The Oracle's "Divine Access" feat and choosing Deities in society


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While planning my Oracle in advance, I stumbled upon the Oracle feat known as Divine Access. Now I have tried wrapping my head around the rules in Society when it comes to "having access" and I wanted to confirm with the rest of the people here this is how it works:

1.) When taking this feat, an Oracle of Bones can choose a Deity that provides the Death or Undeath domains. This Deity does not have to be any Deity that your character worships or reveres, nor has to be within acceptable alignment range (as is for Clerics). It is however restricted to the Character Options of Society play, meaning that the Deity needs to be of "Standard Availability" (So yes for Urgathoa and Zyphus, but no to Kabriri and Zura).

2.) When said Oracle of Bones picks Barzahk for the Divine Access feat, it is allowed to add up to three spells, the spells that are in Barzahk's list: Longstrider, Knock, and Teleport. That last one is Uncommon and is not allowed to be chosen/learned by anyone under regular circumstances. But because the feat (and choice of Deity) gives the option of picking Teleport, it is legal in society play to pick it up, right? So such an Oracle is allowed to pick and cast the Teleport spell though this method, correct?

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1) Yes
2) No. As far as I'm aware (and asssume), teleport is not (and I suspect will never be) legal. There likely needs to be an org play declaration on what spell that teleport is switched to.

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I believe the answer to both is "Yes", because the Character Options page doesn't show teleport as "Limited" or "Restricted", meaning it's of "Standard" availability and Uncommon rarity.

But I agree with Leo that it probably should be Restricted, so if you select it with this feat, plan on the possibility of your "deity" having a change of mind in the future.

EDIT: as far as I can tell, a regular Cleric of Barzahk has Access to teleport as well, so a different spell option would likely have to be added to the Gods and Magic section.

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Well, at least there is consensus regarding question 1, so that is great.

As for question 2 I assumed the same as Nefreet, but wasn't sure. I now also realize that I probably used the most polarizing spell to implement into the question, while it could also have been Drop Dead through Nadiri or Modify Memory through Narakaas. To be honest, I do not care much for Teleport and probably won't pick Barzahk anyway, I just wanted to know what my options actually were in Society.

Thanks for your insights, both of you.

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If they're not Limited or Restricted, then having it on deity entry grants you access to the Uncommon option.

Whether it should be Limited or not is another question.

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Zon Kuthon also gives shadow walk as a note.

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Pulura also grants teleport.

As far as I can tell, teleport is simply uncommon. So I don't see why you *shouldn't* be able to access it?

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