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Litanies

Battle-prayers, sermons, catechisms, oaths, and sacred condemnations that steel allies, restore the wounded, shame fear, and sanctify violence.

Ministorum Priest · Chaplain · Working DraftWorking Draft

Litanies

14 Entries

Resource: Fervor for Ministorum Priest; Chaplain resource to be finalized later

Risk: Fervor or Zeal cost; faith is not psychic and never triggers Perils.

LitaniesMinistorum Priest · Action: Action, unless the entry says otherwise · Litany DC = 8 + Proficiency Bonus + Presence modifier
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Rise, Still Faithful

Target: One ally within 30 feet who can hear you, or one ally you can touch.

The target regains Vitality equal to 1d6 + your Proficiency Bonus. If the target is at 0 Vitality, they become conscious and may crawl, speak, grip an object, or make one save before the end of their next turn.

Fervor: Spend 1 Fervor to add an additional 1d6 Vitality restored.

You are not done. The war has not dismissed you.

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The Pain Is Proof

Target: Self or one ally within 30 feet who can hear you.

The target gains temporary Vitality equal to your Proficiency Bonus + your Presence modifier. Until the start of your next turn, the target also gains Advantage on their next Toughness Save or Willpower Save.

Fervor: Spend 1 Fervor to affect a second ally within range.

Pain means the soul has not fled.

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Burn the Unclean

Target: One visible enemy within 30 feet, or one enemy within range of your flame weapon.

The target must make a Willpower Save against your Litany DC. On failure, it becomes Exposed until the start of your next turn. If the target is corrupted, heretical, daemonic, or visibly tainted, it also takes fire or radiant-style faith damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Fervor: Spend 1 Fervor to impose Disadvantage on the save.

Purity is a temperature.

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Hymn Against Fear

Target: All allies within 15 feet who can hear you.

Targets gain Advantage on their next Willpower Save against fear, Pinned, possession, daemonic dread, morale-breaking effects, or psychic terror before the start of your next turn.

Fervor: Spend 1 Fervor to also end Pinned on one affected ally.

The hymn is louder than the thing in the dark.

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Blood for the Martyr's Ledger

Target: Self.

When an ally within 30 feet would take damage, you may use your Reaction to take damage equal to your level or less on their behalf, if the GM agrees the positioning and fiction allow it. After you take this damage, the ally gains temporary Vitality equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Fervor: Gain 1 Fervor after using this Litany, even if you already gained Fervor this round.

A wound carried willingly becomes scripture.

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Censure the Heretic

Target: One visible enemy within 60 feet who can hear you or perceive your condemnation.

The target must make a Willpower Save against your Litany DC. On failure, the target has Disadvantage on its next attack, check, or save before the end of its next turn. If the target is corrupted, heretical, daemonic, or actively leading enemies, it also cannot benefit from Advantage until the start of your next turn.

Fervor: Spend 1 Fervor to make the target lose its Reaction until the start of your next turn.

A guilty soul flinches before the blade falls.

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Last Rites, Not Yet

Target: One ally within touch range who is Downed, dying, or making death saves.

The target immediately cancels one failed death save or becomes stable. If the target spends Fate before the end of the scene, they regain additional Vitality equal to your Priest level.

Fervor: Spend 1 Fervor to let the target immediately make a death save with Advantage or regain 1 Vitality.

Death can wait outside the chapel.

Litanies of HateChaplain · Action: Action, unless the entry says otherwise · Litany DC = 8 + Proficiency Bonus + Presence modifier
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Litany of Detestation

One ally within 30 feet gains +2 to hit a corrupted, heretical, daemonic, psychic, or Oathmarked target.

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Hate Makes Us Steady

Allies within 15 feet gain Advantage on their next Willpower Save against fear, Pinned, corruption, or psychic dread.

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Crozius Judgment

Your next melee attack with a crozius or power weapon gains +2 to hit. Spend 1 Zeal to add Proficiency Bonus to damage.

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Oath Recalled

One ally within 30 feet may end Pinned or Frightened if they succeed on a Willpower Save with +2.

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The Dead Are Watching

When an ally drops to 0 Vitality, all allies within 30 feet gain temporary Vitality equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

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Condemn the Unclean

One enemy must make a Willpower Save or become Exposed and lose Reactions until next turn if corrupted, daemonic, heretical, or psychic.

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No Brother Falls Alone

Use Reaction when an ally is hit; grant +2 Defense or reduce damage by 1d10 + Presence modifier if they can hear you.

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