Ordained Erudite (3.5e Alternate Class Feature)
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Ordained Erudite
The ordained erudites are particularly philosophical and learned clerics, who study their spells from annotated holy texts. They do not draw powers directly from prayer, rather gaining them from studying the theosophic mysteries of their religion or philosophy. This allows them to cast closer to an arcanist than a cleric, at the cost of some of their growth.
Class: Cleric
Level: 1st
Replaces: Spellcasting (Altered)
Benefit: An ordained erudites gain the following class features:
Spellcasting: An ordained erudite has the spell per day and spell prepared progression of an arcanist of his cleric level. An ordained erudite’s spellcasting functions as a normal except as described. The ordained erudite prepares and casts spells as an arcanist, and must study his holy text (see below) when preparing spells. Similarly he uses his Intelligence rather than Wisdom as his key spellcasting ability score. He may only prepare spells contained in his holy text, rather than all cleric spells. An ordained erudite can prepare an additional spell slot of every level he can cast, but may only prepare a domain spell in this slot (much like a normal cleric). He cannot prepare a domain spell in a normal spell slot or vice versa, unless he has an ability that would allow a normal cleric to do so.
An ordained erudite must study a special version of his deity or philosophy's holy text to prepare spells. An ordained erudite’s spells are written in additional pages of the holy text, annotations on existing pages, or even modified prayers and passages. He does not need his holy text to prepare domain spells. A holy text contains his spell, much like a normal spellbook does. His holy text is particularly valuable, costing at least 50 gp and has 100 pages worth of spell slots. It functions almost exactly like a spellbook, including the starting amount of spells, spells freely transcribed each level, writing cost and such.
An ordained erudite cannot transcribe spells from another ordained erudite's holy text to his own. He can transcribe spells from divine scrolls, much like an arcanist could from an arcane scroll. Otherwise the only means of adding new spells to his holy text is through divine inspiration, which takes 1 hour per level of the spell he wishes to add to his holy text, this is done at the same time as writing the spell. To be granted divine inspiration, the ordained erudite must burn ointments and reagents worth half the writing cost of a spell of the chosen level. If he is interrupted he may restart the process later with no penalty.
The ordained erudite retains the ability to spontaneously cast cure or inflict spells much like a cleric would, or other spells they would be able to do so with. Doing so, expend a spell slot but does not otherwise affect his prepared spells.
This ability alters spellcasting.
Theologian (Ex): An ordained erudite uses his Intelligence rather than his Wisdom for all of his cleric class features, such as his domain abilities. Additionally a ordained erudite gain half of his level to Knowledge (Religion) checks made to know or interpret doctrines, decipher hidden meanings in holy text and finding or rationalizing contradictions.
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| Author | Leziad + |
| Class | Cleric + |
| Identifier | 3.5e Alternate Class Feature + |
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| Summary | The ordained erudites are particularly phi … The ordained erudites are particularly philosophical and learned clerics, who study their spells from annotated holy texts. They do not draw powers directly from prayer, rather gaining them from studying the theosophic mysteries of their religion or philosophy. This allows them to cast closer to an arcanist than a cleric, at the cost of some of their growth. eric, at the cost of some of their growth. + |
| Title | Ordained Erudite + |
