PnP Fan
2007-02-06, 01:29 AM
Okay, so I'm putting together a character using the Dragon Magic book. The character is not a sorcerer (cleric actually), but he has some draconic blood in his background. So, looking at the feats available, I notice the "Dragontouched" feat, that among other things, allows the character to select draconic feats as a sorcerer of equal level. Initially I think, "Neat! This might be what I'm looking for. . ." So, I poke around the other feats and find the following:
1. While many of the feats require the user to be "dragonblooded", half of them do not require sorcerer levels. Still nifty, I can add some of these to the character's repetoir.
2. Most of the feats that require Sorcerer levels also require the sacrifice of arcane spells slots, which of course my little part-dragon cleric doesn't have any. This seems peculiar, since the text clearly states that the feat allows the user to be treated as a sorcerer. My initial interpretation of this was that this feat was the route for non-sorcerers to go, if they wanted something on the character sheet to represent their dragony goodness.
So, my question is. . . .
Is this just bad writing on the part of WotC? Or should my divine spellcaster be allowed to sacrifice cleric spells to gain some of the Draconic Heritage abilities? Or am I embarrasing myself by not having read something in the rules that answers my question? (eep!)
For those of you who will want to "rebuild my nerfed character" please refrain from commenting on my nerfed build. It's not optimal, I know. ;-) But I've got a background to build to, and I'm looking at using character feats as an option to represent this draconic background thing, without turning the character into some kind of winged, beaked, monstrocity (sp?) that some of the draconic prestige classes turn PC's into. :smallyuk:
Thanks for your help!
:-)
1. While many of the feats require the user to be "dragonblooded", half of them do not require sorcerer levels. Still nifty, I can add some of these to the character's repetoir.
2. Most of the feats that require Sorcerer levels also require the sacrifice of arcane spells slots, which of course my little part-dragon cleric doesn't have any. This seems peculiar, since the text clearly states that the feat allows the user to be treated as a sorcerer. My initial interpretation of this was that this feat was the route for non-sorcerers to go, if they wanted something on the character sheet to represent their dragony goodness.
So, my question is. . . .
Is this just bad writing on the part of WotC? Or should my divine spellcaster be allowed to sacrifice cleric spells to gain some of the Draconic Heritage abilities? Or am I embarrasing myself by not having read something in the rules that answers my question? (eep!)
For those of you who will want to "rebuild my nerfed character" please refrain from commenting on my nerfed build. It's not optimal, I know. ;-) But I've got a background to build to, and I'm looking at using character feats as an option to represent this draconic background thing, without turning the character into some kind of winged, beaked, monstrocity (sp?) that some of the draconic prestige classes turn PC's into. :smallyuk:
Thanks for your help!
:-)