Hey guys,
MY GM is starting up an interesting group with a lot of new players. To keep things simple, he's restricting us only to Core rulebook for the sake of the campaign.
I had an interesting idea based around an offensive battle cleric. Basically I'd be using the Law Domain with Net proficiency to really tie up bad guys. It's a good way to auto hit with them, which would make killing stuff a lot easier. I'd also be front line so I could follow up and kill stuff more easily myself in doing so.
I'm not the group healer, though, and I was thinking of taking Plant as my second domain, mainly for entangle and other spell utility later on.
My problem, however, is the channel energy ability. Since I'm not the healer, I want to be able to do burst negative energy damage. The only deity who has both domains, however is Erastil, who is LG. My tenative alignment is going to be LN, but if I'm reading the rules correctly, my deity restricts me to channeling positive energy. Am I correct on this, and is there another way around it, or do I need to take a different deity and second domain?
Look at the second paragraph. So you are restricted to positive energy if you worship Erastil.
However, if you can convince the DM that you worship a "philosophy" and you are a neutral cleric, you might get away with what you are looking for.
-- david