Pathfinder

As a suggestion for kind of a baseline, look at Starfinder's Alien Archive 2, which has the Valka, and/or Pahtra (canine, feline, respectively) races.

Third volume of extinction curse will have Shoony ancestry which are pug people (they have con flaw )

Reposting:

Isn't that kinda similar to archetypes or corruptions? Obviously not identical idea but still

Archetypes allow for some give-and-take variations, tweaking a class to a more specific flavor and/or mechanical aptitude.

But yes.

But also no.

This would involve no take, only give, but also only for those certain classes that- by my estimation -don't have anything to give in this regard, ie something to do outside of Fightan. You tack them on like an extra limb.

This is more written from the vantage point of PF 1 than PF 2, mind, which I've heard has something that sounds like 4e's ritual system. So that might be something.

I guess Starfinder's themes might be comparable?

Edited by SpookyMask on Apr 18th 2020 at 12:08:50 PM

Maybe? I never felt like there was enough mileage to get out of them but it's possible I was A) doing it wrong and B) not playing it long enough.

If the intent is just to gestalt them onto other classes it might be better to just go in class by class and add what those bare classes would in archetypes that don't actually take anything away short of a few modifications where appropriate.

Edited by Hashil on Apr 18th 2020 at 5:06:41 AM

Go class by class and add appropriate narrative powers to each, you mean?

Or add narrative powered archetypes to each class that don't interfere with any class features?

Same effect, at the end of the day. Archetypes make them optional to the player, though.

On side note, took part in paizocon online, had greatest con experience in my life :3 I hope to take part in gencon online too...

Lost Omen Legends book is best lore book btw ;P Fight me

Speaking of lore, sometimes it's the most simple of descriptions that imply a lot. Recently we were playing the fourth book of Reign of Winter, and invading the fortress of Dragon Lord Yrax. And one of the things I most distinctly remember, is that a some point we crossed a hallway full of statues, and the GM simply told us they were all statues of Yrax himself. Which, really, tells you everything you need to know about the guy.

Edited by Medinoc on Sep 15th 2020 at 10:15:37 AM

Ya definitely can agree that I really love room descriptions in Paizo adventures xD

Anyhoo, nice that they are finally doing Mwangi Expanse book that isn't written from perspective of Sargavans :p

It, and the accompanying adventure path both look great!

How viable is a dwarf cavalier?

A bunch of Order abilities are Charisma-dependent, but if you don't focus on those then a dwarf is still viable. It helps that dwarf has a pretty good favored class bonus.

Edited by Karxrida on Sep 17th 2020 at 10:32:14 AM

I'm playing in an Iron Gods campaign now where I'm finally trotting out my Barbarian of Joy idea... and it's so much fun. I even have fun making him a Religious Bruiser (because a guy who takes joy in battle seems like a natural follower of Gorum), and it's been hilarious watching how things go down (one of my favorite parts was my character trying to rally Scrapwall to help out at the climax of Part 2 of the module... and then watching the inevitable result as the character who sunk his charisma and naturally didn't put ranks in diplomacy tries to inspire people).

That said... having played an Unchained Barbarian for a bit, part of me wants to write an updated guide for discussing the adjustments that Unchained made to the class (that, and to pull catfolk out of the red for race recommendations - it just has too many feats that give useful stuff to be that low, even if the wisdom penalty hurts). I mean, I know the bulk of the player base has moved on to 2nd, and it'd mostly be an addendum for the stuff changed from vanilla barbarian, but still, it seems like it could use updating.

So reminded that Druma book is best book

Finally had energy to read it in better detail and man that book is good

Its incredibly when campaign setting book manages to turn one of game's most boring nations into one of most interesting ones

Which one is that?

"Druma, Profit and Prophecy"

https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Blood_Lords_(adventure_path)

It's looking like Geb's going to be the main antagonist if some of the titles are anything to go by.

Spheres of Guile and Ultimate Engineering are being kickstarted for 1e.

Spheres of Guile is a Spheres of Power expansion for The Social Expert, with several social-fu classes using the Spheres engine.

Ultimate Engineering is a rebuild of the Tech sphere from Might.

So if you like the Spheres system, there's something to throw your Christmas money at.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, a Magical Trickster catfolk rogue using Pride Hunter to hide behind his allies and snipe with Sneak Attack-augmented ranged spells is a neat thing that can happen.

Might be attempting Starfinder soon at my new local game store. Made a couple of characters I could hopefully slot into an unknown party.