Saeviomagy
Adventurer
Ok, so basically the archivist from Heroes of horror is a divine spellcaster that uses a spellbook. He's a fairly useful replacement for the traditional cleric - some monster busting powers, some bookish nerdyness. Good fort and will saves, medium armour, bad BAB, 4 skill points per level.
However - he has a spellbook. Like a wizard, he gets free spells in that, from the cleric list.
Additionally, like any spellbook-caster, he may copy spells in from scrolls.
Only, someone in their infinite wisdom has decided that the spells he may copy in may be taken from any divine spell scroll at all.
Any of them. So druid, paladin and ranger spells are all there, as are any scrolls of domain spells that anyone happens to write out. That's pretty powerful in and of itself. Too powerful for my tastes, although somewhat tempered by the classes dual-stat dependancy, and the price of finding scrolls to scribe.
However, as we all know, if a cleric and a wizard get together to make a scroll, it's entirely possible for us to designate the cleric as being the creator of a scroll (as long as he contributes something, such as the scribe scroll feat, which the archivist gets free), while scribing a wizard spell. Usually this results in a useless curiosity - a divine scroll of an arcane spell, useable by none who have no access to use magic device.
In this case, however, the archivist is given free range to scribe any divine scroll they can get their hands on without care as to what spell list it's actually from.
Helloooo divine wish. Or whatever. Goodbye wizard.
However - he has a spellbook. Like a wizard, he gets free spells in that, from the cleric list.
Additionally, like any spellbook-caster, he may copy spells in from scrolls.
Only, someone in their infinite wisdom has decided that the spells he may copy in may be taken from any divine spell scroll at all.
Any of them. So druid, paladin and ranger spells are all there, as are any scrolls of domain spells that anyone happens to write out. That's pretty powerful in and of itself. Too powerful for my tastes, although somewhat tempered by the classes dual-stat dependancy, and the price of finding scrolls to scribe.
However, as we all know, if a cleric and a wizard get together to make a scroll, it's entirely possible for us to designate the cleric as being the creator of a scroll (as long as he contributes something, such as the scribe scroll feat, which the archivist gets free), while scribing a wizard spell. Usually this results in a useless curiosity - a divine scroll of an arcane spell, useable by none who have no access to use magic device.
In this case, however, the archivist is given free range to scribe any divine scroll they can get their hands on without care as to what spell list it's actually from.
Helloooo divine wish. Or whatever. Goodbye wizard.