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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 898895" data-attributes="member: 284">Re: Re: Re: Nope.When you take levels of Divine Oracle, you do gain a new basis for casting spells:  The Divination Domain. The extra spell slots for the divination domain are seperate from a wizards normal spell-slots, and can only be used to cast the domain spells.  A specialist wizard with Divination as a barred school would not be able to use any of his normal spell-slots to prepare divination spells, but could still use the domain slots.  He just wouldn't have very many domain slots, because his wizard levels wouldn't count toward his caster level in his domain.   He would be limited to 5th level spells in the domain at most, and that only when he reached level 9 in the Divine Oracle prestige class.  While he could do it, it really wouldn't gain him a lot of benefit in the spellcasting department.   The real benefit comes from the Uncanny Dodge and Evasion. Specialist wizards do not take an oath to stop using certain spells, they simply never learn how, due to their focused study.   There is a difference.The Sacred Fist guy always has the option of picking up a weapon and using it, even if it violates the class prohibition.  He can choose to accept the consequences. The Specialist wizard does not have a choice when it comes to their banned schools.  They simply cannot understand spells from those schools (using knowledge gained from their wizard studies), they cannot activate spell completion or spell trigger items that use spells from their banned schools.   However, if they gain another source of learning that does have access to those spells (taking cleric, sorcerer, or Divine Oracle levels for example) they can use those items and spells, but only to the extent that their other class can.  Their wizard levels simply don't count.</blockquote>

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