.0
Class Dossier — Electro-Priest
Working Draft · v0.1Electro-Priest
The Motive Force walks in flesh.
Forge-Bound ClassAvailable in 1.0Working Draft
The Electro-Priest is a living shrine to the Motive Force: lightning-veined zealot, conductor of sacred charge, and ecstatic destroyer of flesh and metal.
An Electro-Priest does not calmly invoke power. They become power: voltage in the blood, hymns in the nerves, hands bright with killing current.
The class fantasy is simple:
An Electro-Priest survives through Willpower, Toughness, sacred electricity, pain, charge, zeal, and the belief that the Omnissiah's truth is best understood while glowing.
// Design Philosophy
The Electro-Priest should not play like a generic energy caster. The class should create moments like:
- I walk into melee glowing.
- I take the hit and answer it with voltage.
- I lay hands on the machine and it remembers obedience.
- I sing the hymn and my skin becomes the conduit.
- I spend every Charge at once and become the circuit.
- I refuse to fall while the current still loves me.
Signature Mechanic — Canticles of the Motive Force
Signature MechanicCanticles are the Electro-Priest signature class mechanic.
A Canticle channels sacred electricity through body, weapon, nerve, and battlefield.
// Rules Draft
- An Electro-Priest starts with 3 Canticles at level 1.
- Canticles use limited Canticle Uses.
- Canticle Uses are restored after a safe rest.
- Draft Canticle Uses: Proficiency Bonus per safe rest.
- Canticles that force resistance use the Electro-Priest Canticle DC.
Canticle DC = 8 + Proficiency Bonus + Willpower modifier
If the Canticle is purely physical shock contact, the GM may allow Toughness or Strength.
Canticles are special. Electro-Priests do not gain a new Canticle every level.
Charge
ChargeCharge represents stored sacred current.
// Rules Draft
- Draft Charge Maximum: Proficiency Bonus.
- Charge resets to 0 after a safe rest.
- Gain Charge when you deal lightning/electro damage, take damage in melee, disable a machine, or resist a machine/psychic/daemonic effect.
- Usually gain Charge only once per round.
- Spend Charge to empower Canticles.
The body is a battery. The soul is the switch.
Canticles Known Progression
| Electro-Priest Level | Canticles Known |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 4 |
| 9 | 5 |
| 13 | 6 |
| 17 | 7 |
This progression is a working draft. Final class balance may change after all classes are designed.
Canticles
Working DraftCanticle
Voltaic Rebuke
When a creature hits you in melee, use your Reaction to deal lightning damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus. Spend 1 Charge to make it lose its Reaction.
Canticle
Hymn of Conductive Flesh
Gain temporary Vitality equal to your Proficiency Bonus + Willpower modifier. Spend 1 Charge to affect an adjacent ally.
Canticle
Arc the Weakness
Choose one machine, armored target, or cybernetic creature within 30 feet. It must make a Toughness Save or become Exposed until your next turn.
Canticle
Machine-Spirit Shock
Force a machine, drone, turret, servo, or vehicle system to make a resistance check. On failure, it stalls or loses Reactions until your next turn.
Canticle
Static Communion
Sense active power sources, machines, hidden conduits, charged weapons, or unstable energy within range for one minute.
Canticle
The Current Carries Me
Move 5 feet without triggering Reactive Fire from one shocked, damaged, machine, or conductive enemy.
Canticle Trees
Progression SystemElectro-Priest progression uses Canticle Trees.
Canticle Trees replace the idea of a locked subclass plus scattered feature choices. An Electro-Priest does not choose one permanent subclass and then receive a random pile of features. Instead, they earn Canticle Points and spend them across Electro-Priest Canticle Trees.
A player may specialize deeply in one tree or spread points across several to become a broader arc-thrower, melee siphon, charged skirmisher, martyr, or choir-leading conduit.
Each rank costs 1 Canticle Point and requires the previous rank in that tree unless future rules say otherwise.
// Canticle Points Progression
Electro-Priests gain 1 Canticle Point at every even level.
Canticle Points
| Electro-Priest Level | Canticle Points Gained |
|---|---|
| 2 | +1 |
| 4 | +1 |
| 6 | +1 |
| 8 | +1 |
| 10 | +1 |
| 12 | +1 |
| 14 | +1 |
| 16 | +1 |
| 18 | +1 |
| 20 | +1 |
This progression is a working draft. Final class balance may change after all classes are designed.
Rank 1Spark Doctrine
When you deal lightning damage at range, add +1 damage once per turn.
Rank 2Jumping Arc
When you hit with a lightning attack, deal damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus to a second nearby enemy once per scene.
Rank 3Static Bloom
Enemies damaged by your lightning cannot take Reactions until your next turn if they fail a Toughness Save.
Rank 4Overcharge Halo
Once per safe rest, increase the area or number of targets of a lightning Canticle by one step.
Rank 5Storm of the Motive Force
Once per safe rest, choose a 15-foot zone. Enemies make Toughness Saves or take lightning damage equal to your level and become Exposed.
Lightning is more polite when it has a choir.