Editing Archivist (section)

==So why is this so broken?==
First off, while the Archivist lacks the class features of the [[Cleric]] and all class-specific bonuses they get, the Archivist gets a few perks regarding his series of spells. Namely, the Archivist has access to ALL Divine spells. This includes everything on the Cleric List... and ALL the domain spells as well, alongside everything [[Druid]]s, (Anti-)[[Paladin]]s, and [[Ranger]]s can cast as well as the [[NPC]] class Adept can cast (some of which are obtained earlier than the [[PC]] classes)! Just the core divine casters alone, which the Archivist was fully intended to get, are enough to make the Archivist broken. This gets worse when things like the Divine Bard class are allowed. This gives the Archivist a potential repertoire of spells beyond what even the Spell-to-Power Erudite or a [[Prestige Class|Rainbow Servant]] Wizard can cast. If going by a temple or library where they have Divine spells written down, the Archivist can, with enough time and money, write entire books worth of spells so that he can be ready for anything a Divine caster can run into.

The problem with this is to become powerful, you really depend on what your DM allows you to get away with. The amount of scrolls you'll get as loot is always limited, and there's only so much your DM will give you before calling bullshit and starts to limit you. And Druids and Rangers are not very inclined to write their knowledge down, so you'll meet some problems there. Overall, this class can be quite a bit of fun, but requires close cooperation with your DM to get something done with it. Even if the GM does hose you, just Cleric spells are enough to be tier one (that is all the Cleric gets after all).

The Forgotten Realms has the Anyspell and Greater Anyspell Domain Spells, which give new ways to utterly break this class. They let you fill that spell slot with an arcane spell of lower level, so everything under Wizard 5 or less is fair game. Take a level of Wizard or the Magical Training regional feat and have access to over half of the available arcane spells by copying spell books. [[Eberron]] wisely made it so that scrolls created by an [[Artificer]] were neither arcane nor divine to avoid breaking this class even further. 

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