Prestige Class: Servant of the Forge

This is another Prestige class for Voltar. This the fire aspect of the god.

Servant of the Forge
The Servants of the Forge are a subset of the Church of Voltar. They worship the chaotic nature of Voltar’s Fire and relish in it’s destructive and rejuvenating power. They aren’t the most organized of sects, but they do actively try to do two thing. First, they actively seek out all undead in all its form. They bring fire down upon the creatures and return them to the restful eternal sleep. The other beings they seek out, are members of the Church of Isis. Isis is an evil water demi-god.

Requirements
Knowledge Religion: 5 ranks
Kowledge: Undead: 5 ranks
Feat: Extra Turning Feat
Ability to cast 3rd level Divine spells and have access to the Fire Domain
Alignment: Any non-lawful

HD: D8
Attack Fort Ref Will Special
1 +0 +2 +0 +2 The Fire Inside
2 +1 +3 +0 +3 Controlling the Flame +1 Spellcasting Level
3 +2 +3 +1 +3
4 +3 +4 +1 +4 Burn the Unfaithful +1 Spellcasting Level
5 +3 +4 +1 +4 Boil the Unfaithful
6 +4 +5 +2 +5 +1 Spellcasting Level
7 +5 +5 +2 +5 Burn the Unfaithful 2
8 +6 +6 +2 +6 Boil the Unfaithful 2 +1 Spellcasting Level
9 +6 +6 +3 +6
10 +7 +7 +3 +7 Burn the World +1 Spellcasting Level

The Fire Inside: The flame of Voltar burns inside you. You gain Fire resistance 2 per servant of the Forge level. You gain +4 DC on your fire spells and +4 to save against fire spells. You can no longer cast spells that are part of the Water Domain.

Controlling the Flame: You can cast each spell from the Fire
Domain that you have access to once a day.

Burn the Unfaithful: At this level you can add your Servant of the Forge levels to your cleric levels for purposes of turning undead.
Boil the Unfaithful: At this level you can add your Servant of the Forge levels to your cleric levels for purposes of turning water elementals.

Burn the Unfaithful 2: For every 2 levels that you have in Servant of the Forge, treat it as 3 levels when determining turning undead.

Boil the Unfaithful 2: For every 2 levels that you have in Servant of the Forge, treat it as 3 levels when determining turning Water Elementals..

Burn the World: 1/day the servant may summon a single or group of fire elementals. The character can choose to summon one creature of the rolled hit dice, or multiple creatures that HD equal rolled hit dice.
Roll 1D20
1-4 Character Level of Hit Dice
5-8 Character Level +1 Hit Dice
9-12 Character Level + 2 Hit Dice
13-16 Character Level + 4 Hit Dice
17-19 Character Level + 8 Hit Dice
20 Character Level + 16 Hit Dice

Too powerful.

This prestige class is overpowered.

When designing a prestige class, one question one has to ask is: Is this prestige class CONCLUSIVELY more powerful than the base class? If so, it is a poor prestige class (too powerful). In this case, it clearly is.

With relatively easy entry requirements (Extra Turning is taken fairly often by clerics, as is Knowledge Religion so Knowledge Undead is the only real sacrifice) and no loss of special powers (full spellcasting and undead turning progression) there seems no reason (other than RP) why one would NOT take this class, or aim towards it. It has all of the functions of the basic cleric and significantly more. The inability to cast water spells is more than balanced out by the +4 DC vs fire spells, fire res and +4 save vs fire.

Perhaps you could tone down the spellcasting progression, to say, 7/10?

You don't gain any spellcasting abilities with this class. you gain an additional fire spell a day of those you can cast. That's it.

This PrC actually seems pretty weak save for one exception: Controlling the Flame. A potentially low level character able to cast 5-9th level fire domain spells? I don't think so....

Cloudgatherer said:

This PrC actually seems pretty weak save for one exception: Controlling the Flame. A potentially low level character able to cast 5-9th level fire domain spells? I don't think so....

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They have to have access to the domain spell. If they can't cast 5th level domain spells, they can't cast them from this ability.

Ya, the class is a little wqeak, I'm hoping for a suggestion or two.

You could add a handful of spellcasting levels to the class. Half spellcasting might be okay.

Victim said:

You could add a handful of spellcasting levels to the class. Half spellcasting might be okay.

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That's a good suggestion, thanks. So, I added a spellcasting level every even level.

Crothian said:

You don't gain any spellcasting abilities with this class. you gain an additional fire spell a day of those you can cast. That's it.

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Fair enough, but the original post stated that you did. Don't just change it and try to make me look stupid

Al said:

Fair enough, but the original post stated that you did. Don't just change it and try to make me look stupid

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There was line from an older edition that I din't get rid of , but thought I had. I apologize for that. It is gone none and the class does give spoellcaster level every other level now.