Player's Guide to Clerics and Druids: Prestige Classes Preview

[Nightfall]

Well folks here's some more Player's Guide prestige classes preview. Hope you like it.

Okay.

I have sent out the completed text for the Players Guide to Clerics and Druids to production, so I thought I might give you folks an idea of the prestige classes that can be found in this puppy.

Anchorite: A priest of either the gods or the titans that withdraws from the doing of mortals into the wilderness, undergoing great ascetic suffering in order to better pursue enlightenment.

Cultist of the Forge: Heretics found among both the church of Corean and the cultists of Golthagga, the Cult of the Forge teaches its adherents to forge thier souls in the crucible of life, gaining great strength and resilience. They hate the undead fiercely, for the undead are a perversion of life and weaken the temper of the spirit.

Defender of the Faith: Ritualists and great religious leaders found among both clerics and druids, defenders of the faith gain increased ability when casting True Rituals, and learn to draw upon the faith of their followers in order to heighten their own abilities.

High Judicator: The lawgivers and judges of the city of Hedrad, the high judicators are Hedradan clerics who pursue the twin goals of justice and order. The highest of the high judicators are chosen as inquisitors of Hedrada (see the Creature Collection) when they die.

Khetan Phagist: Vicious and unholy cannibal druids, the Khetan phagists are the elite of the druidic theocracy of Khet, gaining great powers from the consumption of the flesh of their enemies.

Initiate of the Ram: Druids who dwell around the fallen city of Amalthea, the Order of the Ram is dedicated to defending and preserving the Amalthean rams and ewes. These druids learn to create the Amalthean helms of legend, and gain many powers and abilities related to their charges.

Oracle of Hedrada: Seers and visionaries, the oracles of Hedrada learn to peer into the heavenly vault of order, seeking the truths of the future.

Pursuivant: Seekers of the taint of titans, pursuivants are clerics who have taken up the calling to hunt down the works of both druids and titan-touched sorcerers, gaining increased resistance to the spells of both, while cultivating the ability to destroy them.

Scourge of Tanil: Fiercely independent, the scourges of Tanil take up bows to defend the defenseless in the name of their goddess. These women form the center of the Wild Hunt Heresy of the Tanilan church.

Seeker on the Wind: Sorcerer-scions and druids of Mesos, the seekers learn to detect the lingering traces of the Sire of Sorcery on the very winds, calling up those powers to aid their own magics or hinder the sorceries of others.

Stormsinger: In the heights of the greatest of thunderstorms can sometimes be heard a high, keening song - this is the song of Lethene, and the stormsinger druids learn this song in order to call up great songs and soar about on its winds.

Totem Caller: A druid with connections to many totems, the totem caller learns to use his wildshaping ability to assume the traits of many of his totems, gaining increased abilities while channeling his totems.

There we go.

With any luck, I should have a similar list for the Players Guide to
Rangers and Rogues here before too long.

Regards,
Joseph Carriker

Well not quite what I was expecting but even so. Not too shabby. I think I'd like to try out Stormsinger.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Well folks here's some more Player's Guide prestige classes preview. Hope you like it.

Wow, this is going to sound horribly snarky, but as an avid player of druids, I'm amazed at how little on that list interests me. I really look forward to anything with druid in the title too... The totem one is something to look at though, since it seem similar in flavor to a protodruid I'm working on and could make a very cool class.

On a better note, I'm not familiar with the company much, but it looks like they really strive to create a whole world for thier classes to exist in. Just the capsul reviews of the prestige classes gave me the feel for a complex web of interactions and mythology they work in.

Kahuna burger

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Well folks here's some more Player's Guide prestige classes preview. Hope you like it.



Well not quite what I was expecting but even so. Not too shabby. I think I'd like to try out Stormsinger. [/B]

Hey Nightfall, thanks for the post.

I was hoping that these classbooks would have all the previously published SL PrC's integrated ( and updated for 3.5? ) into them. The main problem with the PrC's in the SL setting is that they are scattered throughout soo many books, and they are hard to find.

Quick: Which of the following books is the Gold Knight PrC in?

A) Relics & Rituals
B) Mithril, City of the Golem
C) The Divine and the Defeated
D) Ghelspad CS
E) Relics and Rituals 2

Is this just wishful thinking on my part?

 

[Trickstergod]

The Gold Knight is detailed in the Ghelspad Campaign Setting.

As for the Prestige Classes...meh...while a few are appealing, none particularly excite me.

 

[Nightfall]

Kahuna,

Well I think that's part of the goal is to make stuff that gives a nice whole cloth view. In any case, I do think perhaps the anchorite COULD be a useful druidic prestige class.

Biggie, what trickster said. As for the other part of your question, I do remind you that these are just the ones that are new for most people. Doesn't mean they will have the others but then again maybe they will.

 

[Nightfall]

As for the Prestige Classes...meh...while a few are appealing, none particularly excite me.

Can't believe you aren't at least INTERESTED in the Mesos or Lethane Prestige Class. Heck even the Scourge has something going for it.

 

[Trickstergod]

Can't believe you aren't at least INTERESTED in the Mesos or Lethane Prestige Class. Heck even the Scourge has something going for it.

Well, I've never been a particularly big fan of Mesos (or deity-equivalents of magic in general), so I'm a bit biased on that, particularly when it's encroaching on the domain of my namesakes Scarred Land equivalent. Heh.

As for the Stormsinger, for what it's worth, that is the most interesting of the bunch - but it still doesn't quite get my groove going. Then again, very few prestige classes immediately jump out at me as being interesting. I generally "grow" into my like of them, as it were.

In regards to the Scourge...eh....I have my reservations about it.

 

[Benben]

Stormsinger: In the heights of the greatest of thunderstorms can sometimes be heard a high, keening song - this is the song of Lethene, and the stormsinger druids learn this song in order to call up great songs and soar about on its winds.

I've been looking for a good wind witch prestige class for a while now.

 

[Nightfall]

Well, I've never been a particularly big fan of Mesos (or deity-equivalents of magic in general), so I'm a bit biased on that, particularly when it's encroaching on the domain of my namesakes Scarred Land equivalent. Heh.

As for the Stormsinger, for what it's worth, that is the most interesting of the bunch - but it still doesn't quite get my groove going. Then again, very few prestige classes immediately jump out at me as being interesting. I generally "grow" into my like of them, as it were.

In regards to the Scourge...eh....I have my reservations about it.

Understood Trickster.

Benben, was sort of thinking the same thing.

 

[ForceUser]

I have yet to find a druidic prestige class that I find more intriuging than the druid itself. I mean, the class is just so darn versatile and powerful to begin with, and you get so many neat things every level you gain, that I just can't reason why you'd want to leave the class unless you had a specific concept in mind from day one (such as a Shifter from Masters of the Wild).

That said, the Stormsinger sounds interesting, if one-dimensional. What does he do when it's not stormy, or he's in a dungeon?