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This is one of my recent homebrew classes, which is essentially a divine variant of the arcane alchemist. The basic form will look familiar to anyone familiar with the alchemist class, but there are some new additions as well.
The ritualist has a ritual book, which is used to create spells in a bottle. Very much like the alchemist. I have never been 100% thrilled about that class's spell list, so I want to spend time working on this one. It's been rough.
With a blending of the bomb and lay on hands class features, the ritualist has vessels. These heal damage to creatures of a similar alignment and harm those of opposing alignments.
A ritualist learns devotions as she gains levels. She can grant her new abilities or alter the ways her other class features work. Some take cues from the alchemist's discoveries, but others can be selected only if deity has the appropriate domain.
THE RITUALIST. Take a gander.
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I like your ideas. a divine potion/alchemy man is sweet. the only thing is see as a problem is that vessels only can damage certain aligned targets. it seems very limiting especially since most animals are neutrally aligned. good for killing undead or shiny knights but i can't hurt a deer even as a chaotic evil ritualist. Maybe what the vessel does is connected to your alignment like the channel ability for clerics? evil ritualist vessels deal damage to living creatures or heals undead while good ritualist vessels deal damage to undead or heals living?
The vessels hurt any creature two or more alignment steps away, so indeed a CE ritualistic could hurt an animal. So could CG, LE, and LG. I know it's a different but that's what I was going for. The way you suggest is how the ability started out, and I was getting frustrated with that way.
Good to see some free ritualizing stuff. ;)
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Nothing against anything else you're doing here, but: Whoever said the Alchemist was "arcane?" I suppose it may be in at least many of the all-too-underappreciated metaphysical senses, but it isn't arcane magic as such - it's alchemical magic, Paizo's 3rd form of magic to add to arcane and divine (psychic magic was then added as a wonderfully distinctive 4th).
Hm. Is suppose I said it was arcane. Perhaps because the alchemist can copy spells from a wizard's spellbook, perhaps because I wanted to be able to summarize the gist of the class in just a couple of words in the thread subject line. If your point is that they don't cast spells and that the rules never state that he is an arcane caster, then fine. Neither is my ritualist "divine". However, an alchemist is certainly more arcane than he is divine - if we had to fall on one side of the fence or the other.