JMobius
2008-04-27, 08:59 AM
Today I'm going to start as a player my first game of D&D in about eight years. I have to say I don't care for the system much (BURN THE HERETIC!), but my participation was part of the deal to convince the group to eventually play Nobilis, so I'm willing to go along with it. :)
My preference for play is sorcerers, as I like casters, and I really like spontaneous magic. However, this campaign setting apparently completely lacks arcane magic (?!), so I'm going to give Favored Soul a shot instead. As I was reading the Complete Divine book, though, I noticed something odd: Despite being the book that introduces the Favored Soul, its list of twenty something prestiege classes contains very, very poor pickings for them. My favorite, for a number of flavor reasons was the Radiant Servant of Pelor (Favored Souls tend to come from Pelor, a prestige class in his name makes sense, right?). To this end, I hatched a crazy scheme to obtain turning via Sacred Exorcist, and the sun domain via Contemplative, and thereby at level 12 enter into RSoP. Considering the class could be entered by a cleric at level 7, my DM and I both thought this was kind of silly, so he said he'd fix it for me.
I thought this was going to mean that he intended to modify the requirements for RSoP. This did not happen; instead, he changed the FS base class in a number of ways, to create 'Favored Soul... of Pelor':
The Bad:
* Cleric's inferior reflex save
* No energy resistance
* One less spell known per spell level.
* Lack of light reduces my caster level from 1-3, depending on severity. Magical light fixes this problem, which makes me think it's not much of a weakness.
The Good:
* Turn Undead, as a cleric (GM says "I'll need it")
* Access to the Sun domain... which includes knowledge of all Sun domain spells.
Quite frankly, I think I got buffed significantly this way (particularly when I asked him if I could 'just know' all the spells from the bonus domain from RSoP, and he responded "I don't see why not"). I don't actually enjoy playing broken characters much (unfortunately I'm stuck playing with someone who does, this time as a ToB swordsage), so I'm wondering, just how overpowered am I? Is life going to be depressingly easy, until the wrath of the GM (over his own mistake...) rears? :P
My preference for play is sorcerers, as I like casters, and I really like spontaneous magic. However, this campaign setting apparently completely lacks arcane magic (?!), so I'm going to give Favored Soul a shot instead. As I was reading the Complete Divine book, though, I noticed something odd: Despite being the book that introduces the Favored Soul, its list of twenty something prestiege classes contains very, very poor pickings for them. My favorite, for a number of flavor reasons was the Radiant Servant of Pelor (Favored Souls tend to come from Pelor, a prestige class in his name makes sense, right?). To this end, I hatched a crazy scheme to obtain turning via Sacred Exorcist, and the sun domain via Contemplative, and thereby at level 12 enter into RSoP. Considering the class could be entered by a cleric at level 7, my DM and I both thought this was kind of silly, so he said he'd fix it for me.
I thought this was going to mean that he intended to modify the requirements for RSoP. This did not happen; instead, he changed the FS base class in a number of ways, to create 'Favored Soul... of Pelor':
The Bad:
* Cleric's inferior reflex save
* No energy resistance
* One less spell known per spell level.
* Lack of light reduces my caster level from 1-3, depending on severity. Magical light fixes this problem, which makes me think it's not much of a weakness.
The Good:
* Turn Undead, as a cleric (GM says "I'll need it")
* Access to the Sun domain... which includes knowledge of all Sun domain spells.
Quite frankly, I think I got buffed significantly this way (particularly when I asked him if I could 'just know' all the spells from the bonus domain from RSoP, and he responded "I don't see why not"). I don't actually enjoy playing broken characters much (unfortunately I'm stuck playing with someone who does, this time as a ToB swordsage), so I'm wondering, just how overpowered am I? Is life going to be depressingly easy, until the wrath of the GM (over his own mistake...) rears? :P