SPontaneous Divine Caster: Which do you Use?

[ichabod]

I just made the druid a spontaneous caster. He has spells per day and spells known just like the sorcerer. That seemed to weaken them, so I also gave some spell-like abilities at higher levels:

11th: speak with animals at will
13th: once per day for one combat they can energize their weapon with fire, cold, acid, or electricity for +1d6 damage.
15th: speak with plants at will
17th: automatically reincarnated one day after they die.
19th: may see through the eyes of any known animals within 1 mile.

 

[morbiczer]

I'd allow the Green Ronin shaman and have NPCs of this clas. Altough there are only available for orcs and similar folk, not for humans, elf, dwarves and so on. .

 

[Nifft]

Shaman and my Homebrew Mystic (pre-dates DLCS).

-- N

 

[diaglo]

i had a DM allow cleric as spontaneous casters as if it wasn't overbalanced enough.

of course, he just hated getting us to give him our laundry list for every day spell prep.

 

[DonAdam]

I use the sorcerer, and just let them pick off any list.

 

[paulewaug]

I've used the standard core Cleric and dropped the Domains and just let them spontaneously cast off the Cleric Spell List.

The reasoning behind this is that they are praying for divine aid/miracle from their Patron and channeling that power.

It allows the player to use the spell they need when they need it and they do loose the benefits of having an extra Domain spell and the domain power they would get. Plus some of the domains grant access to some spells that are not on the list and they loose that too.
It can make them a pain in the @$$ but its fun for me as the DM, especially as the majority of my BBEG's Are eviil Clerics.


We did this for a loong time in 1e and 2e and it always worked well.
But back then Clerics really need help, not so much in 3e/3.5e though.

 

[Brennin Magalus]

This post piqued my curiosity concerning the evangelist class, so I checked it out and I think I will be integrating it into my campaign. I looked at the favored soul previously and was interested until I got to the part about them growing wings, which I think is inane.

 

[Dunjin]

Where can I find out about the Evangelist? I don't have a stack of Dragon magazines handy.

 

[Brennin Magalus]

Where can I find out about the Evangelist? I don't have a stack of Dragon magazines handy.

The basic characteristics, like saves, hit dice, and BAB are the same as a cleric. However, they lose turning and heavy armor. Spellcasting is spontaneous, using spells known and spells per day based on the sorcerer. The major difference, though, is that they add domain spells to their spells known (they get six domains total over the course of the class, which on first glance seems a little excessive).

 

[Kai Lord]

Dragonlance Mystic.