Paladin without a Holy Symbol: Which abilities work without his DF?

[Jose 2603]

Hello All,

please excuse any grammar or spelling mistakes. Having been born (and living) in Germany english is not my native language.

I checked the Rules Questions and found already something regarding replacing a Divine Focus with a newly crafted (wooden) symbol. But didn't found a thread that answered my question. If I did overlook, please send me the link to it?

Anyways... Well, I hope I got this right.

After having lost (in whatever manner) my holy symbol:

No spells with the component DF work
No Channeling of positive energy works as this requires to present the holy symbol
No Feats with the Channel component like: Alignement Channel, Channel Smite, and, of course Improved Channel work, since Channeling itself doesn't work

Class abilities like Lay on Hands, Mercies, Detect Evil and Smite Evil and so on still work without the holy symbol? (Well, maybe unless his god is soooo displeased with his Paladin for loosing his symbol that he rewokes the Paladin's powers for a while?)

Well, the final decission is of course my Gamemaster's ruling, but I would like to give him the right tools so he can make the right ruling ;-)

Okay, guess that's it right now.
Hope you can help me out!

Cheers,
Jose

[KenderKin]

Ok first thing....welcome to the boards!

As far as I can tell....

A paladin would keep all abilities, except channel energy....

and of course spells that require the divine focus.....

So for the most part you should be fine......
Next time be sure to purchase at least 10 holy symbols, they are cheap and can be sundered by opponents....

Second you might consider a craft skill such as wood carving and buying the tools to do it.....

I have had to carve a holy symbol before....think of the old movies where they carve a gun out of soap....

Hope this helps.....

[Jose 2603]

KenderKin wrote:

Ok first thing....welcome to the boards!

As far as I can tell....

A paladin would keep all abilities, except channel energy....

and of course spells that require the divine focus.....

So for the most part you should be fine......
Next time be sure to purchase at least 10 holy symbols, they are cheap and can be sundered by opponents....

Second you might consider a craft skill such as wood carving and buying the tools to do it.....

I have had to carve a holy symbol before....think of the old movies where they carve a gun out of soap....

Hope this helps.....

Hello KenderKin,

oh my. Thank You so much. I hadn't expected such a superfast reply to my query. Really appreciate that. And thanks for the welcome.

Yep. I guess I should have bought some more foci, LOL. But then... I didn't want to look like I was expecting losing them... Tsk... I can hear my Gamemaster... Have faith... :-)

And yes. Guess I will spend some skill points in craft wood carving with my next level advancement. Never gave that skill a thought for my paladin. Should have... sigh...

Thanks, yes, this helps!!!