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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 4269343" data-attributes="member: 29014">I had a full power list at the time of creation.  I can promise you that for powers people would want to pick (not counting the secondary of turn undead to push them one space further--the damage of turning is still Wis based), the only one that uses Charisma from levels 1 through 4 is the at-will that gives Cha + 1/2 level temp HP (it does less damage than Lance of Faith, though, and you miss out on the nice +2 to hit).  That's still a reasonable use of Cha, but it's the only one (note that Cause Fear and Command both use Cha, but they are terrible uses of your turn because they require you to spend your standard action to maybe inconvenience the enemy slightly for one round).  You'll probably want to pick up the Con, I wager.  It's a big boost.These are all modifications to your own suggestion, though.  Yes, it makes it better than your initial suggestion, but I'm not actually proposing following your initial suggestion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Look at my actual build instead.  The losses are much more substantial (For instance, you point out that going down from 15 to 14 Con isn't major--that's true, but in my build, I have 16).I actually already have all the social and ritual skills I need (Diplomacy, Bluff, Insight, Religion, Arcana--I don't really want or need Intimidate or Nature), so Jack of All Trades will not help me with them (remember, it only gives bonuses if you're untrained, and I'm trained in those).  And Alertness is a poor choice compared to Skill Training Perception.  Now that I know that you don't have the PH and are basing this on short descriptions, I think I understand better why you seem to be very apt on most issues but just totally off-base with just a few--it's lack of knowledge more than anything else.Skill Training Perception gives +5 to Perception.  Alertness is +2 to Perception and then no combat advantage to enemies when you're surprised.  It's much better to have an additional 15% chance not to be surprised at all than it is to try to mitigate slightly the penalty of being surprised (and honestly, the Combat Advantage is only a big deal against a fraction of the enemies who have Sneak Attack-like features).That could be cool--Raven Queen's Blessing could be made quite easily to fit with the fluff I'm using for Sehanine as the goddess of Twilight and the edge between two states.  But I'm actually pursuing the similar route of getting a Dark Fury that applies to radiant damage (if I could have used the feat as an evil cleric, it is clearly balanced to allow clerics to use it, so why not allow it for good?).  Also, I've come up with some homebrewed variants of Sehanine's Reversal that the GM might prefer (my favourite is the one that applies any time you succeed at a non-death save, but you have to make an attack vs Will to apply the condition, rather than requiring a Natural 20 and being automatic).</blockquote>

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