Having looked through the SRD, I was wondering if there was a way such as an archetype for ranger to gain uses of channel energy similar to a cleric or paladin? 3rd party material is potentially OK, but I would prefer paizo material. I'm just not finding any way to do it
I don't know of any way to add Channel Energy to a ranger. It might be easier to make a class with Channel Energy more like a ranger. What exactly is your concept? What about the ranger are you interested in?
I like the archery combat style feats and was thinking of a way to add bless equipment into that to make a kind of positive energy hunter maybe affiliated with a church to hunt a little more variety of things than just favored enemy offers.
Maybe there's an inquisitor archetype that could fit this idea? I don't know much of anything about inquisitors so I can't be of much help.
Hmm. I hadn't considered Inquisitor. Never played one before. I should read this over more closely. Thank you for the idea. More thoughts are also welcome as well.
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Hmm. I hadn't considered Inquisitor. Never played one before. I should read this over more closely. Thank you for the idea. More thoughts are also welcome as well.
I don't know about any 3rd party material, but to channel as an inquisitor you need one level of cleric and the Channeling Scourge feat. However this only works for channeling to deal damage.
The Cold Iron Warden archetype gets channel, but only to damage outsiders (using Alignment Channel).
I don't think there's a way to get the combat style feats AND channel energy. But there are ways to get channel energy and other bonus feats, such as:
Cleric (crusader) - Trades in 1 domain and a spell per level for bonus combat feats
Oracle (Life mystery, warsighted) - You can get Channel Energy as a revelation, and the martial flexibility gets you extra feats
Maybe there's an inquisitor archetype that could fit this idea? I don't know much of anything about inquisitors so I can't be of much help.
Sacred Slayer Inquisitor can probably do what he wants to do.
Once again, thank you for your insights. I think either Inquisitor or Warpriest should work for the concept. I'll read them over more closely when I get home tonight. I'll also check back here in case any other ideas pop up. But again, thank you for your thoughts.
Question about the variant multiclassing. After level 7, am I required to continue taking the cleric abilities or can I begin focusing entirely on ranger?
Kind of a trick question, since it's a 'Variant' rule. Your GM has the right disallow Variant Multiclassing, and they have the right to tell you that you can stop pursuing the Multi-classing after 7th level. I see no balance issues with it, so long as you cannot resume taking the VMC option once you've stopped.
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Actually, channel scourge doesn't care if you channel positive or negative, you can only channel to harm. You can never self heal with it, even if you are healed by negative energy. When you channel you must specify harm, so you damage living creatures and ignore undead and constructs if you channel negative, or harm undead and ignore living and constructs if you channel positive.
Kind of a trick question, since it's a 'Variant' rule. Your GM has the right disallow Variant Multiclassing, and they have the right to tell you that you can stop pursuing the Multi-classing after 7th level. I see no balance issues with it, so long as you cannot resume taking the VMC option once you've stopped.
Well, a GM has the right to disallow *anything*, including human or fighter.
The actual, assumed, default rules surrounding VMC are that you make the decision at level 1, and then you're locked in forever.