Hi, I'm Sharkles and I like clerics. A lot. I'm always looking for opportunities to make more varied and interesting via homebrew.
To my knowledge, there has never been the option for a cleric of an elemental deity to channel anything other than positive or negative energy, even though it would be thematically appropriate to do so.
This is why I've thought up this feat, and would appreciate feedback on if it's boring, weak, or overpowered. This includes the name, which I'm not really satisfied with.
Prerequisite: CHA 13; channel energy class feature; air, earth, fire, water, or weather domain.
Benefit: Select a type of simple blast available to kineticists that matches one of the listed prerequisite domains (air or electric blast for air or weather domain, cold or water blast for water domain, etc.) excluding telekinetic blast. Once this choice is made, you may not change it.
You may use that type of blast at-will as a kineticist, with effective kineticist level equal to cleric level to determine save DC and using channel energy dice to determine damage (including +1 damage per die for physical blasts). Also, use charisma in place of constitution for all variables associated with the blast.
You may instead expend 1 use of your channel energy ability to deal this same damage in place of positive or negative energy effects.
Treat this as channel energy for feats that modify channel energy, such as improved channel or selective channel.
Benefit: You may select this feat again, allowing you to select a second type of simple blast that matches one of your domains. As well, you may expend 1 use of your channel energy ability to deal damage as per a composite blast associated with two blast types you have available, with the same limitations as listed above.
Good? Bad? Unclear? Anything missing? Please let me know.
I figure that any class can deal comparable (if not more) damage than an at-will kinetic blast, and it doesn't quite steal the kineticist's thunder because it doesn't allow wild talents to be selected or used. However, it has its own specific flair since it can be used as a 30-foot burst based off a limited resource.
Aside from that, I'm not sure I'll stick with the weather domain counting as the air domain for blast types or prereqs, but that's from my own bias; I just don't like the air domain that much.
Specify simple blast for the first part.
I knew I missed something. Fixed!
Also, the number of blasts a day should be limited or weakened, significantly, you shouldn't be able to steal a Kineticist's whole deal just by taking a feat.
I was definitely worried about that, but how do you suggest I limit it? Give it a separate level+CHA pool or something like that?
The reason I stuck with at-will is because I figured that kineticists getting infusions and wild talents gave them more worth than just doing damage.
If you need to weaken it, have it be based off CON. Otherwise, CHA scaling shouldn't hurt too much.
I'm not worried about that because CHA is too often pushed aside. Besides, clerics are MAD enough without selecting this feat.
Also, I realised that you can technically get a composite blast at 3rd level with this feat. Lovely. Gonna have to fix that somehow.