Oracle Revelations: ECL or oracle level for restrictions?


Round 1: Cavalier and Oracle

Dark Archive

I don't know if I missed it, or if it's just common sense, but are the restrictions for when you can take certain revelations based on character level or oracle level?

I have a Pathfinder Society character with two levels in paladin. I'm a deity-less paladin who doesn't believe in gods, and having just picked up enough XP to hit level 3, I want to start taking levels in oracle. The gods have picked up on my dunce of a character you see, and have decided to teach him a lesson for his lack of faith.

I'm taking the wind revelation, but I wondered if I could take the "invisibility" revelation at this level. It specifies that it can't be taken until 3rd-level, but it doesn't say whether or not that means 3rd-level in oracle. I'm sure there's a general ruling on this one way or the other, and my intuition is that it probably does mean I have to wait two more levels, but it strikes me that the intent of those level restrictions is to stop characters from taking certain revelations before they would be level appropriate, which means there's certainly a case for having it based on character level. If a 3rd-level oracle is level-appropriate for supernatural invisibility, I don't see why a 2nd-level paladin/1st-level oracle isn't.

Any help?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

All oracle abilities depend on oracle class level for their restrictions unless the ability specifically cites "CHARACTER level" instead of class level (or just "level"). This works the same for any class ability.

Dark Archive

That's what I figured. Glad to have it cleared up. Thanks!

Contributor

All descriptions of class abilities refer to class level rather than character level, unless otherwise specified. This goes for ALL class writeups, not just the playtest classes (otherwise all the prestige class abilities that say, "At 5th level..." would mean the character gets them as soon as they take 1 level in the prestige class because you have to be at least 5th to take a level in a prestige class).

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