| trik |
In an effort to avoid potential rules disagreements, I want to get some opinions on the Channel Energy feats from Inner Sea Gods and multiple Channel Energy pools. Here's the situation:
Aasimar Life Oracle lvl 6, Cleric lvl 1 of Desna
Life Oracle provides 6 positive energy channels daily at lvl 9 (+1/2 lvl to one revelation favored class bonus) for 5d6. Phylactery of Positive Channeling brings this up to 7d6. Cleric level provides 8 channels at 1d6 or 3d6 with Phylactery.
The feat Protective Channel is selected. It reads:
Prerequisite(s): Channel energy 7d6, worshiper of a good deity
Benefit(s): When you channel positive energy to heal living creatures, you can choose to affect healed creatures with a protection from evil spell (caster level equal to your effective cleric level).
Two Questions
1) Is this selection legal, with the Phylactery of Positive Energy +2d6 allowing for qualification?
2) If so, would the 3d6 cleric channels also provide protection from evil (at caster lvl 1) or only the channels that qualify for the feat?
A follow up question is then,
3) If Liberation Channel were selected at character level 9, could you apply the effects of both Liberation Channel and Protective Channel simultaneously to all of your channels?
Liberation Channel
Prerequisite(s): Channel energy 7d6, worshiper of a god of freedom or celebrations.
Benefit(s): When you channel positive energy, any creature healed by the channel also gains the effect of freedom of movement for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1 round). This effect has a caster level equal to your effective cleric level.
Per RAW, it seems like ALL channels you have are empowered by the feats, but you need at least one channel pool to meet the requirements of the feat to be able to take the feat. At least this is my understanding and the way I believe it works. However, I can see the potential argument that the feats only apply to channels that meet the requirements of the feat. What do you think?
cartmanbeck
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I think that would all work as far as prerequisites go, yes. HOWEVER, you can't actually take both of those feats, because the prerequisites are to be a worshipper of two different gods. You've obviously used d20pfsrd.com for your reference here, which is fine, but if you're trying to play by RAW, you need to check the actual text in Inner Sea Gods.
Protective channel requires that you worship Iomedae, and Liberation channel requires that you worship Cayden Cailean. RAW, you can only choose one of those two gods to be your primary patron god, so you can't take both feats.
The black raven
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Actually, you can worship as many Gods as you want as long as you are NOT a Cleric. Those are one-God only.
At least, this is how I understand JJ's answer to my question here. YMMV
| David knott 242 |
Actually, you can worship as many Gods as you want as long as you are NOT a Cleric. Those are one-God only.
At least, this is how I understand JJ's answer to my question here. YMMV
You can offer prayers to as many deities as you want to. You can only gain the mechanical benefits from worshiping a patron deity from a single deity at a time, however.
| trik |
In PFS you are only allowed to receive mechanical benefits from one god, but I don't believe there is any such statement for Pathfinder in general. I imagine that many GM's might enforce such a thing, regardless.
Yes, this is for PFS. Thanks for the answers everyone. It's unfortunate that I can't do quite what I wanted to, but it's better to know now than later.