Complete Divine Excerpts

[Joshua Randall]

This is my favorite part (in the Pious Templar preview)

Adaptation: This prestige class functions best when tied to a specific deity. If you want to customize the pious templar further, you can modify the spell list to reflect the proclivities of specific gods or create an order within a religion that all pious templars are members of.

(empahsis added)

I agree that it's a hopeful sign. The designers are finally acknowledging, in print, that PrC's should be modified to fit your campaign.

But what I really, really want to see are some suggested Pious Templar (or whatever) spell lists. It is not enough to say "you can do this"; we need examples. I am paying my cold, hard cash to WotC so that they can spend the time coming up with spell lists. Not me.

So let's see 'em: a generic templar spell list, like the one in Defenders of the Faith. The differences in spell lists between templars of Heironeous and Hextor, or between Pelor and St. Cuthbert. That's what I want. (But I doubt I will get it.)

 

[Kem]

That's an excellent point Snarf!
However, the wizard still have to (1) be 17th level, (2) have Wis 19, (3) take the feat, (4) choose the Luck domain and (5) learn the spell. If a wizard IMC wants to do that, I'd simply adjudicate his own Miracle in the way I adjudicate it for the clerics, i.e. against the deity's will.

You forgot step 0. Be a worshipper of a Diety with Luck as a Domain.