
If she hits, she deals 1d8 points of cold damage + 1 point per 2 oracle levels she possesses. She must make a touch attack to hit the target (if she’s attacking the creature that caused the wound, she gains a +4 circumstance bonus on her attack roll). This ability replaces the oracle’s curse.īlack Blood Revelations: All black-blooded oracles have access to the following revelations, regardless of what mystery they choose.īlack Blood Spray (Su): As an immediate action whenever a black-blooded oracle takes piercing or slashing damage, she can cause some of her black blood to spray from the wound to strike any adjacent target. This increases to cold resistance 10 at 10th level, and immunity to cold at 15th level. At 5th level, she gains cold resistance 5. The curse also dulls the oracle’s coordination somewhat, imparting a –4 penalty on all Dexterity-based skill checks. Positive and negative energy affect a black-blooded oracle as if she were undead- positive energy harms her, while negative energy heals her (this aspect of the curse has no effect if the oracle is undead). She is immune to the effects (both beneficial and destructive) of black blood. The blood of a black-blooded oracle actually runs black, and wounds she suffers are infected by her own power and are difficult to heal. The material affects these oracles physically and mentally, altering both physiology and mystic powers. Good call to say no then.Ĭurse of Black Blood (Su): All black-blooded oracles effectively share the same curse-the curse of black blood. Oh, right I forgot that they made it cost both. So by definition, you cannot take sylvan since you cannot "lose" something you dont have in the first place (arcana) Easier to ban it outright.Įh not really a debate since in order to take an archetype you need to be able to swap all features. And I'd say that no, it's #1, and thus we have an irritating debate. Slyvan is mechanically preferable because it would be the only one that offers an arcana as well as powers.Īnyone trying to actually take Slyvan is pretty much by definition going to want #2. The player obtains Slyvan powers, which includes the first-level power despite it also being the arcana. The player obtains Slyvan powers but not the arcana via Eldritch Heritage or VMC Sorcerer, and as such does not get his first-level power since it's also his arcana.

The first-level power and the arcana of Slyvan are intrinsically tied together. You don't get the Bloodline Arcana with VMC.įor that exact reason.

Kestral287 wrote: You can talk to your GM and he may let you- I honestly would, barring Slyvan- but the out-of-the-book answer is no.
