''Complete Divine'' is a supplemental rulebook for the 3.5 edition of the ''

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. It replaces and expands upon earlier rulebooks entitled '' Masters of the Wild'' and ''

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It presents additional base classes, prestige classes, and feats. It also contains additional rules and character ideas based on belief and the afterlife, as well as a chapter on magic items based on the original D&D pantheon gods/goddesses.

New base classes

Shugenja

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'', the shugenja utilizes primal energies, and tapping into the earth to cast spells. It is a charisma based sorcerer-style divine casting class, with a spell list biased towards elemental spells.

Favored Soul

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'', the Favored Soul is a spontaneously casting divine class, with a couple of additional divine abilities closely tied to his or her deity.

Spirit Shaman

The class has a fairly narrow divine spell selection. The spirit shaman cast spells as sorcerers do, but they change their spell selection each day by sending their Spirit Guide into the spirit world. The shaman also has a special abilities that affect spirits (incorporeal undead, fey, elementals and creatures defined as spirits in other texts). The Spirit Guide is a purely mental/spiritual creature, incapable of affecting the world, though it does grant the spirit shaman the feat, "Alertness", as well as justifying certain class features. Ultimately, at 20th level, the spirit shaman becomes a spirit (fey) himself, much as a 20th level monk becomes an outsider.

New prestige classes

These include church inquisitor, consecrated harrier, contemplative, divine oracle, holy liberator, hospitaler, pious templar, sacred exorcist, sacred fist and warpriest (''

''), blighter and geomancer ('' Masters of the Wild''), temple raider of Olidammara ('' Song and Silence''), void disciple (''

''), ur-priests (''

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. In addition, there are several previously undescribed prestige classes.

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fire worship, but one which isn't automatically evil.

Entropomancer

A class that worships oblivion and has the ability to summon fragments of a sphere of annihilation.

Evangelist

The only five-level class in the book, designed for converting enemies rather than killing them.

Rainbow servant

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Seeker of the misty isle

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Publication history

''Complete Divine'' was written by David Noonan, and was published in May 2004. Cover art was by

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. David Noonan explains the designers' approach to preparing material for the book: "In each section, we first decided what we wanted to pick up from previous ''D&D'' sources such as ''

'' and ''

''. That meant a lot of meetings and a lot of feedback from the fans. Then, especially for the spells, we looked for niches we hadn't filled yet. For example, there's a lot of design space left for high-level druid and cleric spells, so we tilted the balance of the spell list a little toward the upper levels."

Reception

Viktor Coble listed the entire ''Complete'' series - including ''

'', ''Complete Divine'', '' Complete Warrior'', ''

'', ''

Complete Champion ''Complete Champion'' is a supplement for the 3.5 edition of the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' fantasy role-playing game. Contents Somewhat of a sequel to ''Complete Divine'', the book is geared for characters who fight for a cause. Publication histor ...

'', and '' Complete Mage'' - as #9 on '' CBR'''s 2021 "D&D: 10 Best Supplemental Handbooks" list, stating that "These books took a deep dive into specific class types. They expanded on what it meant to be that kind of class, gave informative prestige classes, extra abilities, and even new concepts for playing them."

Reviews

*''Envoyer'' (German) (Issue 94 - Aug 2004)

References

External links

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