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HALLOWED

BOOK

MIGHT

A divine-magic sourcebook

By Monte Cook

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THE

The Book of Hallowed Might

Table of Contents

Introduction: THE HAND OF THE GODS

Using This Book ...............................................3

Chapter Four: SPELLS

New Domain: Light ........................................34

Spell Lists .......................................................34

Spell Descriptions ........................................36

Aeonian Lantern...........................................................36

Angel’s Redoubt ............................................................37

Arathan’s Spiritual Soldier ........................................37

Armor Contingency .....................................................37

Audible Whisper ............................................................37

Bind With Plants...........................................................38

Blast of Castigation ....................................................38

Blazing Light.................................................................38

Blight Enemy .................................................................38

Burning Brand ..............................................................38

Carnivorous Defender ................................................39

Clarity of Mind .............................................................39

Confutation of the Demon ........................................39

Crystal Eruption ..........................................................40

Crystal of Reflection .................................................40

Crystal Shard ...............................................................40

Curse of Wounding .....................................................40

Divert Charge ...............................................................40

Ethereal Prison.............................................................41

Glory of the Beast .......................................................42

Godspeed........................................................................42

Grant Quarter (Bonds of Mercy) ..............................42

Halo of Glory ...............................................................42

Halo of Shelter ............................................................42

Heartglow .....................................................................43

Holy Shout.....................................................................43

Illuminated Weapon ....................................................43

Light of the Earth........................................................44

Pattern of Sibyllic Fate...............................................44

Peaceful Weapon ..........................................................45

Redemption From Evil Power......................................45

Redemptive Redress......................................................45

Resist Touch ..................................................................45

Return and Avenge .......................................................45

See No Evil .....................................................................46

Shield of Light .............................................................46

Sunfire Tomb .................................................................46

Touch No Evil................................................................46

Truth’s Wings ................................................................47

Unite Allies ...................................................................47

Vengeful Spell Resistance .........................................48

Watery Prison ...............................................................48

Waves of Light ..............................................................48

Wellspring of Soul’s Light.........................................48

Wild Stealth..................................................................49

Woodlands Prison .......................................................49

Chapter One: DIVINE SPELLCASTERS IN CAMPAIGNS

Divine versus Arcane ......................................4

Clerics...............................................................4

Cleric Spells and Religion ...........................................4

Cleric Spells and Money ...............................................4

Clerics and Worldly Responsibilities ........................5

Sidebar: Religious Drift/Faithful Mistakes.................6

Competing Faiths, Same Alignment ............................6

Mythology and Doctrine ..............................................7

Sidebar: Raising the Dead Variants ...............................8

Uses for Consecrate/Desecrate ..................................8

Nonautomatic Remedies (Variant) ..............................8

Druids and Rangers ........................................9

Groves ..............................................................................9

Variant Ranger Class .....................................................9

Paladins ...........................................................12

Variant Paladin Class ...................................................13

Dedicated Paladins.......................................................16

Neutral Good Paladins................................................16

Chaotic Good Paladins................................................16

The Paladin’s Code ........................................................17

Alignment .......................................................18

Good................................................................................18

Evil...................................................................................18

Law ...................................................................................18

Chaos ..............................................................................18

Neutrality ......................................................................19

Examples .........................................................................19

Alignment Requirements (Variant) ...........................19

Alignment-Based Effects (Variant) ...........................19

Objects and Alignment................................................19

Chapter Two: PRESTIGE CLASSES

Blessed Prelate .............................................20

Hallowed Mage..............................................22

Sample NPC: Nactrina Onarsh, Blessed of Thalander .24

Knight of the Pale ........................................26

Chapter Three: FEATS

General Feats.................................................28

Accolade ........................................................................28

Adoubement ..................................................................29

Favored Enemy Critical Strike...................................29

Favored Enemy Strike ..................................................29

Redeem ...........................................................................29

Reform ...........................................................................29

Tempt ..............................................................................29

Blessed Feats .................................................30

Call Down Divine Wrath .............................................30

Devout Faith .................................................................30

Redeeming Grace .........................................................30

Vow of Chastity ............................................................30

Vow of Fidelity ..............................................................31

Vow of Obedience .........................................................31

Sidebar: Taking Vows .......................................................31

Vow of Poverty ..............................................................32

Vow of Silence ..............................................................32

Vow of Stability ............................................................32

Oath Feats .......................................................32

Oath of Combat.............................................................32

Oath of Fealty ...............................................................33

Oath of Magic ...............................................................33

Swear an Oath ...............................................................33

Sidebar: Oaths Without Feats .......................................33

Chapter Five: MAGIC ITEMS

Armor and Shield Special Abilities ...........50

Specific Shield................................................51

Weapon Special Abilities...............................51

Specific Weapons............................................51

Sidebar: Items With Other Alignments ......................52

Rings ................................................................52

Wondrous Items ............................................53

Chapter Six: CREATURES

Angels of the Elements ..............................54

Blessed Children...........................................57

Legal Appendix

Open Game License .......................................60

Introduction 3

The Hand of the Gods

The Book of Eldritch Might deals with the arcane. But the divine is just as potent a force. It is literally the might

of the gods manifest in a mortal realm—an immortal expression of intervention in a world where lesser beings

barely comprehend their own motives and existence, let alone those of deities.

simple spellcasters—they are the representatives of

the gods on earth. They not only have to worry

about the mechanics of spellcasting, but about what the

gods want them to do and how to best represent those

desires. They concern themselves with other worshippers

in their faith, and with maintaining and defending places

holy to their chosen patron(s). In many ways, it is more

challenging to be a practitioner of divine magic than of

arcane.

From the DM’s point of view, having divine spellcasters

in a game is more work as well. More than other classes,

these individuals are tied directly to the campaign and the

details you have created involving cosmology, mythology,

and society. Still, it is worth the work. The player of the

divine spellcaster is the DM’s friend—he helps define the

world around the group of player characters (PCs). He rep-

resents the campaign’s bigger picture, even when the PCs

are simply exploring a dungeon or fighting off a tribe of

goblins.

Despite this important role, divine casters sometimes

get short shrift in supplements devoted to new magic.

That’s why this book is specifically for them. In addition,

much of the content applies to the champions of good,

enhancing their power for the fight against vile evils. The

Book of Hallowed Might covers these topics:

• Divine Spellcasters in Campaigns: Offers notes on

running clerics, variant ranger and paladin classes,

and a new optional alignment system

• Prestige Classes: Presents three new prestige class-

es: the blessed prelate, hallowed mage, and Knight

of the Pale

• Feats: Contains 20 new feats for divine spellcasters

and others, including two new types: the blessed feat

and the oath feat

• Spells: Includes almost four dozen new spells plus a

description of the new Light domain

• Magic Items: New armor, shields, weapons, rings,

and wondrous items

• Creatures: Details the angels of the elements and

blessed children

Using This Book

This book is a new edition of the previously published

version of The Book of Hallowed Might. In this edition, we

have updated the material to conform to the v. 3.5 revi-

sion of the core rules, corrected a few typos, included

some material from Monte Cook’s website, and added a

new appendix with tips for using these feats, classes,

spells, items, and creatures with Monte Cook’s Arcana

Unearthed. Everything else in the book has stayed the

same—if you already have the previous edition of The

Book of Hallowed Might, this update does not invalidate

your version.

The material in this sourcebook is suitable for charac-

ters of all levels.

The Book of Hallowed Might was designed to be a com-

panion volume to The Book of Eldritch Might arcane magic

series from Malhavoc Press. Throughout this sourcebook,

the spells, items, feats, etc. introduced in this book are

marked with a single dagger (†). Otherwise, all references

to spells, feats, and other rules not otherwise marked are

from the v. 3.5 revision of the three Core Rulebooks: the

Player’s Handbook ,DMG, and MM.

Sidebars in most chapters offer special information and

guidelines for the DM.

Bonus source material and ideas to augment the infor-

mation in The Book of Hallowed Might appear on Monte

Cook’s website. Find the links to these free web enhance-

ments at the book’s product page online at the following

address: <www.montecook.com/mpress_BOHM.html>.

This sourcebook is protected content except for items

specifically called out as Open Game Content on the title

page. For full details, please turn to page 63. Open content

is not otherwise marked in the text of this book.

Those who can call down power channeled from the gods

command the very forces of creation. Let The Book of

Hallowed Might supercharge your divine spellcasters!

T hose who wield divine power are often more than

Chapter One

Divine Spellcasters in Campaigns

Because divine spellcasters’ very nature requires them to have some source of power beyond themselves, they are more inher-

ently tied to the world created by the DM than other characters.

classes: cleric, ranger, druid, and paladin. It covers the

roles these divine casters play and offers some modifi-

cations that DMs can make to tailor them to a particular set-

ting (and vice versa).

Divine Versus Arcane

Arcane and divine magic have a variety of differences. Of

these, the source of power is the most obvious. While arcane

magic comes from manipulating the world and the forces

around the caster, divine spells come from a source beyond

the mortal practitioner.

Divine spellcasters manipulate positive and negative ener-

gy in ways that arcanists cannot. They use power to heal and

restore, to remove ailments and rid others of impurities and

poisons. While arcane magic can make a person stronger or

run faster, such manipulations are almost always temporary.

A divine spellcaster can repair a wound permanently, or

regrow a severed limb. From a certain point of view, although

divine and arcane magic can accomplish many of the same

things, one could say that arcane casters use their power to

change the laws of nature (usually temporarily), while divine

casters use those natural laws to their full advantage. For

example, both can give a creature greater endurance, but

while the arcanist accomplishes this by filling the creature

with unnatural energies, the divine spellcaster simply aug-

ments the physiology the creature already possesses.

Because their powers and methods are so different, cast-

ers suffer a –5 penalty to Spellcraft checks to identify spells

of the opposite type; characters who do not cast spells but

have ranks in Spellcraft should specify whether their knowl-

edge pertains more to the divine or the arcane. This is true

whether the character is observing spellcasting or using the

skill to identify magical writing (like a scroll). Multiclass

casters of both arcane and divine spells suffer no penalty.

Clerics

More than other divine spellcasters, clerics affect the world

they live in—as much as or more than the world affects

them. The presence of a cleric in a setting changes how

people look at disease, injuries, poison, and even death.

Cleric Spells and Religion

Clerics get their spells from their faith and the power of their

deity. Thus, they fill their lives with the trappings, rituals,

and dogma of their respective religions. They are not just

wizards with different spells.

To reflect this fact, a DM is completely justified in adding

on house rules that ground cleric spells—particularly high-

level cleric spells—with the tenets of the cleric’s religion.

Examples include the following:

• Alignment: If a cleric is to cure or raise a creature

whose alignment differs from or even opposes the

alignment of her deity, she must burn a special

incense of atonement and forgiveness, which costs

10 gp multiplied by twice the spell’s level.

• Holy Days: A cleric can cast certain spells, such as true

resurrection , only on specific days sacred to his god. Only

on these days does the deity grant her greatest gifts.

• Holy Ground: Certain spells can be cast only on

ground consecrated in the god’s name. Normally, this

means a functioning church or temple, but a cleric

can consecrate any area in a pinch.

• Church Politics: Clerics, particularly mid- to high-level

clerics, hold a great deal of power in their hands. It may

not always be politically advantageous to the goals of

the church hierarchy to raise or cure certain individu-

als. Or, alternatively, they will do so only if certain con-

ditions are met. Even a lawful good church has to look

out for its own interests—a lawful good cleric does not

have to raise a well-known rabble rouser or trouble-

maker if he does not want to. And, of course, the

church decides who is and is not a “troublemaker.”

Cleric Spells and Money

Clerics have a monopoly on the resurrection of the dead, and

a virtual monopoly on curative magic and restorative magic

that undoes some of the terrible things that can befall a per-

son: disease, blindness, and so on.

It’s possible, if not likely, that clerics may choose a few

really important spells—like raise dead, resurrection , and,

perhaps most importantly, true resurrection —and demand a

greater amount of sacrifice to their god in the form of money

T his chapter discusses the various divine spellcaster

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