Hello, everyone! Advisors par excellence!
I have just a quick question on my GM’s behalf about some possible houseruling that bends the rules of archetypes. Would anything break too terribly if one allowed a paladin to take both the Sacred Servant archetype and the Oath against Fiends, especially if said paladin planned to multiclass out before ever getting the 8th-level aura/ability?
(I think that’s where the conflict preventing the archetypes stacking would come in, though I know that strictly speaking whether or not one ever gets an ability or class/feature on a particular character has no bearing on whether one can combine archetypes.)
For full disclosure, I’ll be playing the paladin, and my kid brother’s taking a turn instead of me in the GM seat for our home group, so I’m trying to avoid undue influence by virtue (vice?) of an older sister’s authority. The lunatic idea is to dabble in arcanist and head for mystic theurge eventually (and perhaps the evangelist prestige class, if we can come up with a suitable obedience for Yuelral, but that’s another homebrew question altogether).
Hmm, duly noted. *Adds to her GM-ing notes for future reference.*
Thanks for the input, and I’ll bear that in mind, though with the silly progression I’ve tentatively laid out, Planar Ally wouldn’t come in to play (and summoning also just never captured my imagination, no matter how effective it might be). I was thinking something like Paladin 7 (so without the aura at level 8 that Sacred Servant turns into summoning) / Arcanist 4 / Mystic Theurge 9, in more or less that order.
Anyway, thanks again!