Cavalier Order of the Star and Life Oracle channeling


Rules Questions


I'm working on a character with the goal to enter into the Holy Vindicator Prestige class. To qualify for the requirements, I'm looking into a Cavalier/Oracle multiclass.

The Cavalier order of the Star has the following ability:

Calling (Ex):

At 2nd level, the cavalier can make a short prayer as a standard action, filling him with confidence in his abilities. At any point in the next minute, he can receive a competence bonus on an ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check equal to his Charisma modifier. He must declare that he is using this bonus before the roll is made. He can use this ability up to four times per day, once for each type of check or roll. In addition, the cavalier adds 1/2 his cavalier level to any levels of paladin or cleric he might possess for the purposes of determining the effects of channel energy or lay on hands.

By RAW as written above, this rule only adds to channeling for the Paladin and Cleric. However, is there any ruling that this might add to the channeling from the Oracle Life mystery? I've read an earlier post by Sean Reynolds that seems to imply that all channeling should be treated the same, for Cleric, Paladin and Life Oracle. (link).

Is that explanation enough to stack Cavalier levels with Oracle levels for channeling? Would that hold up to work in PFS? Is there anything else written about this interaction, perhaps?


I'd allow it.


Well...

Life mystery wrote:
Channel (Su): You can channel positive energy like a cleric, using your oracle level as your effective cleric level when determining the amount of damage healed (or caused to undead) and the DC. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 1 + your Charisma modifier.

It says you channel like a cleric, and treat oracle level as effective cleric level. I'd say that it stacks. For PFS, I'm not sure.


The problem is that you get to 1/2 your cavalier level to levels of paladin or cleric.

While an oracle's Channel Energy might be equivalent to a cleric's Channel Energy, a level of oracle is certainly not the same as a level of cleric.

For example, say you were an Oracle 6/Cleric 1. You then take 2 levels of Cavalier. You still have an effective Oracle channeling level of 6, but your cleric's effective channeling level increases to 2.


Don't see an issue there. 9 levels to be a channeling 6 and 2.


Thanks for the replies. As I thought, a case can be made for either side. I'll look into playing the cleric, just to be safe. On the other hand, I'd only lose one effective level of channeling if a GM follows the strict interpretation. That's not the end of the world. I'll set both builds side by side and see which appeals to me more.

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