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Inspired by the description of "7 days to the grave", I'm creating a doctor: specifically, a human wizard with Heal as his bonus racial skill, the abjuration specialty, and the Arcane Disciple feat from Complete Divine (with Irori or Sarenrae as his deity). I like the power of arcane magic and don't want a combat-focused cleric. So this build seemed like a match. However, the Arcane Disciple feat doesn't interact well with the new divine domain system. I've posted the feat below. Any suggestions for how to apply the feat?
I suspect this is a typical example of the kinds of problems folks will encounter despite "backward compatibility." Some kind of cloistered cleric variant or white necromancer could solve this build as well.
ARCANE DISCIPLE [GENERAL]
Choose a deity, and then select a domain available to clerics of that deity. You can learn to cast the spells associated with that domain as arcane spells.
Prereq: Knowledge (religion) 4 ranks, Spellcraft 4 ranks, able to cast arcane spells, alignment matches your deity's alignment.
Benefit: Add the chosen domain's spells to your class list of arcane spells. If you have arcane spellcasting ability from more than one class, you must pick which arcane spellcasting ability this feat applies to. Once chosen, this decision cannot be changed for that feat.
You may learn these spells as normal for your class; however, you use Wisdom (rather than the normal ability for your spellcasting) when determining the save DC for the spell. In addition, you must have a Wisdom score equal to 10 + the spell's level in order to prepare or cast a spell gained from this feat.
Each day, you may prepare (or cast, if you cast spells without preparation) a maximum of one of these domain spells of each level.
There are a few possible ways to do it that I can see right now.
1.) Have a list of spells, 1 for each level that the caster gains access to based on the deity, not the domain.2.) change the spell-like abilities into spells (2nd level ability is a 1st level spell, 4th level ability is a 2nd level spell, 8th level ability is a 4th level spell, 12th level ability is a 6th level ability, and so on)
3.) for wizards at least, allow them to choose between their specialty power for a given level or their chosen domain's power for that level on a daily basis. For example, an 4th level illusionist with this feat who had chosen the air domain could choose between invisibility or gust of wind for his 4th level ability, but could only use one of those abilities. For an ability with multiple uses, then he could only use the domain ability once in a given day.