Rainbow Servant

[Beregar]

Before anyone bites off my head: No, this is not about warmages and rainbow servant's "cleric spell access" class ability though the question is related to latter.

The description of class ability states:

Cleric Spell Access: A 10th level rainbow servant can cast spells from the cleric list, even if they don't appear on the lists of any spellcasting class he has. Such spells are cast as divine spells if they do not appear on the sorcerer/wizard or bard spell lists...

Now SRD has this to say about divine spells:

The relevant ability for divine spells is Wisdom. To prepare a divine spell, a character must have a Wisdom score of 10 + the spell’s level. Likewise, bonus spells are based on Wisdom.

Although the class ability description says nothing about it, the above quote leads me to believe that a rainbow servant would need to have high wisdom score in addition to his or her relevant arcane spellcasting score. It also leads me to believe that the save DC is wisdom based.

This is furthermore supported by the arcane disciple feat (also from complete divine) that grants arcane casters access to domain and its spells but only if they have high enough wisdom.

I'm curious to know how other people have interpret this or if there is an errata that clarifies it (and the rainbow servant spell progression). I have read posts about "errataed" version of the rainbow servant but I haven't found it anywhere - It's certainly not on WoTC CD errata.

Any thoughts?

 

[glass]

I am not all that familiar with the Rainbow Servant, but are these spells added to the list of spells the caster can cast wither her normal (arcane) slots? If so, then I'd say the specific class description (Int, Cha, whatever) would override the general rule for divine spells. Having said that, I'm not sure if the rule would actually do anything at all, which is odd.

OTOH, if they get special slots for their divine spells, then obvously these would follow all the usual rules for divine spells unless specifically overridden in the PrC description.


glass.

 

[Mistwell]

I agree with glass. If it grants spell slots, then yes it would be wisdom. If it does not, then it would have to be based on the other ability (like Intelligence for Wizards), because otherwise spell slots would get massively screwy. I mean, if you have bonus spell slots from Int and Wis, you should get only one if it's based on only one, but shouldn't you get both if it's based on both?

 

[Darklone]

The problem with the Rainbow Servant: The text says it has full caster progression, the table says differently, text trumps table. There's no errata IIRC.