Cleric and Races?

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#1

azhielle

Oct 02, 2009 17:40:32

I have a few questions.  THis is for V3.5 of DND.



Im wanting to make a Cleric/Stormlord and Im wondering what races have Cleric as their favored lcass, besides humans and dwarves of course.  I want somtehing cool like a lizard or something. .  Oh, and preferably a +0 level adjustment.  If this isnt possible, how does multi-classing exactly work, do I just subrtract 20% of all xp i earn from then on? Thanks a bunch...oh, one more question, what book is Talos in? I need him as my deity (Or if you could just give me his domains/favored weapon).  Thanks for all the help


#2

LordManshoon

Oct 02, 2009 18:01:32



I have a few questions.  THis is for V3.5 of DND.



Im wanting to make a Cleric/Stormlord and Im wondering what races have Cleric as their favored lcass, besides humans and dwarves of course.  I want somtehing cool like a lizard or something. .  Oh, and preferably a +0 level adjustment.  If this isnt possible, how does multi-classing exactly work, do I just subrtract 20% of all xp i earn from then on? Thanks a bunch...oh, one more question, what book is Talos in? I need him as my deity (Or if you could just give me his domains/favored weapon).  Thanks for all the help


#3

shadow_viper

Oct 02, 2009 19:02:34

Iirc PrCs do not count for multiclassing exp penalities.

#4

GeezerDM

Oct 03, 2009 7:08:40


Iirc PrCs do not count for multiclassing exp penalities.




Correct, no penalty for PrCs. The Drow may be your best bet, but it's got a +2 lvl adjustment. 

#5

GeezerDM

Oct 03, 2009 7:12:48

Talos' Domains: Chaos, Destruction, Evil, Fire, & Storm. Favored Weapon: Lighting Bolt (Long, short, or half spear.)


edit: sorry, I didn't realize LordManshoon had already answered this. 

#6

arctostaphyls

Oct 08, 2009 7:21:18

Here's what Players Handbook One says about multi-classing:


 


XP FOR MULTICLASS CHARACTERS
Developing and maintaining skills and abilities in more than one
class is a demanding process. Depending on the character’s class
levels and race, he or she might or might not suffer an XP penalty.
Even Levels: If your multiclass character’s classes are nearly the
same level (all within one class level of each other), then he or she
can balance the needs of the multiple classes without penalty. For
instance, a 4th-level wizard/3rd-level rogue takes no penalty, nor
does a 2nd-level fighter/2nd-level wizard/3rd-level rogue.
Uneven Levels: If any two of your multiclass character’s classes
are two or more levels apart, the strain of developing and
maintaining different skills at different levels takes its toll. Your
multiclass character suffers a –20% penalty to XP for each class that
is not within one level of his or her highest-level class. These
penalties apply from the moment the character adds a class or raises
a class’s level too high. For instance, a 4th-level wizard/3rd-level
rogue gets no penalty, but if that character raises his wizard level to
5th, then he takes the –20% penalty from that point on until his
levels were nearly even again.
Races and Multiclass XP: A favored class (see the individual
race entries in Chapter 2: Races) does not count against the character
for purposes of the –20% penalty to XP. In such cases, calculate
the XP penalty as if the character did not have that class. For
instance, Bergwin is an 11th-level gnome character (a 9th-level
rogue/2nd-level bard). He takes no penalty to his XP because he has
only one nonfavored class. (Bard is favored for gnomes.) Suppose he
then attains 12th level and adds 1st level as fighter to his classes,
becoming a 9th-level rogue/2nd-level illusionist/1st-level fighter.
He then takes a –20% XP penalty on future XP he earns because his
fighter level is so much lower than his rogue level. Were he awarded
1,200 XP for an adventure, he would receive only 80% of that
amount, or 960 XP. If he thereafter rose to 13th level and picked up
a fourth class (by adding 1st-level cleric, for example), he would take
a –40% XP penalty from then on.
As a second example, consider a dwarf 7th-level fighter/2nd-level
cleric. This character takes no penalty because his fighter class is
favored for dwarves and thus not counted when determining
whether his classes are even. Nor does he take any penalty for
adding 1st-level rogue to the mix, since his cleric and rogue classes
are only one level apart. In this case, cleric counts as the character’s
highest class.
A human’s or half-elf’s highest-level class is always considered his
or her favored class.
HOW MULTICLASSING WORKS
Lidda, a 4th-level halfling rogue, decides to expand her repertoire by
learning some wizardry. She locates a mentor who teaches her the
ways of a wizard, and she spends a lot of time looking over the
shoulder of Mialee, her party’s wizard, while the latter prepares her
spells each morning. When Lidda amasses 10,000 XP, she becomes a
5th-level character. Instead of becoming a 5th-level rogue, however,
she becomes a 4th-level rogue/1st-level wizard. Now, instead of
gaining the benefits of attaining a new level as a rogue, she gains the
benefits of becoming a 1st-level wizard. She gains a wizard’s Hit Die
(d4), a 1st-level wizard’s +2 bonus on Will saves, and 4 skill points (2
for one wizard level and +2 for her Intelligence score of 14) that she
can spend as a wizard. These benefits are added to the scores she
already had as a rogue. Her base attack bonus, Reflex save bonus, and
Fortitude save bonus do not increase because these numbers are +0
for a 1st-level wizard. She gains a 1st-level wizard’s beginning
spellbook and spells per day. Her rogue skills and sneak attack
capability, however, do not improve. She could spend some of her 4
skill points to improve her rogue skills, but, since they would be
treated as cross-class skills for a wizard, these skill points would each
buy only one-half rank. (The exceptions are any Craft or Profession
skills she may have, since Craft and Profession are class skills for
both the rogue and the wizard.)
On reaching 15,000 XP, she becomes a 6th-level character. She
decides she’d like to continue along the wizard path, so she increases
her wizard level instead of her rogue level. Again she gains the
wizard’s benefits for attaining a new level rather than the rogue’s. As
a 2nd-level wizard, she gains another d4 Hit Die, her base attack
bonus and Will save bonus each go up by +1, she gains 4 more skill
points, and she can now prepare another 0-level spell and another
1st-level spell each day (as noted on Table 3–18: The Wizard).
Additionally, as a 6th-level character overall she gets her third feat
(as per Table 3–2: Experience and Level-Dependent Benefits, page
22).
At this point, Lidda is a 6th-level character: a 4th-level rogue/2ndlevel
wizard. She casts spells as a 2nd-level wizard does, and she
sneak attacks as a 4th-level rogue does. Her combat skill is a little
better than a 4th-level rogue’s would be, because she has learned
something about fighting during her time as a wizard. (Her base
attack bonus went up +1 when she became a 2nd-level wizard.) Her
base Reflex save bonus is +4 (+4 from her rogue class and +0 from
her wizard class), better than a 6th-level wizard’s but not as good as a
6th-level rogue’s. Her base Will save bonus is +4 (+1 from her rogue
class and +3 from her wizard class), better than a 6th-level rogue’s
but not as good as a 6th-level wizard’s.
At each new level, Lidda must decide whether to increase her
rogue level or her wizard level. Of course, if she really wants to have
diverse abilities, she could even acquire a third class—maybe
fighter.


 


I am multi-classing a Fighter with a Cleric in DnD 3.5 and what my DM and I did to avoid the penalties was since my Fighter was level 4, we made my Cleric side level 1.  That way, my main class is always ahead in levels from my secondary class.  That's the way we understand the rules anyway.


 


I looked in Players Handbooks 1 and 2 and in Complete Divine and didn't see the god you mentioned.  Try doing a search for the god on a search engine like www.metacrawler.com, google or bing.com.  You may have to put DnD or D&D or Dungeons and Dragons in the search with the name to find it. 


 


Hope this helps.