Maho-Tsukai
2010-11-25, 09:22 PM
While I do like the flavor of clerics and their spell list I sometimes long for them to have a non-wis casting stat. While the Dynamic and Academic priest feats somewhat do this, they still leave DCs left to wisdom, thus, I decided to homebrew a feat that acts as a logical evolution of these feats, which is outlined below:
Name: Chosen of the Gods
Description: While most clerics gain their divine powers through a strong faith in their patrons you have instead gained your divine power due to having a personality and inner power the gods look for in their servants and find worthy of their blessings. In order to cast a cleric spell you must have a charisma score equal to 10+ that spells level instead of a wisdom score of 10+ that spell's level which a cleric would normally need. In addition, all of your bonus spells are based on your charisma score instead of your wisdom score and your spell DCs are equal to 10+ the spell's level + your cha modifier instead of your wisdom modifier. This feat can only be taken at 1st level.
While I am not sure how balanced this feat is I personally feel it is balanced due to the fact that while it is abuseable with Divine Metamagic and other turn/rebuke shenanigans it also is somewhat of a nerf to the cleric since wisdom is generally considered a better casting stat then charisma. However, I am not sure if that is enough to balance this feat due to the turn/rebuke tricks that it may cause so I would like opinions.
Name: Chosen of the Gods
Description: While most clerics gain their divine powers through a strong faith in their patrons you have instead gained your divine power due to having a personality and inner power the gods look for in their servants and find worthy of their blessings. In order to cast a cleric spell you must have a charisma score equal to 10+ that spells level instead of a wisdom score of 10+ that spell's level which a cleric would normally need. In addition, all of your bonus spells are based on your charisma score instead of your wisdom score and your spell DCs are equal to 10+ the spell's level + your cha modifier instead of your wisdom modifier. This feat can only be taken at 1st level.
While I am not sure how balanced this feat is I personally feel it is balanced due to the fact that while it is abuseable with Divine Metamagic and other turn/rebuke shenanigans it also is somewhat of a nerf to the cleric since wisdom is generally considered a better casting stat then charisma. However, I am not sure if that is enough to balance this feat due to the turn/rebuke tricks that it may cause so I would like opinions.