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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 1990828" data-attributes="member: 3424">Hi all, I'd just like to address a couple of comments that have been raised, in no particular order.Good and fanaticismNot to start an alignment discussion, but I think good people (even paladins) can be fanatical, but they have to be very careful. It is all right if they sacrifice themselves to destroy evil, but they should not be willing to sacrifice innocent lives to do so. A good character who makes a habit of sacrificing innocent lives because he feels his cause is right will start drifting towards neutral (or worse), in my view.Cleric levelsIt's alright if you want to restrict entry into the class to clerics only, but it's better to do so via class abilities, spell access, etc. rather than stating a class. Since the PrC is focused towards using inflict spells, you could require the ability to cast inflict light wounds and inflict moderate wounds. By the core rules, you need to have levels of cleric to do so (the good alignment rules out blackguards), and DMs that allow other types of divine spellcasters or PrC that grant access to these spells can give their players alternative routes to this PrC. Unfortunately, adepts don't have access to inflict spells, but maybe it's better (power-wise) for them to take a level of cleric first.Extra domainGranting an extra domain is not too powerful. The character still gets only one domain spell per level, so he just gets one additional choice of domain spell per day, and one extra domain ability.Empower and maximizeI did some calculations yesterday and realised that at higher levels, it is usually better to empower rather than maximize the inflict series of spells, because maximize only increases the variable portion, but empower also increases the level increase added. For example, an inflict critical wounds cast by a 20th-level caster deals 4d8+20 (avg 38) points of damage. Maximized, it deals 52 points of damage. Empowered, it deals an average of 57 points of damage. I'm thinking it might be better to roll the Empower Inflict and Maximize Inflict abilities into a single ability that allows the character to choose which he wants to add to the spell.Inflict spell powerI also thought this would be a useful ability to have as the character will otherwise be at a disadvantage using inflict spells against spell resistant opponents. This ability increases the character's caster level for inflict spells by the listed amount. I would have this at the odd levels, bump the spellcaster level increases to the even levels, and re-arrange the other abilities.Inflict specialist, Greater inflict specialistThis increases the damage dealt by inflict spells by +2 and +4 (similar to Weapon Specialization and Greater Weapon Specialization). I think this will be useful to space out the abilities if we roll the Empower Inflict and Maximize Inflict abilities into one.So, the progression for special abilities might be as follows (I added Greater Weapon Focus to give it something at each level and it's consistent with the footsoldier theme):01. Inflict Spell Power +1, Aura, Smite Evil (1/day), Turn Undead, Extra Turning, Holy Inflict, War Domain02. +1 divine caster level, Somatic Substitution, Channel Inflict03. Inflict Spell Power +2, Inflict Specialist (+2 damage)04. +1 divine caster level, Spontaneous Inflict05. Inflict Spell Power +3, Smite Evil (2/day)06. +1 divine caster level, Favored Enemy07. Inflict Spell Power +4, Greater Inflict Specialist (+4 damage)08. +1 divine caster level, Improved Critical (deity's favored weapon)09. Inflict Spell Power +5, Greater Weapon Focus (deity's favored weapon)10. +1 divine caster level, Smite Evil (3/day), Empower/Maximize Inflict</blockquote>

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