Spiceomancy: Clerics get the sex dice (class)

With ten minutes of prayer, the cleric can roll their Guidance Dice (GD).

Each die is unique, with various symbols on the sides. These represent signs and omens in the cleric's environment: hints toward God's will. A cleric's job is to interpret these symbols.

After rolling, the cleric converts these symbols into blessings.

20 Blessings (the generic spell list)

Candle (🔥)
A flame burns harmlessly on your fingertip until you use that finger.
Feign Death (👁️)
You appear as a lifeless corpse.
Silence (🪙)
You are completely silent and mute.
Courage (⚔️)
You are incapable of fear or retreat.
Preserve Life (🐍)
Forestall poison and/or disease in a person, preventing them from progressing.
Boon (👑)
You get an additional Save. If you don't use it, it expires next time you roll your GD.
Grace (👹)
You can safely eat inedible things.
Mend (🕸️)
Perform mundane repairs in an instant. This doesn't work if you have neither the tools nor expertise to do it yourself in a day.
Darkvision (👁️👁️)
You can see by candlelight as if it were broad daylight.
Consecrate (👑👑)
With ten minutes work, make a sacred space which ghosts and demons cannot enter or exit.
Detect Evil (👹👹)
You can track evil by scent. It smells like licorice and smoke.
Trade Secrets (🪙🔥)
A corpse answers a question in exchange for a tetradrachm.
Smite (⚔️⚔️)
Your next swordstrike deals double damage.
Autopsy (🐍🔥)
You can read wounds and corpses to learn the assailant's level and the weapon they used.
Rope Trick (🕸️👑)
Animate a rope. It moves like a snake at your command.
Turn Vermin (🪙🪙)
Vermin flee from you. (+👑👑) They serve you instead.
Arachnophilia (🕸️🕸️)
You have two pairs of invisible arms. (+👹👹) Each has 1HD and a pious mind of its own.
See Silver (👁️👁️🪙)
You can see caches of silver and alcohol thru walls.
Wall of Fire (🔥🔥🔥🔥)
Conjure a wall of fire between two bonfires. It burns as hot as the hotter bonfire, and lasts until either goes out.
Dragon Fangs (🐍🐍🐍🐍)
Those you bite must Save against poison or die in 1 hour unless you forgive them.

["You" refers to the person the blessing is cast on. The cleric can cast blessings on anyone who prayed with them. Blessings with unspecified durations last until the cleric rerolls their GD.]

Clerics get GD from religious artifacts, sectarian robes and tomes, relics, etc. A cleric starts with four of the following, plus their associated GD:

White Pointed Cowl [🐍;🐍;🕸️;🕸️;🪙;🔥]
Worn by the surgeon-priests of Catalan.
Ornate Khopesh [⚔️;⚔️;⚔️;🪙;👑;🕸️]
Carvings detail initiation rites of those-who-watch-the-grave-of-God. The blade is dull.
Imperial Scale Veil [👹;👹;👁️;👁️;👑;🕸️]
Rumor has it that priestesses of the imperial palace conceal more than flesh behind their veils.
Mask of the Vulture [🪙;🪙;👁️;👁️;⚔️;👹]
Conceals the identity of an executioner.
Grandfather Scroll [🔥;🔥;🔥;👑;👑;🐍]
Carefully preserved over centuries. Somewhat unwieldy and fragile.
Silver Psalms [🪙;🕸️;👑;👹;⚔️;🐍]
Prayer songs from every corner of the empire, bound together by silver thread.
Grisly Inoculus [🐍;🐍;👹;🔥;🪙;👁️]
A clawed vajra of worn metal.
Isola Habit [🪙;🪙;🪙;🕸️;🔥;🐍]
The island anchorages of Lesbos are home to thousands of nuns.
Empty Silk [🕸️;🕸️;👁️;👁️;👑;⚔️]
Full body black veil. Ceremonial garb of the Silence.
The Book of Birds [🔥;🔥;👹;👹;🪙;🐍]
This section of the First Certainties doubles as a bird-watching guide.
Bone Ash [🪙;🪙;🔥;🔥;👹;⚔️]
Painted on the arms and face. Certain sects wear nothing but this.
Royal Relic [👑;👑;🪙;🔥;⚔️;🕸️]
A fragment of tooth or finger bone from a pious barbarian king.

[the starting inventory narrows your spell list & acts as a lifepath. Consider that any cleric in a dungeon probably bounced from sect to sect before winding up down here, stabbing rats for gold coins]

These starting items aren't magic: a cleric's guidance comes from experience, and a close relationship with God.

These ones are magic, however:

Paranoia Relic [🔥;🔥;🔥;🪙;🪙;👁️]
Thrown into the sea. Double all 👁️ you see.
Mask of Mercedes [👹;⚔️;🪙;👑;👁️;👁️]
Stolen by vagrants. Treat 👹 and ⚔️ as the same symbol.
Woven Masterwork [🕸️;⚔️;🐍;👑;🪙;👹]
Burned in all but memory. When you don't see 🕸️, add 🕸️ to a random face of this Guidance Die.

Clerics advance...

...by increasing the number of GD they roll per prayer (2/level? needs playtesting)
...by acquiring more religious artifacts, which gives them new GD options
...by learning new blessings, from dungeon scrolls or other sects

here's a simple script if you want to try the class but can't get custom dice:

Spiceomancy

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Clerics get the sex dice (class)

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