invoker

[chrono]

Im new here but I have read some of forgotten realms books

and I was wondering does anyone here have a problem with a character who is an invoker class ?

[Mesmer]

by invoker, I am going to assume you mean a wizard that focuses in fireballs, lightening bolts, and other spells of the school of evocation, of which.. NOPE! Go for it when the server comes back up. I myself have a Sorc that -almost- purely uses offensive spells. I will warn it is a very difficult thing to pull of, more so for a wizard in this game, but it is possible, just difficult tell you get going (it will always be difficult), due to needing others to cover your spells that would normally be cast by you (the group mage) because buff spells are usually a lot more efficient here.

[chrono]

Invokers, sometimes called favored souls, are divine spellcasters who gain their power through the direct touch of a deity, carrying with them a fragment of the god's divine power.

this type of spell caster I was wanted to know if was ok to use in a character

[arisnorman1]

Never seen them played but never hurts to hit up the DM Q&A and ask if you can rp one

[Spirit of a Phoenix]

Oct 26, 2012 13:16:23 GMT -5 chrono said:

Invokers, sometimes called favored souls, are divine spellcasters who gain their power through the direct touch of a deity, carrying with them a fragment of the god's divine power.

this type of spell caster I was wanted to know if was ok to use in a character

Usually, I am one to encourage thinking outside the realm of mechanics and being creative about RPing characters, but playing a favored soul might take it a little too far. Your character would just be a title with absolutely none of the mechanics or abilities to pull it off.

From what I understand of favored souls is they cast spells much like a sorcerer does, though with divine magic and not arcane. None of the divine classes available in NWN are able to cast spells similar to how a favored soul can. As your character levels up and gains stronger divine magic, it would be expected that some of the abilities that come with being a divine soul would be granted with the advancement. Since there is no way to grant your character the abilities of a favored soul, your character in the end would just be a cleric with the favored soul title.

A favored soul is difficult to pull off because it is a base class. Using titles of classes not implemented into the game is a lot easier with prestige classes, simply because some of the classes can be imitated by a mixture of base classes, and with the knowledge that your character will not advance in the actual class.

My main PC is training to become a Heartwarder. I've actually had my character take the feats, skills, and other requirements to become a heartwarder, although she has yet to accept herself as a heartwarder and still trains to become one. Meeting these requirements is more so for myself then anything, simply because my character will not be a heartwarder mechanically, just through rp. Someday when the time is appropriate I might have my cleric take on the title. It will be an easy implement considering that all a level one heartwarder receives is a +1 charisma increment which could be represented by a +1 charisma increase from a 4th level.

I've also seen others mimic other prestige classes such as bladesinger. It just takes some planning and thinking about the possibility. As well as consideration regarding how your character would become one. I would always run the idea past a DM regardless before rolling with it.

[chrono]

as it happens I have never even been on this site before I dont even know if this is standard story board or do you have the computer programers who built a computer game . so If any DMs read this could you give me some direction.

[Mesmer]

This is a form for a server called "Forgotten Realms Cormyr", that runs the Neverwinter Nights game on it, that is a Role Play server, set within the country of Cormyr, within the Forgotten Realms Universe.

What can, and can't be done is limited by the game's mechanics, and what we can and can't emulate with the classes/feats/skills given, which follow the D&D 3rd edition rules, however the server does as much as it can to follow the 3.5 rule set, rather than the 3rd. Sadly however of the divine classes within the game (and with Favored Soul I believe never being introduced into the game tell well within 3.5, and was not even one of the original base classes) the mechanics of the class are difficult to emulate as well, as the only divine casters available are clerics, druids, paladins, and rangers. If a cleric could be RPed as a Favored Soul is a DM decision because while the mechanics wouldn't be the same as a true favored soul, the rp story behind the character would be a DM's call.

Forgotten Realms: forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
(Careful with this as much of the information has been updated to 4th edition, and thus has not taken place on the server, for any and all reading)

Neverwinter Nights Wiki: nwn.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Favored Soul: www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/cwc/20051206a

[Rane]

So to solve your worry, ide say go for it. And to make it seem legit take a few sorceror levels along with cleric. WALLA a fireball slinging divine warrior.

*shrug*

[Spirit of a Phoenix]

Oct 26, 2012 16:07:19 GMT -5 Rane said:

So to solve your worry, ide say go for it. And to make it seem legit take a few sorceror levels along with cleric. WALLA a fireball slinging divine warrior.

*shrug*

That's not exactly similar. That is more like the Mystic Theurge prestige class, that is a great RP-able class for nwn though. It can be replicated. Favored souls are basically the divine semi-equivalent of a sorcerer if cleric is considered the divine semi-equivalent to a wizard. The spells a favored soul casts are the same divine spells a cleric would be able to cast, just like how the arcane spells a sorcerer casts is what a wizard would be able to cast.

The difference would be instead of being able to pick and chose your spells for the day like a cleric or wizard would be able to. A favored soul would have a spell known list like a sorcerer and be able to cast the spells more times a day, however it would be from the cleric list of spells rather than the arcane list.

Another possibility is to play an ex-favored soul. I've met a character who RPed being an ex-favored soul. However, the character RPed losing their status as a favored soul and become a sorcerer instead. The reasoning, at least how it was explained to my character was that the character's god is fickle and took away the character's favored soul abilities and so the character now walks the path of a sorcerer. I could see a character like this perhaps believing the abilities they develop still being granted by their god, and they may still proudly claim to be a favored soul rather than acknowledge themselves as a sorcerer. Not all characters will see eye to eye on the matter though.

[Rane]

meh

[Lady Frost]

I tried to do this with permission on another server. One of the major differences is that a character doesn't pray for their spells they are given them.

I played a character that had offended Auril and she put her adventuring group through an extreme blizzard. As her party fall frozen one by one she pledged her life to serving Auril if she would save them. Auril, acting through winter wolves, had the party saved. When she awoke from passing out in the storm she had a small "birthmark" of a snowflake on the sole of her foot. Over the course of the next years my PC went on preaching in fear of Auril's might and warning people to avoid her wrath. She avoided fires and put them out when possible, she left doors open constantly etc. She was constantly doing things that pleased Auril but she didn't specifically pray and prepare her spells. I was allowed to RP her as being given them much like a Favored Soul would.

[chrono]

thank you all for your help I just have one other question its about The over god Ao it says in his bio on frw that he rules over gods and the titans but to be specific does he have power in all the domains of them or just authority over them .

[Mesmer]

Ao, to all knowledge given, does not accept followers (and assumedly does not have favored souls) as he does not concern himself with mortals, and even rarely does he take action on other gods as well. Very little is known about Ao, to the point that most high priest had no knowledge he even existed tell the times of troubles. It is known that as far as clerical ability, worship of Ao is seen as pointless as he does not give spells to his followers, and mostly just ignores them, much as he usually ignores most the gods themselves. The only exception was during the times of troubles when Ao, due to finally getting mad at the other gods over a matter, turned all them, save one into mortals to exist as one of there own followers did, and even when he allowed them to re-ascend put special rules on them, pertaining to there followers. The only god that was spared of this was the deity Helm, who was told very specifically to guard the ways back to divinity, so that none of the other deities could try to regain there status as gods tell Ao said otherwise.