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Message: <blockquote data-quote="F5" data-source="post: 198106" data-attributes="member: 4607">I’m not familiar with the SoI&F series at all, but based on your description you might want to base a high-level prestige class ability on the Mystic in Defenders of the Faith…I know it was a crappy supplement, but hear me out.  The bit about “That which dead is not dead, it comes back stronger” implies that a high level PrC of the Drowned God should have some kind of similar apotheosis.  The character immerses himself in seawater until he passes out, and instead of dying becomes an Outsider with some special abilities at the top level of the PrC.  I think the Mystic was the class from Defenders that eventually became an Outsider?  I’m wrong about the mystic (I don’t have any of the books in front of me), then you could use something like the Monk’s Perfect Self ability.The Seawater Blessing should be a class ability, too, that would have some kind of spell-like effect.  Off-hand, since these people seem pretty warlike, it could act like a beefed-up Aid spell, giving the recipient +2 to hit, +2 to morale saves, and bonus HPs, usable once per day.“The drowned god brought fire from the sea”…maybe something funky with energy substitution?  A cleric of the drowned god can convert fire damage to water damage, and vice versa, in spells?  Not sure how that would work, really.Decent combat stats and some skill bonuses to sailing and swimming.  Again, I’m not familiar with the setting, so I probably can’t do it justice…On a semi-related tangent, I think that Divine Champions are the absolute best use of the Prestige Class idea in 3e.  IMC, clerics don’t worship a specific deity, they worship the Pantheon.  All classes that worship a specific deity are prestige classes.  You can CALL yourself a cleric of Tharen the Sun God (or whatever), but until you prove yourself (by qualifying to become a Sun Champion) you are just a cleric.  A Pantheistic cleric misses out on some of the special abilities of a PrC, but also doesn’t need to worry about the ties and politics that belonging to a single faction entails.  It’s a little extra work at the outset to build the classes, but worth it.</blockquote>

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