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Some divine crafters are so engrossed in their work that they take on a spiritual connection with the items they create. These crafters become Demiurges. Demiurges focus on the heat of the forge, rather than the heat of battle, and so become stronger casters and crafters, while becoming weaker combatants.

Requirements:

Skills: Craft (any) 7 ranks

Feats: Any two item creation feats

Ability to cast 3rd level Divine Spells

HD: d6

BAB: Poor (half HD)

Saves: Fort (good), Will (bad), Reflex (bad)

Level 1: Construction Focus, Divine Spark, +1 Spellcasting in Divine Class

Level 2: Divine Builder, +1 Spellcasting in Divine Class

Level 3: Divine Builder, Master Divine Builder, +1 Spellcasting in Divine Class

Construction Focus: the Demiurge receives the Construct (Artifice) domain.

Divine Builder: At level 2 and level 3, you receive the Arcane Discovery "Arcane Builder".

Master Divine Builder: The increase in speed from Divine Builder now increases to 33%, and the increase to Spellcraft is now +6.

Thoughts: Crafting in Pathfinder doesn't work. It takes prohibitively long amounts of time to make even a simple magical item. For example, a +3 weapon will take 8 days to make. If you try to make a golem or other expensive item, it'll take half a year!

I also *really* wanted the Artifice domain since it works well with my character concept.

The trade off of giving up combat strength (due to wizard hit dice and poor BAB progression) make me think that this is fairly balanced, especially since I plan on going into melee and whacking some bad guys up!

Arcane Builder is from the UM, and is usually for Wizards. I am 90% certain it is based off the feat "Master Artificer" from the Adventurer's Handbook, and that the author of that book also wrote that Arcane Discovery. However, Master Artificer is much more powerful (50% faster, and applies to *all* crafting).