Cleric PrC: Speaker of Oni

[Noldor Elf]

Background information:
Oni is the god of monotheistic religion in my homebrew world. The church of Oni is very hard trying to eliminate worshiping of other gods within the country where Oni is primary god.

Speaker's of Oni are high priests of Oni, occupying most central positions inside the church hierarchy.

Speaker of Oni
Requirements:
Skills:
Knowledge: Local 3 ranks
Knowledge: Religion 5 ranks
Spell Casting: Ability to cast 4th level Divine Spells

Class Abilities:
Hit Dice: D6
Skill Points: 2 points / level
Class Skills: The Speaker of Oni's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Knowledge (religion) (Int), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int).
Weapon and Armor Profiences: Speaker of Oni does not gain any new weapon or armor profiences.

Base attack Bonus: As Wizard (1/2)
Saves: Good Will and Fort, Bad Ref
Spell Casting: Gains 1 level of existing spellcasting ability at 1st, 2dn, 4th, 5th level.

Abilities:
Level Ability
1st The Only true religion, +1 Existing spell casting level
2nd Authority of the Church I, +1 Existing spell casting level
3rd Church Inquisition
4th You heretic!, +1 Existing spell casting level
5th Authority of the Church II, +1 Existing spell casting level
6th Follower of the true God

Special Abilities:
The only true religion: The Speaker of Oni gains +2 to saves against divine spells cast by others than followers of Oni.
Authority of the Church I: The Speaker of Oni may ask for a small favor (stay free at the inn, free healing at the temple,...). This can be done 1/week at the same place.
Church Inquisition: The Speaker of Oni can cast Zone of Truth as spell like ability. Use of his power counts as use of turn undead attemp.
You heretic!: Instead of using Dispel Magic[/], the Speaker of Oni can use any divine spell of equal or greater level to counter a divine spell cast by someone else than follower of Oni.
Authority of the Church II: The Speaker of Oni can receive (appropiate) magic items which value can be no more than 20,000 gp for his use. The Speaker of Oni can have the item for number of days equal to his class level.
Follower of the true God: By sacrigicing a prepared spell, The Speaker of Oni can create a quartercircular cone of Antimagic which length is 5 feet / 2 levels of sacrifised spell. This cone last for 3 rounds. (Example: By sacrificing 5th level spell, the speaker of Oni can create a cone of antimagic with lengt of 10 feet)

 

[Knight-of-Roses]

Speaker of Oni
Requirements:
Skills:
Knowledge: Religion 5 ranks

Abilities:
Level Ability
Authority of the Church I: The Speaker of Oni may ask for a small favor (stay free at the inn, free healing at the temple,...). This can be done 1/week at the same place.

You heretic!: The Speaker of Oni can use any divine spell of equal or greater level to counter a divine spell cast by someone else than follower of Oni.

Why Oni? You do know that is the Japanese word for monster/demon, right?

Anyway, onto the class. I would expect the Knowledge (religion) requirement to be higher, say 10 ranks. And I would think that a few ranks in Diplomacy or Intimidate would fit in as well.

Authority of the Church I, they should be able to claim unlimited amounts of small favors like room and board. These people are the high priests of the One True God in their culture. Give them a little for it.

You Heretic! Does the spell act as a full counterspell, automatically cancelling the other spell. Or is it a caster level check as when Dispel Magic is used as a counter spell?

Right now, I would say this class is a little underpowered, but only a touch. Keep working on it.

 

[Oni]

Really, I'm flattered

 

[Noldor Elf]

I would expect the Knowledge (religion) requirement to be higher, say 10 ranks. And I would think that a few ranks in Diplomacy or Intimidate would fit in as well.

I added requirement for 2 ranks of Diplomacy or Intimidate. As Clerics only get 2 skill points + Int / level, I don't want to place too high skill requirements, I just don't like idea, that one most use all one's skill points to qualify.

For Authority of the Church I, I placed the limit to prevent abuse, but I suppose that can be removed. Any suggestions about reasonable value proposition of "a small favor"?

Mechanically You Heretic! should probably work as Dispel Magic had been used for counterspell.

And yes, I did pick the name from you Oni.

Edit: Added 6th level with new power.