Talk:Priest (3.5e Class)

Comments and Concerns

Now that I'm not distracted, I've had a chance to take a closer look. Some things stood out -

Spells - Why no bonus spells from high attribute?

Gate to the Heavens - Would restricting it to opening somewhere in the deity's demesne instead of just their plane (which could wind up on a different layer) be a reasonable thing to add?

I still need to look over the domains proper before I have more than a "that looks interesting, and could be done really well" feel about the spellcasting,, since this relies on them pretty heavily, but I'll add any concerns on that front to the relevant domains. - Tarkisflux ^Talk 21:31, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

On the no bonus spells from a high attribute - I'm actually not sure anymore. Consider this section amended, mostly out of my own weirdness/stupidity.

As far as Gate to the Heavens is concerned - agreed, although the added 'scatter' that I gave to it somewhat mitigates for this. Consider it changed to match your suggestion, though. - MisterSinister 21:50, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Missing Spells

I'm just going to drop a list of spells here that are somewhat central to my conception of "priestness" but missing from both the base list and domains. I don't have suggestions for where to put most of these, but they probably should go somewhere. Will add to list as I run across things. - Tarkisflux ^Talk 06:08, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

List:

• Remove Disease
• Remove Blindness/Deafness (I'd be pretty happy rolling this in with remove disease and putting the new "remove affliction" in as the healing 3rd level)
• Remove Curse
• Water Breathing (appears in water domain power, but nowhere else)
• Freedom of Movement
• Zone of Truth
• Atonement
• Break Enchantment
• Hallow / Unhallow (though parts of the unhallow effect should arguably die in a fire)
• Banishment
• Word of Recall
• Holy Word / Blasphemy
• Refuge
• Soul Bind (it's a less nasty trap the soul [which does show up in a domain], but I'm pretty comfortable giving clerics this sort of dominion over the eternal souls of people)

I actually have no issues giving this whole list to priests. Most of these are quite situational, but I object to a few of these being on the general list. Specifically Water Breathing and Holy Word/Blasphemy. The former I actually think should be reserved for priests of water deities, and the latter is a bit tricky, because I don't want to give them all out. That being said, I need to rewrite the alignment domains anyway, assuming I haven't done so already, so I think that solves the issue. - MisterSinister 19:44, 19 October 2011 (UTC)