Unearthed Arcana conversions


Classes: Cleric, Druid, and Paladin

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I know this isn't really in the scope of the playtest but I thought it's a good time to ask for conversion advice since it does apply to backwards compatibility.

So I'm running a sorcerer/cleric/theurge.

Just got to 2nd level (took sorc at first) and I want to play the cleric with both the cloistered cleric variant and the spontaneous divine caster variant from Unearthed Arcana.

The cloistered variant converts pretty simply. poor bab, d6 hd, 6+int skill points, Lore, extra domain, and additional class skills. Right.

But the spontaneous caster thing is tougher because of the changes to domains in PFRPG
In 3.5, a spontaneous caster gets their domain spells added to their known spells list as bonus spells to compensate for losing their spontanous healing ability but with the removal of domain spells, I can't quite figure out how to make that work. The only thing I could think was to add the cure spell of a given level as the bonus spell instead, but that doesn't help once I get to a high enough level that cure spells no longer exist.

Any advice?

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yoda8myhead wrote:
In 3.5, a spontaneous caster gets their domain spells added to their known spells list as bonus spells to compensate for losing their spontanous healing ability but with the removal of domain spells, I can't quite figure out how to make that work.

It sounds like, from what you've stated, he'd just get the spells from his three Domains added as 'free' Spells Known. Unless he's got the Healing Domain as one of his choices, he'd probably have to learn any Cure spells he wants to know using his regular Spells Known slots.

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy

Set wrote:
yoda8myhead wrote:
In 3.5, a spontaneous caster gets their domain spells added to their known spells list as bonus spells to compensate for losing their spontanous healing ability but with the removal of domain spells, I can't quite figure out how to make that work.

It sounds like, from what you've stated, he'd just get the spells from his three Domains added as 'free' Spells Known. Unless he's got the Healing Domain as one of his choices, he'd probably have to learn any Cure spells he wants to know using his regular Spells Known slots.

But domains no longer grant spells. An' there's the rub.


Perhaps you could increment the domain powers by a step.
Add +1 or extra use per day (depending on the ability) to the 1st and 8th level abilities.
Extra use of each Sp ability (2nd, 4th, 12th, 16th, 20th level abilities) per day or something like that.

-dm

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