Going back a bit; A Forgotten Realms Dwarven Cleric

[Flay Crimsonwind]

So I recently joined a game. It's going to be City of the Spider Queen (no spoilers, I've never played through this). I have decided to play a cleric, cause it's been a LONG time since I played a cleric.

Except it's also been a long time since I've been restricted to "Core books (PHB, DMG, MM) + most Forgotten Realms books", and most of the tricks I know of are SHOT! Not a lot of my favorite prestige classes (No Ordained Champ, no RKV, no..... well, no friggin anything!), no DMM, no most things I knew about previously. UNLESS I'm missing something.

I've been reading through the Cleric Handbook to salvage things, and since the DM appreciates simplicity over dipping, I am cutting out the class issue and just going Gold Dwarf Cleric 10. I'm going to tank/melee. I so far think I'm pretty much going to funnel everything into a turn undead build. Extra turning, divine might, all that usual goodness.

But first I wanted to ask you good folk, what would you do with 10 levels of cleric and this book list? Just go core and pray (no puns intended)? I'm basically reading through to see what kinds of things I have left.

[McBeardly]

It depends on the god you worship. Faiths and Pantheons has a lot of good prestige classes that are almost all deity specific.

[Flay Crimsonwind]

I'm glad you mentioned that. Purely for flavor, I'd been thinking Moradin (who has a.... quaint prc...) or Gorm Gulthyn. Not a lot of dwarf love for PrCs. Dwarves need more love, I think.

But to keep in mind, going forward as full cleric, I'd like to maintain as many caster levels as possible. While there are a few cool prcs in F+P, none are dwarven in nature, and most aren't aimed at clerics (or even progress cleric spellcasting). A few, like the Tyr-focused prc, looked kind of interesting though, you're right.... Sorry, that was the PGtF I was thinking of, but the point remains the same...

Any ideas on feat useage? Or should I devote that to Turn Undead-fueled lunacy?

[McBeardly]

Well persistent spell is in the player's guide even without divine metamagic it's pretty neat.

[phaedrusxy]

Initiate of Mystra (aka the Cheater of Mystra) is FR-based...

[McBeardly]

Initiate of Mystra (aka the Cheater of Mystra) is FR-based...

True but it requires you to worship Mystra.

[phaedrusxy]

Initiate of Mystra (aka the Cheater of Mystra) is FR-based...

True but it requires you to worship Mystra.

Dwarves can worship Mystra...

Also, there is that insanity about clerics of Mystra being able to one apply metamagic feat to each of their spells with no modifiers if they cast them within a temple of Mystra (page 51, Faiths and Pantheons, according to google research)...

So take Persistent Spell, and Initiate of Mystra, buff yourself to hell and back every morning in a temple, and then throw on a Antimagic Field and go out and stomp your enemies to paste, like a good CoDzilla. 

[McBeardly]

The problem is that worshiping Mystra implies a belief system that is very undorfy to how most people envision dwarves.

[Flay Crimsonwind]

Also, there is that insanity about clerics of Mystra being able to one apply metamagic feat to each of their spells with no modifiers if they cast them within a temple of Mystra (page 51, Faiths and Pantheons, according to google research)...

So take Persistent Spell, and Initiate of Mystra, buff yourself to hell and back every morning in a temple, and then throw on a Antimagic Field and go out and stomp your enemies to paste, like a good CoDzilla. 

Oh wow, I am definitely gonna have to point that one out to the DM and make sure it has approval. Damn, that is nice. I didn't realize that was a thing. Wonder how that got approval...

But yeah, kind of undwarflike...

EDIT: Oh. Oh, there's always the runecaster...

[geniussavant]

You can do a whole lot with rune magic, especially if you're willing to put levels into the prc. I had a cleric built for a campaign that never got off the ground, but he looked promising.

[sirpercival]

Southern Magician -> Dweomerkeeper?