Spontaneously casting domain spells with your normal spell slots. Is it possible?


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I thought I saw a way to sacrifice a cleric's normal spell for whatever domain spell he prepared that day. However I can't find it. It may have also been 3.5 or a 3rd party ability.


I remember there being something in 3.5 which allowed this. I know there is a PHB2 variant cleric in 3.5 which has it as a class feature. A quick google also gives me this feat from complete divine.

As far as I know there is nothing in pathfinder. Evangelist cleric and Ecclesitheurge get similar abilities, but not exactly what you are after.

Grand Lodge

Not that I have seen, although there may be a feat for allowing the ability to swap which Domain spell is actually cast spontaneously form the domain slot. Domain spontaneity or some such? Might be in the ACG.

Storm Druids appear to have the ability: Spontaneous Domain Casting
A storm druid can channel stored spell energy into domain spells that she has not prepared ahead of time. She can “lose” a prepared spell in order to cast any domain spell of the same level or lower. This replaces spontaneous casting.


That might be what I was thinking of.


Hey, check it out, the D&D 3.5 SRD now has a Google-powered search sort of like that on d20pfsrd.org, except they went to the extra trouble to give it their own them instead of sticking with the default Google theme.

D&D 3.5 had the Epic feat Spontaneous Domain Access -- but this was actually not just Epic, but Epic+ (Prerequisites: Wis 25, Spellcraft 30 ranks, ability to cast 9th-level divine spells -- yes, that's **30** ranks of Spellcraft, meaning you can't even get this for your 1st 9 Epic levels). Closest thing I know of in Pathfinder is **preparing** (not spontaneous casting) domain spells in your normal spell slots: Ecclesitheurge can prepare primary domain (not secondary domain) spells in normal spell slots.

EDIT: Ninja'd by the post about Storm Druids -- I forgot to look at anything other than Clerics.

Scarab Sages

Theologian clerics can prepare domain spells in normal slots, in exchange for only one domain.


^I thought Cleric had an archetype other than Ecclesitheurge that did this, but couldn't think of what it was and missed it in the archetypes list -- thanks.

Scarab Sages

Urban Druids also have spontaneous domain casting, with domain selection closer to a cleric's.


Thanks. I like the Theologian better than trying to use a 3.5 feat.

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