Devoted Mage

[Xath]

I want a feat in the vein of "Devoted Tracker" and "Ascetic Mage" for a Paladin/Sorceror. What do you think?

Devoted Mage
You have found a way to blend you innate magical abilities with your devout service to your deity.

Prerequisite: Smite Evil, the ability to spontaneously cast 1st level arcane spells.

Benefit: If you have levels in Paladin and Sorceror, those levels stack for determining the bonus damage dealt by your smite evil ability. As a supernatural ability, you may sacrifice an arcane spell slot in order to boost your Lay on Hands ability. Multiply the level of the spell sacrificed by your Charisma modifier to determine the amount of damaged healed. This ability may be used once per day per point of charisma modifier.

For example, Wes is using his Lay on Hands ability for 20 points. He has a charisma of 18 and sacrifices a 3rd level spell. Wes can add 12 points of cure to the 20 points from his Lay on Hands in order to cure 32 points of damage.

In addition, you can multiclass freely between the paladin and sorceror classes. You must still remain Lawful Good in order to retain your paladin abilities and take paladin levels. You still face the normal XP penalties for having multiple classes more than one level apart.

 

[Planeswalker Maloran]

Might want to limit the spell-for-healing swap to once per day, or once per day per point of Cha bonus, or even give it the same number of uses per day as Smite Evil has. Being able to do it at will seems slightly overpowered to me, though perhaps not terribly.

Other than that, I like the sound of it.

 

[Xath]

Edited it. Thanks for the advice.

 

[Xath]

Ok, upon playtesting this feat, I'm thinking of changing it to this.

Devoted Mage
You have found a way to blend you innate magical abilities with your devout service to your deity.

Prerequisite: Special Mount, the ability to spontaneously cast 1st level arcane spells.

Benefit: If you have levels in Paladin and Sorceror, those levels stack for determining the effective level of your Special Mount and Familiar. As a supernatural ability, you may sacrifice an arcane spell slot in order to boost your Lay on Hands ability. Multiply the level of the spell sacrificed by your Charisma modifier to determine the amount of damaged healed. This ability may be used once per day per point of charisma modifier.

For example, Wes is using his Lay on Hands ability for 20 points. He has a charisma of 18 and sacrifices a 3rd level spell. Wes can add 12 points of cure to the 20 points from his Lay on Hands in order to cure 32 points of damage.

In addition, you can multiclass freely between the paladin and sorceror classes. You must still remain Lawful Good in order to retain your paladin abilities and take paladin levels. You still face the normal XP penalties for having multiple classes more than one level apart.