Any stealthy cleric class for evil race?

[Shin Okada]

I am planning to create an adventuring party of evil subterranean races (I think mixed goblinoids will be cool) as an opponent. That will contain 4 basic character types (melee combatant, rogue, divine caster & arcane caster). But all of them should (almost) max-out Hide & Move Silently (and hopefully Listen and Spot). They dwell in dark silently, without using any light source.

Melee combatant can be Ranger, Ranger/Fighter or Rogue/Fighter type. And rogue type has no problem of course. Arcane caster type is not difficult, too. Because rogue/wizard (Arcane Trickster) or monk/wizard (Enlightened Fist) will do. But how about divine caster type? Sacred fist has no such skills in their class-skill list. And Shadowbane Stalker is LG only. Trickery domain gives Hide skill but no Move Silently skill.

Would you guys please give me some idea? We are using WotC books only. So no books from other companies please. Also, no Unearthed Arcana. And preferably, no campaign specific books.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Artoomis]

Isn't there a sneaky cleric class in Complete Divine?

As these are bad guys,alignment restrictions of the class don't matter. Make small chanegs as needed to make it work. It's probably better to do that from time-to-time, as players get thrown off a bit.

 

[Anti-Sean]

The Black Flame Zealot from Complete Divine has both Hide and Move Silently as class skills, It also gives three dice of sneak attack progression and 5 levels of divine spellcasting progression throughout the 10 levels of the class. Some of its other goodies look like they could be fun, too. A cleric/rogue should be able to take their first level in the PrC at level 6. Hope that's along the lines of what you're looking for!

 

[Nim]

Consider a druid instead of a cleric. They get Spot and Listen in-class, and for sneaking they can Wildshape into a small (or eventually Tiny) animal with a racial Hide/Move Silently bonus.

 

[Kobold Stew]

With the trickery domain, it is possible to build a really cool cleric/assasin: you lose out on higher spellcasting levels, but it can be quite a strong character, neading only one level of rogue and still providing for the spiritual needs of the group.

Maybe this helps.

 

[Alpha Polaris]

Shadowbane Stalker

Try the Shadowbane Stalker from CompAdv. You can enter the class from Rogue 3/Cleric 2 IIRC, and you get 8 spell levels and +3d6 sneak attack over 10 levels, along with some cool abilities in the detection and sneak fields (discard one spell to sneak around, gain bonuses on search and sense motive, and so on). As said before, with Trickery and / or some other carefuly chosen domain, she should make a pretty decent adversary for the one she stalks.

 

[Shin Okada]

Thank you for advices.

I know Shadowbane Stalker is good as I have one as my PC's cohort. But I want to keep that alignment restriction change as the last resort.

Regarding Black Flame Zealot. Some cool background and fluffs. But isn't it basically much better to just multiclass into Rogue/Cleric?

 

[moritheil]

Thank you for advices.

I know Shadowbane Stalker is good as I have one as my PC's cohort. But I want to keep that alignment restriction change as the last resort.

Regarding Black Flame Zealot. Some cool background and fluffs. But isn't it basically much better to just multiclass into Rogue/Cleric?

And then . . . temple raider?

 

[Shin Okada]

And then . . . temple raider?

While Temple Raider is a cool class, it is not one of those "+1 level of existing spell casting class type". The class has it's own limited selection of spells as a list. Thus, cannot take the role of party cleric.

 

[moritheil]

While Temple Raider is a cool class, it is not one of those "+1 level of existing spell casting class type". The class has it's own limited selection of spells as a list. Thus, cannot take the role of party cleric.

Yeah, that was more a stab at how the Temple Raider lists cleric/rogues as possible adventurers to take it, and how I've yet to see someone in their right mind do that with a primarily cleric build. :\