A Cleric subclass for Baldur's Gate 3. Bless the party's weapons, and fight in heavy armour beside a forged Spiritual Weapon.
In development. Not yet released.
Forge clerics serve the gods of smithing. They hold the line in plate, temper their allies' blades with a Channel Divinity, and keep a forged Spiritual Weapon fighting beside them: a second attacker in place of Extra Attack.
Touch an ally's weapon: it becomes magical with +1 to attack and damage on top of any enchantment it already has (a +1 weapon becomes +2), the wielder has Advantage against constructs, and you add one of four riders. No concentration.
Your Spiritual Weapon gets +2 to hit, moves 12 m, sees through magical darkness and learns four new actions: Strike, Whirlwind, Flight and Teleport.
You know how things are made: Advantage on all attack rolls against constructs, spell attacks included.
Once per turn, a weapon hit deals an extra 1d8 thunder damage, weapon cantrips included.
Each Blessing adds one rider. Blessing the same ally again replaces the old rider; two blessings never stack.
The wielder's critical hit threshold for weapon attacks drops by 1, stacking with other reductions (with Champion's Improved Critical: 18–20).
+1 Armour Class.
+2 to all attack rolls, so it helps caster allies too.
Weapon attacks ignore resistance to slashing, bludgeoning, piercing and thunder damage. Immunity still applies.
Spiritual Weapon still lasts 10 turns with no concentration. A Forge cleric's weapon gets these actions; other clerics' weapons are unchanged. Strike and Whirlwind both use the weapon's bonus action, so it picks one each turn.
The weapon's attack plus 1d8 thunder damage.
The weapon attacks every enemy within 2 m.
Fly up to 12 m, double the base weapon's 6 m.
The weapon blinks to a point within 12 m, keeping its hit points and remaining actions.
The weapon's own specials (Lacerate, Piercing Thrust, Concussive Smash) have their save DC raised to match a Wisdom 18 cleric's.
Always prepared; they still use spell slots.