{"id":1557220,"date":"2026-04-19T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/q4KQJcrbQNy73iPgvEtst8"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:55:27","slug":"i-never-want-to-play-a-cleric-in-dd-but-2026s-best-rpg-stars-one-for-a-simple-reason-im-sorry-to-say-they-are-just-overpowered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-never-want-to-play-a-cleric-in-dd-but-2026s-best-rpg-stars-one-for-a-simple-reason-im-sorry-to-say-they-are-just-overpowered\/","title":{"rendered":"I never want to play a Cleric in D&amp;D, but 2026&#8217;s best RPG stars one for a simple reason: &#8216;I&#8217;m sorry to say they are just overpowered&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>When I spoke to Christoffer Bodeg\u00e5rd, developer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/its-only-march-but-im-calling-it-esoteric-ebb-is-2026s-best-rpg-and-the-first-worthy-successor-to-disco-elysium\/\" target=\"_blank\">the running RPG of the year, Esoteric Ebb<\/a> (which uses a modified form of D&#038;D 5th Edition rules), I had to ask: Why a Cleric? The ubiquitous fantasy holy healers never feel like protagonist material to me\u2060\u2014I&#8217;d much rather be a sneaky little Dick-Ass Rogue. There was a pretty straightforward answer: Clerics are OP, they can do a little bit of everything, and Man vs. God will never not make for primo literary fodder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re overpowered,&#8221; said Bodeg\u00e5rd. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to say they are just overpowered.&#8221; He revealed that even the earliest version of Esoteric Ebb that he had mocked up before Disco Elysium radically changed the game&#8217;s direction still starred a Cleric and a goblin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That first prototype had a Cleric for a bunch of different reasons,&#8221; said Bodeg\u00e5rd. &#8220;Most specifically, the Cleric is the best class of D&#038;D to use if you want to go as wide as possible. The Cleric has spells. He&#8217;s very spells-focused. He has heavy armor, but can also go cloth. He heals. So he&#8217;s a healer and a spell caster and he&#8217;s also melee fighting. The Cleric is able to do all of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even as a soft Cleric hater, I can&#8217;t deny that their jack of all trades versatility has tempted me in the past. Particularly in my beloved Neverwinter Nights: They were a damned force in 3rd Edition D&#038;D. But there are other options for doing it all: Bards, Fighter\/Mages, even a scroll-laden, Use Magic Device Rogue. As Bodeg\u00e5rd worked, he found that the religious aspect of the class fantasy gave him a lot to push against and build on for Esoteric Ebb&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re also the main character because they have a god\u2060\u2014very narrative driven,&#8221; said Bodeg\u00e5rd. &#8220;Warlocks are also very cool, but they&#8217;re way more focused.&#8221; I&#8217;d never heard anyone make that connection between a Cleric and a Warlock, but it makes a lot of sense. The limited nature of the class fantasy also scans: Even a Chaotic Good Warlock&#8217;s gonna be a bit of a bad boy, and the experience of religion is certainly more universal and relatable than that of a Faustian pact.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:3840px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"TJrZgSdTJnYvr8cEqHiGiX\" name=\"20260222010037_1\" alt=\"Esoteric Ebb\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i-never-want-to-play-a-cleric-in-dd-but-2026s-best-rpg-stars-one-for-a-simple-reason-im-sorry-to-say-they-are-just-overpowered.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"3840\" height=\"2160\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Christoffer Bodeg\u00e5rd)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s thematically relevant to a bunch of the stuff I want to talk about: Masculinity, religion, God, all that stuff. It&#8217;s just perfect,&#8221; Bodeg\u00e5rd explained. It really comes across in the final game: The Cleric&#8217;s personal relationship with his god, Urth, is mature and complex, with the god&#8217;s status as a controversial historical figure from the recent past only further complicating matters.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m feeling a bit more godly in my D&#038;D games, I&#8217;m much more likely to roll as a Paladin, the Cleric&#8217;s jock cousin who gets all the babes, but Bodeg\u00e5rd had a real hot take on that front: &#8220;The fact is, the Paladin is just an off-brand Cleric, arguably, if you want to ignore the Oath thing\u2060\u2014which you probably shouldn&#8217;t.&#8221; Look, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fBCcM6GVLOU\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s true, but he shouldn&#8217;t say it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even though you are always <strong>The Cleric<\/strong> in Esoteric Ebb, the game lets you rebel and embrace another D&#038;D class instead\u2060. But even though I got to be a Dick-Ass Rogue, I was not <em>the <\/em>Dick-Ass Rogue: I found out from my conversation with Bodeg\u00e5rd that I could have gotten the explicit epithet on my character sheet if I&#8217;d stolen enough stuff. That was only one tiny morsel from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/esoteric-ebbs-creator-reckons-most-players-only-saw-half-the-game-and-thats-fine-by-him-youve-got-to-miss-stuff-in-order-to-feel-like-the-world-is-bigger\/\" target=\"_blank\">approximately 50% of the game that I&#8217;d missed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"716ccc54-cdac-4f90-95a6-59c16d48fe80\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/i-never-want-to-play-a-cleric-in-dd-but-2026s-best-rpg-stars-one-for-a-simple-reason-im-sorry-to-say-they-are-just-overpowered-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"716ccc54-cdac-4f90-95a6-59c16d48fe80\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/i-never-want-to-play-a-cleric-in-d-and-d-but-2026s-best-rpg-stars-one-for-a-simple-reason-im-sorry-to-say-they-are-just-overpowered\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I spoke to Christoffer Bodeg\u00e5rd, developer of the running RPG of the year, Esoteric Ebb (which uses a modified form of D&#038;D 5th Edition rules), I had to ask: Why a Cleric? 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There was a pretty straightforward answer: Clerics are OP, they can do a little bit of everything, and Man vs. God will never not make for primo literary fodder. &#8220;They&#8217;re overpowered,&#8221; said Bodeg\u00e5rd. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to say they are just overpowered.&#8221; He revealed that even the earliest version of Esoteric Ebb that he had mocked up before Disco Elysium radically changed the game&#8217;s direction still starred a Cleric and a goblin. &#8220;That&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-never-want-to-play-a-cleric-in-dd-but-2026s-best-rpg-stars-one-for-a-simple-reason-im-sorry-to-say-they-are-just-overpowered\/\">Read 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