The short answer is, Yes. In 5E D&D, a cleric can wield any weapon that they are proficient with and be fully competent in combat. All clerics are proficient with simple weapons, which include clubs, maces and slings (blunt weapons) but also includes such sharp weapons as daggers, sickles, spears and light crossbows.
Can Clerics only use blunt weapons?
The Cleric, Priest or Bishop is a character class in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy role-playing games. A common feature of Clerics across many games is that they may not equip pointed weapons such as swords or daggers, and must use blunt weapons such as maces, war-hammers, shields, or wands instead.
Are Clerics proficient with rapiers?
A wood elf cleric is proficient in longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow (from wood elf) and all simple weapons (from cleric). Further, if they are of the Tempest or War domain they are proficient in all martial weapons as well.
Can clerics use Warhammers?
A human (variant) cleric could also grab the Weapon Master feat at creation and elect warhammer as one of the four proficiencies.
Do clerics get martial weapons?
so a lot of cleric domains grant proficiency with martial weapons, and many a cleric will go for weilding an shield in one hand since it means an free spell casting focus in one hand and a bit more tankiness, but with this in mind there are so many one handed martial weapons that all deal 1d8 damage when weilded in one …
Can a cleric wield a shield and spear?
The usual limitation on a character is not being particularly effective with weapons they dont have proficiency with, but clerics by default have proficiency with spears. As such, the only disadvantage you’ll have by wielding one is sacrificing the extra damage of other weapons and damage type differences.
Why are clerics only able to use blunt weapons?
I always understood that literary/historical rationale to be a convenient means of covering the fact that fighters who can also heal and turn back undead would just be too unbalanced. They needed to be impaired in combat relative to fighters, and only being able to use blunt weapons was a handy way to help that.
What kind of weapons can clerics use in dungeons and Dragons?
In many versions of D&D, clerics can’t use bladed/edged/pointy weapons, and are instead restricted to things like staves, clubs, maces, etc.
Can a mythos cleric use an edged weapon?
They could do anything else they wanted into process, as long as it didn’t draw blood. This is one source often cited for why generic clerics can’t use edged weapons. Mythos clerics on the other hand could use any weapons their gods allowed. [Citation Needed] Sorry, I just find that really dubious. – KRyan Dec 16 ’12 at 21:59
