Hi All,
I play a neutral dhampir cleric of Sarenrae, who channels negative energy. She sees herself as beyond redemption, but finds a role for herself as a vampire slayer.
After ten levels as a cleric I'm looking at the Holy Vindicator prestige class. With its bleeding stigmata, the powers seem to jive really well with the dhampir background.
However, one problem I forsee is that the Vindicator's 3rd level power; faith healing, is useless to me. It allows me to automatically empower all cure spells, but this can only harm me (as a dhampir I can only be cured by negative energy).
Of course, I could ask my DM to house rule that in my case faith healing works with inflict rather than cure spells, but is there any way convert cure spells to negative energy whilst still making them cure spells? Perhaps a feat or class feature? Ideally looking for a core Pathfinder solution, but 3rd party content and even old 3.5 stuff might fly.
Cheers!
How can a cleric of a good deity channel negative energy in the first place?
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You are already house ruling that a cleric of Sarenrae (a good god) is channeling negative energy. Might as well continue to ask the DM if he could house rule the questions are you are asking.
A good cleric (or one who worships a good deity) channels positive energy and can choose to deal damage to undead creatures or to heal living creatures.
Yeah, I don't know how the hell a Sarenrae Cleric is Channeling Negative Energy,
you're half way there by being Neutral yourself, but the Deity ALSO needs to be Neutral to grant a choice in the matter.
So if you go with Positive Energy Channel as normal for Sarenrae, you will be Spontaneously Casting Cure spells, which work with the RAW of Faith Healing... And that, and the Channel Positive Energy, directly help you with your stated mission in life: killing vampires (undead), along with healing normal living allies.
But aside from that, Faith Healing IMHO probably should state Cure/Inflict, at least having one set version depending on how you channel energy and spontaneously cast cure/inflict spells. If you look, several other abilities are written to allow for working with either positive/negative channeling, so it doesn't make sense for Faith Healing to not. Well, it makes sense when you realize the PrC was written before dhampirs in all likelyhood, and/or dhampirs just weren't taken into account for a healing ability that only works on yourself. But that should only come into play when worshipping an Evil God or when you and the God are Neutral.
Of course, I could ask my DM to house rule that in my case faith healing works with inflict rather than cure spells...Cheers!
If you'd be playing a dwarf, would you ask your gm to ignore the reduced base speed?
Why do dhampir players alsways think it is ok to make their GMs ignore the races' drawback? If you don't like it, don't play it.