We're currently gearing up for Skull and Shackles and I've decided to play a more or less healing themed character.
At the moment I have a Life Oracle all written up and ready to plunder- but I couldn't help wonder how comparable a cleric would be for the role.
The problem? Besmara doesn't have Healing as a domain. In fact- she doesn't have anything close to it, and I really really want to be her follower.
(for the record, Her domains are Chaos, Trickery, War,
Water, and Weather, and her favored weapon is the rapier.)
Soo is there anyway to get the Healing domain when your deity doesn't supply it?
or is my only option to swap deities?
Any Pathfinder product is on the table. 3pp might be considered- but I'd rather not have to buy a book just for this one little thing.
-S
Separatist archetype!
Well you'll still have plenty of healing even without the healing domain. You just won't have the boost it offers. Even without it Clerics can far out heal other classes.
But I can think of no way, off the top of my head, to get a domain added to a God's portfolio.
Also the War domain she offers is fantastic. The ability to switch out feats is great.
Is Besmara set in stone?
In fact- she doesn't have anything close to it, and I really really want to be her follower.
Seems like it.
I've been told that an Oracle of Life out-heals a cleric any day of the week. The Life Mystery offers some nice boosts and Oracles are completely Cha-based (so easier to get more daily channels since you're not splitting between Wis/Cha).
That said, Cheapy's suggestion w/ the Separatist archetype is the only one that I'm aware of by-RAW where you could do this.
Of course, if you're not playing Pathfinder Society (I don't believe that Skull and Shackles is PFS, but I could be wrong...), then the DM can just bend the rules a tiny bit for you there. You can always offer up a character 'defect' as a trade for it. For example, your character struggles internally between helping and killing others, maybe normally wants to help but has a short fuse to jump into killing. So you take the Healing domain and the War or Chaos domain. It's not that big of a bend, and it adds some interesting flavor.
Its not PFS.
I could change deities but she meshes so much with the whole campaign idea that it seems a pity not to follow her. ( i mean c'mon, its pirates!)).
Thanks for the Separatist. I'll look it up and give it a read through.
I'm bout 80% wedded to the oracle at this point. Getting very nearly every single heal type spell on my spells known for free means i can use my SK's for buffs and.. well, nearly anything else I feel that I need to be able to cast.
(Between the cure spells and the ones you get for being Life, most of the bases are covered already)
Add in channel at chaXday with that being my casty stat and you have alot of healing love. (and at later levels- blowing the lid off healing spells and turning into a healing elemental are pretty nice too).
On the cleric side though you get auto-empowered healing for free, still get channels, and the ability to spont any cure spell coupled with the ability to memorize anything on the cleric list.
While the oracle has more lil neat things, the ability to swap out your entire spell list tomorrow when the need arises is really very very versatile.
So I at least wanted to explore that option fully rather than just saying "nah, will go oracle and not even look into the cleric thing".
so..
thanks for the info :)
-S
War and trickery Domains do we really need to say more...
You can still channel and spontaneous casting cure spells.