Battle Blessing for Prestige Paladin?

[Felon]

I've got a player using the prestige paladin variant from Unearthed Arcana (Knight4/Clrc2/Pal3), and he wants the Battle Blessing feat. A feat that allows a paladin to cast his spells as a swift action seems pretty generous. I don't have the book on-hand, but I recall it using up turn attempts or something.

Since it seems like a pretty strong feat even using the core pally, I think that with the prestige paladin it could get out of hand since it's a superior spellcaster (since the PrC just builds on existing spellcasting progression).

I'm inclined just to let him apply Battle Blessing to any spell that's on the paladin spell list, so he won't be quickening stuff that would normally be out-of-bounds for a paladin. He comes out ahead since he can cast more of those spells than core paladin of his level. Then again, the prestige paladin gets the shaft in some other areas (like smiting), so I'm willing to say it all comes out in the wash.

What do you guys think?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Actually, the feat specifies that it only lets you cast paladin spells faster than normal, so I don't think you need to worry.

 

[styker]

I think that the Ranger should have a similar feat, what do you think?

 

[Jhaelen]

I think that the Ranger should have a similar feat, what do you think?

Absolutely! And the Hexblade of course, while we're at it...

 

[Diirk]

Since it seems like a pretty strong feat even using the core pally, I think that with the prestige paladin it could get out of hand since it's a superior spellcaster (since the PrC just builds on existing spellcasting progression).

Its not a bad feat for a core paladin, but its value is diminished by a. Alot of the paladin spells being either not very useful or extremely limited by their low caster level, and b. most of the new paladin spells are swift cast times anyway.