Hat wrote:
Personally I'm ok with the rules as written and the implications at least with an Arcane template adding Rudimentary Prayers. Thematically having a very devout caster to the point of becoming a Sword Saint would grant a single available Tier 1 prayer. Yes, they could take additional spells, but those would always be T1 and would require a separate talent each. It would work very well for an Arcane Caster who's a faithful follower of Sarish for example.
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Hat
Since Sarish is already Arcane and not Divine, and a wriggly basket of loopholes to begin with, I don't see nearly as much of a problem with this. In fact I think its a cool idea. I've wanted to find a way to combine the battle & blood traditions so I might even look at that.
On the other hand from a story perspective you should not be able to combine therugy with eldritch/elder/primal because the modes of casting are supposed to be mutually exclusive. I suspect that if you had an NPC character in the campaign try something like this they would either fail to access to Therugy, or go insane in some form (like eldritch casters who try to master elder magic).
As a judge, since it fits the rules as written, I certainly wouldn't ban either form of characters from my tables. But I regard the Arcane with Rudimentary (divine) Prayers concept overall as suspect.