D&D 3E/3.5 Forked Thread: Recreating 2e-style priests in 3.5

[ShadeyBladey]

Forked from: Recreating 2e-style priests in 3.5

I'm almost done assigning the PH spells... I'm currently working on 7th level ones... then I need to fill in all the domains I developed and see what else needs puttin' on there... then granted powers.

...whoosh, that's a lot.

I was greatly interested in this thread as I've been tinkering with a similar thing but the last post from The Jester was two years ago yesterday - 16/02/2007.

Any news? Any update? I'd like to see how far you got and compare with my efforts.


Cheers

ShadeyBladey.

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[Aus_Snow]

That link isn't working for me, and I can't remember whether that's a thread (assuming it exists) I've ever posted to either. So my advice might be totally inappropriate, redundant, or hey - both! w00t.

Anyway, you might want to check out the Priest of the Celestial Spheres pdf, put out by Lion's Den Press, for D&D 3.5 - it's pretty much the 2e Priest done for that system. Or so I hear. You could get that at RPGNow / DriveThruRPG, and maybe other places.

 

[ShadeyBladey]

That's odd, it's not working for me, either. It worked yesterday - anyway, the thread is 2 years old and is in this House Rules forum but I can't find a search engine to locate it now.

I suspect he gave it up as too complicated - I'm doing a similar thing for a 2E campaign, but redoing the spheres into smaller, domain-like groupings, EG the obvious where you can split Necro, Healing and others into Black and White Necromancy and have spheres of Death, Disease, Destruction, Enervation, Wounding, Life, Health, Creation, Vitality, Healing and so on. I'm also harvesting some spells from 3.5E that don't exist in 2E. I got the complete 3.5E Druid reference and some of the extra spells are astonishingly bad, but there are a few gems in there.

Anyway, perhaps the missing link to the dead thread will resurface some day?

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[glass]

That's odd, it's not working for me, either. It worked yesterday - anyway, the thread is 2 years old and is in this House Rules forum but I can't find a search engine to locate it now.

Search is only available to Community Supporters. I'd go search for it myself, but my CS account expired a while back and I can't afford to renew right now.


glass.

 

[GlassEye]

Anyway, you might want to check out the Priest of the Celestial Spheres pdf, put out by Lion's Den Press, for D&D 3.5 - it's pretty much the 2e Priest done for that system. Or so I hear. You could get that at RPGNow / DriveThruRPG, and maybe other places.

I second this. Priests of the Celestial Spheres is an excellent product.

 

[Arkhandus]

Yeah, the Priest of the Celestial Spheres is a good rendition of a 2E-style priest for 3.x.

 

[ShadeyBladey]

OK, I'll try that. Although what I'm doing is strictly speaking a 2E customisation, it's so similar to a 3.5E customisation as to make little difference. I'm making "subspheres" for 2E priests (a bit like domains), but it would be just as usuable in a 3.5E campaign.

Some of the new spells give bonuses to skill checks and some are a bit too specialist or a bit too 3.5E to convert; but there's a core of spells in both editions, a bunch of really quite useful spells in 2E that seem to have just disappeared and a bunch of really useful spells in 3.5E which really should have been in 2E as well. So I'm putting them all back together. With a few level tweaks and rebalancing I've got a Plant sphere with at least 12 spells per level (only up to 7th level, of course!)

I'll try this Celestial thing and see if it's done most of the work for me. I found some custom attempts, but they were quite poor.


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