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Ok I am not 100% familiar with the Oracle class. I have read up on it as best as I can but its not answering my question so I must turn to ye old wise sages of the boards:

So how does an Oracle deal with the casting of evil/good descriptor spells. Is it the same as cleric or do the Oracle have more of a cart blanche? I currently have an Oracle in a game I run who is Chaotic Neutral. I know clerics, druids, and inquisitor can't cast spells of an alignment opposed to her own or her deity's, but since an Oracle doesn't have a deity per se, how does that work? Thanks for the insight....


They are not affected. IMHO. They do not have a good aura like a cleric or paladin.

Sczarni

The only restrictions I'm aware of are for Clerics, Inquisitors, and Warpriests (not Druids or even Paladins).

The Exchange

Any character, oracle or otherwise, will eventually shift to Neutral from overuse of Law spells, though the rate at which CN will shift to N depends a lot on your GM. But an oracle doesn't suffer any special class-related penalties for changing alignment.


Clerics have a section in their class features.

Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells wrote:


A cleric can't cast spells of an alignment opposed to her own or her deity's (if she has one). Spells associated with particular alignments are indicated by the chaotic, evil, good, and lawful descriptors in their spell descriptions.

Since the Oracle does not have anything similar to this in their class description, there is no alignment restriction on the spells they can cast.


Samasboy1 wrote:

Clerics have a section in their class features.

Chaotic, Evil, Good, and Lawful Spells wrote:


A cleric can't cast spells of an alignment opposed to her own or her deity's (if she has one). Spells associated with particular alignments are indicated by the chaotic, evil, good, and lawful descriptors in their spell descriptions.
Since the Oracle does not have anything similar to this in their class description, there is no alignment restriction on the spells they can cast.

And this is a big reason why Oracles rock.


Lincoln Hills wrote:
Any character, oracle or otherwise, will eventually shift to Neutral from overuse of Law spells, though the rate at which CN will shift to N depends a lot on your GM. But an oracle doesn't suffer any special class-related penalties for changing alignment.

Well, it moves there at the rate of DM's digression, which could be anywhere from one lick or never.

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