Ceres — D&D 5.5e

Medium Celestial (Deity), Neutral Good

CR 37 (custom epic) · PB +10 · Divine Rank 13 · Campaign Divine Tier 34

AC 29 · HP 870 · Speed 40 ft.

Saving Throws Str +19, Con +22, Int +19, Wis +23, Cha +21

Skills Insight +23, Nature +29, Perception +23, Persuasion +21, Religion +19, Survival +23

Damage Resistances cold, fire, psychic, radiant; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks

Damage Immunities poison

Condition Immunities Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Poisoned

Senses Truesight 240 ft., tremorsense 120 ft., passive Perception 33 · Languages all; telepathy 240 ft.

Traits

Divine Immortality. Reducing Ceres to 0 Hit Points defeats her in the encounter but does not erase the goddess. Permanent destruction requires a campaign-scale divine condition tied to her portfolio and cannot be achieved by ordinary damage alone.

Legendary Resistance (6/Day). If Ceres fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.

Magic Resistance. Ceres has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

Keeper of Cultivated Earth. Cultivated plants and stored grain within 120 feet of Ceres cannot be blighted, poisoned, spoiled or magically withered unless the effect comes from an artifact, another deity or a creature of comparable divine tier.

Bread for the Living. Whenever Ceres restores Hit Points to another creature, that creature also gains 20 Temporary Hit Points and can end one level of Exhaustion affecting it. A creature can lose only one level of Exhaustion from this trait per Long Rest.

Mother of the Measure. Ceres automatically knows when food, seed, grain, land measure or weights within 120 feet have been deliberately adulterated, short-measured or falsely recorded.

Divine Spellcasting

Wisdom is Ceres’s spellcasting ability (spell save DC 31, +23 to hit with spell attacks). She requires no material components. Every spell granted by her Plant, Abundance, Fertility, Community and Protection domains is always available to her in the matching edition. She can cast domain spells of 5th level or lower at will, 6th- and 7th-level domain spells 3/day each, and 8th- or 9th-level domain spells 1/day each.

Commonly used spells: Goodberry, Create Food and Water, Plant Growth, Greater Restoration, Heroes’ Feast, Heal and Regenerate.

Actions

Multiattack. Ceres makes three Harvest Staff attacks, or two Harvest Staff attacks and uses Sow or Reap if available.

Harvest Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +19 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 31 (4d10 + 9) bludgeoning plus 27 (6d8) radiant damage. If the target is a construct, undead or creature currently benefiting from magical starvation, blight or life-draining magic, the radiant damage becomes 45 (10d8).

Sow or Reap (Recharge 5–6). Ceres chooses a point she can see within 150 feet. A 60-foot-radius field erupts for 1 minute. Allies of her choice regain 27 (6d8) Hit Points when the field appears and 18 (4d8) Hit Points when they start their turns there. Enemies treat the area as Difficult Terrain and must succeed on a DC 31 Strength saving throw when the field appears or become Restrained by grain, roots and binding stalks. A Restrained creature repeats the save at the end of each of its turns.

Judgment of Famine (Recharge 6). One creature Ceres can see within 120 feet must make a DC 31 Constitution saving throw. On a failure it takes 91 (14d12) necrotic damage, cannot regain Hit Points until the end of its next turn and gains one level of Exhaustion. On a success it takes half damage and suffers no other effect. Ceres cannot use this action against a creature that is genuinely starving unless that creature willingly accepts the risk.

Bonus Action

Raise the Grain. Ceres creates a wall of dense grain, roots and packed earth up to 80 feet long, 20 feet high and 5 feet thick within 120 feet. It provides Total Cover and lasts until the start of her next turn unless Ceres chooses to maintain it.

Reaction

No One Starves Here. When a creature Ceres can see within 90 feet would be reduced to 0 Hit Points, she causes it to drop to 1 Hit Point instead and immediately gain 40 Temporary Hit Points. A creature can benefit from this reaction once per Long Rest.

Legendary Actions

Ceres can take 4 Legendary Actions, one at a time at the end of another creature’s turn, and regains them at the start of her turn.

• Move. Ceres moves up to half her Speed without provoking Opportunity Attacks.
• Harvest Staff. Ceres makes one Harvest Staff attack.
• Ripen the Field (Costs 2). One 20-foot-radius area within 120 feet becomes binding vegetation until the end of Ceres’s next turn. Enemies entering or starting their turn there must succeed on a DC 31 Strength save or become Restrained until the start of their next turn.
• Bread Enough (Costs 2). Up to three allies within 90 feet each regain 27 (6d8) Hit Points and gain 15 Temporary Hit Points.
• Turn the Season (Costs 3). Ceres ends one spell or magical effect of 8th level or lower within 120 feet that causes blight, disease, poison, unnatural drought, magical famine or plant death. Against stronger effects she makes a Wisdom check at +13 against DC 10 + the effect’s spell level or equivalent divine tier.

Ceres — Pathfinder 1e

Medium outsider (deity, extraplanar, good), Neutral Good; original epic campaign extension

CR 38 · Divine Rank 13 · Campaign Divine Tier 34

Init +12 · Senses truesight 120 ft., tremorsense 60 ft.; Perception +56 · Aura abundance 120 ft.

AC 58, touch 36, flat-footed 50 · hp 900 · Fast Healing 20

Fort +39 · Ref +33 · Will +42

Defensive Abilities divine immortality, freedom of movement · DR 30/epic · SR 49

Immune charm, compulsion, disease, exhaustion, fear, paralysis, poison, sleep · Resist cold 30, electricity 30, fire 30

Speed 40 ft.

Offense

Melee +5 sacred sickle +50/+45/+40/+35 (2d6+21/19–20 plus 4d6 divine) or divine staff +49/+44/+39/+34 (2d8+17 plus 4d6 divine)

Space 5 ft. · Reach 10 ft.

Special Attacks abundant field, grain-mother’s judgment, harvest surge, divine aura (DC 39)

Spell-Like and Domain Abilities

Ceres uses caster level 38 for this epic conversion. Every spell granted by her Plant, Abundance, Fertility, Community and Protection domains is available to her in its Pathfinder-facing version or clearly marked campaign adaptation.

Constant: freedom of movement, tongues, true seeing

At will: create food and water, goodberry, neutralize poison, plant growth, remove disease, restoration, speak with plants

3/day: control plants, greater restoration, heal, heroes’ feast, regenerate

1/day: control weather, mass heal, miracle

Special Abilities

Abundance Aura (Su). Allies within 120 feet gain a +4 sacred bonus on saving throws against disease, poison, fatigue, exhaustion and effects that reduce ability scores or maximum hit points. Mundane food and water within the aura cannot spoil.

Abundant Field (Su) 1d4 rounds. As a standard action Ceres creates a 60-foot-radius field within 120 feet for 1 minute. Allies heal 20 hit points when they begin their turn in it. Enemies treat it as difficult terrain and must succeed on a DC 39 Reflex save when the field appears or become entangled; a creature that fails by 10 or more is also pinned for 1 round.

Grain-Mother’s Judgment (Su) 1/day. One creature within 120 feet makes a DC 40 Fortitude save. On a failure it takes 20d8 damage, becomes exhausted and cannot regain hit points for 1 round. On a success it takes half damage and becomes fatigued for 1 round.

Honest Measure (Su). Ceres automatically detects deliberate adulteration, false weights, concealed spoilage and magically falsified inventories involving food, seed or cultivated land within 1 mile.

No One Starves Here (Su) 3/day. As an immediate action when an ally within 120 feet would fall below 1 hit point, Ceres leaves it at 1 hit point and grants it 40 temporary hit points.

Statistics

Str 32 · Dex 26 · Con 34 · Int 28 · Wis 38 · Cha 32

Base Atk +38 · CMB +49 · CMD 67

Feats Combat Casting, Combat Reflexes, Great Fortitude, Improved Critical (sickle), Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Skill Focus (Knowledge [nature]), Toughness, Weapon Focus (sickle), plus epic-appropriate divine feats chosen to support healing, terrain control and spellcasting.

Skills Diplomacy +52, Heal +60, Knowledge (history) +50, Knowledge (nature) +58, Knowledge (nobility) +50, Knowledge (religion) +50, Perception +56, Sense Motive +56, Spellcraft +50, Survival +56

Languages all; telepathy 120 ft.

Ceres — D&D 3.5e

Intermediate Deity; Divine Rank 13; Medium Outsider (Extraplanar, Good); Neutral Good

CR 46 (campaign deity benchmark) · Divine Rank 13 · Campaign Divine Tier 34

Init +12 · Senses divine senses, true seeing; Listen +53, Spot +53 · Divine Aura 130 ft., Will DC 38

AC 67, touch 43, flat-footed 59 · hp 980

Fort +43 · Ref +38 · Will +46

DR 25/epic · SR 45 · Immune disease, poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning, ability damage, ability drain, energy drain and ordinary aging

Speed 60 ft.

Offense

Attack +5 sacred sickle +58 melee (2d6+17/19–20 plus 4d6 divine)

Full Attack +5 sacred sickle +58/+53/+48/+43 melee

Space/Reach 5 ft./10 ft.

Special Attacks divine aura, domain spell-like abilities, harvest judgment, power over cultivated life

Divine Spellcasting and Domains

Ceres has full access to every spell granted by her Plant, Abundance, Fertility, Community and Protection domains in their 3.5e-facing versions or clearly identified campaign conversions.

Domain spell-like ability caster level 23. Unless an individual spell says otherwise, save DCs use Ceres’s divine rank and Charisma in addition to the spell’s normal level.

Typical spell-like abilities: create food and water, goodberry, plant growth, neutralize poison, restoration, control plants, heroes’ feast, heal, regenerate, greater restoration, mass heal.

Salient Divine Abilities

• Alter Reality. Ceres can reshape local conditions when the change directly serves grain, agriculture, food security, motherhood or the survival of a community.
• Divine Healing. Her healing ignores ordinary limits on mortal restorative magic when used within her portfolio.
• Gift of Life. Ceres can restore life where death was not demanded by a greater cosmic law or a superior divine power.
• Power of Nature. Cultivated plants, seeds and agricultural terrain answer directly to her will.
• Divine Creation. Ceres can create mundane seed, grain, bread and agricultural necessities on a divine scale, but she does not use this power casually to erase the social meaning of work, storage or stewardship.

Portfolio Powers

Harvest Ward. Mundane crops, seed stores and food under Ceres’s immediate protection cannot be spoiled or blighted by non-epic magic.

Honest Measure. She knows when food, weights, field boundaries or grain accounts within her divine senses have been falsified.

Famine Withheld. Ceres may suspend the effects of starvation, mundane drought and crop failure for a community she directly protects, though long-term intervention always produces political and religious consequences.

Statistics

Str 32 · Dex 26 · Con 36 · Int 30 · Wis 40 · Cha 34

Skills Concentration +56, Diplomacy +55, Heal +58, Knowledge (history) +53, Knowledge (nature) +58, Knowledge (nobility and royalty) +53, Knowledge (religion) +53, Listen +53, Sense Motive +58, Spellcraft +53, Spot +53, Survival +58

Feats Combat Casting, Combat Reflexes, Empower Spell, Epic Will, Great Fortitude, Improved Critical (sickle), Improved Initiative, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes, Quicken Spell, Skill Focus (Knowledge [nature]), Toughness, Weapon Focus (sickle), plus rank-appropriate epic divine feats.