D&D 5E So Favored Soul is going to be Divine Soul Now?

[Rhenny]

I like the change. There are already a few versions of a melee cleric who gains power from a deity (War Cleric, Tempest Cleric, etc.). The Favored Soul gives another way to be a healing warrior that is less dependent on direct connection with Gods. The only thing I'm slightly worried about is how metamagic will apply to cleric spells, especially Twin Spell. It seems like Twin healing of any kind makes the Favored Soul the best healer in the game hands down.

 

[gyor]

I want to know which version of the favored soul are they going to use. Are they going with one with wings or the version with blessed countenance and no wings? I am hoping for the latter which is applicable to deities and their offspring in most mythologies. Save the wings for some angelic bloodline.

Maybe they will dump Empowered Healing for blessed countenance and keep the wings. Now that they dumped the Favoured Soul name for Divine Soul, they might not feel encumbered by the past.

 

[gyor]

I like the change. There are already a few versions of a melee cleric who gains power from a deity (War Cleric, Tempest Cleric, etc.). The Favored Soul gives another way to be a healing warrior that is less dependent on direct connection with Gods. The only thing I'm slightly worried about is how metamagic will apply to cleric spells, especially Twin Spell. It seems like Twin healing of any kind makes the Favored Soul the best healer in the game hands down.

Only at single target healing spells like cure wounds, healing word, lesser restoration, raise dead, twin spell does nothing for mass cure wounds, for which the lift cleric is better.

 

[Rhenny]

Only at single target healing spells like cure wounds, healing word, lesser restoration, raise dead, twin spell does nothing for mass cure wounds, for which the lift cleric is better.

Sure, but a Heal spell twinned would be pretty awesome. I guess Mass Heal would out perform it, but still. It is a pretty good gig for the Favored Soul.

 

[gyor]

The most powerful twinned healing spell would be twinned True Resurrection.

 

[Coroc]

[MENTION=6788736]Flamestrike[/MENTION] i like your houserule very much can you pls also post your druid variant?

If translated to german favored Soul means "bevorzugte Seele" which is about as selfexplaining as would be "willful warrior" or "naughty halforc"

So that is not a very good class name in every language to begin with. Divine Soul is much better to translate and does not loose context and divine is an Attribute where as favored is a state.

 

[Rhenny]

The most powerful twinned healing spell would be twinned True Resurrection.

Two for the price of one. It will save a lot of money too! Favored Soul - the discount healer. Lol.

 

[Alexemplar]

People get so upset over labels. After a brief experience with the Favored/Divine Soul in 5E, you're really not going to spend much time comparing it to prior editions. We may mention what rangers were like in 3E, 2E, etc... on occasion, but does it really dominate your thoughts while playing a 5E ranger?

It does seem to matter in D&D. The franchise has a storied history full of of unique idiosyncrasies and many recurring elements and people like the old standbys to return in familiar forms. It's pretty much this that distinguishes D&D from the countless other RPGs- many of which could be argued to be technically better, yet lacking that "classic D&D charm/feel/nostalgia factor" that comes from that history full of unique idiosyncrasies and recurring elements.

Even pathfinder- D&D's biggest competitior- owes much of its success to it's mission statement of "preserving D&D" when WOTC wanted to try and update it. People care about preserving that ephemeral classic D&D experience from edition to edition.