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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 1546027" data-attributes="member: 7884">Having purchased my copy of the Complete Divine only a few days ago and not having much time to read into it, a few things did strike me as unbalanced.The Radiant Soul of Pelor - A cleric can qualify for it by 5th level, gains +1 divine spellcasting level per level as well as seriouly enhanced turning and healing.  The down-side?  Hit Die reduced from d8 to d6.  Unbalanced class.  My suggestion - drop the "+1 level of divine spellcasting class" from 1st level, and put Hit Die back up to d8.  The caster's healing spells are just as powerful, because of the +1 caster level as the Healing domain granted power, but his narrow focus on healing and turning means he's lost a smidgin of his other spell power.Quicken Turning - Can turn undead as a free action, although cannot turn more than once per round.  No pre-reqs (apart from the ability to turn undead, duh), no down-side, allows the cleric two serious combat actions per round (turn undead and spell casting).  My suggestion - remove the restriction on two turn attempts in a single round, but make a single quickened turn cost three of the cleric's turn attempts for the day.Augment Healing is to clerics as weapon focus is to fighters - "the feat every cleric has to have".Then there's the feat which grants a multi-classed spellcaster a +4 caster level bonus (although caster level cannot exceed character's HD)!  So the multi-classed spellcaster now has the same caster level as the primary spellcasters in the party.  Yeah, right.Complete Divine is another in the long line of D&D "power up" books, that every player needs to have because if they don't they're falling behind wedding-tackle-wise.  I should have bought Fiend Folio (which is what I originally intended to purchase when I walked into my FLGS).Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>

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