Suggestion is as noted in title:
Change the 1st level Rune Domain spell from Identify to Stabilize Portal.
Reasoning:
The Rune Domain is currently offered by 6 deities. 5 of these deities also have the Knowledge domain (which also has Identify as the 1st level Domain spell).
The Portal Domain (the only Domain to offer Stabilize Portal) is offered by 2 deities, neither of which offer the Rune domain.
Stabilize Portal is used exclusively in conjunction with Teleportation Circle (the 9th level Domain spell offered by the Portal, Rune, and Travel domains), to perpetuate an existing circle more cheaply than scribing a new one (at a rate of 1,500 per direction, vs the 10,000 per direction setup cost; both spells reinforce a Circle for a week).
This spell makes narrative logic, as you are upkeeping and maintaining an existing set of runes that define a portal.
It also makes mechanical logic, in reducing domain-spell overlap in 5 of the 6 existing gods that have the domain (as 5 domains currently offer Identify at 1st level).
Post discussion with DaloLorn:
Travel is the other Domain to have Teleportation Circle, but cannot maintain it. It probably makes more sense for Travel to have Transport via Plants at 9th level instead which is more thematic to the spell-list, as they already gain the lower-level Tree-stride.
Stabilise Portal as 1st level Rune Domain Spell
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Stabilise Portal as 1st level Rune Domain Spell
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Re: Stabilise Portal as 1st level Rune Domain Spell
Just a little bump.
I'm not too sure where the Teleportation Circle situation currently stands though, but the change listed in the OP would be worth considering for when it gets fixed.
I'm not too sure where the Teleportation Circle situation currently stands though, but the change listed in the OP would be worth considering for when it gets fixed.
I play a baker. Sometimes she provides counseling or treatment.
Ask about our Breadflower daily special to save five coppers off a purchase of five pastries.
She seems unusually interested in cursed items.
She has also been seeking a variety of gems and stones.
Ask about our Breadflower daily special to save five coppers off a purchase of five pastries.
She seems unusually interested in cursed items.
She has also been seeking a variety of gems and stones.
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Re: Stabilise Portal as 1st level Rune Domain Spell
In light of Dalo Lorn's post regarding fixes to Teleport Circle in Rev:627 ( https://discord.com/channels/2210454035 ... 6778362951 ) I thought it would be appropriate to bump this suggestion for consideration.
I play a baker. Sometimes she provides counseling or treatment.
Ask about our Breadflower daily special to save five coppers off a purchase of five pastries.
She seems unusually interested in cursed items.
She has also been seeking a variety of gems and stones.
Ask about our Breadflower daily special to save five coppers off a purchase of five pastries.
She seems unusually interested in cursed items.
She has also been seeking a variety of gems and stones.
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Re: Stabilise Portal as 1st level Rune Domain Spell
It's been a couple months, and we were having a discussion of Domains on the discord, which reminded me of this suggestion.
I haven't heard of any feedback opinions on it yet, so I figured another bump might be reasonable.
For what little it may be worth, it appears that Identify isn't a base Rune-domain spell since that seems to belong to Erase; so the change wouldn't be overriding a P&P definition.
Source: https://dndtools.org/spells/domains/rune/
I haven't heard of any feedback opinions on it yet, so I figured another bump might be reasonable.
For what little it may be worth, it appears that Identify isn't a base Rune-domain spell since that seems to belong to Erase; so the change wouldn't be overriding a P&P definition.
Source: https://dndtools.org/spells/domains/rune/
I play a baker. Sometimes she provides counseling or treatment.
Ask about our Breadflower daily special to save five coppers off a purchase of five pastries.
She seems unusually interested in cursed items.
She has also been seeking a variety of gems and stones.
Ask about our Breadflower daily special to save five coppers off a purchase of five pastries.
She seems unusually interested in cursed items.
She has also been seeking a variety of gems and stones.