Complete Divine Excerpts

[MerricB]

G'day!

Mat Smith has posted the following excerpts from Complete Divine in his latest Previews column:

Pious Template Prestige Class
Crypt Shrine of Vecna Map Image
Feats from Above - five feats: Arcane Disciple, Eagle's Wings, Glorious Weapons, Reach Spell and True Believer

Cheers!

 

[shilsen]

That Arcane Disciple feat would be amazing for a sorcerer. Potentially an extra known spell per level (although access to them will depend on your Wis), many of which will not even be found on the sor/wiz class list.

 

[silverblade]

The pious templar looked pretty impressive too. I wasn't too excited about this book before because I generally don't play spellcasters. I might end up getting it now.

 

[tmaaas]

That Arcane Disciple feat would be amazing for a sorcerer. Potentially an extra known spell per level (although access to them will depend on your Wis), many of which will not even be found on the sor/wiz class list.

Acutally, this feat just seems to add the spells to your class list.

A wizard would still have to add them to their spellbook, and a sorcerer would have to choose them as a known spell.

 

[Li Shenron]

Acutally, this feat just seems to add the spells to your class list.

A wizard would still have to add them to their spellbook, and a sorcerer would have to choose them as a known spell.

Exactly.

 

[Piratecat]

I don't like the true believer feat; +2 to a save once per day is weak, and forbidding someone who doesn't have the feat from using a relic can quash plot arcs. Let's face it, I'll seldom want to let someone keep a relic long enough to have to take a feat for it.

 

[Oscar carramiñana]

The pious is very good for a paladin

The feats arcane disciple and glorious weapon are very good.

 

[Klaus]

Arcane Disciple has done away with one of the D&D sacred cows: we now can have arcane healers (just take Healing as the domain)! Yay!

 

[JoAT]

I don't like the true believer feat; +2 to a save once per day is weak, and forbidding someone who doesn't have the feat from using a relic can quash plot arcs. Let's face it, I'll seldom want to let someone keep a relic long enough to have to take a feat for it.

It's probably a variation on those various 'Chosen of' 'Favored by' 'Disciple of', ect feats from the BoVD and the BoED - a gateway feat, and not much more. Just a slightly more powerful, if less versitile version. Unless they do something completly new with relics, that is....

 

[Joshua Randall]

True Believer is thematically like the feats Servant of the Heavens, Favored of the Companions, and, uh, the other one from Book of Exalted Deeds: crappy feats whose only purpose is to enable a PrC. I hate feats like that. But at least (Pious) Templars no longer have to take Endurance.