Spellslinger's Arcane Gun--with Divine Spells?


Rules Questions


Ok, so I know that the ability is called "Arcane" Gun, but the wording of the ability doesn't specify that I must use arcane spells to power it. It just says "A spellslinger can cast any rangef touch attack, cone, line, or ray spells through his arcane gun"

Does that mean it'll work with Divine Spells? Also, does it still have arcane spell failure chance for somatic components if I fire through the gun?

Same question with the Mage Bullets ability--no specification that it must be arcane, so can I fuel it with divine spells?

Thanks


mbauers wrote:

It just says "A spellslinger can cast any rangef touch attack, cone, line, or ray spells through his arcane gun"

Does that mean it'll work with Divine Spells?

The FAQ says: "General rule: If a class ability modifies your spellcasting, it applies to your spells from all classes, not just spells from the class that grants the ability. (The exception is if the class ability specifically says it only applies to spells from that class.)"

mbauers wrote:
Also, does it still have arcane spell failure chance for somatic components if I fire through the gun?

I assume the gun has no effect on ASF.


I see it as thus:

If a class specifically says no, like the magus, then no, Y spell won't work with X ability.

If a class does not use a clalifier like the above, then it's open. Like arcane gun just says you can sack a spell and get a way better ability than the magus arcane pool, or fire ray or ranged touch spells. If it needed to say arcane, it would.

Besides, it's not PFS legal, so unless your GM is a cryhard you should be good. You can be a Cleric/Wis and sack your Wiz spells for seeking, ghost touch or vicious, all in nice armor. To bad for dhampiers that vicious is untyped energy.


Yeah, I was thinking of going mystic theurge, hehe.

Which brings me to my follow up question--if I take a level that gives me +1 level to spellcasting, like mystic theurge, do I still get domain spells for those levels? Like, if I'm cleric 4/ wizard 3/ theurge 1, I count as level 5 cleric--do I get a domain spell for 3rd level spells?

Thanks for the responses

Scarab Sages

mbauers wrote:

Yeah, I was thinking of going mystic theurge, hehe.

Which brings me to my follow up question--if I take a level that gives me +1 level to spellcasting, like mystic theurge, do I still get domain spells for those levels? Like, if I'm cleric 4/ wizard 3/ theurge 1, I count as level 5 cleric--do I get a domain spell for 3rd level spells?

Thanks for the responses

My understanding was no, as the domain spells are a feature of the cleric class, but since they are included in his spell progression tree, I may be incorrect here.


PRD wrote:
A cleric gains one domain spell slot for each level of cleric spell she can cast, from 1st on up.

i.e., it's not dependent on cleric level at all.

If you still doubt, consider the alternative: a theurge would only get access to any unlocked domain slots when she takes another cleric level. How arbitrary is that ?

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