Min/Max Boards

Angry video game nerd

Just a thought, after considering the class concept a little. If the barbarian is supposed to be fairly tank-like, would some sort of party defender be out of line? I am thinking an ability to redirect attacks from allies to the barbarian, or deflecting incoming ranged attacks. In this way a barbarian could help protect those party members who are in danger of being severely injured. The deflecting of melee attacks could even be a staged affair, with it initially spreading the damage between the original target and the barbarian, or some such method.

I think you missed my point... Since the God's are the source of the Cleric's spells, and they can cast Arcane spells, like fireball, using your logic and reasoning, it should be like a Wizard with a divine spell in their spellbook, and thus a Cleric should be able to memorize all their 3rd level spells as Fireball, which is quite spectacularly NOT a cleric spell.

A catch counts as a hit, it just doesn't deal damage.

If everyone can recall that Wish is not the only spell out there that can do this, Miracle and Reality Revision also accomplish the task of conferring inherent bonuses. And as a Psion with the Overchannel feat, is is quite simple to twin Reality Revision by 20. A Cleric can cast Miracle, and Twin it using Divine Metamagic, So there are alternatives to only using Wish.

Well, if anyone really thinks about it, spells like Prayer, Bless, or Recitation are all burst effects centered on the caster, which specifically stipulate who they effect, although most do it in the "Area" descriptor. The main thing to really look at there is that, unless they say things like "all allies" they effect all creatures, including the caster. Also, with regards to Recitation, the text ALWAYS supercedes the stat block.