Arcane Devotee PF1e Conversion

Class Skills

The arcane devotee’s class skills are Concentration, Craft, Decipher Script, Knowledge (all skills taken individually), Profession, and Spellcraft.

Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.

Class Features

Aura (Ex): An Arcane Devotee of a chaotic, evil, good, or lawful deity has a particularly powerful aura corresponding to the deity’s alignment (see detect evil for details).

Aligned Casting: Each arcane devotee level is considered to be one additional level of the devotee’s qualifying arcane spellcasting class for purposes of determining total spells per day, spells known (if she is a spontaneous spellcaster), granted spells by class features (such as the Sorcerer’s bloodline spells), and an increased effective level of spellcasting. If the character had more than one qualifying arcane casting class before adding levels of arcane devotee, she must choose at 1st level which class advances. She does not gain any other class features or bonus feats (such as the sorcerer’s bloodline feats or abilities, or the wizard’s arcane school abilities).

Divine Secret: At 1st level and again and 3rd and 5th level, the Arcane Devotee gains a divine secret selected from the list below. Unless otherwise noted, unless otherwise noted, a divine secret can only selected once.

• Arcane Channel Energy (Su): The arcane devotee can channel energy s a cleric equal to her arcane devotee level, except that it uses her primary casting ability of the aligned casting class to determine the DC and other stat related affects of the channeling, and he must expend a spell slot of at least 1st level in order to use this ability. She can channel positive energy if she’s good aligned, or a follower of a good aligned deity, and negative energy if she’s evil or a follower of an evil aligned deity, or may choose one or the other if both she and her deity are neutral. She channels 1d6 of energy for every level of the spell sacrificed. This counts as the channel energy ability for the purpose feats that modify channeling, but not for any other qualifications. Characters that already possess channel energy from another class instead stack their arcane devotee level with their base class for the purpose of determining the power of the channel energy of their base class, but may choose to use the better of their divine or arcane casting ability to determine effects.
• Arcane Domain: The arcane devotee gains a single cleric domain as a cleric equal to her arcane devotee level, gaining the associated powers. At 1st level she gains the 1st and 2nd level domain spells on her spell list or as bonus spells known, and may cast them using the spell slots of her aligned casting class. She must respect any alignment restrictions of these spells as if she were a cleric. At 3rd level she gains the 3rd level domain spell in a similar fashion, and at 5th level gains the 4th level domain spell. Any effects or powers keyed off of wisdom can instead be keyed off the primary casting ability for the aligned casting class. Characters that have levels in a class that grant a cleric domain can instead stack their arcane devotee levels with the levels in the domain-granting class to determine progression and power of their domain powers, but may use the better of their arcane or divine casting stat to determine effects.
• Blessings of the Faithful (Su) An arcane devotee learns to harmonize their magical energies with divine casters that share their faith. Once per day per Arcane Devotee level, whenever a devotee is a target of a harmless or otherwise helpful divine spell or spell-like ability of an outsider aligned with her deity, the effect is improved as though it were enhanced by the extend spell and empower spell metamagic feats if the spell could otherwise benefit from these metamagic feats. This effect only benefits the devotee and cannot be applied to spells the devotee casts upon herself.
• Deific Obedience: The arcane devotee gains the Deific Obedience feat, and immediately gains a boon from her deity so long as she has followed the obedience of her deity. Each deity grants three boons, each more powerful than the last. If she has no deific boons from any other class, she gains the first divine boon for the deity; if she has already received boons from another class, or from the Deific Obedience feat due to hit dice, then she gains the next higher boon. Consult the On Deific Obedience article for details and house rules on divine boons. When a divine boon grants a spell-like ability, the champion’s caster level for the spell-like ability equals her total character level. The divine champion is still expected to perform the act of obedience every day needed to gain the benefits of the boon. She must be at least 3rd level to select this secret.
• Divine Academe: The arcane devotee can only select this ability if she’s a wizard or a other arcane casting class that draws their spells from an arcane school. Those that select this secret stack their arcane devotee level with their primary caster level to determine the power and progression of their arcane school.
• Divine Bloodline: The arcane devotee can only select this ability if she casts spells spontaneously from a bloodline, such as a sorcerer.Those that select this secret stack their arcane devotee level with their primary caster level to determine when the the power and progression of their bloodline spells and abilities.
• Divine Mantle: The arcane devotee gains two 0-level spells known selected from the cleric/oracle spell list. At each arcane devotee level above 1st, she selects two additional spells known from the cleric/oracle spell list of a spell level no higher than her arcane devotee level -1; so a 5th level arcane devotee could have two spells known at each spell level up to 4th level or a combination of lower level spells. Specialist wizards must select at least one of these two spells gained each level from their school of specialization.
• Divine Reach (Ex): The arcane devotee can, as a swift action, increase the range or the area of effect of any spell cast as though it applied the enlarge spell, reach spell, or widen spell metamagic feat, with no alteration in casting time or spell level. She may use this ability a number of times per day equal to her arcane devotee level. Widening an area requires three uses instead of one use of this ability. She can combine two of these metamagic effects by spending the appropriate cost in number of uses.

Bonus Feat: At 2nd level, and again at 4th level, the devotee may select as a bonus feat any metamagic, item creation, or channeling feat for which she qualifies, or Spell Focus, Greater Spell Focus, Spell Penetration or Greater Spell Penetration.

Sacred Defense (Ex): Beginning at 2nd level, the arcane devotee may add his charisma bonus (minimum +1) to a maximum of his arcane devotee level, to his saving throws; at 4th level, the minimum bonus increases to +2. This saving throw bonus does not stack with the bonus from a paladin’s divine grace, or any similar ability.

Divine Shroud (Sp): At 5th-level as an immediate action, an arcane devotee may surround himself with a shroud of glowing divine power that protects him against hostile spells. This ability functions like the Spell Resistance spell with the arcane devotee’s level stacking with his arcane caster level to determine the ability’s caster level and lasts until the end of the devotee’s next turn. The divine shroud is of a color appropriate to the arcane devotee’s patron. An arcane devotee of Tyr, for example, is surrounded by a steady, rose-purple glow, while an arcane devotee of Cyric is wrapped in a pulsating cloud of purple and black. This ability may be used a total number of times per day equal to 3 + her Charisma bonus (minimum +1).