Arcanist Archetype: Divinist

 While I was writing Legendary Oracles, this one was left out. It wasn’t fully developed. It could not yet be. I could go back to add some things -or many things- to it in the future. Please note that it’s stackable with the White Mage, too.

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Divinist (Arcanist Archetype)

A divinist is a strange sort of spellcaster; as a philosopher, she gained divine power by her own studies on how the rapport between mortals and gods work, rather than being selected by one god in particular.

Divine Spellcasting: A divinist is a divine spellcaster and uses the cleric/oracle spell list instead of the wizard/sorcerer spell list. The divinist uses her Wisdom score, rather than her Intelligence score, to determine which levels of spells she can cast, her spells’ save DC, and how many spells she can cast per day. However, she has not automatically access to every spell in her list, as a cleric. Rather, she must learn spells and transcribe them Into a prayer book. She can’t prepare any spell not recorded in her prayer book, except for read magic (which all arcanists can prepare from memory).

An arcanist begins play with a prayer book containing all 0-level cleric/oracle spells plus three 1st-level spells of her choice. The arcanist also selects a number of additional 1st-level spells equal to her Wisdom modifier to add to the spellbook. At each new arcanist level, she gains two new spells of any spell level or levels that she can cast (based on her new arcanist level) for her prayer book. At any time, a divinist can also add spells found in scrolls, divine spellbooks, or other divinists’ prayer books to her own (see Divine Magic Writings).This ability alters the spells and spellbooks class features.

Orisons: A divinist can prepare a number of orisons, or 0-level divine spells, each day as per the arcanist’s spells prepared table. These spells are cast like any other spell, but they do not consume spell slots. As with her other spells, these spells are not expended when cast.

Exploits: A divinist gains access to the following arcanist exploits:

Domain Meditation: The arcanist can select one deity with an alignment within one step of her own, and one cleric domain that deity grants. The arcanist gains one domain power as though she were a 1st-level cleric, using her Charisma modifier in place of her Wisdom modifier for this power. The power must be one gained at 1st level and is limited in its use per day to 3 + the arcanist’s Charisma modifier. As a swift action, the arcanist can expend 1 point from her arcane reservoir to bolster her meditation, allowing her to treat her arcanist level as her cleric level for the purpose of using this power for a number of rounds equal to her Charisma modifier (minimum 1). During this time, she also gains use of any other abilities gained at 1st level for her selected domain (except for domain-granted familiars). She does not gain any other abilities when using this exploit in this way, such as those gained at 8th level. If the arcanist already has access to domains (or gains it later), taking this exploit instead allows her arcanist levels to stack with the levels of the class that granted them when determining the powers and abilities of her domains.

Mysteric Initiation: The divinist selects one oracle mystery upon taking this exploit. The divinist gains one revelation from that mystery as though she were a 1st-level oracle. As a swift action, the arcanist can expend 1 point from her arcane reservoir to bolster her latent connection to spirits, allowing her to treat her arcanist level as her oracle level for the purpose of using this ability, which lasts for a number of rounds equal to her Charisma modifier (minimum 1). She does not gain any other abilities when using this exploit in this way, such as an oracle’s curse. If the arcanist already has access to revelations (or gains it later), taking this exploit instead allows her arcanist levels to stack with the levels of the class that granted her access to the revelations when determining the powers and abilities of her revelations.