Hierophant

Description

A divine spellcaster who rises high in the service of his deity gains access to spells and abilities of which lesser faithful can only dream.

The hierophant is a prestige class of clerics and druids. Hierophants are higher members of clergy and druidic circles who decide to temporarily forgo gaining the highest levels of divine magic in order to concentrate on the mastery of what they already possess. This has the chief consequence of having spells that are much more potent than normal, allowing hierophants to heal and damage much more efficiently and powerfully through understanding rather than calling on more involved prayers.

Requirements

Race: Any

Alignment: Any

Skills: Lore ( Religion ) 15 ranks OR Lore ( Nature ) 15 ranks

Feats: Any metamagic feat

Spell level: Able to cast 7th Circle Divine spells or higher

Class: Cleric, Druid, Spirit Shaman.

Class Features

- Hit Die: d8

- Base Attack Bonus: Medium

- High Saves: Fortitude, Will

- Weapon Proficiencies: A hierophant gains no weapon proficiencies.

- Armor Proficiencies: A hierophant gains no armor proficiencies.

- Skill Points: 2 + Int Modifier.

- Class Skills: Concentration, Craft Armor, Craft Weapon, Craft Alchemy, Heal, Spellcraft, Lore: Arcana, Lore: History, Lore: Local, Lore: Religion

- Spells per Day/Spells Known: The Hierophant gains more spells per day at every level. If a character had more than one spellcasting class before becoming a hierophant, he must decide which class he adds the new level for purposes of determining spells per day.

- Hierophant Levels stack with Cleric (+ Morninglord of Lathander) Levels for Turning Undead.

- Class Feats

1:
2: Special Ability
3:
4: Special Ability
5:
6: Special Ability
7:
8: Special Ability
9:
10: Special Ability

No bonus feats.

Abilities

Blast Infidel
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1
Specifics: The Hierophant now deals double the damage for any negative energy spells that he casts (inflict wounds series, death knell, harm, slay living and negative energy ray). This does not apply to Vampiric Feast or Spell-like abilities.
Use: Automatic

Faith Healing
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1
Specifics: The Hierophant now heals for double the amount when casting any of the cure wounds spells (applies to all cure wounds or mass cure wounds spells).
Use: Automatic

Mastery of Energy
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1
Specifics: Available only to hierophants with cleric levels, this ability allows a hierophant to channel positive or negative energy much more effectively, increasing his ability to affect undead. Add a +4 bonus to the hierophant’s turning checks and turning damage rolls. This ability affects other creatures than undead if the hierophant can turn other creatures, such as with a domain power.
Use: Automatic

Advanced Divine Spell Power
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1, Divine Spellpower
Specifics: Available only to hierophants with the feat Divine Spell Power, the feat now uses your full turning roll to complement casterlevel and progress DC's (You can go beyond +4). You no longer suffer negative effects from rolling poorly.
Use: Automatic

Metamagic Feat
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1
Specifics: A hierophant can choose a metamagic feat in place of one of the special abilities described here if desired. This does not include improved metamagic feats.
Use: Automatic

Gift of the Deity
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 9
Specifics: Your visage of the deity line of spells are now automatically empowered by your deity.
Use: Automatic

Inscribe Rune
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 6 or Dwarven Runesmith
Specifics: A 6th level Hierophant can learn to channel his power into runes, storing the spell for later use. He may store one spell per spell level, to a maximum of six runes, creating and imbuing the rune at modest expense compared to scribing a scroll of similar level.
Use: Automatic

Spellpower
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1
Specifics: This special ability increases a hierophant’s effective caster level by 1 for purposes of determining dependent spell variables (such as damage and DC calculation). This ability can be selected more than once up to a maximum of 3 times, for a total casterlevel bonus of +3.
Use: Automatic

Toll of Nature
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1
Specifics: The Hierophant excels with spells that attack the nerve system of living creatures, being able to alter their lethality further. The following spells recieve a +2 DC bonus; Contagion, Infestation of Maggots, Poison, Quillfire (the DC is set right now), Mass Contagion, Swamp Lung, Blood to Water, Dehydrate, Hypothermia and Cascading Plague.
Use: Automatic

Oak Friend
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1, Oaken Resilience
Specifics: A druid who has the feat oaken resilience may learn to grant the benefits of that feat to a friendly creature. This creature becomes immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, stunning and critical hits for ten minutes. Using Oak Friend costs one wildshape use.
Use: Selected

Animal Companion Progression
Type of Feat: Class Ability
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1, Animal Companion
Specifics: Your levels of Hierophant count towards your animal companion progression. You must have an Animal Companion already to profit from this feat.

Augment Form Type of Feat: General
Prerequisites: Hierophant 1, Spell Focus Transmutation

Specifics: The character becomes skilled with spells and abilities that allow him to assume another form. For the duration, the character’s base attack bonus becomes medium (unless its already higher) but cannot exceed the character’s HD. As example, a 10 Wizard 10 Eldritch Knight will have 17 BAB.

Affected Spells and Abilities: Polymorph, Shapechange.
Contrary the feat description your base attack bonus does not become medium for your level. Nor does it matter if your new BAB would become greater than medium BAB of a character of your level. Instead, this feat actually just treats your low BAB classes as if they were medium BAB classes for the purposes of calculating your new BAB while shape shifted.

Gameplay Notes

Mastery of Energy will give you also a +4 bonus to Turning check of the feat Divine Spell Power[[1]].

Class courtesy of Rasael and Karond, thorough testing by the Quality Control Team. Implementation on the server by Luna.