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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4661226" data-attributes="member: 82106">How about something like this:FeatDevotional Mastery  Prerequisite: Wis 13  Benefit: You can master and perform devotions of your level or lower. Now you can simply devise various 'Devotions' which a character can master. These devotions COULD be anything, but they might generally be along the following sorts of lines.Inner StrengthLevel: 1Time: 10 minutesDuration: until next extended restYou focus your willpower and gain access to the Tower of Inner Strength power until you next take an extended rest.Tower of Inner Strength [Devotion Power]You reach into your mind and use your devotion to find the will to resist.Daily - PsychicImmediate Interrupt when targeted by an attack vs Will          PersonalEffect: Add a +1 bonus to your will defense against the triggering attack.Obviously there could be a whole plethora of these things. It requires a feat to have access to them, but the feat is nice in that it is fairly open ended and gets better as you go up in level and have access to more powerful devotions. However it is also reasonably limited because you do have to choose at the start of the day what sort of devotion to use. How exactly limited that is will be determined by exactly what the devotion does (they don't have to give you access to a power, but the effect should be one time or otherwise reasonably limited). Some of them could be fairly general and give very weak bonuses, others might be highly specialized (enhancing a specific existing feat or power) and give a stronger bonus to balance out the more limited situational applicability.I think it gives the desired flavor and also brings in a mechanism for allowing characters to prepare themselves for a specific situation they think they will likely face during the next few encounters. USUALLY those sorts of things were pretty limited and that was a flaw in special purpose spells and such in older editions, but there ARE still times when you would like to be able to do something like that, you KNOW what you are likely to face.There is really no particular reason for these to be limited to Martial characters either. Admittedly some Arcane characters have rituals already and wizards have some spell flexibilitybuilt in via the spell book mechanism, but I can see Clerics and Paladins also having access to devotions. I don't think it would hurt anything.</blockquote>

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