Oracle - Pathfinder Class Reimagined

Although the gods work through many agents, perhaps none is more mysterious than the oracle. These divine vessels are granted power without their choice, selected by providence to wield powers that even they do not fully understand. Unlike a cleric, who draw their magic through devotion to a deity, the source of an oracle's power is often a mystery even to themselves. While some see this as a gift, others view it as a curse, changing the life of the chosen in unforeseen ways.

Mechanically this class could be summarised as an 'Oracle is to a Cleric what a Sorcerer is to a Wizard'. Oracle's are Charisma- based spellcasters, without the need to prepare spells each day, but have a more limited range of spells to cast as they choose spells on level-up instead of receiving the whole spellbook like a Cleric.

They lose the Cleric's Channel Divinity feature and instead Oracle's choose a 'Mystery' (used here as the Subclass), an aspect of the world to which they choose to devote their studies in the hopes of uncovering knowledge of the source of their powers, and enhancing them. This notion of a character empowered by a godly being(s) without their understanding seems to me to be very fitting for a MC in BG3, and the Death Mystery in particular was specifically developed to fit my own Dark Urge character - though any Mystery could work for RP.

The Mysteries in this mod are heavily changed from what is represented in Pathfinder, as I wanted to present them as a varied and impactful series of choices made through character progressions, and also front-load the revelations a bit due to BG3's natural 12 level limit (the mod does accommodate up to level 20, although later levels are les developed). Mysteries will periodically let you choose between various boosts, feats and skills, and you'll not be able to choose all options by the time you reach max level. Some Mysteries will give access to playstyles that you would otherwise expect to multi-class for - for example Battle has many aspects of a fighter, and Nature gives animal companions from the Beastmaster Ranger - but more deliberately limited so you can't achieve the full potential of the specialised classes.

For those familiar with the Pathfinder version of this class, I have chosen to exclude Curses. Curses were initial penalties that would progress to other advantages as you level-up. As many of these boosts were quite subtle, it is difficult to see them manifest often in BG3, and others were simply made redundant through some of the sweeping changes already made to Mysteries. I feel the class others enough build choices without them.

Installation

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Copy the Oracle.pak file to your \\Users\\AppData\Loca