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Unlike a cleric, an oracle need not prepare her spells in advance. She can cast any spell she knows at any time, assuming she has not yet used up her spells per day for that spell level. Oracles do not need to provide a divine focus to cast spells that list divine focus (DF) as part of the components.
could you please link the spells your looking at?
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Well, you can't really play an oracle like it's intended in PFS due to the whole having to be one step away from your god in alignment rule. You can't be an oracle of fire and pay homage to all the gods listed in that mystery, for example, because Asmodeus is LE and Sarenrae is NG. It's impossible to be one step away from both without being evil and you can't be evil in pfs. I usually just pick one deity to be the sort of patron for my oracles. I think that you could say you pay homage to all of them but this particular one is your patron and that would give you access to the patron's spells (but not the spells of other gods listed in the mystery)
That's not specifically true. While an Oracle could pick a specific god to pay homage to, they do not need to pay homage to their entire mystery mini-pantheon.
As a matter of fact, they could pick a deity not on the mystery mini-pantheon if they wanted.
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Unlike a cleric, an oracle need not prepare her spells in advance. She can cast any spell she knows at any time, assuming she has not yet used up her spells per day for that spell level. Oracles do not need to provide a divine focus to cast spells that list divine focus (DF) as part of the components.
could you please link the spells your looking at?
Couldn't find it in the PRD on this site, but both spells are PFS legal by the Alternate Sources.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/d/defending-bone
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/c/channel-vigor
I personally wouldn't allow them for organized play unless you could show me were on piazo's site they say you could and you would need a print out of how the spell works just encase there is confusion. However, by rules as written Oracles do not need to provide a divine focus to cast spells that list divine focus (DF) as part of the components. there for you could not believe in a divine power and still be able to cast spells like the two listed.
edit: thank you for the links by the way.
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They are both legal according to the additional resources page.
Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Gods and Magic:
Spells: Abadar's truthtelling, blessing of the watch, burst of glory, channel the gift, channel vigor, Deadeye's arrow, defending bone, fallback strategy, Gorum's armor, Gozreh's trident, greater infernal healing, infernal healing, pick your poison, poisoned egg, shield of the dawnflower, traveling dream, unbreakable heart, waters of Lamashtu
Like Valmoon said, you either need the book or a watermarked printout in case the judge needs to see the spell.
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They are both legal according to the additional resources page.
Like Valmoon said, you either need the book or a watermarked printout in case the judge needs to see the spell.Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Gods and Magic:
Spells: Abadar's truthtelling, blessing of the watch, burst of glory, channel the gift, channel vigor, Deadeye's arrow, defending bone, fallback strategy, Gorum's armor, Gozreh's trident, greater infernal healing, infernal healing, pick your poison, poisoned egg, shield of the dawnflower, traveling dream, unbreakable heart, waters of Lamashtu
O I love how the find function didn't grab them...
then yea i'd allow them. :)
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They're legal for PFS play, but do you have to be a worshiper of the appropriate god to use them? As a cleric, I know you do, but what about oracles? That's the question.
I'm also a little confused on how oracles and deity worship work, especially in PFS. I'm making my first oracle, and he doesn't know what god cursed him with divine power. He just wants to be a warrior, and accepts that the magic that he was cursed with is always going to be part of him, so he uses it, as well. But he doesn't thank any god for it, and really does see it as a curse.
Behind the scenes, I actually haven't decided yet which deity cursed him. But I also haven't picked a mystery for sure yet, though I've got it narrowed down to Battle and Metal, since I want him to be a front line melee combatant. I'm just trying to learn about the class, so I haven't finalized any details yet.
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Good point Fromper. Looking at the Oracle (not having made one yet), I would assume that the deity would have to be a part of the mystery in order to get the spells. Since Gods and Magic came out before UM (I think), this probably wasn't thought about for the Oracle (someone correct me if I'm wrong). This looks like we could use an FAQ answer from Mike/Mark on this to see what the Campaign ruling is.
EDIT: Anyone able to find the FAQ page from the PFS main page? I may have failed my spot check, but I can't locate it.
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http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advanced/baseClasses/oracle.html
under the spells section
Unlike a cleric, an oracle need not prepare her spells in advance. She can cast any spell she knows at any time, assuming she has not yet used up her spells per day for that spell level. Oracles do not need to provide a divine focus to cast spells that list divine focus (DF) as part of the components.
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I'm also a little confused on how oracles and deity worship work, especially in PFS. I'm making my first oracle, and he doesn't know what god cursed him with divine power. He just wants to be a warrior, and accepts that the magic that he was cursed with is always going to be part of him, so he uses it, as well. But he doesn't thank any god for it, and really does see it as a curse.
Cleric: Dali Lamma, The Pope, Temple Priest in Shinto or Hindu setting, your local pastor.
Oracle: Joan of Arc, Moses, The Blues Brothers (multiclass Bard), many types of shamans, particulary the vision quest and possesion types.
In your case, part of the 'curse' might be acting in a certain way at certain times, basically, getting an 'insight', and acting on it, deciding something is important, etc.
Hope that helps.
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http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advanced/baseClasses/oracle.html
under the spells section
Unlike a cleric, an oracle need not prepare her spells in advance. She can cast any spell she knows at any time, assuming she has not yet used up her spells per day for that spell level. Oracles do not need to provide a divine focus to cast spells that list divine focus (DF) as part of the components.
That doesn't answer the question of whether or not spells that are tied to a specific deity are knowable by an oracle. For clerics, they have to worship that deity to have access to that spell. Does the same rule apply to oracles?
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That doesn't answer the question of whether or not spells that are tied to a specific deity are knowable by an oracle. For clerics, they have to worship that deity to have access to that spell. Does the same rule apply to oracles?http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advanced/baseClasses/oracle.html
under the spells section
Unlike a cleric, an oracle need not prepare her spells in advance. She can cast any spell she knows at any time, assuming she has not yet used up her spells per day for that spell level. Oracles do not need to provide a divine focus to cast spells that list divine focus (DF) as part of the components.
I'm not sure in oracles case but, I would think so because of were its placed.