Possible Oracle Trait or Feat

[Talynonyx]

I was thinking this morning about a Trait or Feat for Oracles and wanted some discussion on it.

Child of the Gods
Your life has been claimed by not one but two of the forces at work in the world. You select two Curses and two Focuses at first level. You take both the benefits and penalties of both. At levels where you would improve either, you may only advance one of the two.

*shrug* Have at it.

[vagrant-poet]

A bit two strong for a trait, and maybe even for a feat.

If it let you take and extra curse alone, that could work.

The staggered advancement of Foci wouldn't really be worth it, and anyway, the flavour of the Oracle kind of makes having two Foci a really off concept. Their the epitome and embodiment of one universal force.

However and feat that grants you an extra curse and maybe some small skill bonus aswell, like a +2 to Knowledge (religion) could work.

[Draeke Raefel]

vagrant-poet wrote:

A bit two strong for a trait, and maybe even for a feat.

If it let you take and extra curse alone, that could work.

The staggered advancement of Foci wouldn't really be worth it, and anyway, the flavour of the Oracle kind of makes having two Foci a really off concept. Their the epitome and embodiment of one universal force.

However and feat that grants you an extra curse and maybe some small skill bonus aswell, like a +2 to Knowledge (religion) could work.

They aren't really the epitome of the universal force. They are some poor person the universal force decided to give power to. They themselves have no driving force to try to uphold the forces ideals.

[vagrant-poet]

Mayhap, but they still have one Foci for a reason, a cleric can have a couple of domains, an oracle has a single focused, which they are focused on! :p

But seriously, I think it kind of contradicts the Oracles flavour to have two Foci, more curses is interesting though.

[Draeke Raefel]

vagrant-poet wrote:

Mayhap, but they still have one Foci for a reason, a cleric can have a couple of domains, an oracle has a single focused, which they are focused on! :p

But seriously, I think it kind of contradicts the Oracles flavour to have two Foci, more curses is interesting though.

I think it would be a great rp element to have 2 primal forces "fighting" over the same person. Each trying to limit/negate the others influence in the world.

[Beckett]

Heroes of Horror is a great book to look at for Oracle "traits". There is a feat that lets you speak with ghosts for 1 min/Wis after their death, "Mad Faith", which grants you more spells per day based off of your taint, and a few things with Dream Magic (and travel). + Madness. . .