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So I have been reading over Believer's Boon and I'm a bit hung up on it.
Prerequisite(s): Wis 13, alignment must be within one step of your deity's.
Benefit: Choose one domain granted by your deity. Once per day, you can use all 1st-level domain abilities granted to clerics of that domain. You gain access to this one ability only, not the higher-level domain ability, domain spells, or additional class skills that the domain might grant, or any bonus feats that are listed under its granted powers. Your effective cleric level in regard to this ability is 1st level.
Special: You can take this feat twice. When you take it a second time, you choose another domain granted by your deity.
If you grossly violate the code of conduct required by your deity, your alignment shifts so that it is more than one step away from your deity's, or you no longer worship your deity, you lose access to this feat. You can regain it once you atone for your misdeeds to your deity (see the atonement spell).
So Domains such as Travel and Protection, provide permanent boosts to certain aspects of characters.
Travel Domain gives you an additional 10 feet to base speed.
Protection Grants you a scaling Resistance bonus to Saves.
Now Travel seems a little more clear cut, because that first level domain ability doesn't require you have access to the speed boost to work.
However, the Protection domain does.
As a standard action you can touch an ally and grant them the resistance bonus to saves for 1 minute, causing you to lose your resistance bonus to saves for that same minute.
Now, if I don't get the scaling resistance bonus from the domain power as part of the boon, the protection domain doesn't work with the feat.
My other question is, am I always a level 1 Cleric in regards to this power. So if I took War for example, would the rage bonus always just be +1?
I was about to ask this myself, but then I found it had already been asked, so...
...bump.
The wording is off, but it explicitly says you gain ALL 1st level abilities (EXCEPT if it is a bonus Feat), even though later it makes a reference to "this one ability only". So you gain both the un-named ability (top one) - EXCEPT if it is a bonus Feat ... AND you gain the 1st named ability... The later reference to "this one ability" is inaccurate and confusing but doesn't actually negate the fact that the RAW stated you gain all 1st level abilities. (not sure how you would adjudicate which one you gained (the un-named top one, or the named one) even if you believed you only gained one)
Not really sure why they ban using the Domain Bonus Feat once/day, but that's what it says...
Those are good questions. The level scaling is definately intriguing.
Benefit: Choose one domain granted by your deity. Once per day, you can use all 1st-level domain abilities granted to clerics of that domain. You gain access to this one ability only, not the higher-level domain ability, domain spells, or additional class skills that the domain might grant, or any bonus feats that are listed under its granted powers. Your effective cleric level in regard to this ability is 1st level.
Note that it does not say "effective cleric level is equal to your character level", as it normally does when the abilities of one class are given to someone outside that class, like sorcerers with the Arcane bloodline getting familiars.
That, as written, seems to mean it does not scale (and it shouldn't scale fully at least, because that could become pretty dang broke).
A player recently wanted to take the feat but because it was so bad, I offered her the chance of spending 2 feats to make it fully scale with her level, and she was okay with that.
I dunno, the ability to get +10 foot movement and to ignore difficult terrain for several rounds a day with the travel domain is pretty enticing.