Forgemaster Runeforger uses INT?


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So I just noticed this: In the Advanced Race guide, the dwarf cleric archetype Forgemaster, the Runeforger archetype says the following:

PRD wrote:
Runeforger (Su): A forgemaster may inscribe mystical runes upon a suit of armor, shield, or weapon as full-round action, using this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + her Intelligence modifier. These runes last 1 round per cleric level, but inscribing the same rune twice on an item increases this duration to 1 minute per level, three times to 10 minutes per level, and four times to 1 hour per level. Erase affects runes as magical writing. A forgemaster learns forgemaster's blessing at 1st level and may learn one additional rune at 2nd level and every 2 levels thereafter. Only one type of rune marked with an asterisk () may be placed on an item at any given time. This ability replaces channel energy.

(emphasis added)

Am I the only one who thinks this should be WIS not INT for a cleric?

Thanks,
Pol

Sovereign Court

Channel Energy uses Charisma, and it's what is being replaced by this archetype. The reason it's INT is simply to bypass the "Dwarves lose Charisma" bit without pumping more power into Wis for Clerics.


It would certainly be more powerful if it used WIS instead of INT, as most clerics are going to put their highest score in WIS, but there is no requirement that class ability be keyed off the casting stat... indeed, a clerics channel ability (which this ability replaces) is keyed off CHA not WIS, this leads me to believe that making this INT based was deliberate, and not a mistake of some sort.

Scarab Sages

It is a little weird. Maybe it was meant as a balancing factor? Although I wouldn't have thought any of the runes were that powerful...


Well, you know, I didn't even think of that. Makes sense, in an odd sort of way. I guess the thought process is "lets make divine casters sort of MAD, and leave arcane casters alone, instead of really fixing the really MAD characters...

Scarab Sages

El Baron de los Banditos wrote:
Channel Energy uses Charisma, and it's what is being replaced by this archetype. The reason it's INT is simply to bypass the "Dwarves lose Charisma" bit without pumping more power into Wis for Clerics.

That actually makes a lot of sense.

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