Scaled Disciple (Kobold)
Your draconic heritage manifests as divine power.
Prerequisite(s): Ability to spontaneously cast divine spells, kobold.
Benefit(s): You gain a +1 bonus to your caster level when casting spells included in the dragon domain* or subdomains. Your spontaneous divine spellcasting qualifies in place of arcane casting for the dragon disciple prestige class, and you may increase spellcasting in your spontaneous divine class as you progress in dragon disciple levels. Add the bonus spells gained from the blood of dragons ability to those you can cast as divine spells.
Druids can spontaneously cast Summon Nature's Ally, and clerics can spontaneously cast Cure or Inflict spells. So of course, I wonder if in this way those two classes can qualify to continue gaining spells while taking levels in DD.
The biggest problem here is the wording, "... you may increase spellcasting in your spontaneous divine class as you progress in [DD] levels." Can this be understood as, you continue gaining spells in the class that grants spontaneous casting? The second problem is this may be a serious case of RAW vs RAI. That people may state it's clearly meant only for the oracle & inquisitor. If so, it makes me a bit sad it only helps those two classes.
I assume the answer is no, but I can't help but get my hopes up. Though perhaps the feat would qualify for a bizarre & useless middle ground. That it qualifies a cleric or druid for DD, but due to wording it would not help with spell advancement. Any thoughts?
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Well, you could interpret that as improving spontaneous prepared casting, in which case I would probably rule that your caster level and spell level access increases, but you only have access to the higher level Cure/Inflict/SNA spells and not higher level cleric/druid spells.
The other interpretation is that this is intended for Inquisitors and Oracles hoping to go Dragon Disciple and you do not have spontaneous casting sufficient enough to qualify for the feat or PrC unless you can spontaneously cast divine spells because of the spells class feature and not the spontaneous casting class feature.
I would take the later over the former most days.