Hi!

I have some doubt about the the zealot career, it comes with the basic action cards for clerics? (like curry favor) or must buy them during the creation (or with experience)? the zealot must select a god like the clerics do (it's a more "personal" aproach to the gods)? the career seems a little weak, it's just a little suffering required before switching to witchhunter or what?

thanks!

The zealot career isn't a spell casting one. You don't get access to Curry Favour or Blessing actions.

Thanks the aclaration! The piety skill confused me a bit. Still looks like a weak career for me.

It has been exampled in the core box set, and amplified with the expation sets, that not all careers are created equal. A career isn't meant to balance with other careers, it is simply a choice for vocational training. This only really becomes and issue at character creation, where the first career is used as a base for character creation. However, who do you think is going to be better at being a Bright Wizard. the pesant commoner who spent all of his formative years growing up and entering adulthood doing menial tasks and labor, or someone who grew up as an apprentace wizard and spent lots of time already learning the foundations of college magic?

Now remember the stage of "Growing up" during charater creation doesn't mean that someone was born and grew up as their starting career, but all the skills they start with are based of of that career (and race) so even if your "new" character is a 60 year old apprentice wizard, he apparently is a slow learner, because he's spend 60 years of his life learning only the basics of an apprentice wizard, and no other skills, reguardless of what he did prior, maybe he was a florist for 58 years, but suddenly got amnesia and decided he should learn to become a wizard and now ONLY knows how to be an apprentice wizard. Your can RP your story any way you like, but you only get so many skills/stats determined at character creation and moulded by your starting career.

Some folks start of as clerical casters, some start off as Zealots, some start off as soldiers, some as commoners, these are all different colors, use them to paint the picture of your charater. Is my Dwarfen Student going to be as good at smashing Gobo's as Iron Breaker, probably not, but then again, my student is just that, a student, maybe I spend all my advancements on becoming good as smashing Gobo's, but at character creation, that Dwarf who spent time learning to be an Iron Breaker is going to be better.