Inquisitor Channeling


Rules Questions


This may have been asked before, but couldnt find a definitive answer. If you are playing an Inquisitor/cleric with negative channeling can you take versatile channel to channel postive energy also?

Grand Lodge

First, this isn't a PFS question, so it should be in the Rules forum. Second, to actually answer the question, you cannot. The prerequisite of the feat require you to be a cleric or necromancer. You are neither.

Shadow Lodge

Actually, you can.

The channeling Scourge feat says that your Inquisitor levels count as cleric levels, when channeling to deal damage.

However, if you channel to heal it wouldn't work.

Channeling Scourge:
Your zeal for hunting your faith’s enemies empowers your ability to channel divine energy, as long as you channel that energy for harm.

Prerequisite: Channel energy class feature, inquisitor level 1st.

Benefit: When you use channel energy to deal damage, your inquisitor levels count as cleric levels for determining the number of damage dice and the saving throw DC.

Versatile Channeler:
You can choose to channel positive and negative energy.

Prerequisites: Channel energy class feature, necromancer or neutrally aligned cleric (see below).

Benefit: You may make a choice whenever you use your channel energy class feature.

If you normally channel positive energy, you may choose to channel negative energy as if your effective cleric level were 2 levels lower than normal.

If you normally channel negative energy, you may choose to channel positive energy as if your effective cleric level were 2 levels lower than normal.

Having this feat means you qualify for feats and abilities that have "channel positive energy" or "channel negative energy" as a prerequisite (for example, you qualify for the Command Undead feat and the Turn Undead feat).

Note: This feat only applies to necromancers, neutral clerics who worship neutral deities, or neutral clerics who do not worship a deity -- characters who have the channel energy class ability and have to make a choice to channel positive or negative energy at 1st level. Clerics whose alignment or deity makes this choice for them cannot select this feat.

An Inquisitor/Cleric multiclass can take Vesatile Channeler, because Versatile channeler only requires you to be a cleric, it never specifies level, and since your Inquisitor levels stack with the cleric levels, it would work when channeling to harm.

Sczarni

You'd probably have better luck asking this question in the Rules Forum.

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