Talk:Crusader Cleric

Smite ability

Discussed this a bit with GM. He mentioned that Alexandrian faithful are everyone who goes through the Eight Rites. This applies to pretty much everyone born in the Mainland. His words: "Are they following the church sacraments and going through the rites of passage? No smite."

In theory, though, this means you can smite animals, plants, elementals, aberrations, undead (?), or other things that don't have religion, right? You can't smite a Mainlander, but you can smite the horse they rode in on? (I'm intentionally being broad/silly here to help flesh out the clarification.) Or must they be intelligent things?

Yet, in my book, since they don't get a lot of smites (and get them only at 5th level+), pretty much any direction this goes is probably not going to wreck their balance. -Mattie

A sensible restriction would be to have it only apply to humanoids. --Msallen

I agree. Case closed! -gm

Including humanoids with the undead template, I assume? What about aberrations? -Slitherrr

I would suppose that would include Humanoids, Monsterous Humanoids, but perhaps NOT undead because they're not int.

You know, I have an even SIMPLER and BETTER idea. Smite Foe. You can only smite one of your chosen enemy types, regardless of alignment. *dusts off hands* I think that should solve all our problems? -gm