Cleric, at 10th level, gains access to divine intervention, which requires the Player to roll a d% to see if their God intervenes and assists. This ability also states that "At 20th level, your call for intervention succeeds automatically, no roll required." Does this mean, Rules as Written, a 10 Cleric/10 anything else can automatically succeed on divine intervention?
To be fair to OP, the cleric capstone is worded differently. You don't get a new ability at 20. You have a level 10 ability that is upgraded at level 20.
To be fair to OP, the cleric capstone is worded differently. You don't get a new ability at 20. You have a level 10 ability that is upgraded at level 20.
Any mention of levels in the text of class abilities refers to your level in that class. As far as I'm aware, the only things that depend on your overall character level are your proficiency bonus, the effect of cantrips, and spell slots for the Spellcasting class feature as described in the chapter of the PHB dealing with multiclassing.
I think the only class or subclass features that can scale up without taking more in that specific class are things tied to proficiency bonus and spell slots if you've multiclassed into multiple casters.
To be fair to OP, the cleric capstone is worded differently. You don't get a new ability at 20. You have a level 10 ability that is upgraded at level 20.
Any mention of levels in the text of class abilities refers to your level in that class. As far as I'm aware, the only things that depend on your overall character level are your proficiency bonus, the effect of cantrips, and spell slots for the Spellcasting class feature as described in the chapter of the PHB dealing with multiclassing.
I'm not disagreeing with that, I'm just saying it's understandably vague. In Divine Intervention itself, one of the clauses specifies "cleric level" instead of just saying level.
So the implication of class level is kind of context-dependent. When the language is something like "At 20th level" or "Beginning at 5th level" or whatever, they mean class level. But within the body of a feature, they often feel the need to specify class level which kind of implies that if they don't then they mean your absolute level. It's consistent, but could be more straightforward.
Cleric, at 10th level, gains access to divine intervention, which requires the Player to roll a d% to see if their God intervenes and assists. This ability also states that "At 20th level, your call for intervention succeeds automatically, no roll required." Does this mean, Rules as Written, a 10 Cleric/10 anything else can automatically succeed on divine intervention?
No. When a class feature states “when you reach X level,” it is always referring to X level in the class.
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Yep. Already said best but I'll say the same thing again, because I've seen it come up a lot.
You get a level 6 RANGER ability when your RANGER reaches level 6, not when your CHARACTER reaches level 6.
If you multiclass, you will never see the Capstone (level 20) abilities.
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To be fair to OP, the cleric capstone is worded differently. You don't get a new ability at 20. You have a level 10 ability that is upgraded at level 20.
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(Artificer) Swordmage | Glasswright | (Barbarian) Path of the Savage Embrace
(Bard) College of Dance | (Fighter) Warlord | Cannoneer
(Monk) Way of the Elements | (Ranger) Blade Dancer
(Rogue) DaggerMaster | Inquisitor | (Sorcerer) Riftwalker | Spellfist
(Warlock) The Swarm
Any mention of levels in the text of class abilities refers to your level in that class. As far as I'm aware, the only things that depend on your overall character level are your proficiency bonus, the effect of cantrips, and spell slots for the Spellcasting class feature as described in the chapter of the PHB dealing with multiclassing.
It's also specifically called out in the Cleric Table.
Birgit | Shifter | Sorcerer | Dragonlords
Shayone | Hobgoblin | Sorcerer | Netherdeep
This is cleric specific.
I think the only class or subclass features that can scale up without taking more in that specific class are things tied to proficiency bonus and spell slots if you've multiclassed into multiple casters.
I'm not disagreeing with that, I'm just saying it's understandably vague. In Divine Intervention itself, one of the clauses specifies "cleric level" instead of just saying level.
So the implication of class level is kind of context-dependent. When the language is something like "At 20th level" or "Beginning at 5th level" or whatever, they mean class level. But within the body of a feature, they often feel the need to specify class level which kind of implies that if they don't then they mean your absolute level. It's consistent, but could be more straightforward.
My homebrew subclasses (full list here)
(Artificer) Swordmage | Glasswright | (Barbarian) Path of the Savage Embrace
(Bard) College of Dance | (Fighter) Warlord | Cannoneer
(Monk) Way of the Elements | (Ranger) Blade Dancer
(Rogue) DaggerMaster | Inquisitor | (Sorcerer) Riftwalker | Spellfist
(Warlock) The Swarm