Roleplay Choice Question...Let's say you're a cleric in a post-renaissance, early industrial, but still high-magic campaign. You've just been hit with a whammy that the god you worship is fundamentally different than everything you've ever known, and frankly, you're kind of done with it all...
...so you essentially decide to forsake your own deity. This means giving up a lot of your abilities, especially spellcasting, but it's a personal decision you feel is necessary. The question is... what do you do from there?
Your stats give you tons of Wisdom and just enough Dex to multiclass, so your options are Druid, Fighter, Monk, Ranger, and Rogue. Given that you'll be giving up virtually everything from your previous class aside from hit dice... where do you go, to start over?
My current preferences are Fighter, for martial weapons and second wind, Rogue, for added skills & expertise, or Ranger, for a sort of middle ground between the two...
...and while Druid would synergize well, given the added spell slots, I feel like he would seek a clean break from spellcasting. And given his existing training in armor and shields, Monk seems like a bit TOO extreme of a change.
I’d say ranger, with the focus on wis and dex
At least in terms of efficiency
my thoughts as well.
you'd still have some access to magic, too, in a much more diminished state, which feels good for the roleplay front from what you've described here.
like he wants to pull away from magic, but sometimes you just gotta, y'know?
Where he is now (stressed-out cleric)
where he might go (ranger career change)
(yes, guns are a thing in this campaign)
(always fun)