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The Pathfinder RPG is the first, and arguably most well-known, Tabletop RPG system produced by Paizo Publishing. Paizo Publishing began life as a group that was split off from Wizards of the Coast in 2002 as an outsourced publisher for Dragon and Dungeon Magazines. When WotC announced the fourth edition of D&D, they took back the publication rights to the magazines in order to create exclusively online versions. Now without their only client, Paizo decided to publish a 3rd-edition-focused magazine of its own, Pathfinder, keeping up the Adventure Path tradition they'd established in the last three years of Dungeon while establishing a new in-house campaign setting — the "Inner Sea", based on a new world called Golarion. This saw the publication of the Rise of the Runelords, Curse of the Crimson Throne, Second Darkness and Legacy of Fire Adventure Paths published specifically for D&D 3.5 under the Open Game License. However, as they heard from more fans of 3rd Edition who were dissatisfied with the radical changes introduced in the 4th Edition of D&D, Paizo saw an opportunity: they would create their own ruleset, using the foundation of 3rd-ed D&D (the core rules of which were in perpetual open license under the Open Gaming License) to offer something new and fresh while allowing old players to build on what they already knew, created, and played. It also prided itself on being compatible with 3.5 (with a few rules alterations, of course, mostly in service of trying to patch what were then 3E's most obvious holes and broken parts).Pathfinder Second Edition began public playtesting in August 2018 and officially launched in August 2019. The second edition diverges significantly from the game's roots as a modified version of D&D 3.5 Edition: among other things it simplifies the game's action economy rules, introduces a new XP system, and modifies how proficiencies work. It is also angled toward smoothing out the overall math of the game and making it significantly easier to run; GMing is generally easier, and encounter design is often particularly cited as being easy and fast to do while still producing satisfying results for the players. It also tries to rein in, to some degree, the infamous "feat bloat" of 3.5 (which, by the time PF1e wrapped, had reached truly epic proportions).Pathfinder Remaster for Second Edition was announced in 2023, in the wake of Wizards of the Coast's attempts to revise the OGL. (While WotC seems to have abandoned attempts to revise the OGL — something roundly condemned by the RPG community — Paizo decided that the time was right to formally break any form of legal connection to WotC and D&D.) Remaster's goal is to provide a backwards-compatible revamp of the game that completes the system's divorce from D&D by publishing the system under a new, system-agnostic Open RPG Creative license. It removes a large number of elements that were specifically tied to the Open Gaming License or Dungeons & Dragons as a whole, most notably alignment, while reimagining, revising, or downplaying a number of legacy elements dependent on OGL content.Paizo's official online ruleskeeper, the Archives of Nethys, is available for 1st Edition and 2nd Edition. In addition, a massive online index of rule information for 1st Edition — almost everything Paizo published, plus some third-party materials, minus many setting-specific and thus copyrighted names — can be found here.The World of Lost OmensPathfinder products are mostly set in the Age of Lost Omens campaign settingnote The term Age of Lost Omens started being used as the name of the campaign setting in the transition to Second Edition; before that, it had no formal name and was usually referred to as the Pathfinder campaign setting., primarily around the Inner Sea region of the planet Golarion, which is in turn one of several populated planets in the setting's solar system, in which it serves as Earth's equivalent and receives overwhelming attention. The Fantasy Kitchen Sink nature of the game's setting as a whole means that a large variety of fantasy genres are represented, along with certain horror and sci-fi ones. This meant that you could run different themes of campaign merely by changing the locale on Golarion, rather than having to incorporate different settings, such as Dragonlance vs. Ravenloft vs. Eberron vs. Dark Sun as in D&D.Thousands of years ago, the Human empire of Azlant thrived on the surface, while secretly ruled from the deep by the Algollthus, the aquatic monsters that lifted them to greatness. As humanity developed, they grew resentful and resisted against their aquatic masters. Fearing the growing power of the humans, the Algollthus sent a massive asteroid crashing onto their homeland. Azlant was destroyed, and most of the surface civilizations on the nearby continents of Arcadia and Avistan were devastated (but then, so too were the Algollthus). Meanwhile, the Elves, who had foreseen the coming Earthfall, mostly fled to the sanctuary of Sovyrian on the planet Castrovel, while the underground-dwelling Dwarves took the impact as a sign from their gods to make their way to the surface, beginning the "Quest for Sky," driving their Orc rivals before them.Eventually, the living God Aroden, last of the Azlanti, appeared. He helped bring humanity out of the Age of Darkness, helping to establish the vast Empire of Taldor. As Taldor grew vast and decadent, the frontier colonies broke away and formed their own Empire of Cheliax. As Cheliax rose in power, the Church of Aroden moved its seat of power there.Recently, however, the prophesied return of Aroden instead brought weeks of natural disasters, including a massive storm that continues to blow to this day. The priests of Aroden suddenly lost their powers, and by all accounts, including from Pharasma, the Lady of Graves, goddess of Death herself, Aroden somehow had died. Thus began the current period in Golarion's history: the Age of Lost Omens, as storms wracked the world and prophecy lost its power. Cheliax fell into decline and civil war, until the devil-worshipping "Thrice-Damned" House of Thrune seized power. With Cheliax's fortunes faltering and its ruling classes having given themselves to devil worship, its former colonies broke away in a series of rebellions and are now beginning marches towards prominence. In the north, a planar breach tore apart the nation of Sarkoris and opened the way for a massive demon invasion through the hole, now desperately held at bay by the crusaders of Mendev, while on the far eastern continent of Tian Xia, the continent-spanning Empire of Lung Wa shattered and its successor states are menaced by the oni warlords of Chu Ye.As of Second Edition, the Worldwound in Sarkoris has been closed. Most of the Runelords that rose back in First Edition have been defeated, with one remorseful Runelord choosing a more benevolent rule instead. Cheliax was dealt two major blows in the form of a successful separatist revolution at home and against their colonization efforts abroad in the Mwangi Expanse, forming the nations of Ravounel and Vidrian. Now, however, the Whispering Tyrant Tar-Baphon has returned, turning the nation of Lastwall into the Gravelands in his wake...Licensed WorksIn addition to the RPG and its many sourcebooks, there are a number of related works: Pathfinder Society, the ongoing public campaign run by Paizo using the Pathfinder system; it spans an overarching plot of several seasons. Pathfinder Tales, a line of novels and other fiction. Pathfinder Adventure Card Game, a cooperative card game. Pathfinder Adventures, a video game adaption developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released for mobile devices in 2016 and computers (via Steam) in 2017. Starfinder (2017), A standalone Science Fantasy game set in the Pathfinder universe, but thousands of years forward in a possible future where magic works alongside space-opera type technology. Pathfinder (2012-2013), a comic series licensed by Dynamite Comics, featuring its iconic characters as the main cast and ran for a total of 12 issues. Other series published by Dynamite include: Pathfinder: Goblins! (2013) Pathfinder: City of Secrets (2014) Pathfinder: Origins (2015) Pathfinder: Hollow Mountain (2015-2016) Pathfinder: Worldscape (2016-2018), a Crisis Crossover event featuring characters from other properties beyond Golarion. Pathfinder: Runescars (2017) Pathfinder: Spiral of Bones (2018) Pathfinder Legends audio adaptions of Adventure Paths released by Big Finish. Pathfinder: Kingmaker (2018), an isometric single-player RPG adapting the Kingmaker Adventure Path. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous (2021), an indirect sequel adapting the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path. Pathfinder: Goblin Firework Fight (2022), a party game about goblins raiding the town of Sandpoint. Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors (2023), a roguelite Bullet Heaven. Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults (2025), an ARPG published by BKOM. Pathfinder Online, an MMORPG adaptation, was put out to beta in 2014-15 after meeting its Kickstarter target. Since then, however, it has been in development hell due to the dissolution of most of the development team and no major publisher assigned. In 2021, the full cancellation of the game and any testing servers was announced, with Paizo preferring to pursue projects like the isometic games instead.A Second Edition campaign named Pathfinder: Knights of Everflame (inspired by an earlier module called Crypt of the Everflame) ran from June to August 2019. The popular web series Critical Role also began life as a campaign for Pathfinder First Edition that was converted to Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition before airing to simplify gameplay, and many of Exandria's features, including many gods and the Gunslinger subclass, are borrowed from the Lost Omens setting. | |
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Hotter and Sexier | |
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Hotter and Sexier, as well. Note the female iconics. And some of the males... | |
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Spell Blade | |
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Spell Blade: Magi, as well as paladins who took the divine weapon bond feature instead of a mount, are able to imbue their weapons with additional magical properties a few times per day. Second Edition magi can use both their Arcane Cascade stance and Spellstrikes—the former uses lingering energy from a spellcast to charge all their melee Strikes, while the latter imbues a spell that requires an attack roll into a melee Strike, applying its effects to the target on a hit. The spell-storing property allows a magic weapon or armor to store a spell with touch range, which can then be cast as an immediate action when the weapon hits the enemy or the armor is hit by an attack. | |
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Abusive Precursors | |
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Abusive Precursors: The Valashamains, who lived in the Valashmai Jungle in Tian Xia. They were apparently not native to Golarion and came from another plane or planet (the details are vague), resembled giant lizard people, and had thousands of slave races. They ruled an empire in the Valashmai Jungle until the Earthfall, at which point they left for somewhere else and have never been seen since. | |
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Flaming Sword | |
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Flaming Sword: A common Enchantment. The paladin and magus have the ability to give their weapons this ability as well. A Religious Trait, "Flame of the Dawn", grants this on a critical hit with scimitars. In Second Edition, you can apply the Flaming or Greater Flaming runes to replicate the effect. The magus can still do this with the Runic Impression feat by temporarily giving their weapon one of those runes, depending on their level. | |
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Control Freak | |
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Control Freak: Barzillai Thrune. His Evil Plan, itself centered around taking control of Cheliax, relies on him being the mayor of Kintargo for a long time, but his greatest enemy in this endeavour is his own ego. He is so obsessed with getting Kintargo to submit to his rule on his terms that he frequently overlooks things that make him legitimately popular and well-liked, culminating in him turning an event that would have made him the toast of Kintargo into a violent revolution against Cheliax because he had to do it his way. | |
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Sinister Deer Skull | |
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Sinister Deer Skull: Siabrae are a sort of druidic counterpart to liches, the result of Druids and other primal spellcasters taking The Corruption of the land into themselves in order to fight it off. Sometimes, this works, and so the ritual is still used, but more often instead of purifying the land they become preservers of their own twisted counterpart to nature. They don't have deer skulls per se, but they have antlers made of stone, which is clearly meant to reflect their identity as corrupted protectors of the natural world. | |
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Noble Savage | |
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Noble Savage: The Kellid and Shoanti human ethnic groups. The Shoanti are more noble, the Kellids more savage. | |
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Spell Levels | |
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The top-level Wall of Lava spell creates exactly that: the wall deals fire damage to everyone nearby; causes far more damage, plus Damage Over Time, to anyone who touches it; and can be directed to erupt every turn. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: The philosopher Pao-Lung is a stand-in for Confucius. While it's not canon this fan picture of Abrogail Thrune II bears a strong resemblance to Lindsay Lohan. | |
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Katanas Are Just Better | |
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Katanas Are Just Better: Ultimate Combat introduces the katana and wakizashi. They're mostly identical to longswords (bastard swords before errata) and shortswords respectively, but with a very minor additional cost note 35 gold more when a 2nd level Player Character is expected to have 2000, a greater critical threat range, and an additional special property "deadly" that makes them better at executing helpless foes, and wakizashi can deal piercing or slashing damage while shortswords are only effective at piercing. Note that this is more about Power Creep than katana fanboyism, since they're also exotic weapons which require special and specific training to use properly — western exotic weapons have a similar level of power. | |
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse | |
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Four Horsemen are the near-godlike rulers of the Neutral Evil fiends known as the daemons (aka yugoloths in D&D). | |
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Jekyll & Hyde | |
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Jekyll & Hyde: Damiel Morgethai under the influence of the chemical mutagen he is addicted to. The Master Chymist prestige class is ten levels' worth of this trope. | |
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Heal It with Blood | |
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Heal It with Blood: The "Infernal Healing" spells grant the target a limited, short-lived Healing Factor and require a material component of devil blood or unholy water. Unlike normal Healing Hands, the spells are explicitly Evil. | |
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Greek Fire | |
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The Quick Draw feat allows you to draw any item from your pack as a free action... except flasks of alchemist's fire or acid. You also cannot sneak attack with such items, unlike all other weapons. These changes were put in place due to volleys of flasks being popular among 3.5e rogues as a means to fight enemies resistant to physical damage or vulnerable to fire, as well as being a potential unblockable multi-kill to enemies with the magical equivalent of a Molotov cocktail. | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: In the Reign of Winter Adventure Path, you have to fight the man himself. And kill him three times before he finally kicks off. | |
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Noble Tongue | |
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Noble Tongue: The aristocracy of Cheliax commonly speak Infernal (the language of Lawful Evil outsiders, particularly devils) due to the tight alliance between the ruling House of Thrune and the Church of Asmodeus. Operas (Cheliax's most favored art form) for the aristocracy are performed exclusively in Infernal. Chelish commoners still mainly speak Taldan (the Common Tongue of the continents of Avistan and Garund). | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Sometimes just in the sense of having a more "mature" feel, sometimes considerably less subtle (one module has hillbilly rapist ogres). Said module is the censored version. The original will likely never be published. 2e tends to avert the worst cases of this, though. The "Carnival of Tears" module gives the heroes an early opportunity to stop a violent rape, and that's before any evil fey get involved. From there it becomes a parade of gore, misery, and horror that puts the Saw movies to shame. If the adventure ends with a body count of less than one hundred villagers, it's considered a smashing success for the heroes. Hotter and Sexier, as well. Note the female iconics. And some of the males... | |
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Power Creep, Power Seep | |
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Power Creep, Power Seep: Correcting the power creep of 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons was one of the game's founding goals. Inevitably, as it has aged, it has developed a few examples itself...which Second Edition was in part intended to correct. | |
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Magical Counterfeiting | |
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Magical Counterfeiting: The bottom-level illusion spell "Fool's Gold" disguises copper or silver as gold for a few hours, increasing its perceived value up to a hundredfold. Careful appraisal can expose the fraud early. | |
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Boisterous Bruiser | |
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Boisterous Bruiser: Cayden Cailean, god of freedom, bravery, and alcoholic beverages, is what happens when a Boisterous Bruiser achieves godhood... by accident. Also, Valeros, the iconic fighter. No points for guessing which god he follows. The Firebrands are a whole faction of these at first glance. Really, they're a group of revolutionaries fighting against tyranny, but the general public's first impression of them was a group of badass daredevil showmen. They decided to shrug their shoulders and play along with this, since it gave their agents a surprising amount of plausible deniability. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Abrogail Thrune II is a rare evil example. While she is usually depicted as pretty cute (and was originally meant to be a teenager), she is also the ruler of Cheliax. | |
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Our Elves Are Different | |
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Our Elves Are Different: They have Monochromatic Eyes, and their primary goddess is one of lust, trickery, and revenge. Otherwise also pretty standard. They bailed on the planet during the Age of Darkness, only returning en masse within the past few millennia when a demon took over part of their ancestral homeland. Their "ruling class" apparently lives off-world through special "Elfgates" of which few truly still function, and the species as a whole originates from this otherworldly homeland. Also, they're Aliens, hailing from an isolated continent on the lush jungle covered planet of Castrovel. Those elves who are raised outside "proper" elven society are called Forlorn, "maladjusted" souls who live their lives as hard as humans and tend to be more somber than most of their kin on account of always outliving their friends. Elves who fall too far into wickedness become drow. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1645005b | comment |
Evil Versus Evil: Asuras are about the only kind of evil outsider who is willing to cooperate with daemons; their omnicidal mania makes it hard for them to get along with any of the others, with even demons having an investment in the continued existence of reality as a whole (because without people to hurt they wouldn't be able to have any more fun). Qlippoth and demons loathe each other. This also happens occasionally in some Adventure Paths; for example, "Valley of the Brain Collectors" has malevolent pseudo-Lovecraftian aliens, neh-thalggu, battling against malevolent actually Lovecraftian aliens, mi-go. Bonus points for both of them having humanoid brain-collecting as an MO. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_171f4d57 | type |
Dungeon Punk | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_171f4d57 | comment |
Dungeon Punk: Though not a major theme as in some settings, Golarion does have a some of the Magitek-powered devices one might find in such a setting, befitting its "little bit of everything" approach. | |
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Genre Shift | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_177a6464 | comment |
Genre Shift: Most A Ps tend to shift in tone or genre as the books go on. This can be due to the events of the story, or because of the location the heroes venture to. Book two of the Kingmaker Adventure Path for instance goes from a typical adventure to becoming the rulers of a new kingdom. Adventuring still takes up most of the gameplay, but you will spend a lot of time running your kingdom. | |
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Read the Fine Print | |
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Read the Fine Print: Under pressure due to numerous slave rebellions in other nations, Cheliax abruptly freed all of its slaves in 4722 AR. House Thrune then offered the newly-freed slaves a contract allowing them to receive a stipend, supposedly to help get them on their feet. This is House Thrune we're talking about. In reality, the contract has an absurd amount of deliberately hard-to-understand fine print with clauses that demand payments back on the stipend with high amounts of interest, essentially turning signatories into indentured servants for life, who can be drafted into military service at any time, for any reason. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_18150c85 | type |
Democracy Is Flawed | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_18150c85 | comment |
Democracy Is Flawed: Downplayed. Andoran, Golarion's first and so far only large representative democracy, is officially aligned Neutral Goodinvoked; however, much of the adventure material around it deal with concerted efforts to corrupt its government, either by former nobility who want their old power back, or by groups such as the Lumber Consortium who are trying to distort its friendliness to trade in order to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else, or both. | |
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Religion of Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_187bddc1 | comment |
Religion of Evil: The Church of Asmodeus, the Church of Zon-Kuthon, cultists of Ghlaunder, Lamashtu, Norgorber, Rovagug, Urgathoa, various demon lords, archdevils, and the Four Horsemen. As well as the Whispering Way, which preaches that all life should be extinguished to be replaced by eternal undeath, and theOld Cults, who worship the Great Old Ones. | |
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Anti-Magic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_18bf4326 | comment |
Anti-Magic: The spell anti-magic field creates a small area where no magic of any kind can function. | |
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You Are Already Dead | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_18cb78a2 | comment |
You Are Already Dead: In a possible Shout-Out to the Trope Namer. 15th-level monks can cause this with their Quivering Palm ability. | |
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Sacrificial Revival Spell | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_19195768 | comment |
Sacrificial Revival Spell: There is a monk archetype that focuses on using one's own ki energy to fuel healing magics, harming oneself in the process. At 20th level, said monk can sacrifice his own life to revive all his allies as per the True Resurrection spell. And no, it is not a resurrectable death: the monk is so Deader than Dead even his name is obliterated. | |
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Non-Health Damage | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_19bdffd3 | comment |
Non-Health Damage: First edition had more monsters capable of doing this than you could shake a stick at, and the players were capable of doing this as well. Spells such as Ray of Enfeeblement, Calcific Touch, and Touch of Idiocy could drain out the big six stats; if Constitution went to zero, you were dead. If any of the rest went to zero, you were helpless. Plenty of poisons and drugs also did ability score damage. Pathfinder 1e's shadows laugh at D&D Fifth Edition's shadows, because they roll against touch AC to hit, deal 1-6 Strength damage, and come in a greater variety that can do 1-8 points of Strength damage (with the saving grace that zero Strength paralyses instead of killing). Given most Pathfinder games embraced point buy, dumping Strength was even more common. The Feeblemind spell, inherited from D&D, reduced the character's Intelligence and Charisma to 1. Most spellcasting classes lost all spells at that point. Wisdom-based casters were made too stupid to speak, so they likely also were not going to be doing anything important either. Second Edition has all kinds of ways to inflict this and makes it part of the meta. To wit, in Second Edition you get three actions per round and with every attack, you face an increasing penalty to hit. Thus, against all but the weakest enemies, taking three attacks is heavily discouraged. So what should a PC do? Use skills to Intimidate to inflict Frightened, damaging the enemy's ability to do anything, or Deception to Feint and reduce their AC, Bon Mot to fluster them and reduce their Will, and so on. Unlike most editions, these are pretty much resolved just like attacks. | |
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Darkest Africa | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_19d8d325 | comment |
The Mwangi Expanse is Darkest Africa — in 1st edition. 2nd edition makes a deliberate effort to humanize the setting and present it from an insider's perspective rather than that of colonialists and looters. A 400-page book about the setting was released in 2021. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1a303edf | type |
Our Orcs Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1a303edf | comment |
Our Orcs Are Different: They're insane nihilists who laugh in the face of death. They also originated underground, and got pushed up ahead by the Dwarves as they made their way to the surface. | |
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Diesel Punk | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1b010521 | comment |
Diesel Punk: Rasputin Must Die!, which drops the players off in Siberia during World War I to fight Cyborg tanks, evil fey, zombies, daemons, and swarms of Russian soldiers armed with machine guns, experimental Magitek weaponry, and mustard gas. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1b4e322c | type |
Mr. Fanservice | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1b4e322c | comment |
Mr. Fanservice: Seltyiel, Sajan, and Valeros come to mind. All three of these guys crank the fanservice up a bit more in their Mythic Adventures redesigns — Sajan and Seltyiel have both done away with every stitch of clothing on their upper bodies while Valeros has ditched his armour for a gladiator-esque shoulder-guard, leaving his scarred, muscled chest visible to all. Apparently becoming a Mythic Hero does away with the need for conventional armour. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1ba5dc68 | type |
The Greys | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1ba5dc68 | comment |
The Greys: The derro fulfill this role on Golarion, abducting people, performing terrible experiments on them, and later returning them without any memory of their experiences beyond some vague nightmares. Bestiary 5 provides stats for actual greys. They are telepathic, evil, and like to paralyze and mind-probe people. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1ca6727d | type |
Actually a Doombot | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1ca6727d | comment |
Actually a Doombot: The 2E Pathfinder Society scenario #1-24 "Lightning Strikes, Stars Fall" has an example of this involving a literal robot and not a Simulacrum spell. At one point, the party appears to fight the gnome alchemist Khismar Crookchar. Khismar Crookchar is The Mole for Kevoth-Kul, both of whom are big enough characters in 2E's metaplot to warrant their own section in the book detailing major characters in the Lost Omens setting. As a consequence, while this scenario serves to introduce Khismar Crookchar, the writers had no plans to kill him off, and so the one the players fight is revealed to be a robot when reduced below a certain HP threshold. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1cb6d160 | type |
Weaponized Stench | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1cb6d160 | comment |
Weaponized Stench: The stinking cloud spell conjures a horrible-smelling fog that nauseates anybody who fails the save. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1d2400e9 | type |
Green-Eyed Monster | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1d2400e9 | comment |
Green-Eyed Monster: The archdevil Baalzebul believes himself the only deserving son of Asmodeus and loathes the other archdevils for, in his mind, usurping his proper place in Hell. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1d47dc06 | type |
Alternative Calendar | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1d47dc06 | comment |
Alternative Calendar: The Absalom Reckoning calendar is exactly like our Real Life calendar but with the names of the months and days of the week changed (the months are named after twelve of the major gods of the pantheon). The Age of Lost Omens began in 4606 AR; the current "present day" in any given book is 4700 + the last two digits of the book's publication year (e.g. Rise of the Runelords volume 1 came out in 2007, therefore the In-Universe year is 4707 AR). | |
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Chase-Scene Obstacle Course | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1d8fa74d | comment |
Chase-Scene Obstacle Course: The Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide has mechanics for impromptu chase scenes: The GM lays down a row of cards representing obstacles (each obstacle has a choice of skill checks to overcome them) and controls a fleeing NPC. The Player Characters and NPC then attempt skill checks to progress through the obstacle course until the pursuers catch up, or the pursued reaches a point that marks a safe escape. | |
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Total Eclipse of the Plot | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1dab5333 | comment |
Total Eclipse of the Plot: In Tian Xia, solar eclipses are considered a sacred time of celebration in the cults of the gods Shizuru and Tsukiyo. According to mythology, the two, respectively the goddess of the sun and the god of the moon, are Star-Crossed Lovers who can only be together during an eclipse. | |
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Our Titans Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1daff673 | comment |
Our Titans Are Different: The Titans tried to wage war upon the gods. Some, the Chaotic Good Elysian Titans, turned upon their kin and assisted in their defeat. The Chaotic Evil Thanatotic Titans were imprisoned in the deep layers of the Abyss, where they created the flawed demodands as servants. Both are hideously powerful, and described as very near divine. Then there are the Hekatonkheires, who were the first to take up arms against the gods, and rather than be banished to the Abyss with the Thanatotic Titans, they were cast out of reality because they were too powerful for the Abyss to contain, and their lesser descendants are more powerful than regular titans of the other varieties. Bestiary 4 then introduced the Formorian titans. Rather than the malformed giants of Dungeons & Dragons, they're titans so powerful they had to imprisoned within their own armour! | |
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Adventure-Friendly World | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1e75509c | comment |
On top of this, you have all the usual things expected of an Adventure-Friendly World; rampaging monsters, magical plagues, roaming undead, wizards doing dodgy stuff, weird cults... the list goes on. | |
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Stripperiffic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1eb49c19 | comment |
Stripperiffic: Seoni the sorceress (in her slinky red dress), Alahazra◊ the oracle (who appears to be wearing an open kaftan and a low-slung sarong over a bikini), and Feiya◊ the witch (who's mostly bare-legged and about to fall out of her bodice) stand out in particular. | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1edfa2c7 | comment |
Royals Who Actually Do Something: The kingdom campaign rules in the Ultimate Campaign book allow player characters to rule territory. The timescale of "kingdom turns" runs to a month, but a character's attention is only required for seven days, allowing regular adventuring between the action of government; the book suggests that such adventures could concern directly confronting threats to the characters' lands. The Kingmaker adventure path was this trope for five books, and could be seen as the beta version of the Ultimate Campaign kingdom ruleset. Curse of the Crimson Throne could be subtitled God Save Us from Queen Ileosa of Varisia. Queen Galfrey of Mendev is The Paladin and a Lady of War who has a large role to play in Wrath of the Righteous. Additionally, in Wrath of the Righteous, the players will meet the non-human rulers of whole other dimensions, with active encounters with the Demon Lords Nocticula, Baphomet, and Deskari. In War for the Crown, Princess Eutropia Stavian of Taldor is a Politically-Active Princess who is trying to become an Internal Reformist monarch. Hell's Vengeance writes Queen Abrogail II of Cheliax as a villainous example of this who has finally managed to drag her country out of its complacency towards the fact that its provinces keep declaring independence. | |
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Vancian Magic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1f1248fc | comment |
Vancian Magic: How all magic is cast. Some classes in both editions play with the trope, though, such as having different restrictions than normal on how they use their spell slots, and cantrips in Second Edition (which can be cast at will and automatically scale with your level) avert the trope much in the same way they do in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. | |
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Wild Magic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1f80d7be | comment |
The Mana Wastes are a narrow strip of barren land between the two sorcerer kingdoms Nex and Geb that resulted from a devastating war between the two. Apart from it being turned into a desert, it is also impossible to reliably cast any kind of magic there: in some places, it simply doesn't work, in others, it automatically becomes Wild Magic. The city of Alkenstar was erected in the middle of the Wastes by those who chose to eschew magic completely. | |
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Wizards' War | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_1f8aa905 | comment |
Wizards' War: The nations of Geb and Nex suffered a brutal Forever War under their namesake Archmages, including multiple Fantastic Nukes, huge waves of undead, and armies of mechanical and biological constructs. 4000 years later, most of Geb is undead, much of Nex is desolate, and the no man's land between them is a magically depleted wasteland. Neither nation is at war technically in the present, but only because Geb (the man) became inactive for a time, and Nex (the man) has not been seen in a long time, who some of the more influential people of both nations hope don't become active or return to avoid war. | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: Lots of devils in PF make deals, but Mephistopheles, of course, is the best at it. | |
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Alternate Company Equivalent | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_200c8312 | comment |
Alternate Company Equivalent: Much of the Golarion setting is clearly heavily influenced by Forgotten Realms, with several major deities being modified versions of FR gods (e.g. Torm -> Iomedae, Sune -> Shelyn) and the general layout of the world being virtually identical (Faerun -> Avistan, Maztica -> Arcadia, Al-Qadim -> Casmaron, Kara-tur -> Tian Xia), though the latter is not too surprising given the continent layout was a modified version of Earth to begin with. | |
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Ominous Floating Castle | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_207af763 | comment |
Ominous Floating Castle: In the Giantslayer adventure path, the villain is a tyrannical storm giant who has taken over the flying castle of a clan of cloud giants by slaughtering its old rulers with the aid of a few traitors, and afterwards filled it with his minions and servants and converted it into a flying base of operations for his plans to conquer as much of the world as he is able. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_207af763 | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_21d70919 | type |
Crapsack World | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_21d70919 | comment |
Crapsack World: Welcome to Golarion, where you're most likely screwed, doing the screwing, or both! For starters, Rovagug is only barely held in place by the joint efforts of Asmodeus and Sarenrae. Asmodeus, the Lawful Evil would-be omniversal tyrant, also gets to hold the threat of universal destruction over everyone else's shoulders, because he's the only one with the key to Rovagug's prison. Rovagug's "children" include Tarrasque, the infamous and nigh-indestructible creature that likes to end civilizations when it awakens. But even that pales in comparison to Rovagug himself... It's implied that there might be certain creatures that came before even the gods. Guess what they are. There are also beings like Baba Yaga, who have all the powers of Gods but none of the drawbacks because they do not need prayer badly, but have other power sources instead. You can guess how good news a being that can go toe-to-toe with a god and is beholden to no-one is. Demon Lords like Asmodeus and Nocticula are openly worshipped. As in, they have huge temples built to them, and their priests proselytize openly in the streets. The Church of Asmodeus is even the state religion of not-insignificant parts of the world. Even among the "good" gods, there is plenty to criticize. Iomedae can be quite the Manipulative Bitch when she deems it necessary. Sarenrae isn't above a little Pay Evil unto Evil. Cayden Cailean is a drunkard who can't keep it in his pants who lucked into godhood while drunk, and has not been sober since. Shelyn forbids her paladins from killing even the most heinous of evil-doers because they might create something beautiful at some point in the future. Calistria has a so severe case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder Asmodeus leaves the room when she arrives. Erastil is a reactionary who has raised Stay in the Kitchen to an art form. One of the more powerful nations in the setting, Cheliax, are diabolistic human supremacists that intend to subjugate the world in the name of Asmodeus. The queen has a pit fiend as her chief advisor; not to corrupt her, mind, just to ensure she doesn't slip into Stupid Evil. Numeria is ruled by a cabal of Mad Scientists who are strip-mining a crashed spaceship. Queen Ileosa of Korvosa is a full-fledged monster running a eugenics program that makes the Nazi T4-program look like flourinating drinking water, and intends to rise to godhood on the back of a high six-digit number of human sacrifices. Galt had a revolution half a century ago, but never really understood that at some point you have to stop purging dissidents and start building a society. The nation has been stuck in a cycle of revolution and counter-revolution ever since. The kingdom of Geb is a kingdom ruled by undead. Best to stay clear of this place or you'll end up as a slave or food, if not both. Central Avistan is home to the Worldwound, the site of a gigantic portal to the Abyss which swallowed and destroyed the nation of Sarkoris, and where hundreds of demonic creatures pour into Golarion every day, and has been the site of near-constant warfare for the better part of a century. On the more mundane end, slavery and human sacrifice are also perfectly legal in large swathes of the world. On top of this, you have all the usual things expected of an Adventure-Friendly World; rampaging monsters, magical plagues, roaming undead, wizards doing dodgy stuff, weird cults... the list goes on. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_21d70919 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_21eb1793 | type |
Muggles Do It Better | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_21eb1793 | comment |
Muggles Do It Better: Or at least just as well. In the main setting, the warriors with swords or the odd experimental firearm can at least have a chance when confronting spellcasters of equal level. And they're much more common. Late in Reign of Winter the PCs confront a group of soldiers with modern weapons. They are backed up by vampires and some odds and ends, but it's the soldiers who have the potential to cause some of the biggest problems. And then Iron Gods establishes that, given enough time, technology that equals or surpasses some of the greatest feats of magic can be developed while being accessible to everyone. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_21eb1793 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_21eb1793 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24588e42 | type |
Dying to Wake Up | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24588e42 | comment |
Dying to Wake Up: Harmless astral mindscapes can't affect the outside world, so anyone who dies in one wakes up in their body, no worse for wear. However, there are also harmful mindscapes that can be indistinguishable from the harmless kind to anyone other than their creator, so it's a much riskier option than looking for the Dream Emergency Exit. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24588e42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24588e42 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24588e42 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2487c879 | type |
Forced Sleep | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2487c879 | comment |
The Witch class specializes in save-or-suck spells, getting few that inflict direct HP damage but many designed for inflicting status effects or ability damage. They also have the "hex" as a core feature, which can be used on an unlimited number of creatures once per day per creature. The Slumber hex, available at 1st level, is a single-target Forced Sleep effect that is considered almost mandatory for Witch PCs. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2487c879 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2487c879 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24b31452 | type |
Mayfly–December Friendship | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24b31452 | comment |
Mayfly–December Friendship: Elves who grow up among shorter-lived races rather than their own kind are called Forlorn. Since elves are considered adult at 110, each one of them has by this time buried roughly two generations of "childhood friends" who grew up, lived their lives and died of old age. Many more companions will die in the course of the rest of their lifespan (naturally somewhere between 350 and 750 years), resulting in many Forlorn becoming cynical, bitter and insular. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24b31452 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24b31452 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24b31452 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24e8329 | type |
Stuck Items | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24e8329 | comment |
Stuck Items: Cursed magical items in general are examples of these, as they will return to you and in some cases, like the Rod of Arson, will force you to use them even if they have been physically destroyed. It takes specific spells or combinations of spells to get rid of them. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24e8329 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24e8329 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24feb95d | type |
Fantastic Fallout | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24feb95d | comment |
Fantastic Fallout: The Mana Wastes are a narrow strip of barren land between the two sorcerer kingdoms Nex and Geb that resulted from a devastating war between the two. Apart from it being turned into a desert, it is also impossible to reliably cast any kind of magic there: in some places, it simply doesn't work, in others, it automatically becomes Wild Magic. The city of Alkenstar was erected in the middle of the Wastes by those who chose to eschew magic completely. The area around the Worldwound, a giant planar breach to the Abyss that opened in the year of Aroden's death, is a cold, blasted desert that sickens all living things that enter it unless protected by a powerful consecrate effect. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24feb95d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24feb95d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_24feb95d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2512a9d2 | type |
Ability Depletion Penalty | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2512a9d2 | comment |
Ability Depletion Penalty: The Monk and Ninja classes have a daily pool of ki points to enhance their powers. Some of their passive Magic Enhancements don't cost ki points but don't work when their ki pool is empty, such as the Monk's Damage Reduction-piercing blows. The later Gunslinger, Swashbuckler, Magus, and Arcanist classes have similar mechanics: for example, a Gunslinger is unable to use the "Quick Clear" deed unless they have at least one grit point remaining in their grit pool. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2512a9d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2512a9d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2512a9d2 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2583f1a0 | type |
Super Wheelchair | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2583f1a0 | comment |
Super Wheelchair: In addition to regular wheelchairs, Grand Bazaar and Guns & Gears include stats for chairs for adventurers that fit this trope. The basic example is a Downplayed version, as it provides the ability to traverse stairs and adventuring environments without difficulty but lacks any magical effects. Higher level versions like the Minotaur Chair will make those with able legs a bit jealous. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2583f1a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2583f1a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2583f1a0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_25b5600 | type |
Captain Ersatz | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_25b5600 | comment |
Captain Ersatz: The boggards, a race of frog-people, are really just D&D's bullywugs renamed due to copyright issues. The serpentfolk are similar to D&D's yuan-ti in function (ancient evil snake folk living in ruins) but different in appearance, powers, and culture. In a way, they're more of a return to form—yuan-ti were ersatzes of Robert E. Howard's serpentfolk. Pathfinder's serpentfolk are for all practical purposes identical to the archenemies of King Kull. Intellect devourers, though a preexisting D&D monster, have become the default stand-in for mind flayers in the "psionic brain-themed underground aberration" department. Another preexisting monster tied to mind flayers, neothelids, also picked up a part of their role, in this case the "immensely powerful psionic horrors worshipping worse beings and plotting to destroy/enslave everything else" part. Rovagug, the god of destruction, is the replacement for Obox-ob, the demon lord who was the Big Bad of lead designer James Jacobs's campaign which eventually became Golarion. Jacobs "sold" Obox-ob to Wizards of the Coast when he included the demon in their Fiendish Codex book (fair enough as he took the name from the 1E Monster Manual II).note Rovagug did exist in Jacobs's original campaign but was a more generic god of the underworld. A weird case: In D&D 3E, there were two "underground fish-people" races: kuo-toa (the more popular and better-known) and skum. The skum were open-source under the Open Gaming License; the kuo-toa were not. So Paizo took the skum and made them thematically more like the kuo-toa (and H. P. Lovecraft's Deep Ones). They have forgotten their heritage as part of an ancient Aboleth empire, and everyone (including themselves) calls them Skum, but the actual name for their race is Ulat-Kini. The graveknight is inspired by D&D's death knight, with some subtle differences—the death knight's soul inhabits its dead body like most undead, while the graveknight's soul possesses its armor, much like a lich's phylactery. Likewise, the ravener is strongly based on D&D's dracolich. The urdefhans are meant to evoke the image of D&D's githyanki — evil, otherworldly humanoids with a skeletal appearance who wield distinctive swords — but have a completely different campaign role. Bestiary 4 has Kaiju as a monster type. Of the Kaiju, Agyra is basically a combination of Rodan and Mothra. Bezravnis is a fiery underground Ebirah, and Mogaru is Godzilla without the radioactive aspects. Bestiary 6 introduces King Varklops, who is King Ghidorah as a snake rather than a dragon. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_25b5600 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_25b5600 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_25b7257f | type |
Red Right Hand | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_25b7257f | comment |
Red Right Hand: Rakshasas in human form always have one feature that faces the wrong way, traditionally their hands. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_25b7257f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_25b7257f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_25b7257f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_264fcc42 | type |
Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_264fcc42 | comment |
Sudden Sequel Heel Syndrome: In the Second Edition Adventure Path "Age Of Ashes," Mengkare has gone from Lawful Neutral to Lawful Evil, as he has started sacrificing his own subjects in order to stop Dahak. He's still a Well-Intentioned Extremist, meaning the players can possibly talk him down and redeem him. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_264fcc42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_264fcc42 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26ac510e | type |
Mythology Gag | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26ac510e | comment |
Mythology Gag: The book, Bastards of Golarion, features a section talking about a particular kind of half-breed they refer to as the Celebrity; someone whose inter-species heritage makes them popular, even beloved. The accompanying artwork is a young, white-haired woman in peasant clothing with a pendant of Desna around her neck and looking rather depressed. The picture is, of course, of Nualia, the big-bad of Burnt Offerings but of her before her descent into insanity and worship of Lamashtu. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26ac510e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26ac510e | featureConfidence |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26ac510e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26d0fa3b | type |
Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26d0fa3b | comment |
Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: Several species in Pathfinder are quite capable of breeding with just about anything. Aside from the typical half-orcs, half-elves, aasimar and tieflings, there's also the matter of sorcerers whose bloodlines can include devils, dragons, angels, undead, plants, and shadows. Of course this is often a case of Lamarck Was Right, with the example for the undead bloodline suggesting that your ancestor became a lich or the infernal bloodline suggesting that the power is actually a lingering effect of an ancestor's Deal with the Devil, Indeed, their entries in the Bestiaries mention that creatures such as half dragons and half fiends are mostly the result of magical rituals, and only very rarely the result of actual sexual relations between different species. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26d0fa3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26d0fa3b | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26eb6287 | type |
Funny Background Event | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26eb6287 | comment |
Funny Background Event: Sometimes the Adventure Path manuals have illustrations that can piece together a story. For instance, in Iron Gods, the battle against Meyanda features Lirianne wresting her Inferno Pistol from her, which she then uses together with her old pistol in subsequent illustrations. Meanwhile, in the second module's cover Amiri is shown losing her signature bastard sword to a rust monster. In the next module, she's depicted wielding Kulgara's magical chainsaw. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26eb6287 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_26eb6287 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_27ba9b64 | type |
What Did I Do Last Night? | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_27ba9b64 | comment |
What Did I Do Last Night?: Cayden Cailean, an adventurer who woke up after a drunken binge in Absalom to discover that he had taken the Test of the Starstone and BECOME A GOD. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_27ba9b64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_27ba9b64 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2816d1ca | type |
Guns Firing Underwater | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2816d1ca | comment |
Guns Firing Underwater: Firearms can't be used underwater unless protected with specific magic, and even then, shooting through water imposes a stiff penalty on the weapon's accuracy. Early ammunition is ruined outright by exposure to water. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2816d1ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2816d1ca | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_294a3ff2 | type |
Fox Folk | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_294a3ff2 | comment |
Fox Folk: The race called kitsune, although despite the name they lack relation to traditional kitsune in Japanese mythology. (They can, however, be found in the more Japanese Fantasy Counterpart Culture parts of Tian Xia.) In Dungeons & Dragons 3.0, the Oriental Adventures sourcebook had a hengeyokai race with the Shapechanger type, who could switch between humanoid, animal and hybrid forms; 3.5 removed the Shapechanger type, so the official update made them Humanoids (resulting in some Gameplay and Story Segregation, as they were still described like Magical Beasts). Pathfinder kitsune were based on the 3.5 version of fox hengeyokai, but Nerfed by removing the animal form (which instead became a "disguise" that higher-level kitsune could learn by spending a feat) and making the hybrid form their true form. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_294a3ff2 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_294a3ff2 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_294df577 | type |
Dark World | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_294df577 | comment |
Dark World: The Plane of Shadow, just like in 3.5, is still Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_294df577 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_294df577 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_294df577 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2b5ea43c | type |
Bland-Name Product | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2b5ea43c | comment |
Bland-Name Product: Strangely, the Ultimate Equipment book has "Wismuth Salix", a chalky pink liquid medicine. "Wismuth" is a play on bismuth, and "salix" can be translated from Latin as "peppy" — it's fantasy Pepto-Bismol. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2b5ea43c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2b5ea43c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2b726e19 | type |
Ring of Power | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2b726e19 | comment |
Ring of Power: Any magic ring, and there are many. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2b726e19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2b726e19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2b726e19 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2c9ef8f7 | type |
Combo Platter Powers | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2c9ef8f7 | comment |
Combo Platter Powers: The Tane all fall into this. The Jabberwock's abilities are the same as what's hinted at in the poem (eyes of flame, burbling, and whiffling), and the other two were created to mimic the Jabberwock. It's a major contributor to how odd they are. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2c9ef8f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cc736e4 | type |
Bondage Is Bad | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cc736e4 | comment |
Bondage Is Bad: Zon-Kuthon, who is basically a Cenobite homage as an evil god. Also the Velstracs (formerly Kytons), expanded from a single type of evil outsider into a full-fledged Hellraiser-themed infernal hierarchy. Partially averted by the goddess Calistria, the goddess of lust and "The Savored Sting," who isn't particularly good or evil. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cc736e4 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cc736e4 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cd22076 | type |
Fantastic Drug | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cd22076 | comment |
Fantastic Drug: Pesh, which has effects similar to PCP (hallucinations, euphoria, and aggression) and is made from a cactus native to Katapesh. A feat in the supplement Black Markets allows a spellcaster to consume it to add certain spells to their spell list. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cd22076 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cd22076 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cf5eb14 | type |
Endless Winter | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cf5eb14 | comment |
Endless Winter: Irrisen (Fantasy Counterpart Culture of fairy-tale Russia) has had this problem since Baba Yaga took over. The Reign of Winter Adventure Path involves the threat of this happening over the entire planet. The planet Triaxus goes through just about a hundred years of winter at a time, alternating with an equally long summer. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cf5eb14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2cf5eb14 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2d4fa515 | type |
Ax-Crazy | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
While there are always exceptions at the GM's discretion, First Edition supplementary materials would kindly remind you that aside from those singular individuals, the savage humanoids of Golarion are gleefully evil, if not insanely so. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2d4fa515 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2d4fa515 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2d88e42c | type |
Gender Bender | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2d88e42c | comment |
Gender Bender: One of the potential drawbacks on a magical item is that the user's gender changes while the item remains in their possession (or possibly, just while it's in use). The item in question is usually labeled cursed for a reason, as the effect is forced onto the player character, though the item itself still works inspite of it. Anevia Tirablade, the wife of half-orc paladin Irabeth Tirablade, was born male, but felt more comfortable as a woman. A magic elixir fixed that for her. The Serum of Sex Shift, which does Exactly What It Says on the Tin, was introduced in 2E. Besides the above in-universe use, it's probably intended as a way for players to explain a sudden sex shift for their characters without breaking immersion. As for why they made sure to explicitly note that it can produce any combination of sexual characteristics, as many times as you want, well, draw your own conclusions there. As part of the Bestiary-wide, sweeping attempt to eliminate One-Gender Race in 2E, they note that Changelings can be either male or female, males simply not being usually detected as such. However, they can still turn into hags, which are all female. This became explicit when the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide went into more depth on the subject. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2da9bb9b | type |
Psychopomp | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2da9bb9b | comment |
All Psychopomps' attacks naturally affect incorporeal beings, as do those of crypt dragons, helping them with their tasks of corralling restless spirits and watching over the souls of the dead. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2da9bb9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2da9bb9b | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2e96aee | type |
Seadog Peg Leg | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2e96aee | comment |
Seadog Peg Leg: "Peg Leg" is a selectable character Trait in the pirate-themed Skulls & Shackles Adventure Path. A PC who takes it has had his leg chewed off by a shark as a child, but they suffer no normal penalties for using a prosthetic and instead gain a bonus on damage rolls against sharks and other aquatic predators. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2e96aee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2e96aee | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2f253c94 | type |
Glass Cannon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2f253c94 | comment |
Glass Cannon: The Monk class in 1e fits this in comparison to Fighters. Monks get the fast movement ability, which increases their speed, and can deliver a Flurry of Blows, which allows them to make several additional attacks whenever they make a full attack action. However, as a cost, they are forbidden from wearing any armor or using shields, making it more difficult for them to raise their armor class. With fewer Dump Stats, they'll typically have lower physical attributes than straight fighters. Further, they get a smaller hit die than fighters, so they have fewer hit points. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2f253c94 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2f41cac1 | type |
Our Werebeasts Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2f41cac1 | comment |
Our Werebeasts Are Different: Along with the usual werewolves, wererats, wereboars, weretigers, and werebears of D&D, there's also werecrocodiles, werebats, and weresharks. Skinwalkers, natural born lycanthropes, have a Beastial form. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2f41cac1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2f41cac1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fa6b075 | type |
God Save Us from the Queen! | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fa6b075 | comment |
Curse of the Crimson Throne could be subtitled God Save Us from Queen Ileosa of Varisia. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fa6b075 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fa6b075 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc21a19 | type |
Distaff Counterpart | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc21a19 | comment |
Grandmother Spider is a Distaff Counterpart of Anansi. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc21a19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc21a19 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc2d6e1 | type |
Shapeshifter Mode Lock | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc2d6e1 | comment |
Shapeshifter Mode Lock: A Morph-Risen Reflection didn't start that way (usually)—instead, they were a shapeshifter or polymorphing mage who got "stuck" as a copy of another being. They passively resist transmutation magic, and get a critical success on saves against morph and polymorph effects they'd otherwise only succeed normally at. A later feat lets them temporarily warp the form of people they hit up close into something like their own. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc2d6e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_2fc2d6e1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3094ec26 | type |
Artifact of Death | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3094ec26 | comment |
Artifact of Death: Several Cursed Items try to kill their owners. The necklace of strangulation constricts around their neck, the periapt of foul rotting inflicts a Mystical Plague, and the ever-popular scarab of death tries to eat their heart. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3094ec26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3094ec26 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_309b8806 | type |
Cursed with Awesome | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_309b8806 | comment |
Cursed with Awesome: The sorcerer class has Bloodlines which can stem from anything from dragons to demons to undead to Lovecraftian horrors lurking between the stars. They all give the Sorcerer awesome powers, new spells, and access to more feats. In a more literal sense, the 1e Oracle base class is given something called an "Oracle's Curse". Oh no! You are babbling in a demonic tongue while in battle! But when you reach level 15, you can understand and speak any language! Oh no! You can't see beyond 30 feet in front of you, but you can see in the infrared spectrum and at level 15 who cares about having difficulty seeing, you can see in a fashion that's better than regular sight. Oh no! I'm a bit lame, but at level 15 I literally cannot get tired. Oh no! I'm haunted, objects that I drop or attempt to retrieve are suddenly not there or several feet away, but as I level I gain the ability to tell gravity to GTFO. Oh no! I'm a bit ugly and unpleasant, but I'm completely immune to disease and nausea. A more generalized type would be magical items that are cursed or have drawbacks. Sure, some of them enforce some variety of change or behavior on the user, but if the user has no problem with it, the "curse" is a boon. One example are magical items that change the wearer's sex — a Transgender character may choose to seek one out for the "drawback" effect moreso than the main effect. Oracle returns for Second Edition with the same core concept of "divinely cursed with awesome", though the effect progression explicitly forces you to amplify your curse to get the full benefits of it—the curse your Mystery bears normally only has a benefit and small, passive flavor downside, but each time you use a Revelation focus spell, your curse progresses until the end of combat. Each downside and benefit is cumulative. The minor effects give you a small, flavorful downside you have to play around, without any real upside. Once you cast your Revelation, you're stuck with the minor effects until you rest and make daily preparations again. These include things like lower initiative from being unable to process the torrent of knowledge your curse provides, losing 2 AC unless you've made a Strike since the start of your turn, or halving the non-magical healing you receive. The moderate effects give you a bigger downside, but also give you a small benefit. Refocusing at moderate or higher reduces your curse's effects to their minor form. These include things like being enfeebled 2 and much more vulnerable to getting pushed around but also being able to leap around more easily and resisting tripping, being cloaked in swirling ash that dazzles you, but also conceals you and creatures within 10 feet, or being unable to magically heal (but improving your ability to magically heal your allies). Major effects are only accessible at Level 11, often having a serious downside but also a moderate benefit. These include things like being constantly surrounded by flames unless you spend an action to suppress them, being surrounded by an incredibly powerful rainstorm that causes difficult terrain while making you vulnerable to lightning, and being able to understand all languages but incapable of communicating by any means. The extreme stage, only accessible at Level 17 (and requiring multiple encounters to reach under most circumstances), is identical for all Mysteries. You're constantly Doomed 2 (meaning that if you go down, you're much more likely to die), but you can reroll any attack roll, skill or Perception check, or saving throw you fail once every 10 minutes. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_309b8806 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_309b8806 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_309c05ec | type |
Teleporter Accident | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_309c05ec | comment |
1st Edition copies the mechanics from D&D 3E verbatim. The teleport spell has a percentage chance of failing—meaning anything from landing off-target to suffering a Teleporter Accident, also decided by percentile dice—that increases the less familiar the caster is with their target location. Greater teleport removes the chance of damage but still requires at least a good description of the destination: if the description you have isn't good enough, you simply reappear back where you started. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_309c05ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_309c05ec | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_319e4a2f | type |
Even Evil Has Standards | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards: Demons and devils regularly team up with each other and angels against the suicidally nihilistic daemons. Though some of this is attributable to Pragmatic Villainy: it's hard to get mortals to agree to a Deal with the Devil if there aren't any mortals left. Asmodeus aided the good and neutral gods against Rovagug, even providing the lock to seal him away. Ogres are Darker and Edgier than ever before, being basically cannibalistic inbred rapist hillbillies with no morality whatsoever. And yet they tend to have very close-knit families because Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas. Possibly a bit too much. Cheliax's Hellknights are firmly evil, but they are Lawful Evil for a reason. If they feel the law is being violated or abused, some orders are willing to take action even if it means going against high ranking figures in society. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_319e4a2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_319e4a2f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31a2a33c | type |
Stuff Blowing Up | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31a2a33c | comment |
Stuff Blowing Up: The Goblin Fire Bomber archetype for alchemists specializes in unleashing the wrath of Michael Bay on the battlefields of Golarion. Alchemists in general tend to blow things up as a primary form of offense/defense when they're not Hulking Out. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31a2a33c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31a2a33c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31b9c6aa | type |
Magic or Psychic? | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31b9c6aa | comment |
Magic or Psychic?: In First Edition, "psychic magic" is an entirely separate category of magic, contrasting with arcane and divine. Six classes introduced in Occult Adventures tap into this type of magic, and the spells they can use have little overlap with what other classes can cast. In Second Edition, only Psychics have access to psychic magic, and it's more to do with the exact methods of how they cast spells, as they share a spell list with bards and other casters with access to the occult tradition. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31b9c6aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31b9c6aa | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31c5e7fb | type |
Starfish Aliens | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31c5e7fb | comment |
Many of the fiendish races (with the prominent exception of the utterly inhuman qlippoths) have a "pretty humanoid" variant: Erinyes for the devils, Succubi for demons, Erodaemons for daemons, and Pairakas for divs. Ostiarus kytons are Cute Monster Boys. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31c5e7fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_31c5e7fb | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_328445e | type |
Holy Water | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_328445e | comment |
Holy Water: Holy water is defined as water blessed by a cleric or oracle sworn to a Good-aligned deity; besides burning fiends and the undead like acid, it's also used to consecrate areas against evil magic and in liturgical ceremonies. The worshippers of Cayden Cailean, the god of adventurers and alcohol, are known to also bless alcoholic beverages in this manner. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_328445e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_328445e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3298415e | type |
Magic from Technology | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3298415e | comment |
Magic from Technology / Magitek: The planet Verces is the most technologically advanced in Golarion's solar system, using equal parts Star Trek level technology and arcane magic to keep their spacefaring society running. Neither is seen as conflicting with the other. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3298415e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3298415e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_32b71305 | type |
Thunder Hammer | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_32b71305 | comment |
Thunder Hammer: The minor artifact Hammer of Thunderbolts is essentially a lesser version of Mjölnir (and is also featured in Dungeons & Dragons). It requires other magic items (based on Thor's belt and gloves) to be worn to be used at full power. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_32b71305 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_32b71305 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_330105a3 | type |
Move in the Frozen Time | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_330105a3 | comment |
Move in the Frozen Time: The 3rd-party supplement Path of War (a Spiritual Successor to D&D 3.5's Tome of Battle) has "God of the Hourglass", the ultimate stance of the Riven Hourglass discipline. Among its effects, it allows the user to retain their awareness inside a time stop effect and unfreeze themselves long enough to take a single action. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_330105a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_330105a3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_330ef176 | type |
Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_330ef176 | comment |
Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: Cryptids, including more modern ones (20th century and later) not often found in other fantasy tabletop RPGs, are featured quite prominently. They even got their own book! Though, its primarily the famous ones like sea serpents, sasquatches and yetis, water orms, mothmen, chupacabras, and the "Sandpoint Devil". They've also got the Australian bunyips and the purported living dinosaur mokele-mbembe. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_330ef176 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_330ef176 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33179374 | type |
Deity of Human Origin | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33179374 | comment |
Pharasma, goddess of birth and death, is in a relationship with the minor deity Mrtyu, the psychopomp usher responsible for fallen soldiers and victims of murder and suicide. Mrtyu is said to have been the first mortal ever to die with love on his lips, which intrigued Pharasma enough to try wooing his soul when it reached the Boneyard; their relationship has helped her to understand the emotions of mortals better. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33179374 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33179374 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33ba37ca | type |
Out with a Bang | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33ba37ca | comment |
Out with a Bang: Distressingly common: Harpies, being a One-Gender Race comprised solely of women, need to mate with humanoid males to propagate their race (as well as just for fun). However, they usually eat their lovers once they're done with them — indeed, it's noted that it's actually considered bad luck in standard harpy culture to not eat the father of their daughter, unless he is powerful enough that it is worthwhile not to consume him once the harpy has been fertilized. Lamias (or at least the regular, matriarch and harridan versions) are much the same, except the way it's worded implies that partners dying from exhaustion, murderous flares of temper, drug overdose or sadism taken too far is actually more common than the lamia eating her lover. Hags, again, need humanoid males to reproduce. They don't always kill their partner, though. It depends on how they feel. Especially if they think it'd be more "fun" to leave the resultant neonate hag-daughter in her daddy's care, they may well spare their unwitting mate. Jorogumos are spider-women who, again, need humanoid mates to father their offspring. They then act like wasps, in that they implant the fertilized egg(s) into the father and paralyse him with their venom; when the egg hatches, the daughter fatally eats her father for nourishment. Thriae, again, are a Cute Monster Girl race prone to eating their mates. But they're actually treated oddly sympathetically. First, only the Queens treat their consorts this way. The others form more emotional attachments. They also only do so when a lover has grown too old and feeble to reliably fertilize the Queen anymore, and they always use an anaesthetizing venom to render their former lover unconscious and devoid of pain before they begin. Finally, the consorts of Thriae queens are almost always volunteers. Ogres are a male example of this; it's been stated that they tend to rape humanoids (especially women) to death. Ogres, we'll remind you, are 10ft tall, 500 or so pound, horrifically strong, dim-witted sadists. You can put the pieces together as to what the general cause of death is. The players can actually cause this in a monster; a member of the siren race is noted in the Bestiary 2 for her tendency to commit suicide, or literally die of heartbreak, if a male she has her heart set on escapes from her whilst she's courting him. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33ba37ca | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33ca811a | type |
Game-Breaking Bug | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33ca811a | comment |
Game-Breaking Bug: The book Sargava, The Lost Colony for First Edition is notorious for several badly written character options. Chief among them is the feat "Monkey Lunge", which is literally impossible to use as written in the normal action economy: it requires a standard action to prepare, and only lasts one round. The attack roll you would use to execute it is also a standard action. You can only make one standard action per turn. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33ca811a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_33ca811a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_34dd5f3 | type |
La Résistance | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_34dd5f3 | comment |
La Résistance: The sub-theme of the Council of Thieves Adventure Path. In a Venice-analogue, no less. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_34dd5f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_34dd5f3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist: The alchemist class is based on a fantasy application of mad chemistry, with incendiary bombs, Psycho Serums, and spells in potion form. The Ultimate Magic sourcebook adds various alternate alchemist archetypes like the vivisectionist, reanimator, and clone master that allow for a wider range of Mad Scientist types. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3734c311 | type |
Onesie Armor | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3734c311 | comment |
Onesie Armor: In first edition, which is basically a modified 3.5 Dungeons & Dragons, armor mostly follows the same rules. There is a set of optional rules for "piecemeal armor", and it's just as complicated as you would think, particularly if you are wearing different kinds of armor (which is the main point of such rules.) | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3734c311 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3734c311 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858 | type |
Squishy Wizard | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858 | comment |
In 1e, Spellcasting classes tend to dominate the late game after spending the early game nursing single digit hit points. It should be noted that it's still significantly better about this than 3.5. Most significantly, fighters have been given unique feats that give them extremely powerful combat maneuvers and the duration of game-breaking battle spells is generally measured in rounds and had their numerical advantages severely decreased. Casters also have the option of taking the additional hit-points from their favored class. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38424ebb | type |
Genie in a Bottle | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38424ebb | comment |
Genie in a Bottle: Represented by the magical items efreeti bottle and the ring of djinn summoning. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38424ebb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38424ebb | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_384d0eaf | type |
Lightning Lash | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_384d0eaf | comment |
Lightning Lash: A kineticist who specializes in the air element can charge a whip (or any other weapon) with electricity, or manifest a whip made of pure electricity, with the right talent selection. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_384d0eaf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_384d0eaf | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38e4b69d | type |
Mister Seahorse | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38e4b69d | comment |
Mister Seahorse: The Mythic Realms sourcebook mentions the Crater of Carnal Joining in the Pit of Gormuz, where a priest of Rovagug named Multh gathered 1111 virgins of both sexes and all races to try and entice Rovagug to "bless" the world with another of its spawn. What arose from the pit was instead one of Rovagug's servitors; Galulab'daa, a mountainous gibbering mouther. Though most of the offerings died, four lived and were left pregnant with Rovagug's grandchildren; of these four "Woeful Mothers", one was a human man, and the other was a male troglodyte. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38e4b69d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_38e4b69d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_391e5643 | type |
Official Game Variant | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_391e5643 | comment |
Official Game Variant: Ultimate Combat, which introduces firearms to First Edition, lists off five possible different campaign-wide Technology Levels for guns, modifying which types of firearms and gunslinging classes are available. These range from "No Guns", to the midlevel "Emerging Guns" (the Gunslinger class introduced in the book is intended for this tech level), up to "Guns Everywhere" (guns are reclassified as simple weapons and cost 10% of their listed value). The Pathfinder Unchained family of supplements for First Edition includes a number of variant rules, ranging from Obvious Rule Patches to several classes (notably Rogue and Summoner), to Revised Action Economy, which essentially back-ports the action economy of Second Edition into First Edition. | |
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PsychopathicManChild | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3923297a | comment |
Psychopathic Man Child: Goblins and some ogrekin. Goblins' childish traits are usually depicted humorously, whereas everything about ogrekin is played for horror or Squick. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3923297a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_39441318 | type |
Horny Vikings | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_39441318 | comment |
The Lands of the Linnorm Kings are Scandinavia. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_39441318 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3947a03f | type |
Celestial Paragons and Archangels | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3947a03f | comment |
Black Butterfly is an Empyreal Lord associated with darkness, distance, and space. She appears as a dark humanoid silhouette gleaming with images of stars and nebulae, and her personal realm is a quiet void whose physical surfaces are pockets of solid shadows. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3947a03f | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3947a03f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_39de664a | type |
Mad Doctor | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_39de664a | comment |
Mad Doctor: Many of the alchemist archetypes from Ultimate Magic are based around knowledge of anatomy (and how to severely damage it). | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_39de664a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ac2a3e3 | type |
Deadly Gas | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ac2a3e3 | comment |
Deadly Gas: The Cloud Kill and Acid Fog spells The module Rasputin Must Die! has mustard gas and a monster that's a sentient cloud of it. That got that way by absorbing the souls of the people it killed. It makes zombies. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ac2a3e3 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ac2a3e3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3af9f8b6 | type |
Magical Gesture | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3af9f8b6 | comment |
Creatures with the "tremorsense" special ability are able to detect other creatures out to a specified range by the vibrations they give off when they move, including such things as the somatic components of spells. Normally this functions through transmission of the vibrations through the ground; however, aquatic creatures with tremorsense are able to detect vibrations through the surrounding water. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3af9f8b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3af9f8b6 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3bce9346 | type |
Ragnarök Proofing | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3bce9346 | comment |
Xin-Grafar, the lost City of Golden Death, has canals of molten gold that flood the streets at regular intervals as a defense mechanism. The mechanism's Ragnarök Proofing didn't save the control system, so it can no longer be turned off; player characters need to time their visits very carefully. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3bce9346 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3bce9346 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3bf3244e | type |
Good Weapon, Evil Weapon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3bf3244e | comment |
Good Weapon, Evil Weapon: Weapons can be magically given an alignment towards good or evil (as well as law or chaos) for the purposes of defeating an opponent's damage resistance. Every god (whether good, neutral or evil) has a favored weapon, no matter how disposed to violence said god might be. Whether a specific character wields a particular kind of weapon can be a clue as to the god they worship (although nothing stops a non-believer from using that weapon) and thus what the alignment of that character is likely to be. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3bf3244e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3bf3244e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: How Aroden died is deliberately kept really vague, though people in-universe have a lot of theories about it. How exactly Dou-Bral turned evil and became Zon-Kuthon is also rather vague. According to the books he was exploring the Dark Tapestry (outer space) and ran into... something (Implied to be some kind of Eldritch Abomination, though nothing else is known about this being) that turned him insane and evil. It has since been hinted that Dou-Bral was exploring past reality itself, somehow stumbling onto a hibernating counterpart of himself from a previous cycle of reality that hijacked him. An in-universe example, in Return Of The Runelords the characters meet an NPC with an exact copy of himself, who he lives with. While the book explains why this is the case (a freak portal accident basically split him into two people) if the PCs ask why there are two of him, he just tells them it's none of their business. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3c0a4666 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | type |
Blessed with Suck | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: All of the oracles must take a curse in exchange for their powers. These can vary from merely annoying to outright horrifying. The Taninivers, having all those disease and necromancy based powers probably isn't worth being sick and in agony all the time.. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ee690ca | type |
Terminal Transformation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ee690ca | comment |
Terminal Transformation: The spell "baleful polymorph" can be used to transform the target into an animal that can't survive its current environment, such as a fish on land, but the target gains a bonus on the saving throw to resist it. The spell "stone to flesh" restores a petrified creature to normal, but has a chance to kill them from the shock of the transformation. Devils are formed from the souls of the damned. What many Hell Seekers don't know is that the process first inflicts Death of Personality through torture, destroying any hint of memory or individuality, and then reshapes what's left into a mindless lemure. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ee690ca | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ee690ca | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3fcfdefd | type |
Hillbilly Horrors | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3fcfdefd | comment |
Hillbilly Horrors: The Hook Mountain Massacre, with the bonus that some of the inbred rapist homicidal degenerates are ten feet tall. Ogres and ogrekin in general borrow a lot from this trope. Marsh giants as well, with added elements of Lovecraftian cults, courtesy to their worship of Dagon. The bloody jake archetype for the slayer class. One of their abilities is even called "The Woods Have Eyes". | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3fcfdefd | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3fcfdefd | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3fe6a857 | type |
Public Domain Character | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3fe6a857 | comment |
Public Domain Character: A number of monsters pulled from Victorian and pulp literature are featured in the setting. Several gods are taken from real-world mythology, including Asmodeus, Lamashtu, Sun Wukong, Camazotz, Ahriman, Apsu, and Dahak. Numerous creatures and gods from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, including Great Cthulhu himself. The Legions of Hell include the Malebranche and just about the entire Ars Goetia! | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3fe6a857 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3fe6a857 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ff156fa | type |
Nay-Theist | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ff156fa | comment |
Nay-Theist: A whole nation of them; after a devastating religious Civil War, the people of Rahadoum decided to outlaw religion, destroy the temples and throw out the priests as being more trouble than they're worth. The overall stance seems to be rather balanced, as while they have to deal with many hardships that could be handled more easily with divine aid and/or magic on their side, a lot of the problems in other lands actually are caused by gods and religions. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ff156fa | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_3ff156fa | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_40cbee83 | type |
Wretched Hive | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_40cbee83 | comment |
Wretched Hive: Kaer Maga. And Riddleport. And Bloodcove. And Ilizmagorti. And Daggermark. And Zirnakaynin. And almost every settlement in the Shackles. And... let's just say there's a lot of scum and villainy in Golarion. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_40cbee83 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_40cbee83 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_42259839 | type |
Spider People | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_42259839 | comment |
Jorogumos are spider-women who, again, need humanoid mates to father their offspring. They then act like wasps, in that they implant the fertilized egg(s) into the father and paralyse him with their venom; when the egg hatches, the daughter fatally eats her father for nourishment. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_42259839 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_42259839 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_42995bec | type |
Spell Book | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_42995bec | comment |
Spell Book: Wizards and magi can't cast spells without them. Witches use their familiars as this. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_42995bec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_42995bec | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_434a6d40 | type |
Evil Sorcerer | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_434a6d40 | comment |
Hunclay from The Dragon's Demand. An Evil Sorcerer who wanted to destroy the so called "Witch Tower" nearby because it blocked his view of the stars, he worked with the titular dragon and his band of kobolds to this end. Unfortunately for him, the dragon double crossed him and collapsed the tower on top of him, which the players are sent to investigate. Later in the module, they have to explore his mansion and find some disturbing experiments he did on extraplanar creatures, as well as a terrified servant who has locked himself in a closet and wont come out until he's sure his master is really dead. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_434a6d40 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_437f3f2e | type |
Mixed Ancestry is Attractive | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_437f3f2e | comment |
Mixed Ancestry is Attractive: The Blood of Angels book for 1st Edition states that aasimars, humanoids with partial descent from a Good-aligned outsider, generally appear to be particularly physically attractive versions of the base creature thanks to inheriting some of the beauty of their celestial ancestor. The same is not generally true of tieflings, who tend to look stereotypically demonic and are widely feared due to their fiendish ancestry. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_437f3f2e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_438e4dd6 | type |
Demon of Human Origin | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_438e4dd6 | comment |
Devils are formed from the souls of the damned. What many Hell Seekers don't know is that the process first inflicts Death of Personality through torture, destroying any hint of memory or individuality, and then reshapes what's left into a mindless lemure. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_438e4dd6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_438e4dd6 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43955609 | type |
Extradimensional Emergency Exit | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43955609 | comment |
Extradimensional Emergency Exit: The spell "Ether Step" can be cast outside the spellcaster's turn in combat to dodge an incoming attack by jumping into the Ethereal Plane for a few seconds. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43955609 | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_439a64d3 | type |
Our Witches Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_439a64d3 | comment |
Our Witches Are Different: The witch is an arcane spellcasting class that gains their powers by communing with a "patron". They have a spell list focused on party support and debuffs, and a class feature called "hexes" that grants various supernatural powers—everything from cursing a target to fall asleep to being able to turn their hair into an offensive weapon. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_439a64d3 | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43eeaee8 | type |
The Republic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43eeaee8 | comment |
The Republic: Andoran, bastion of enlightenment, democracy, and liberty. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43eeaee8 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43eeaee8 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43f2887a | type |
Bakeneko and Nekomata | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43f2887a | comment |
Bakeneko and Nekomata: Nekomatas are malevolent, panther-sized two-tailed cats with magical powers: chiefly, they can flawlessly mimic the appearance of a human they successfully damage with their bite attack and can animate and control undead creatures. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_43f2887a | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_446adf5f | type |
Summoning Ritual | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_446adf5f | comment |
Summoning Ritual: Represented by the Planar Binding spells. Summoners must usually give the summoned creature rare or valuable offerings in order to gain its services. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_446adf5f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4481e7d7 | type |
Designated Bullet | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4481e7d7 | comment |
Designated Bullet: Gunslingers with the right Item Crafting feats can inscribe a specific enemy's name on a bullet. It deals bonus damage against that enemy but is less accurate against anything else. The spell "Named Bullet" enchants a piece of ammunition to deal an Armor-Piercing Attack, an automatic Critical Hit, and extra damage against the named creature. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_44a77de8 | type |
Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_44a77de8 | comment |
Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Followers of Sarenrae, the Neutral Good goddess of the sun, healing, and redemption, are expected to forgive villains and criminals willing to atone, but some villains are viewed as too far gone and are to be struck down without mercy. In particular, Sarenrae's contribution to the imprisonment of Rovagug, the Chaotic Evil god of destruction, was to install a piece of the Sun in his prison to burn him for all eternity. Also included is "anyone the Kelesh Empire doesn't like", such as the benevolent followers of Osirian gods — they are never called out on this. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_44a77de8 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_44a77de8 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4523420b | type |
Love Dodecahedron | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4523420b | comment |
Love Dodecahedron: The villains of Burnt Offerings, the first Rise of the Runelords adventure. It's a squicky dodecahedron at that. Orik the sellsword likes Lyrie the wizard, who's too hung up over Tsuto the monk/rogue to care. Tsuto loves Nualia the evil cleric, who is having sex with Tsuto, but doesn't actually love him because she's still vengeful about her former lover Delek. The goblin chief is also infatuated with Nualia (though the text claims it's more of an intellectual curiousity, from a goblin, no less) and is neglecting his wives, so they're all sleeping with Bruthazmus the bugbear (who's probably the only one happy with the arrangement). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4523420b | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4603ea49 | type |
Mystical Plague | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4603ea49 | comment |
Mystical Plague: The spell cursed earth can infect a one mile radius area with any disease of the caster's choice. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4603ea49 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4603ea49 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_469e3e2f | type |
In-Universe | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_469e3e2f | comment |
Nocticula, while already a demon lord and thus a lesser divinity herself, has long been rumored to be seeking to become the second demon lord to ascend to full godhood — something that makes the first such demon god, Lamashtu, more than a bit wary, as Nocticula's rise to her already considerable power has been paved with the a number of slain rivals impressive even among demons. At the end of first edition Nocticula indeed ascends to godhood, although to considerable In-Universe surprise she does so as a Chaotic Neutral, rather than Chaotic Evil, deity — her desire for godhood was in large part driven by a desire to grow past the bonds of demonhood and the limited nature of most outsiders' wills. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_469e3e2f | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_469e3e2f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_46c287 | type |
Llama Loogie | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_46c287 | comment |
Llama Loogie: Llamas can spit as a special ranged attack that does no damage but sickens the target. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_46c287 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_46c287 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_479f9ad0 | type |
Characterization Marches On | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_479f9ad0 | comment |
Characterization Marches On: Tying into the Early-Installment Weirdness nature of the setting, many of ''Pathfinder'''s more recurring characters, especially the gods, have gone through this over the years. For example: Erastil and Asmodeus used to have sexist aspects to their characterizations, but overtime this was removed (Asmodeus) or changed (Erastil) to reflect Paizo's move away from their original ideas for the setting. Even gods without controversial and outdated views had elements changed to make them more less rigid; Pharasma going from universally hating undead, to more so being against the act of creating them as an example. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_479f9ad0 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_479f9ad0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4832a3bb | type |
Always Chaotic Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4832a3bb | comment |
Always Chaotic Evil: While there are always exceptions at the GM's discretion, First Edition supplementary materials would kindly remind you that aside from those singular individuals, the savage humanoids of Golarion are gleefully evil, if not insanely so. Part of the motivation behind the "Second Darkness" adventure path was to rewind back to the days when the Drow were unrepentantly, unforgivably evil, before the creation of a certain heroic dark elf ranger. Justified with hags — their immature form, changelings, never "mature" into hags if they aren't Evil since only the power-hungry and misanthropic ones can stomach the ritual to unlock their full hag powers. They aren't evil because they're hags, they're hags because they're evil (and the ritual cements that). Hence why hags generally leave changelings in communities with All of the Other Reindeer and Bullying a Dragon as a general policy. One exception to the above is the gnolls (later renamed to kholo), who seem to be becoming gradually less generally evil each time they're mentioned. At first the only ones you'd ever encounter were slaver parties, and although they certainly still are, eventually they become less "attack on sight"; one adventure path even includes civilized (though evil) gnolls as non-hostile questgivers you should play along with. Finally, the 2E bestiary notes that while some tribes are evil marauders, many others are more militantly isolationist. Second Edition has been moving away from this trope as part of its efforts to be more socially conscious. Goblins became a core ancestry and are no longer this trope, but they're not the only example. On Golarion, the further away you are from Avistan and northern Garund, the more likely it is that seemingly monstrous humanoids are not evil. In the Mwangi Expanse there are non-evil gnolls and orcs, and orcs are also free of that baggage in Arcadia. Officially, only fiends and undead are inherently evil, and even then it's possible (albeit difficult and unlikely) for them to be good. If humanoids (and indeed, most other living creatures) are evil, it's for cultural reasons. In fact, as part of the metaplot, the territories of Belkzen (the heartland of orcs) and Oprak (a nation founded by a hobgoblin warlord as a haven for monsters) are becoming more peaceful, although they're still a long way from redemption. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: All over the place. The biggest evil, in the biggest can, is the apocalypse god Rovagug the Rough Beast, sealed into the molten core of Golarion by all the gods who survived his initial rampage. His release would spell the potential end of the world. | |
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Ãœberwald | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4881cda1 | comment |
Ãœberwald: The Immortal Principalities of Ustalav, officially described as a "fog-shrouded land of Gothic Horror". Culturally based on Eastern Europe, primarily Romania, it's regularly menaced by hordes of undead and even when it's not there's a Decadent Court feuding with each other. The sole exception is Versex, which, as mentioned above, is Lovecraft Country instead. | |
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Interdimensional Travel Device | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_48d464ca | comment |
Interdimensional Travel Device: Many, many examples, including the amulet of the planes, the well of many worlds, and the cubic gate. | |
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Giant's Knife; Human's Greatsword | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_495cba28 | comment |
Giant's Knife; Human's Greatsword: One of Galt's infamous soul-trapping guillotines was captured by a frost giant, who attached its blade to a haft and wielded it as a greataxe. Somehow, the crude jury-rigging made the blade's magic even stronger. | |
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Our Angels Are Different | |
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Our Angels Are Different: They're the only kind of outsider that spans multiple alignments. Besides them, there are the archons, agathions, and azatas invoked that dwell in Heaven, Nirvana and Elysium respectively. | |
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You Have Researched Breathing | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4a10e526 | comment |
You Have Researched Breathing: Retroactive example. In Pathfinder Second Edition's Core Rulebook, there's an Acrobat background meant for tumblers that performed in the circus. They receive a feat that allows them to balance more easily. This made sense at the time, but if the background was added after the Advanced Players Guide was released they'd almost certainly receive the feat that allows the character to use the Acrobatics skill to Perform instead, as they've been doing that their entire lives. | |
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Compilation Re-release | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4a932556 | comment |
Compilation Rerelease: Due to the good performance of the original softcover release, the Abomination Vaults and Fists of the Ruby Phoenix Adventure Paths were later re-released in hardcover form. Each hardcover compiles the contents of all three softcover volumes (both adventures and supporting articles) and contains some new art but otherwise keeps most of the content the same. | |
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Planimal | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4b084bdd | comment |
Second Edition also allows bonding with a living familiar as a first-level feat for Magi, Sorcerers, Thaumaturges, and Wizards. Druids of the Leaf Order can bond with a leshy familiar, while Alchemists in general can create an alchemical familiar. Witches once again have a mandatory familiar, and use their familiar to prepare spells. There's also a Familiar Master archetype that lets you get a familiar (or enhance your existing familiar), then improve it in various ways. | |
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Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4b139c2a | comment |
Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper: Both The Grim Reaper and the Horseman of Death are fully statted out, making it possible for players to fight or even defeat them. However, they are both still personifications of death itself, so such a fight is basically hopeless for all but the strongest adventurers. | |
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Godhood Seeker | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4b220918 | comment |
Godhood Seeker: In general, the Starstone — a magical meteorite held within the city of Absalom — has the power to allow mortals to ascend to godhood, if they can pass the traps and tests surrounding it. Absalom is thus home to a constantly-replenishing series of hopefuls seeking to take the Test of the Starstone and become divinities, although the vast majority fail and perish — only three people successfully passed the Test in the five millennia or so it's been around. Tar-Baphon, the Whispering Tyrant, is a lich obsessed with both power and personal survival. He views his current status as an ageless undead and the most powerful necromancer to ever live as a stopgap measure mean to give himself time to work towards his real goal — conquering Absalom, draining every drop of divine power from the Starstone and becoming a god. The finale of "Tyrant's Grasp" is specifically focused around stopping him from doing so. Erum-Hel, the Lord of Mohrgs, is an undead servant of Tar-Baphon's who has spent the last several centuries obsessing over his defeat by the crusader hero Iomedae. As Iomedae eventually became a goddess, she is now far beyond any retribution, and Erum-Hel has thus been forced to strike at her church in her stead. He still obsesses over the taste of blood he had during their clash, though, and desperately hungers for more. He has thus been giving serious thought to taking the Test of the Starstone himself, becoming a god and confronting his old enemy on an even field once more. Nocticula, while already a demon lord and thus a lesser divinity herself, has long been rumored to be seeking to become the second demon lord to ascend to full godhood — something that makes the first such demon god, Lamashtu, more than a bit wary, as Nocticula's rise to her already considerable power has been paved with the a number of slain rivals impressive even among demons. At the end of first edition Nocticula indeed ascends to godhood, although to considerable In-Universe surprise she does so as a Chaotic Neutral, rather than Chaotic Evil, deity — her desire for godhood was in large part driven by a desire to grow past the bonds of demonhood and the limited nature of most outsiders' wills. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: Ameiko Kaijitsu's story arc in Pathfinder #1: Burnt Offerings has shades of this trope. Her beloved but estranged younger half-brother, Tsuto, comes back to her hometown after a five-year absence, intending to burn it to the ground and kill everyone in it. When she refuses to join him in this endeavor, he has his goblin minions beat her within an inch of her life (literally, she has a negative hit point total if the PCs manage to rescue her), and leaves her tied up, gagged, and blindfolded on a cold stone floor for a few hours. He also murders her father, and puts his body on display in the workshop of the family's glass-making business, covering it in sheets of cooled molten glass. And then there's the possible revelation, depending on how things play out, that her father murdered her mother five years earlier, as a long-delayed revenge for the adultery that produced Tsuto. Also, if the PCs don't rescue her very quickly after her capture, she'll end up being burned to death by Tsuto's psychotic girlfriend as a sacrifice to the demon goddess Lamashtu. Whether it gets better or worse in Jade Regent depends on your point of view. Ameiko has the opportunity to become the Empress of Minkai—if she can make an exceedingly perilous journey there with the aid of the PCs and deal with the scheming powerful Oni who drove her noble family into exile and slaughtered her grandfather. Not to mention, her backstory is expanded upon, revealing that she quit her teenage adventuring career after seeing her lover get dragged to his death by cannibals. Zon-Kuthon was a god of love and beauty like his sister Shelyn before going on a journey outside reality, meeting something, and coming back as the broken and twisted god of pain, darkness, and loss. Zon-Kuthon's father was a boisterous, life-loving wolf spirit/god who was more than happy to see his errant son come home. Now it is the Prince in Chains, a skinless, eternally tormented "hateful creature of broken flesh, pain and chains", and Zon-Kuthon's herald. Even its flesh isn't its own — in his tortures, his son stripped it all away, using it to create his own monsters, and replaced it with chains, leather, and necrotic flesh from other victims. As a deity who holds torture to be the highest form of art, Zon-Kuthon is believed to consider the Prince-in-Chains his masterpiece. To a greater or lesser extent, every single one of the Iconics. Seytiel, the iconic Magus, is a bastard child who was repeatedly beaten by his "father" and who when he finally met his real father, a bandit leader, was left to die after he was captured in the hopes that he would be mistaken for said father. Lini, the iconic Druid, was left to die by the friends she had repeatedly protected from wild animals when a snow leopard jumped on her. Amiri, the iconic Barbarian was a typical tomboy, before her people, embarrassed by her skills at killing things despite being a woman, tried to get her killed. She murdered the group sent to cause her death in a blood rage and now she's forever exiled from her homeland. Sajan, the iconic Monk, was separated from his beloved twin sister by politics and in searching for her has basically banished himself from his country and all his friends. Lem, the iconic Bard, was a slave who overheard his masters planning to sacrifice the other slaves of the house to devils, so he arranged for the slaves to all be away while he burned down the house full of his masters. The Slaves all rushed into the fire to save them and died. Seelah, the iconic Paladin, stole a paladin's helm, which led to the paladin's death when a killing blow was struck upon her unarmored head. Seelah didn't take that well, planning to burn herself to death on the paladin's own funeral pyre to atone. Harsk, the iconic Ranger, lost his brother to giants and vowed to kill them all. Merisiel, the iconic Rogue, grew up as an orphan among humans, losing at least three generations of peers to aging and disease along the way. Ezren, the iconic Wizard, spent decades of his life trying to clear his father of false charges of heresy against the church of Abadar, only to find irrefutable proof his father's guilt. Kyra, the iconic Cleric, lost her beloved peasant village when it was burned around her. Alahazra, the 1e iconic Oracle, was thrown out of her house into the desert to die of starvation and exposure by her own father because she could cast divine magic. Feiya, the iconic Witch, was raised by Hags. Wolves would have been kinder. | |
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Hammer Hilt | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4bf811d4 | comment |
Hammer Hilt: The First Edition feats Weapon Trick (polearms) and Spear Dancing Style both allow a character wielding a two-handed polearm to club opponents with the shaft of the weapon rather than striking with the head. In the former case, the "Haft Bash" trick removes the brace and reach qualities and treats the weapon as a club; in the latter, the spear is treated as a Double Weapon, with the shaft functioning as a light mace. | |
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Gods Need Prayer Badly | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4c782fb9 | comment |
There are also beings like Baba Yaga, who have all the powers of Gods but none of the drawbacks because they do not need prayer badly, but have other power sources instead. You can guess how good news a being that can go toe-to-toe with a god and is beholden to no-one is. | |
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Shock and Awe | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4c798fd5 | comment |
A kaiju template, inspired by high-powered Japanese movie monsters like Godzilla and Gamera, was scheduled for appearance in Bestiary 3, but it was cut because it would have been eight pages long. Paizo held off on releasing it until they got mythic rules (ie, rules for playing near-demigods) ironed out, so it didn't appear until Bestiary 4. However, they made a change. Rather than a template, it was Actual Kaiju. First, there's Agyra the Forever Storm, a massive two-headed pterodactyl that can spit lightning bolts from each head, create a hurricane, and produces sonic booms when she flies and top speed. Bezravnis, known as the Inferno Below, resembles a monstrous, distorted three-tailed scorpion whose powers include throwing webbing that constricts on its prey until it's crushed to death and firing heat rays from each stinger. Finally, Mogaru the Final King is a twin-tailed, energy-absorbing, Breath Weapon-wielding saurian creature. | |
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All of the Other Reindeer | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4c8e8078 | comment |
Justified with hags — their immature form, changelings, never "mature" into hags if they aren't Evil since only the power-hungry and misanthropic ones can stomach the ritual to unlock their full hag powers. They aren't evil because they're hags, they're hags because they're evil (and the ritual cements that). Hence why hags generally leave changelings in communities with All of the Other Reindeer and Bullying a Dragon as a general policy. | |
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Silver Has Mystic Powers | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4d2331fd | comment |
Silver Has Mystic Powers: Silver weapons bypass the Damage Reduction of werewolves and some extraplanar creatures, including devils and Agathions. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: The first few adventure paths have a Darker and Edgier tone to them that borders on mean-spirited at times (like the hillbilly rapist ogres in Rise of the Runelords), a relic from an attempt to establish Golarian as a more "adult" setting than most D&D. In addition, a lot of early mechanics seemed to try and support the darker tone, with some gameplay features like traits and archetypes explicitly including drugs, violence, and sex into using them. Later entries went for more of a "mature and nuanced" tone that tries to deal with weightier matters but not in a gratuitous shock-value way, and many of the stranger or edgy elements were removed to make the setting less grim. | |
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Mirroring Factions | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4f6cf75 | comment |
Mirroring Factions: The Pathfinder Society and the Aspis Consortium are engaged in pretty much the same thing— looting artifacts from ancient dungeons—but the PFS likes to get on a high horse and to claim recovery and preservation of knowledge as its objective, whereas Aspis are much more ready to admit that it's just business for them. Over time the former organization has undergone a lot of reforms, but since the Pathfinder Society needs all the manpower it can get it still has a not undeserved reputation for this. | |
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Dream Land | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_4fa65449 | comment |
Dream Land: The Ethereal Plane, a vast sea of swirling mist that extends over the inner planes, is very reactive to psychic and emotional forces. When mortals dream, their minds go out into the Ethereal, shaping its mists into dreamscapes that degreade back into nothingess when they wake. Figures spawned in dreams sometimes survive this to escape into the Ethereal as free-roaming animate dreams, which must then share their home with a variety of psychic predators such as nightmare dragons and night hags. Dreamscapes cluster together in the plane's depths, and surround the Dimension of Dreams, also known as the Dreamlands, a permanent dimension formed from countless accreted dreamscapes, the dreams of powerful beings, and subconscious desires and archetypes resonating into the Ethereal Plane. It is home to entire nations and species of bizarre creatures, which sometimes pass physically into the material world. Further still beyond the Dreamlands is the Plateau of Leng, a dimension of living nightmares shaped by the dreams of ancient and alien gods. | |
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Primal Polymorphs | |
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Primal Polymorphs: The Primal spell list (mostly used by Druids, but also by some Sorcerers and Witches) has more polymorph spells than the other lists, including Animal Form, Dinosaur Form, and Dragon Form. Druids of the Wild Order also get the Wild Shape focus spell, which doesn't use spell slots. | |
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Mushroom Man | |
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Also the Vegepygmies, engineered by the Drow so that even their vegetables could suffer. They're humanoids who were killed, infested, and turned into Mushroom Men by a virulent fungus, and the infection is contagious. | |
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Body Horror | |
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A fair amount of this turns up in Wake of the Watcher, part four of the Carrion Crown Adventure Path. It's also the one with the most Lovecraftian influence and the Body Horror is not limited just to the descriptions — at least two pieces of artwork showed it quite clearly. | |
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Our Demons Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_50ed1af4 | comment |
Our Demons Are Different: Evil spirit creatures, collectively called fiends, are grouped into several different categories depending on alignment and/or plane of origin. Each aligned plane has a race of "true" fiends as well as at least one secondary race of lesser fiends. invoked Hell, the Lawful Evil plane, is ruled by the devils. It is also inhabited by the asuras. A third Lawful Evil race of fiends, the velstrac (called kytons in 1E), lives on the Plane of Shadow but has embassies in Hell. Devils are formed from the souls of evildoers, who are slowly and carefully tortured over eons until nothing remains except pain, obedience, and hate, at which point they become of the least of devils. Asuras are the twisted result of gods making mistakes, and very angry about it. Velstracs are mad, twisted beings obsessed with pain, who create more of themselves by torturing people until they can't tell the difference between pain and pleasure. invoked Abaddon, the Neutral Evil plane, is ruled by the daemons. It is also the home of the divs (corrupted genies). Daemons want to kill everything, everywhere — they came into existence from different types of deaths mortals can experience, and want to destroy every soul in existence. Divs ALSO want to destroy everyone — but more, they want to destroy everything, returning everything to oblivion in service of their lord Ahriman. invoked The Abyss, the Chaotic Evil plane, is ruled by the demons. The qlippoth and demodands also dwell there. Demons are born from the sins of evil souls — and a single soul can spawn hundreds or thousands of them. Qlippoth existed before everything, were evil before evil existed, and have a loathing hatred for the souls of mortals, which created the demons that now outnumber them. Demodands are the flawed creations of the thanatotic titans, who were sealed in the Abyss after a failed attempt to defeat the gods; the titans tried to create their own life to surpass the gods, but only wound up with misshapen, but powerful, monsters. Finally, Golarion itself is home to two minor races of fiends: the rakshasas and the oni. Rakshasas are eternally reincarnating fiends with bestial aspects and bodies with one aspect reversed, which establish twisted caste systems. Oni are evil spirits whose burning hatred of humanoids causes them to incarnate as monstrously powerful examples of various races. There's also sakhils, which are corrupted psychopomps that rebelled against Pharasma and the inevitability of the end of the universe. | |
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Reincarnation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_50f5dabe | comment |
Reincarnation: Inherited random reincarnation spells from D&D 3.5. In 2nd Edition Reincarnate is a ritual that brings one back as a common ancestry for the region where the ritual is performed on a d20 roll of 1-14, but an uncommon or rare ancestry on 15-20, which can include living dolls, shapeshifting spiders, or fragments of cosmic energy that have accumulated shells of mineral or plant matter. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_50f5dabe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_50f5dabe | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_50f66629 | type |
Crazy-Prepared | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_50f66629 | comment |
Generally, the easier option for dealing with trolls. Unless you're a wizard or alchemist (or just Crazy-Prepared) you probably won't have acid lying around. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_50f66629 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_50f66629 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5111ff0 | type |
Kill the Poor | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5111ff0 | comment |
Kill the Poor: Ileosa Arabasti in "Curse of the Crimson Throne" unleashes a plague with this goal in mind. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5111ff0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5111ff0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5111ff0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_52475ffd | type |
Cutting Off the Branches | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_52475ffd | comment |
Cutting Off the Branches: With the update to 2nd Edition in 2019, all adventure paths (except Kingmaker) got canonical endings in order to update the setting. Serpent's Skull: The serpentfolk's plot to return their god Ydersius to full power was thwarted. Skull & Shackles: The PCs declined the role of Hurricane Queen, giving it to Tessa Fairwind. Reign of Winter: Baba Yaga was freed, Queen Elvanna was defeated, and Anastasia Romanova was resurrected and made the new Queen of Irrisen. Wrath of the Righteous: The Worldwound was successfully closed, and Queen Galfrey ascended to become Iomedae's new Herald. Nocticula ascended to become a goddess of redemption, freedom, and the arts. Irabeth and Anevia Tirabade retired to Irabeth's family farm. Iron Gods: The Technic League was defeated, Casandalee became a new divine being, Kevoth-Kul the Black Sovereign was freed from his addictions. Mummy's Mask: Pharaoh Hakotep I was defeated quickly after his return, causing the current Pharaoh Khemet III to close Osirion's ancient tombs to foreign explorers. Hell's Rebels: Ravounel became independent but is still very much under Cheliax's shadow, which regards it as a breakaway province. Hell's Vengeance: The Glorious Reclamation was defeated and its leaders executed, with Abrogail II able to stabilize Cheliax, though Rahadoum seized the opportunity to annex Khari. Ironfang Invasion: The PCs defeated General Azaersi, but then brokered peace between her new nation of Oprak and Nirmathas rather than destroying it. Ruins of Azlant: Andoran's colony in shattered Azlant was saved. War for the Crown: Eutropia becomes Grand Princess of Taldor, with her deceased brother Carrius resurrected and freed; he is now her heir. Return of the Runelords: Working for Runelord Sorshen, the PCs defeated Runelord Alaznist and freed Belimarius and the city of Xin-Edasseril from stasis and restored them to Varisia as the nation of New Thassilon. Tyrant's Grasp: Tar-Baphon was freed from imprisonment, but his assault on Absalom failed. We Be Goblins!: The goblin PCs all survived and wound up on the Astral Plane. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_52475ffd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_52475ffd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_52475ffd | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_525fe89a | type |
Extremophile Lifeforms | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_525fe89a | comment |
Extremophile Lifeforms: Targothas are fishlike alien organisms that evolved on a planet largely covered by hydrocarbon seas. A small population was carried to Golarion by a crashed starship, and despite the overall hostility of Golarion's dry, water-rich alien climate managed to settle a large system tar pits. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_525fe89a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_525fe89a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_525fe89a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5281d5b1 | type |
Our Dwarves Are All the Same | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5281d5b1 | comment |
Our Dwarves Are All the Same: They originated underground, tunneled their way to the surface during the Age of Darkness, and pulled humanity out of the dark ages. Otherwise pretty standard. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5281d5b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5281d5b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5281d5b1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | type |
Snake People | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | comment |
Snake People: The serpent folk are one part an expy of Faerun's Yuan-ti and one part a Shout-Out to the serpentfolk of Conan the Barbarian and Kull. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_53c8d46 | type |
The Underworld | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_53c8d46 | comment |
The Underworld: The Boneyard is a sprawling graveyard where all mortal souls, no matter who or what they were in life, come to stand before Pharasma, be judged and determine their place within the Great Beyond. Most of those who are judged fit to remain within the Boneyard are those who are unclaimed by any gods and unaligned with any particular ethos in life, making them free game for those seeking souls or power. Axis is a realm of pure, absolute law, unhindered by the moral concerns of good or evil. The Maelstrom is a realm of boundless chaos, a churning void of everything that can or could exist between land and sea. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_53c8d46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_53c8d46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_53c8d46 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5405b144 | type |
Scratch Damage | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5405b144 | comment |
It was ruled that, if an attack would do zero damage, instead of always doing one point of Scratch Damage, it does one point of nonlethal damage. Most creatures that were affected by this rule were creatures like house cats or rats, which were fairly notorious in 3.x for their ability to injure or defeat 1st-level humans (scratch damage is a big deal when you have four hit points) — humorously demonstrated here. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5405b144 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5405b144 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5405b144 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_54f38833 | type |
PostScriptSeason | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_54f38833 | comment |
Post-Script Season: 2nd Edition moves the timeline forward 10 years, and explicitly has all First Edition Adventure Paths concluding satisfactorily. Of course, that just means the time has come for new threats to crop up! | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_54f38833 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_54f38833 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_54f38833 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55537342 | type |
Evil Living Flames | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55537342 | comment |
Evil Living Flames: Mythic fire elementals are described as living fragments of the first flames of the Elemental Plane of Fire, and greatly enjoy scattering flammable mortal foes to set them alight one by one. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55537342 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55537342 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55537342 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55554032 | type |
Irrational Hatred | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55554032 | comment |
Irrational Hatred: Yamabushi Tengu really, really hate ducks for some reason. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55554032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55554032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55554032 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_556a4e20 | type |
The Empire | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_556a4e20 | comment |
The Empire: Cheliax, in all its dark devil-worshipping glory. Fortunately still recovering from its stint as a Vestigial Empire, though. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_556a4e20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_556a4e20 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_556a4e20 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55ab1be5 | type |
Royal Brat | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55ab1be5 | comment |
Queen Abrogail being a Royal Brat has been quietly retconned, since it was decided that it didn't fit with the developers' vision of Cheliax. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55ab1be5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55ab1be5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55ab1be5 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55d919f7 | type |
Lovecraft Lite | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55d919f7 | comment |
Lovecraft Lite: Turns up everywhere, when you scratch under the surface. Nasty elder gods, ancient non-humanoid civilizations, weird and inimical aliens, and direct references to the Mythos—notably, the most definitive take on Golarion's creation we have suggests that Yog-Sothoth is one of two pillars needed to keep the cycle of reality functioning. The guys at Paizo love H. P. Lovecraft. The game as a whole also does not actually care about these except as thematic elements or when they are direct antagonists, and most Mythos creatures are just more monsters, no Sanity Meter to speak of. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55d919f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55d919f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_55d919f7 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56099773 | type |
Otherworldly Technicolour Hair | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56099773 | comment |
Otherworldly Technicolour Hair: Gnomes are originally from the First World (Pathfinder's version of the Feywild), and can have unusual hair colours (bright green being a common one). They can also suffer from an inversion; gnomes who don't have enough whimsy and excitement in their life suffer from a terminal condition called The Bleaching, where they lose all their colour. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56099773 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56099773 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56099773 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56515a39 | type |
Artistic License – History | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56515a39 | comment |
Artistic License – History: In addition to inheriting D&D's "studded leather" error, the game's concept of "weapon groups", which ties into mainly Fighter and Cavalier class features, has separate groups for "spears" (stabbing weapons on sticks, chiefly spears, lances, and tridents) and "polearms" (other staff weapons such as halberds and pole-hammers). This is a historically nonexistent distinction: spears are properly a subset of polearms, as nearly all medieval and post-medieval oddly-shaped spear variants from the halberd to the glaive could still be used to stab an enemy held at haft's length, and conversely the heads on fighting spears were often edged and could cut in addition to piercing. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56515a39 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56515a39 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56515a39 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5667d866 | type |
Critical Failure | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5667d866 | comment |
Critical Failure: Firearms misfire on a low attack roll. A misfire results in the weapon gaining the broken condition, which means that the weapon will more easily misfire again, and the weapon will explode on a second misfire. Fragile weapons also become broken on a natural 1 and are destroyed on a second natural 1. Any attack roll resulting in a natural 1 near a temerdaemon will hit the attacker or an ally of the attacker if a second attack roll succeeds. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5667d866 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5667d866 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5667d866 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56c52c50 | type |
Custom-Built Host | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56c52c50 | comment |
Custom-Built Host: The archdevil Mammon lost his original body and now haunts all the treasure in the vaults of Hell. For special occasions or to fight, he possesses the Argent Prince, a unique, custom-designed statue of his ideal form. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56c52c50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56c52c50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56c52c50 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56e0d4cf | type |
Gem Tissue | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56e0d4cf | comment |
Gem Tissue: Aeon stones usually orbit their user's head, but characters can permanently incorporate them into their bodies through a combination of psychic attunement and surgery. Afterwards, the stone counts as a part of the user and can't be targeted separately by attacks or effects. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56e0d4cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56e0d4cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_56e0d4cf | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5706c395 | type |
Cute Critters Act Childlike | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5706c395 | comment |
Cute Critters Act Childlike: Goblins are an evil version: pyromaniac big-heads who behave like psychopathic little kids. It's part of what makes them so amusing. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5706c395 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5706c395 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5706c395 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_575fd5e2 | type |
Dark Is Not Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_575fd5e2 | comment |
Dark Is Not Evil: On the other hand, the plane right next door to the nightshades, the Plane of Shadow, is home to beings like the fetchlings and wayangs, that mostly want to be left to themselves. The Movanic Deva angel is VERY evil-looking. Svirfneblin, at first glance, seem to be gnome versions of duergar or drow, but they're usually neutral. Pseudodragons are tiny dragons that look somewhat freaky, but are Neutral Good and have catlike personalities. And, obviously, we have tieflings, the mortal descendants of fiends that can choose to embrace their heritage or completely denounce it. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_575fd5e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_575fd5e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_575fd5e2 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57b74bd4 | type |
Achievements in Ignorance | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57b74bd4 | comment |
Achievements in Ignorance: Cayden Cailean (in)famously ascended to godhood by taking the Test of the Starstone while completely blackout drunk: even he has no idea how he pulled it off. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57b74bd4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57b74bd4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57b74bd4 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57d43e40 | type |
Fantasy Counterpart Culture | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57d43e40 | comment |
Taldor, the local Fantasy Counterpart Culture for the Roman Empire, enforced strictly patriarchal gender roles. These have softened over time, especially after the loss of their foreign territories, but are still somewhat present: one of the sticking points in the War for the Crown Adventure Path is the proposal to handle the looming Succession Crisis in Taldor by allowing women, specifically Princess Eutropia, to inherit titles. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57d43e40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57d43e40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_57d43e40 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58204b95 | type |
Magic Knight | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58204b95 | comment |
Seltyiel was originally a fighter/wizard/eldritch knight. As of the release of Ultimate Magic, he's now a (presumably single-class) magus. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58204b95 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58204b95 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58204b95 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5859124f | type |
Gruesome Goat | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5859124f | comment |
Gruesome Goat: Goats are sacred to several evil deities, including Asmodeus, the archdevil Belial, the infernal duke Zepar, the daemonic harbinger Slandrais and the demon lord Orcus. Of these, Orcus also has the head and legs of a monstrous goat. A number of demons, including schirs (demons born from the souls of mortals who engaged in violent, spiteful crimes) and brimoraks (born from mortals who engaged in violent arson), have the heads and hooves of goats. This is subverted through the ez-azaels, celestial beings created when a schir is used a very literal scapegoat to atone a mortal population's sins; the schir usually dies, but sometimes is itself cleansed of its demonic nature and changed into a creature of good. The illustration of the Shepherd (the page image for the trope), a throne of bones that turns any animal seated on it into an evil, intelligent servant of the archdevil Barbatos, shows a four-horned goat reclining on it, with a flame burning between its horns and A Glass of Chianti in its hoof. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5859124f | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5859124f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5859124f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_586624e5 | type |
Genius Loci | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_586624e5 | comment |
Genius Loci: The Kami, introduced in Bestiary 3, are native outsiders that are literally the spirits of specific locations, like mountains and islands. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_586624e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_586624e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_586624e5 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58e927cb | type |
De-Power Zone | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58e927cb | comment |
De-Power Zone: With the spell "Create Greater Demiplane", a spellcaster can modify a Pocket Dimension to block all magic and supernatural powers within. However, it needs to be cast from inside the demiplane, so if there isn't already an exit portal, they're in trouble. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58e927cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58e927cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_58e927cb | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_59fe174d | type |
Devil, but No God | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_59fe174d | comment |
Devil, but No God: Asmodeus had a brother and opposite number, Ihys, once. He killed him. Of course, there are plenty of good-aligned deities, but none specifically modeled on the Abrahamic God. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_59fe174d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_59fe174d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_59fe174d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5abc8612 | type |
Unholy Matrimony | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5abc8612 | comment |
Unholy Matrimony: The Neutral Evilinvoked church of Urgathoa also encourages this, to a point: divorce is forbidden, but killing your spouse and raising them as undead is fair game. In the Giantslayer adventure path, the villain of the first part has a lover that will attempt to get vengeance on the party in the second part if said villain is killed (which is quite likely as written). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5abc8612 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5abc8612 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5abc8612 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5c8ad7af | type |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5c8ad7af | comment |
Paladins can take an Oath of Chastity, which works like an archetype (i.e. subclass): the paladin adds a ban on engaging in romantic activities or sexual acts to their code of conduct, and gains resistance to charm effects and critical hits, and additional spells. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5c8ad7af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5c8ad7af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5c8ad7af | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5ca80293 | type |
Pragmatic Villainy | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5ca80293 | comment |
Demons and devils regularly team up with each other and angels against the suicidally nihilistic daemons. Though some of this is attributable to Pragmatic Villainy: it's hard to get mortals to agree to a Deal with the Devil if there aren't any mortals left. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5ca80293 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5ca80293 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5ca80293 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5cd8680b | type |
Doorstop Baby | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5cd8680b | comment |
Ironically, as of right now, not a single Half-Orc iconic/major NPC in Pathfinder has this origin. Oloch? Consensual, but his father stole him away and raised him as a slave. Imrijka is a Doorstop Baby, so how she came about is unknown. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5cd8680b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5cd8680b | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5d47a59b | type |
God of Darkness | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5d47a59b | comment |
God of Darkness: Black Butterfly is an Empyreal Lord associated with darkness, distance, and space. She appears as a dark humanoid silhouette gleaming with images of stars and nebulae, and her personal realm is a quiet void whose physical surfaces are pockets of solid shadows. Desna is a goddess associated with stars and the night sky, making her a cross between this and a variation of God of Light. The land of Tian Xia has the god Tsukiyo, the most prominent Good deity to provide the Darkness domain to his clerics. Zon-Kuthon is the god of darkness and de facto ruler of the Shadow Plane. He's also an evil deity whose faith is centered around Cold-Blooded Torture. After her Heel–Face Turn, Nocticula became the goddess of artists, exiles, and midnight. Her followers are forbidden from completing works of art during daylight hours. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5d47a59b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5d47a59b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5d47a59b | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5de76bce | type |
Answer to Prayers | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5de76bce | comment |
Answer to Prayers: In addition to clerics and other divine casters needing to pray to refresh their spell list for the day, the First Edition feats Deific, Fiendish, and Monitor Obedience grant specific divine boons to a faithful follower of a given deity by performing a specific daily ritual, ranging from planting acorns in a specific pattern for a follower of the Fertility God Erastil, to having sex with someone while calling out to the Love Goddess Calistria and encouraging one's partner to join in. | |
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Empty Levels | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5e85d617 | comment |
Empty Levels: Pathfinder has taken steps to avert this trope with a vengeance. Unlike 3.5, where most of the martial classes would end up having most their levels granting nothing but an attack bonus, practically every non-spellcaster class gets a class feature every level—something the official guide for converting splats from 3.5 specifically points out. Spellcasters, of course, get spells instead. This has the side effect of nerfing Prestige Classes by comparison: you miss out on a lot more features of the base class than before. Even spellcasters get their own unique stuff. Clerics' domains give increasing bonuses and abilities as levels go up (as opposed to D&D, where, aside from spells, the domains gave their full payout at level 1), sorcerers have their Bloodlines that keep getting better, wizards get either increasing bonuses from being specialists, or from being a balanced generalist, and Summoners gain "Evolution Points" that they can use to tweak their Bond Creature. An additional counter to the empty level issue: every level in a favored class grants one extra skill point, one extra health point, or one incremental bonus dependent on race and class (including, in some cases, extra spells or bonuses to combat maneuvers). Second Edition also averts the trope, with even levels giving skill feats and class feats and odd levels giving general or ancestry feats and skill increases. | |
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We Are as Mayflies | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5fb6411f | comment |
We Are as Mayflies: Goblins, between a short natural lifespan and a reckless disregard for tactics and fire safety, tend to clock out of life around twenty years in. Compared to the elves, dragons (and possibly gnomes depending on how entertained they are), almost everyone else is this. | |
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Only I Can Make It Go | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_5ffd93f9 | comment |
One of the gunslinger class's starting rules lets him or her start the game with a gun, but a low-quality one that only he or she can use and can thus only be sold for scrap. This closes two loopholes in one go, because otherwise firearms are generally more expensive than an entire party's worth of gold can afford at first level. It ensures that the player can start the game with their class's weapons, but can't hock it for a big payday at 1st level. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_607da09f | type |
Summon Binding | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_607da09f | comment |
Summon Binding: First Edition: The spell magic circle against alignment can be used in combination with the planar binding and dimensional anchor spells to imprison a summoned extraplanar being ("Outsider") of the specified alignment within the location for as long as the circle of powdered silver making up the magic circle remains unbroken (though the spells have to be renewed periodically). Second Edition's version of planar binding is a ritual that incorporates the magic circle as an optional step that requires a crafting skill check rather than a separate spell. If the summoners neglect to include it, or fail the skill check, the called creature can attack the summoners or leave without making a bargain. | |
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Magic Potion | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_60bba69b | comment |
Magic Potion: Potions work as essentially bottled spells, remaining dormant until used. Most potions are drunk, but some are made as oils to be applied to the skin. In terms of effect, they range from simple healing and stat-boosting things to drinks that cause you to sprout eyes all over your body or that turn you into a hive-minded swarm of wasps. Potions are often the province of alchemists, but are also made by arcane spellcasters such as wizards and witches. The making of potions is a very complex processes of selecting ingredients and distilling, brewing and proofing mixtures, and professional potion-makers are often very protective of their trade secrets. Potion variants include ones with delayed effects, ones that heal you in addition to their other effects, and ones deployed as gaseous clouds instead of being drunk. | |
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Portmantitle | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_60c96f24 | comment |
Portmantitle: Also a One-Word Title. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_60fa92ac | type |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Like all fantasy settings Golarion has its fair share of these, but the names of the Spawn of Rovagug REALLY take the cake with names like "Festering Ulunat, the Unholy First", "Great Doom Chemnosit, the Monarch Worm", "The Tarrasque, Armageddon Engine", "Unyielding Kothogaz, the Dance of Disharmony", "Wrath-Blazing Xoanti, the Firebleeder", and "Volnagur the End-Singer". Also related to Rovagug, there's the name of Golarion itself to the wider universe. The other planets get poetic names like The Green or The Cradle or The Dreamer. But Golarion is The Cage. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_617f0563 | comment |
In Legacy of Fire, a harpy named Undrella unabashedly hits on the male player character with the highest Charisma score, and though it's hidden behind euphemisms, it's quite clear that reciprocating could be very helpful to helping her make a Heel–Face Turn, especially when she shows back up in the final adventure of the path. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_617f0563 | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_61eac2cb | type |
Perpetual-Motion Monster | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_61eac2cb | comment |
Perpetual-Motion Monster: Undead, constructs, and most outsiders don't need food or sustenance of any kind. Even ghouls, though inflicted by a ravenous hunger, don't actually need to eat, and develop into a more powerful form if starved long enough. Clockwork constructs are an exception, but they can still wind themselves up if they have their own Wind-Up Key. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6243b83b | type |
Armor and Magic Don't Mix | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6243b83b | comment |
1st edition arcane spellcasters who wear armor and attempt to cast spells requiring gestures to cast have a percentage chance of failing, represented by rolling a hundred-sided dice or two d10s. In D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder bards could ignore the spell failure chance for light armor and the rule was dropped entirely in later editions of both games. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_624c868 | type |
Transplant | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_624c868 | comment |
Transplant: Baba Yaga and the Great Old Ones are imported straight from their original settings. Even Cthulhu himself is mentioned as "slumbering on a distant planet". | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_626b202b | type |
The Necrocracy | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_626b202b | comment |
The Blood Lords AP is made for non-good PCs, as you start out as troubleshooters for Geb and later become part of its aristocracy. The book notes that Geb is a Lawful Evil land In-Universe and the further away you are from that alignment the more difficult of a time you'll have fitting in. As a consequence, if you aren't evil, you have to be willing work with those who are. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_62c1f9a9 | type |
Evil Versus Oblivion | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_62c1f9a9 | comment |
Evil Versus Oblivion: Asmodeus was more than willing to pull an Enemy Mine with Sarenrae and other nonevil gods to ensure Rovagug's imprisonment. Hellknights are an evil organization that take inspiration from devils in creating an orderly society, but they are against beings like demons for this reason. They want to bring order, not chaos or destruction. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6320eced | type |
Gameplay and Story Segregation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6320eced | comment |
Gameplay and Story Segregation: In-story, goblins have been built up as braindead idiots with no survival instinct. Rules-wise, however, they have the same Intelligence and Wisdom as the average human. Likewise, half-orcs are more often than not described as dim and brutish, with those who aren't being exceptions to the rule. By the rules, a half-orc takes no negatives to stats and takes a +2 bonus to any stat of the player's choosing. So it's entirely possible to have a half-orc with 20 intelligence or charisma right off the bat. Zigzagged by the firearms rules. In real life, gunners displaced archers because firearms were equally lethal with a much smaller learning curve, making conscripts effective fighters in a fraction of the time. Pathfinder embraces the simplicity and classifies them as simple weapons (meaning almost every character is proficient with them by default) but then gives them damage appropriate for simple weapons in the name of balance. This results in some strange stat lines, such a weapon called a, "Hand Cannon" that deals 1d6 damage (the second-smallest damage die type and equivalent of a light crossbow). In Blood of the Night, the vetala-born dhamphir, or ajibachana, is described as yearning for knowledge and often engaging in scholarly pursuits. They are the only dhamphir heritage that takes a penalty to their intelligence. Blood of the Moon continues the tradition with the wereshark-kin, or "seascarred" skinwalker breed, who are said to gravitate to the magus classnote which favors strength and intelligence. They take a penalty to their intelligence and receive bonuses to their wisdom and constitution, neither of which are particularly useful for a magus. They do, however, get a few unique magus arcana. A rather odd example is the Termagant Kyton, whose horrifically pregnant-looking appearance and description as a "coddling, cooing mother of nails and aberrant life", which "seeks to make all living creatures adopted members of her malformed brood" implies a role as some kind of Mook Maker and/or Monster Lord. Instead, her abilities and attacks focus on poisoning victims, being a poisonous Action Bomb, and having victims of her poison be poisonous Action Bombs in turn. Pretty much anything involving the Iconics. Stats are available to play them in level 1 games, despite many of them having backstories that should have leveled them up considerably. Furthermore, both the audio dramas and the comics portray them fighting through the first volume of Rise of the Runelords as established, if not yet famous, warriors. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6331ba26 | type |
Plot Hole | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6331ba26 | comment |
Plot Hole: A particularly noteworthy one exists in the Carrion Crown adventure path. The villain's plans rely on retrieving a few specific items and one book is dedicated to the party getting one of these items before them. Despite the item being described as essential to their plans several times, the party getting it first has no impact on those plans. There's no explanation for why the plan still works and the item's surprise lack of importance means the whole book revolving around it can be skipped without affecting the plot at all. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_63557923 | type |
Death World | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_63557923 | comment |
Death World: Of all the places with sentient life, perhaps the most dangerous to human life would be Golarion's sun. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6411dac8 | type |
BadassNormal | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6411dac8 | comment |
Badass Normal: Before he rose to godhood, this was Cayden Cailean in a nutshell. Extremely powerful, wandering, womanizing mercenary. Oh, and usually drunk. Became a god on a dare. While blackout drunk. Even as a god he doesn't remember how he managed to reach the Starstone, or what exactly was going on at the time. He basically woke up the next day with a terrifying hangover and godhood. Well, he still can't remember because he became the god of, among other things, alcohol. By definition, he still hasn't sobered up. Of course, any non-magic-user character that survives long enough can be considered this. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: What caused the aboleths' plans to use the Starstone as a Colony Drop to backfire spectacularly — two, in fact. Acavna, Azlanti goddess of the moon and war, saw the incoming Starstone and attempted to stop it, dying in the process... and then her lover Amaznen, god of magic, decided he would be Together in Death and used his life force to empower a spell that broke the aboleth control over the Starstone, making it much less lethal and inclined to fall where they wanted. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6459cc02 | type |
I See Dead People | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6459cc02 | comment |
I See Dead People: The speak with dead spell partially resurrects corpses for conversation. The Ancestor Mystery Oracle can converse with and summon the ghosts of their ancestors. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_659ef759 | type |
Implacable Man | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_659ef759 | comment |
Implacable Man: Pretty much the point of a high level samurai. They gain the ability Last Stand, which makes them basically unkillable to anyone but their mark. They take minimum damage from outside sources (except magic and Critical Hits), don't enter the dying state when they're below 0 health, and take no damage from outside physical attacks once they hit 0 health. These benefits remain until they either attack someone else, kill their foe, or die. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_65eaeac0 | type |
Mass Resurrection | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_65eaeac0 | comment |
Mass Resurrection: One monk variant has the ability to do this for all of their fallen allies in exchange for completely wiping themselves out of existence (subverting Death Is a Slap on the Wrist), making them not just Deader than Dead, but an Un-person to the point where even their name disappears from where it was written down. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_66d13ab9 | type |
Talking in Your Dreams | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_66d13ab9 | comment |
Talking in Your Dreams: The spell dream enables a wizard or sorcerer to do this, although the communication is only one-way from the caster to the recipient. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_671681af | type |
Jackass Genie | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_671681af | comment |
Jackass Genie: Efreet are as bad at this here as they were in D&D, but the Efreeti prince Jhavhul takes the cake. Not only will he usually fulfill wishes in a maliciously twisted way, he'll force you to use two out of three wishes to help him resurrect Xotani the Firebleeder, a terribly destructive Spawn of Rovagug, for... very twisted reasons. Glabrezu demons delight in fulfilling mortal wishes in ways designed to maximize pain and grief. Wish for a loved one to come back to life, for instance, and they'll resurrect them as a vampire or some other horrific undead; if a blacksmith wishes for patronage, they'll get it in the form a tyrant who'll use their works to spread war and misery. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_67b0bd0e | type |
An Ice Person | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_67b0bd0e | comment |
An Ice Person: Several monsters are associated with ice or use ice-based weapons, including white dragons, frost giants, and some fey. For Player Characters, there are several spells that conjure ice or deal cold damage, and the ice powers are the main focus of the Winter Witch and Boreal/Rime-Blooded sorcerer bloodlines. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_67f2c837 | type |
The Pig-Pen | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_67f2c837 | comment |
Harpies seesaw on this trope; on the one hand, they are physically attractive, but on the other hand, they're very unhygienic and so tend to be filthy, foul-smelling, and with crooked teeth. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_67f2c837 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_68f5e5f4 | type |
Living Dinosaurs | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_68f5e5f4 | comment |
Living Dinosaurs: Dinosaurs exist as powerful apex predators in the primeval Realm of the Mammoth Lords and the trackless Mwangi Expanse. They serve as the most powerful animals to exist without magical backing. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6965038d | type |
Fatal Fireworks | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6965038d | comment |
Fatal Fireworks: The spell Snapdragon Fireworks, most likely inspired by the Lord of the Rings example, allows you to shoot off a tiny dragon-shaped firework each round that damages and dazzles opponents. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_698d7dad | type |
Lovecraft Country | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_698d7dad | comment |
Lovecraft Country: The description of the Lost Coast from Burnt Offerings, the first chapter of Rise of the Runelords (the first published adventure path), reads like a description of the Dunwich area. A much more explicit version of the trope is the County of Versex in Ustalav (which is otherwise the setting's main Ãœberwald), with all notable settlements being almost direct expies of their New England equivalents. Carrion Hill and Hyannis are Dunwich, Illmarsh is Innsmouth, Rozenport is Arkham, and Thrushmoor is Kingsport. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_69dff6df | type |
Fantasy Counterpart Religion | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_69dff6df | comment |
Fantasy Counterpart Religion: The faith of Iomedae comes closest to Christianity. Asmodeus is a take on Satan as depicted in Paradise Lost and The Divine Comedynote note that Asmodeus is a real-world devil, but very different from the Pathfinder version. Sarenrae's faith has Islamic and Zoroastrian influences. Shizuru and Susumu are Amaterasu and Susanoo, and Daikitsu is Inari. Sangpotshi is Buddhism. The Vudran faith is Hinduism. Namzaruum is strongly Islam-inspired. The Esoteric Order of the Palatine Eye is several late 19th and early 20th century occultist belief systems blended together, with Aldus Canter being a clear analogue to Aleister Crowley. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6acf5c50 | type |
Trick Bomb | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6acf5c50 | comment |
Trick Bomb: One of the Alchemist's trademark abilities. Alchemist discoveries allow them to switch the standard explosive bomb (which does fire damage, to which many outsiders are resistant or immune) with bombs that do everything from cover an area in sticky substances to doing holy damage. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6b63b660 | type |
Fungi Are Plants | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6b63b660 | comment |
Fungi Are Plants: In 1st edition, all fungus-based creatures — such as vegepigmies, moldwretches, violet fungi and the like — are considered part of the Plant creature type. This is averted in 2nd Edition, which introduces a distinct Fungus type into which these creatures are reclassified. Leshies are a type small plant people created from spirits inhabiting bodies grown from special plants. Most are based on species of true plants such as broad-leaved trees, Venus flytraps, pumpkins, lotuses, cacti and so on. The exceptions are fungus and lichen leshies, which are grown from fungal bases. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6b63b660 | |
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Fantasy Gun Control | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6bcfbc7e | comment |
Fantasy Gun Control: Averted in Alkenstar, a city-state located in a region where magic doesn't function, which has encouraged the inhabitants to develop non-magical weapons and technology, including firearms. Averted harder in Numeria, where a crashed spaceship can provide access to laser guns, rocket launchers, and even more esoteric weapons, provided you can get them past the Technic League which guards their tech with murderous jealousy. Played straight most everywhere else, as most people don't see the use for loud, unreliable and hard to maintain weapons when magic can do the job. As of the Ultimate Combat supplement, there is a Gunslinger base class that specializes in them. There are also paladin, cavalier (musketeer), inquisitor, and wizard variants that use guns, as well as pair of rogue talents that lets you nab the ability to use one. Rasputin Must Die, the fifth part of the Reign of Winter adventure path, adds stats for real World War I Russian guns, even mustard gas. It also includes the Trench Fighter archetype for the Fighter class. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6bcfbc7e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6bdfbb84 | type |
Prehensile Hair | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6bdfbb84 | comment |
Prehensile Hair: One of the Witch's possible starting powers. Bald women with this power animate their eyebrows. Men with this power use either their beard or their mustache. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6bdfbb84 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6bf93fc7 | type |
FanService | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6bf93fc7 | comment |
Fanservice: Paizo puts a lot of effort into artwork. And makes a point of featuring a lot of female NPCs and characters. The fanservice isn't just of the sexual variety. A foreword to one of the Jade Regent adventures notes several great things about a story that combines ninjas with vikings, such as having a good excuse to paint a cover featuring ninjas fighting on a burning longboat. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6bf93fc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6bf93fc7 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6c10754e | type |
Secret Art | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6c10754e | comment |
Secret Art: The Uncommon, Rare, and Unique rarity traits from Second Edition denote increasing levels of obscurity—something with the Uncommon trait requires special training or comes from a particular part of the world, something with the Rare trait is very difficult to find (and is only included through either in-game discovery or allowed to by taken through GM fiat), and something with the Unique trait is one of a kind. Notably, Recall Knowledge checks become increasingly difficult the more "secret" the thing you're recalling is. In Pathfinder Society games, the PFS Limited tag functions similarly to Rare, requiring a boon to gain access. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6c10754e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6c10754e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ca6e5bf | type |
Digital Tabletop Game Adaptation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ca6e5bf | comment |
Digital Tabletop Game Adaptation: The series is a Dungeons & Dragons spin-off that adapts its rules, with Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous adapting and expanding existing print adventure paths for the game's 1st edition. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ca6e5bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ca6e5bf | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6cc39b20 | type |
Puppeteer Parasite | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6cc39b20 | comment |
Puppeteer Parasite: Intellect devourers fulfill this role in Golarion, among others. Included are psionic beings literally called puppeteers (actually minions of Phrenic Scourges) and ammonites that animate corpses as vehicles to conquer the land. There is also a third party race of Snail People called the Zif, whose actual intelligence is a permanently bonded parasite. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6cc39b20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6cc39b20 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ce78717 | type |
God Couple | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ce78717 | comment |
God Couple: Most famously, the goddesses Shelyn (love and beauty), Sarenrae (the sun and healing), and Desna (travel and freedom) are canonically a thruple. Second Edition has a cult called the Prismatic Ray that worships them as a trinity. Pharasma, goddess of birth and death, is in a relationship with the minor deity Mrtyu, the psychopomp usher responsible for fallen soldiers and victims of murder and suicide. Mrtyu is said to have been the first mortal ever to die with love on his lips, which intrigued Pharasma enough to try wooing his soul when it reached the Boneyard; their relationship has helped her to understand the emotions of mortals better. Erastil, the god of hunting, agriculture, and community, is very family-oriented and is Happily Married to the minor agriculture goddess Jaidi, with whom he has two children. He frequently tries to set other Good-aligned deities up with partners, and considers Love Goddess Shelyn a friend for her support for marriage and family. The Tien deities Shizuru, goddess of the sun, and Tsukiyo, god of the moon, are Star-Crossed Lovers who are only able to be together during a solar eclipse after he was murdered by his brother Fumeiyoshi and then brought back to life. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ce78717 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ce78717 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ded96fd | type |
Go Back to the Source | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ded96fd | comment |
Go Back to the Source: On a meta level: Pathfinder #1 (Burnt Offerings) was set in the town of Sandpoint. Pathfinder #200 will be Seven Dooms for Sandpoint, set in Sandpoint and based on the original Pathfinder office campaign. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ded96fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ded96fd | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6e4ea868 | type |
Specifically Numbered Group | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6e4ea868 | comment |
Specifically Numbered Group: The Magocracy of ancient Thassilon was founded on principles of Runic Magic and philosophy, including a leadership of seven Runelords, one for each of the Seven Virtues of Rule. As Thassilon fell into decadence, the Runelords came to represent the Seven Deadly Sins instead. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6e4ea868 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6e4ea868 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ec03ba1 | type |
Mook Maker | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ec03ba1 | comment |
A rather odd example is the Termagant Kyton, whose horrifically pregnant-looking appearance and description as a "coddling, cooing mother of nails and aberrant life", which "seeks to make all living creatures adopted members of her malformed brood" implies a role as some kind of Mook Maker and/or Monster Lord. Instead, her abilities and attacks focus on poisoning victims, being a poisonous Action Bomb, and having victims of her poison be poisonous Action Bombs in turn. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ec03ba1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ec03ba1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ec3e83 | type |
The Journey Through Death | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ec3e83 | comment |
The Journey Through Death: The River of Souls carries the the newly dead across the Astral Plane and into the domain of Pharasma, Goddess of Death, where they're judged and sent to their final fate. Some fiends try to poach souls from the River, so it's heavily guarded by celestials, devils, and demons alike. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ec3e83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6ec3e83 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6efdfe5c | type |
Money Mauling | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6efdfe5c | comment |
Money Mauling: The "Coin Shot" spell enchants three coins so that they can be thrown with all the force of a bullet. The more valuable the coin, the more damage it does. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6efdfe5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6efdfe5c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6f7de873 | type |
Transplanted Aliens | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6f7de873 | comment |
Transplanted Aliens: The land of Numeria is home to numerous aliens, alien animals, and rogue robots as a result of a spaceship crashing there a millennia ago. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6f7de873 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_6f7de873 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7043a964 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7043a964 | comment |
Grammar Nazi: A 2E bestiary justifies dropping the term "lycanthrope" in favor of just "werecreature" with a rather snarky note about how the root "lykos" only applies to wolves and that if you call another type of transforming creature that they'll get offended and attack you. Apparently they didn't notice that "were-" only applies to human males, certainly not the only ones who can change, though. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7043a964 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7043a964 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_705f57d0 | type |
Demon Lords and Archdevils | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_705f57d0 | comment |
Nocticula, a Demon Lord and the first succubus, became lovers and rivals with the succubus Shamira after Shamira infiltrated her bedchamber. Their relationship was extraordinarily unusual for Chaotic Evil demons, all the more so when Nocticula became a Chaotic Neutral goddess yet remained Amicable Exes with Shamira. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_705f57d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_705f57d0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7091414 | type |
Sham Supernatural | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7091414 | comment |
Sham Supernatural: Razmir, the God-Emperor of Razmiran, is an ordinary, though very powerful wizard who uses a God Guise to run a Scam Religion. Razmiran "priests" therefore have no actual divinely granted powers nor levels in the cleric class: the game implements them as a sorcerer archetype and a Prestige Class that use various ritualistic tricks to imitate the class features of a cleric. His classification as a deity is almost entirely flavor. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7091414 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7091414 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_70c06a09 | type |
The Undead | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_70c06a09 | comment |
The Undead: There's even a Sorcerer Lineage, Undead Sorcerer, who had a Lich or Vampire ancestor, or was a stillbirth who spontaneously resurrected. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_70c06a09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_70c06a09 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_71a069f1 | type |
Attack Failure Chance | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_71a069f1 | comment |
Attack Failure Chance: Attacks are represented by rolling a twenty-sided dice and adding the character's attack bonus to the result, hitting if the total exceeds the target's Armor Class. However, if the dice lands on "1" before attack bonus is added the attack is a Critical Failure, conversely a "natural 20" is an automatic hit and a Critical Hit if it would have hit anyways in some editions. 1st edition arcane spellcasters who wear armor and attempt to cast spells requiring gestures to cast have a percentage chance of failing, represented by rolling a hundred-sided dice or two d10s. In D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder bards could ignore the spell failure chance for light armor and the rule was dropped entirely in later editions of both games. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_71a069f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_71a069f1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | type |
Calling Your Attacks | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | comment |
Calling Your Attacks: Items cursed to be "raucous" make this mandatory for the user, thus ruining stealth. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: Asmodeus, among other things, is noted several times to be a rampant misogynist. Makes sense, given that he represents the bad things that can come from order (tyranny, imperialistic militarism, ruthless enforcement of class divisions, institutionalised use of torture, etc.). Even worse is the demon lord Kostchtchie. Asmodeus only really cares about gender as it applies to other divine beings, not sparing the gender of his mortal worshipers a thought, and even then he never lets this prejudice get in the way of his plans. Kostchtchie, on the other hand, hates all female creatures with a passion; among his three commandments is that his faithful should never submit to a woman, that women exist only to pleasure men and produce warriors, and that a weak and feeble man is worth more than a strong and capable woman. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_729c69f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_729c69f3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_72e0023f | type |
Invoked Trope | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_72e0023f | comment |
Invoked with the Seeded Doom Occult Ritual, which corrupts a book, artwork, or piece of music. Anyone exposed to the work or one of its copies is infected with madness or a Curse chosen by the ritualists. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_72e0023f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_72e0023f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7308fa71 | type |
A Molten Date with Death | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7308fa71 | comment |
A Molten Date with Death: Xin-Grafar, the lost City of Golden Death, has canals of molten gold that flood the streets at regular intervals as a defense mechanism. The mechanism's Ragnarök Proofing didn't save the control system, so it can no longer be turned off; player characters need to time their visits very carefully. The top-level Wall of Lava spell creates exactly that: the wall deals fire damage to everyone nearby; causes far more damage, plus Damage Over Time, to anyone who touches it; and can be directed to erupt every turn. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7308fa71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7308fa71 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7337ba69 | type |
Food Chain of Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7337ba69 | comment |
Umbral dragons have the ability to interact with spectral undead as if they were corporeal creatures — a useful trait for them, as ghosts, specters, shadows and the like are their favorite source of food. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7337ba69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7337ba69 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_733e007a | type |
Unwitting Pawn | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_733e007a | comment |
Paladins of Asmodeus do not happen. Forget you ever read that. Antipaladins of Asmodeus however, are allowed with the Insinuator and Tyrant archetypes (the latter even requires you being Lawful Evil). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_733e007a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_733e007a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_746793a6 | type |
Clue of Few Words | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_746793a6 | comment |
Clue of Few Words: The spell "Contact Other Plane" petitions gods or other eldritch forces for information. However, they only give one-word answers like "Yes", "Maybe", or "Irrelevant", or at most a short phrase. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_746793a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_746793a6 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_75470730 | type |
Collector of Forms | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_75470730 | comment |
Collector of Forms: Downplayed with the spell Beast Shape, which requires a piece of the creature whose form is being assumed as a material component. In practice, a spellcaster's component pouch is usually Hand Waved to have all the non-costly material components they need, barring unusual circumstances. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_75470730 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_75470730 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7594e8ff | type |
Turn Undead | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7594e8ff | comment |
Turn Undead: By default, Pathfinder replaces the 3E class feature with one called Channel Energy, which can be used to heal living allies or damage undead (unless the PC gets Channel Negative Energy due to Character Alignmentinvoked restrictions, in which case it harms living and heals undead). Turn Undead is instead available as a feat, reduced to a simple Will save to not flee from the overly complicated math that 3E used. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7594e8ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7594e8ff | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_75a201 | type |
Pimped-Out Cape | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_75a201 | comment |
Pimped-Out Cape: The cape of the mountebank, among others. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_75a201 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_75a201 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_768d59aa | type |
Cool, but Stupid | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_768d59aa | comment |
Cool, but Stupid: Solid gold weapons! They cost 10 times as much as normal, weigh half again as much, take a penalty on damage rolls, fall apart on an attack roll of 1... but hey, they sure do look pretty! They have NO real bonuses to counteract these penalties. Except a possible circumstance bonus to Diplomacy. The flavor text says that they are only used as ceremonial weapons. Well, no use until some clever wizard or rogue works out that the weight of the gold in a solid gold weapon sometimes comes out to 20 times the cost or more, and whips out the linguistics(forgery) skill or the fabricate spell... | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_768d59aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_768d59aa | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_76e24530 | type |
Delicate and Sickly | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_76e24530 | comment |
Delicate and Sickly: In Seven Days To The Grave there is a girl named Brienna Soldado who is suffering from Blood Veil and will die within a few days if not cured. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_76e24530 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_76e24530 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77644ae3 | type |
Fantastic Fragility | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77644ae3 | comment |
Fantastic Fragility: Artifacts can be destroyed only in very specific ways — for example, the Axe of Dwarvish Lords can only be destroyed if a goblin uses it to behead a dwarven king. The more powerful and legendary the artifact, the more complex, difficult and contrived the one specific method needed to destroy it becomes. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77644ae3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77644ae3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7764f879 | type |
Level Drain | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7764f879 | comment |
Level Drain: Downplayed. Undead can still inflict negative levels, but you no longer have to earn those levels back the hard way. Averted in 2e, where the negative levels mechanic is removed entirely. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7764f879 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7764f879 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77c9a628 | type |
Your Soul Is Mine! | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77c9a628 | comment |
The module Rasputin Must Die! has mustard gas and a monster that's a sentient cloud of it. That got that way by absorbing the souls of the people it killed. It makes zombies. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77c9a628 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77c9a628 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77e8d49d | type |
Clingy MacGuffin | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77e8d49d | comment |
Clingy MacGuffin: Most "cursed" magic items have this property. They can only be gotten rid of through a remove curse spell. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77e8d49d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_77e8d49d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7833feeb | type |
Sudden Name Change | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7833feeb | comment |
Sudden Name Change: In Second Edition, most monsters taken from Dungeons & Dragons were either given completely new names (like phase spiders becoming ether spiders), are now being referred to by their common names instead of their proper names (sea devils instead of sahuagin, brain collectors instead of neh-thalggus), or vice versa (xulgaths instead of troglodytes). This was done to distance Pathfinder from D&D and facilitate building a multi-media franchise, as the OGL 1.0a only covers Tabletop RPG products, so any names invented by Wizards of the Coast cannot be legally used in anything that is not a RPG book. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7833feeb | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7913833c | type |
Balkanize Me | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7913833c | comment |
Hell's Vengeance writes Queen Abrogail II of Cheliax as a villainous example of this who has finally managed to drag her country out of its complacency towards the fact that its provinces keep declaring independence. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7913833c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7913833c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175 | type |
Unequal Rites | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175 | comment |
Unequal Rites: As with 3.5, Pathfinder 1st Edition has various ways in which this can manifest, and now has more feats that further differentiate between each type. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7a265daa | type |
Eagleland | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7a265daa | comment |
Andoran is the early United States with some cues from the French Second and Third Republics. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7a265daa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7a265daa | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7b60cf | type |
Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7b60cf | comment |
Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: Shardra Geltl, the iconic Shaman, came out as a trans woman after she developed her spiritual powers (which only manifest in dwarven women). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7b60cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7b60cf | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | type |
Charm Person | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | comment |
Charm Person: A basic (1st Level) spell, with more powerful variants such as charm monster. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7b8f5f07 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7c46c734 | type |
Common Tongue | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7c46c734 | comment |
Common Tongue: In the Inner Sea region "Common" is a nickname for Taldane, the official language of the Taldor Empire which acts as a trade language outside their current borders. Other regions of Golarion have their own language that fulfill the same purpose, such as Tien in Tian Xia. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7c46c734 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7c46c734 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7c62a81c | type |
Scaling the Summit | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7c62a81c | comment |
Scaling the Summit: The Organized Play scenario #0-16 "To Scale the Dragon" sees the party scale the highest mountain in the region (nicknamed "The Dragon") to retrieve an ancient artifact hidden on its peak... then haul ass pronto, as they are chased by literally every yeti living in those mountains. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7c62a81c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7c62a81c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7caaa828 | type |
Hates Reading | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7caaa828 | comment |
Hates Reading: Alongside their many Stupid Evil tendencies, Goblins have a superstitious terror of the written word, believing that it can steal the thoughts out of their heads. This might be inspired by their ancient Magically-Binding Contract with Asmodeus. 2e even has a goblin spellbook...that's a magical pop-up book with no words in it. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7caaa828 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7caaa828 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7cb3c6c1 | type |
Ancestor Veneration | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7cb3c6c1 | comment |
Ancestor Veneration: Taiga giants revere their ancestors, whom they seek to honor in their daily lives and can mystically commune with. Living taiga giants can even call upon their forebears' spirit for aid in battle, and few things can spur a taiga giant clan to war quite as easily as insulting their ancestors. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7cb3c6c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7cb3c6c1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7d3da681 | type |
The Legions of Hell | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7d3da681 | comment |
The Legions of Hell include the Malebranche and just about the entire Ars Goetia! | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7d3da681 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7d3da681 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7d3da681 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7d7f4e4f | type |
Magical Girl | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7d7f4e4f | comment |
Magical Girl: The magical child archetype in Ultimate Intrigue is a spellcasting version of the dual-identity vigilante class. Signature abilities include an magical animal companion and a Transformation Sequence called by that name. The transformation allows the magical child to switch identities rapidly but with less subtlety: | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7d7f4e4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7d7f4e4f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7ec94d53 | type |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7ec94d53 | comment |
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Bodaks (also featured in D&D), zombie-like, smoke-weeping undead created from people who witnessed such horrifying scenes of evil that it permanently wounded their souls. They are misanthropic husks driven by anger and sorrow to release their pain they only way they know how-by making people look into their eyes, forcing them to witness what happened to them-which quite possibly creates another bodak. The fluff outright states that survivors often have nightmares for years simply from the fragments of the bodak's memory. Attic whisperers are the ghosts of little children animating a body formed from the detritus found in attics or basements. They formed from children left to die forgotten and alone. Their single drive in undeath is to find a friend to play with. Forever and ever and ever. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7ec94d53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7ec94d53 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7f152e56 | type |
Our Mermaids Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7f152e56 | comment |
Our Mermaids Are Different: In addition to the standard variety, there are ningyo — nasty little mer-monkey creatures which, if killed, automatically rise as undead that are active only at night and indistinguishable from corpses during the day — and the selkies — shape-shifting seal-people who like to lure people close by acting friendly, then eat them. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7f152e56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7f152e56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7f152e56 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7f3be191 | type |
Impossibly Cool Clothes | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7f3be191 | comment |
Impossibly Cool Clothes: How do some of those outfits even stay in place at all without double-sided tape, much less stand up to the strain of adventuring? And then there's Laori's skintight chainmail. Admittedly, she's a sadomasochist, so comfort isn't an issue, but still... | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7f3be191 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7f3be191 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7fa1f01c | type |
Dracolich | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7fa1f01c | comment |
Dracolich: A particularly nasty variant called a Ravener. To become one, a dragon must be at least an ancient, and upon becoming one gets a slew of terrifying new abilities and attributes. Since their existence is sustained by a field of energy that also powers their abilities, they must regularly replenish it. What does a ravener use to replenish its power? Souls. This forces raveners to go on rampages much more frequently than dracoliches in other settings. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7fa1f01c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_7fa1f01c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_801d8721 | type |
Oxymoronic Being | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_801d8721 | comment |
Oxymoronic Being: As funny as it may seem, one of the best build for an oracle of Winter is to be a lizardfolk with the Cold-Blooded curse — as in, extra weak to the cold. This is because oracles have a spell to throw the effects of their curse at an opponent, and giving a foe -4 to saving throws against your primary spells as well as a chance to stagger them is nothing to scoff at. Not to mention that several of your revelations have effects that can help counteract the curse. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_801d8721 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_801d8721 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_803e3201 | type |
Satanic Archetype | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_803e3201 | comment |
Satanic Archetype: Asmodeus, Lord of Hell, differs from previous D&D interpretations in that he is not a fallen angel, but has always been a god in his own right, having a distinctly Cain and Abel-style relationship with his now-murdered brother, Ihys. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_803e3201 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_803e3201 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_803e3201 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_80cd1f62 | type |
God of Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_80cd1f62 | comment |
Rovagug, who wants the end of the entire universe. Then there's the daemons who certainly look this way to anyone on the outside. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_80cd1f62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_80cd1f62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_80cd1f62 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_812ee32b | type |
Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_812ee32b | comment |
Second Edition, being an entirely new system that deliberately distances Pathfinder from its 3.5e roots while trying to fix issues like Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards, does plenty of both nerfs and buffs compared to its predecessor. Spellcaster player characters in particular lost a significant number of their "I win the encounter" buttons and generally had the power level of their spells massively reduced, while martials got a net power increase by comparison. Several especially useful spells are now rituals that any party can theoretically access. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_812ee32b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_812ee32b | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5 | type |
Vestigial Empire | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5 | comment |
Vestigial Empire: Taldor once controlled the entire northern coast of the Inner Sea, but following the civil war that broke off Cheliax, centuries of declining fortunes, war with Kelesh, and an increasingly decadent culture, it is now a shadow of its former glory. Unsurprisingly, it was inspired by the real-world Eastern Roman Empire. Cheliax itself has fallen on hard times. After Aroden's death, the empire was taken over by devil-worshippers, prompting massive revolts that led several nations to split off from it: Korvosa, Isger, Molthune, Nirmathas, Andoran, and Galt are all former Chelish imperial provinces. The Hell's Rebels Adventure Path revolves around another such revolution in the northwestern province of Ravounel, while Hell's Vengeance deals with Queen Abrogail II finally realizing that if this keeps up she's not going to have a country left, especially after paladins of Iomedae declared a crusade. The dwarven Five Kings Mountains have been in a state of slow but steady decay for centuries, splintering into several city-states. Osirion has recently managed to start turning its fortunes around, but it's still a very long way from its heyday millenia ago, due in large part to having been occupied by Kelesh for a while. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_81c72ad5 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_822e1ae7 | type |
Lawful Neutral | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_822e1ae7 | comment |
invoked In Champions of Balance, the typical Lawful Neutral roles are Executors, Judges, and Mechanists. The typical True Neutral roles are Agents of Balance, Fatalists, and Naturalists. The typical Chaotic Neutral roles are Impulsives, Rebels, and Saboteurs. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_822e1ae7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_822e1ae7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_822e1ae7 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8272a6c4 | type |
Stellar Station | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8272a6c4 | comment |
Stellar Station: A few magically shielded outposts float within Golarion's sun, such as the metropolis of the Burning Archipelago and the tower of a reclusive archmage who really doesn't want visitors. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8272a6c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8272a6c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8272a6c4 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_83444f07 | type |
Mon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_83444f07 | comment |
Mon: Summoners bond with eidolons, planar creatures that they can call on to fight on their behalf. There are also familiars, which are weaker but can augment a caster's power, and the animal companions of druids, rangers and hunters. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_83444f07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_83444f07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_83444f07 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8355aa1b | type |
Revenge Is Not Justice | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8355aa1b | comment |
Revenge Is Not Justice: While Shelyn, goddess of beauty and romantic love, and Sarenrae, goddess of healing and the sun, are on cordial terms with Calistria, goddess of lust, one source of disagreement between them is that Calistria is also the Goddess of revenge. Shelyn and Sarenrae, in contrast, command their followers to spare the lives of enemies who are willing to repent. The alignment systeminvoked seems to side with Shelyn and Sarenrae: Calistria is Chaotic Neutral (meaning she can sponsor Chaotic Evil divine spellcasters), while Shelyn and Sarenrae are both Neutral Good. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8355aa1b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8355aa1b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8355aa1b | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_83ca946 | type |
Hellraiser (Franchise) | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_83ca946 | comment |
The velstracs (originally a single subtype of devil in D&D, now a whole distinct race of fiends) are ruled by the demagogues, who, like Zon-Kuthon, are basically Cenobites. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_83ca946 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_83ca946 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8409a385 | comment |
The goddess Iomedae is, well, the goddess of this. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8409a385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8409a385 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8409a385 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a | type |
Interspecies Romance | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: With all the Half-Human Hybrids and other crossbreeds running around and considering the Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action above, this happens pretty often. Though not as often as in D&D. It even shows up specifically in certain adventure paths, where the players can run into either characters currently in a relationship, or can become one if they wish. For specifics: In Legacy of Fire, a harpy named Undrella unabashedly hits on the male player character with the highest Charisma score, and though it's hidden behind euphemisms, it's quite clear that reciprocating could be very helpful to helping her make a Heel–Face Turn, especially when she shows back up in the final adventure of the path. In Skull & Shackles, an important non-player character in the last adventure is the half-orc son of a human sailor who befriended the female orc slave-to-be being transported on the ship he had been pressganged to serving on, helped her escape, and eventually fell in love with her and settled down happily. The half-orc paladin Irabeth Tirablade, of Wrath of the Righteous, has a similar backstory, having been born to a male orc who genuinely fell in love with a human woman and abandoned his brutal culture to be with her. Besides which she's in one herself, since her wife is a pure-blooded human. Wrath of the Righteous also has the Ascended Demon Arueshalae, who can potentially (and is encouraged) to form a romantic bond with one of the heroes. As she is a succubus seeking to redeem herself, she'll be this trope for any PC regardless of their ancestry. In the second adventure for Reign of Winter, a potential non-player character ally is Greta, who is a female winter wolf note a race of intelligent, evil, talking white-furred wolves with frost-breath attacks and cold immunity currently transformed into a human form by the magic of her city of residence. Unlike Undrella, it's quite explicit that she's looking for romance, but a player character could eventually use this to help her to make a Heel–Face Turn. It's easier to get her interested if the PC is using a certain magic item that makes her assume they're also a transformed winter wolf, but it's possible to do so without it, and even if she is misled in the first place, she doesn't care when she finds out that her lover isn't a winter wolf. That said, it does make her especially interested in finding some way of maintaining a human form if she leaves the city, something the AP accounts for in the end if the players chose to do so. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8485d41a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_853b7948 | type |
Ambiguously Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_853b7948 | comment |
Ambiguously Evil: Mengkare, a Gold Dragon who founded his own nation and tried to create a utopia...through eugenics and dictatorship. It even seems to be working. Paizo admits in Champions of Corruption that the reason they have never stated his Character Alignment invoked is that they themselves can't agree on what it is. Subverted in the first Adventure Path for Second Edition, Age of Ashes, where it's revealed that he gradually fell from Lawful Good to Lawful Neutral and eventually to Lawful Evil. His eugenics program was created so he could harvest pure souls to end an avatar of Dahak, the evil god of dragonkind. That said it IS possible to persuade him to do a Heel–Face Turn and atone for his actions if you play your cards right. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_853b7948 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_853b7948 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_853b7948 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_857d1626 | type |
Power Glows | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_857d1626 | comment |
Power Glows: Paladins in Pathfinder can imbue their weapon with a divine spirit, granting it magical properties depending on level and causing it to light up like a torch. Also, many spells are highly visible when cast; even when cast silently and without gesture, a dazzling display of arcane energy still betrays a caster's presence. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_857d1626 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_857d1626 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_857d1626 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_859ec5d8 | type |
The Fair Folk | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_859ec5d8 | comment |
The Fair Folk: The Fey with their home being the First World a sort of draft of the Material Plane. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_859ec5d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_859ec5d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_859ec5d8 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85e3b15e | type |
Garrulous Growth | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85e3b15e | comment |
Garrulous Growth: The Alchemist Character Class in First Edition has the optional ability to grow a tumor on its body, which functions as a Familiar and can be temporarily detached to act autonomously. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85e3b15e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85e3b15e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85e3b15e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f0f0fb | type |
World of Snark | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f0f0fb | comment |
World of Snark: Going by the flavor text alone, one could be forgiven for concluding that almost every single iconic character is a borderline Heroic Comedic Sociopath who speaks entirely in snarky one-liners. With the possible exceptions of Seelah and Sajan, they're sarcastic, bloodthirsty, indifferent to one another's injuries and casually consider either leaving their companions behind or actively killing them out of annoyance. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f0f0fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f0f0fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f0f0fb | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f620bf | type |
Public Domain Canon Welding | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f620bf | comment |
Public Domain Canon Welding: This game incorporates features of the Cthulhu Mythos into its game line, including game stats for various Mythos entities and an adventure path where the world of Golarion is infiltrated by the Mythos realm of Carcosa. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f620bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f620bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_85f620bf | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_86d4f985 | type |
Doing In the Wizard | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_86d4f985 | comment |
Doing In the Wizard: An odd thing to do for a Fantasy world, but the various "Dire" animals are now their prehistoric megafauna ancestors, at least nominally (many of them still have the armoured skin of their more fanciful D&D counterparts). As the book Monsters of Myth is dedicated to detailing monsters that are Shrouded in Myth and how they can be used in an adventure, this trope was bound to come up. Most of the monsters in the book are either truly supernatural, have a Multiple-Choice Past, or both, but there is one exception. The Melfesh Monster is actually a series of spawn of a subterranean fungal colony that exist to bring it food. There is nothing that is particularly maleficient about this colony—it just needs to eat. | |
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Story-Breaker Power | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8712e4c9 | comment |
Story-Breaker Power: All of the same things that apply in D&D do here as well, but Second Edition has been praised for making high-level gameplay work by toning down many spells that had been this trope and making it explicit that others can only be used with GM discretion. For example, scrying and teleport are both uncommon spells, which means that players cannot cast them without finding some sort of teaching aid first. The image you receive through scrying alone is not distinct enough for you to teleport there, and even if you can through other means precise long-distance teleportation to a specific location is now nearly impossible. Other spells with a large scope have become rituals, which are almost always uncommon and require that several characters make checks of above average difficulty for the ritual's level, with the consequences for failure ranging from significant to catastrophic. It's still possible to possible to break the story using magic, but it's much more preventable. | |
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Psychic Powers | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_874176be | comment |
One issue of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths gives brief descriptions of the other planets in Golarion's solar system. Out of the three most heavily-populated worlds, Castrovel is pure fantasy-themed (but with Psychic Powers instead of magic), Akiton has a "science fantasy" Planetary Romance theme, and Verces is futuristic sci-fi (though presumably still aware of magic). | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
How exactly Dou-Bral turned evil and became Zon-Kuthon is also rather vague. According to the books he was exploring the Dark Tapestry (outer space) and ran into... something (Implied to be some kind of Eldritch Abomination, though nothing else is known about this being) that turned him insane and evil. It has since been hinted that Dou-Bral was exploring past reality itself, somehow stumbling onto a hibernating counterpart of himself from a previous cycle of reality that hijacked him. | |
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Suffer the Slings | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_885a5be7 | comment |
Suffer the Slings: The bizarrely weak slings from 3rd edition D&D are carried over. The range and damage are so low that it's usually better to just throw the rock. | |
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Teleporter's Visualization Clause | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_891c547d | comment |
Teleporter's Visualization Clause: 1st Edition copies the mechanics from D&D 3E verbatim. The teleport spell has a percentage chance of failing—meaning anything from landing off-target to suffering a Teleporter Accident, also decided by percentile dice—that increases the less familiar the caster is with their target location. Greater teleport removes the chance of damage but still requires at least a good description of the destination: if the description you have isn't good enough, you simply reappear back where you started. 2nd Edition combines teleport and greater teleport into a single teleport spell that requires the caster to know both the appearance and position of their target relative to them. | |
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Massive Race Selection | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_892c241c | comment |
Massive Race Selection: While the Corebook has only seven race options, there are more than 50note As of this posting there are 56 distinct playable races if one considers all the books (many of which have variants and sub-races). These have been detailed in such books as Advanced Race Guide and each of the various Bestiaries, as well as a few of the Adventure Path modules and the "Blood of" and "People of" Player Companion books. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: The main selling point of the Hell's Vengeance AP is that you're playing as villains instead of heroes. At the start it does note most groups will have a Token non-evil teammate, as most gods (including Asmodeus) allow neutral clerics in 1st Edition. In the We Be Goblins! modules, the players play as goblins invading a human town to steal fireworks. Considering how pathetic goblins are, they are more likely to be viewed as Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains than anything else. (At one point, they have to fight an ordinary horse which can easily kill them in one hit if it gets a critical.) The Blood Lords AP is made for non-good PCs, as you start out as troubleshooters for Geb and later become part of its aristocracy. The book notes that Geb is a Lawful Evil land In-Universe and the further away you are from that alignment the more difficult of a time you'll have fitting in. As a consequence, if you aren't evil, you have to be willing work with those who are. | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_89b8822f | comment |
Bodaks (also featured in D&D), zombie-like, smoke-weeping undead created from people who witnessed such horrifying scenes of evil that it permanently wounded their souls. They are misanthropic husks driven by anger and sorrow to release their pain they only way they know how-by making people look into their eyes, forcing them to witness what happened to them-which quite possibly creates another bodak. The fluff outright states that survivors often have nightmares for years simply from the fragments of the bodak's memory. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_89c47257 | type |
Wind-Up Key | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_89c47257 | comment |
Wind-Up Key: Clockwork constructs are introduced in Bestiary 3, and last a number of days per winding. Also of note is that some of these constructs can be given a copy of their own key, so that they can wind themselves up. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8a27f768 | type |
Space Whale | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8a27f768 | comment |
Space Whale: Oma are about as spacey and whaley as they come without getting too literal on the latter half. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8a4988bb | type |
Mind Rape | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8a4988bb | comment |
Mind Rape: The supplement Ultimate Magic introduces a whole raft of spells that can inflict this upon others. They range from murderous command (you order someone to kill the person closest to them) to malicious spite (make someone hate another person for days and work to harm them constantly) to the granddaddy of them all, prediction of failure (force someone to experience the pain and grief of every single failure and mistake they will ever make in their life, all at once, FOREVER). | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8c49c29e | type |
Zig-Zagging Trope | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8c49c29e | comment |
The Amulet of Grasping Souls from Tears at Bitter Manor zig-zags the trope. A corporeal wearer can physically interact with incorporeal creatures like ghosts; an incorporeal wearer can interact with their surroundings as if they were corporeal. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | type |
Timey-Wimey Ball | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | comment |
Timey-Wimey Ball: The Return Of The Runelords Adventure Paths involves extensive time travel, especially in the latter half. The rules are never really made clear, but, in addition to historical events changing, there's also things like a library frozen in time (which the PCs can unfreeze) and an entire city state caught in a "Groundhog Day" Loop (which the players can also fix). Preventing the Big Bad from using time travel to win is a big part of the later stages. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8e92e125 | type |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8e92e125 | comment |
Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: The adventure The Witchwar Legacy has a big one. One of Baba Yaga's witch-queen daughters, Tashanna, was exiled to another reality both as punishment for staging a coup against her mother and as a means to encourage her to grow into a great witch and demon-binder in her own right. The infamous Greyhawk villain Iggwilv, who received a lot of attention in Paizo's Dragon and Dungeon runs, was a member of the Circle of Eight under the alias "Tasha". "The Dead Eyes worship a one-eyed orc deity whose name is long since forgotten[...]" | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Hunclay from The Dragon's Demand. An Evil Sorcerer who wanted to destroy the so called "Witch Tower" nearby because it blocked his view of the stars, he worked with the titular dragon and his band of kobolds to this end. Unfortunately for him, the dragon double crossed him and collapsed the tower on top of him, which the players are sent to investigate. Later in the module, they have to explore his mansion and find some disturbing experiments he did on extraplanar creatures, as well as a terrified servant who has locked himself in a closet and wont come out until he's sure his master is really dead. Alaznist is probably supposed to be this in the Rise of the Runelords campaign, and in all fairness, she has done some very horrible things over the years. (Creating the Sinspawn, for one.) Of course, when one really looks at her backstory, it's not like she was given the option of being good... | |
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Deliberately Painful Clothing | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8f1bb87c | comment |
Deliberately Painful Clothing: The worshipers of Zon-Kuthon, god of pain, often wear extreme versions of this kind of clothing, which is sometimes embedded in their flesh so extensively that it can't be removed without killing them. Giving and receiving pain are both considered religious experiences among them. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8f612013 | type |
Token Good Teammate | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8f612013 | comment |
The main selling point of the Hell's Vengeance AP is that you're playing as villains instead of heroes. At the start it does note most groups will have a Token non-evil teammate, as most gods (including Asmodeus) allow neutral clerics in 1st Edition. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8f7184f6 | type |
Neutral Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8f7184f6 | comment |
The Neutral Evilinvoked church of Urgathoa also encourages this, to a point: divorce is forbidden, but killing your spouse and raising them as undead is fair game. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8f72541f | type |
Neutral Good | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_8f72541f | comment |
Sarenrae, the Neutral Good Goddess of Healing and the Sun, reserves this for those who have no interest in redemption. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_906ee78c | type |
Alternate Personality Punishment | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_906ee78c | comment |
Alternate Personality Punishment: Wealthy people who are worried about their fate in the afterlife sometimes create Shabti, Golem-like simulacra with copies of their memories, to suffer divine judgement in their place. Psychopomps try to get Shabti Rescued from the Underworld so they're not punished for their creators' misdeeds and can have lives of their own. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_90c018ac | type |
Justified Trope | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_90c018ac | comment |
Averted in Alkenstar, a city-state located in a region where magic doesn't function, which has encouraged the inhabitants to develop non-magical weapons and technology, including firearms. Averted harder in Numeria, where a crashed spaceship can provide access to laser guns, rocket launchers, and even more esoteric weapons, provided you can get them past the Technic League which guards their tech with murderous jealousy. Played straight most everywhere else, as most people don't see the use for loud, unreliable and hard to maintain weapons when magic can do the job. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_912fec80 | type |
Mithril | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_912fec80 | comment |
Mithril: A holdover from D&D (and to an extent The Lord of the Rings), mithril is still shiny, still light, and still expensive. Humorously, it is also nonstick, making it a surprisingly good material for making cookware such as waffle irons. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a | type |
Our Goblins Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a | comment |
Our Goblins Are Different: The goblins of Golarion are dangerously stupid pyromaniacs who loathe dogs and horses (the feeling is mutual), are terrified of writing (it can steal the words out of your head!), and sing horrible merry songs about eating babies. Hobgoblins are as militaristic as the Dungeons & Dragons norm but are so universally ambitious that they can't hold an army together for long, being an entire race of Starscreams. Bugbears are psychopathic serial killers who live for the smell of fear and are unnervingly good at hiding in places nothing that huge should be able to fit — like behind your door, or under your bed. Monkey Goblins are an offshoot of regular goblins evolved for life in the jungle; they're mostly the same, but have prehensile tails. The Jade Regent adventure path introduces the Tian-regional variant known as the kijimunas, who are much more human-looking, red-headed, and much nicer than goblins. They basically live only to play pranks and to fish, and are very generous with sharing their catches, being well-known for spontaneously donating huge loads of fish to coastal villages suffering from famines. Also, they absolutely hate octopi, murdering them with the same zeal as regular goblins murder dogs and horses. The grindylows are aquatic goblins who are half-octopus from the waist down. They love octopi, but hate squids. It's worth noting that goblins (the baseline "comically evil" pyromaniac version) actually are statted to have the same range of intellect and skill as humans and are templated for use with player classes. So not only is it possible for them to be just as powerful as the PCs, mechanically they're set up to be a race where powerful, competent members would have no problem using other goblins suicidally (say, as flanking minions or to grapple PCs and hold them still for a fireball)... and the goblins being used wouldn't have a problem with it either even if you explained it. So they're not quite as harmless as the blurb implies, they're actually some of the more dangerous encounters around if a DM is inclined toward tactical play. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_91afe393 | type |
National Weapon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_91afe393 | comment |
National Weapon: Many races, such as Elves and Gnomes and Dwarves have Weapon Proficiency or Familiarity with a small group of weapons. Also, each god has their own favored weapon like Sarenrae's love of scimitars. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_91b5521d | type |
Complete Immortality | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_91b5521d | comment |
Complete Immortality: After the release of Mythic Adventures, Tier 10 mythic characters can gain something very close to this. Take the Mythic Longevity path ability that renders them immune to aging, and their natural mythic ability Immortal means that unless they receive a Coup-de-Grace or critical hit with an artifact that kills them, they will immediately "respawn" 24 hours later. Some CR 26-30 creatures also have this. The statted versions of the Great Old Ones are immortal and can only be delayed, not killed. Bokrug is reduced to dormancy if "killed" and returns to the Dimension of Dreams to slumber for hundreds of years, Cthulhu must be "killed" twice and returns to R'lyeh until awakened again once this is done, and Hastur is returned to life if somebody dons his robes after "killing" him while otherwise he simply can't manifest a physical body again until the conditions are right. Baba Yaga possesses complete immortality. With the base mythic ability, she then removed her Death from herself. She returns after 24 hours no matter what kills her unless her Death is released back into her body first. She keeps her Death in a hidden demiplane within her Dancing Hut. A demiplane that can normally only be accessed from within the Hut and with her permission. A simpler example is that wizards (including PCs) can research a "discovery" every five levels, and a 20th-level example is immortality. Notably, Razmir, a despotic ruler who claims to be an immortal god, is a level 19th wizard. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_91cecc1e | type |
Exaggerated Trope | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_91cecc1e | comment |
Monks can take a Vow of Celibacy, which gives an increased ki pool in exchange for not being able to touch another person ever except to attack them. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9273464f | type |
A Glass of Chianti | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9273464f | comment |
The illustration of the Shepherd (the page image for the trope), a throne of bones that turns any animal seated on it into an evil, intelligent servant of the archdevil Barbatos, shows a four-horned goat reclining on it, with a flame burning between its horns and A Glass of Chianti in its hoof. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_92cca75b | type |
Ret-Gone | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_92cca75b | comment |
Ret-Gone: In-Universe, the result of using the capstone ability of a Monk of the Healing Hand — the target is restored to life, but the monk themselves is so removed from existence that even the most powerful magics in the game (wish, miracle, and outright divine intervention) cannot bring the monk back, and said monk's name is completely removed from any record in existence — it cannot be spoken by anyone, and it's erased from any written record. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_93489cfd | type |
Botanical Abomination | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_93489cfd | comment |
Botanical Abomination: Cyth-V'sug, the demon lord of fungus, parasites and disease, takes the physical form of a house-sized, animated mass of fungi, vines, tubers and rot. Depictions of him vary between showing him as a hulking, beast-like quadruped composed of rotting vegetable matter or as a flying mass of wooden claws, fangs and horns dotted with bulbous fungal "eyes" and gnarled branches, but always shrouded in miasma and swarming vermin. He used to be a qlippoth, an ancient race of Eldritch Abominations that ruled the Abyss before demons arose, before he became a demon, and thus lacks any resemblance to mortal forms or sanity in his appearance. His realm, Jeharlu, is a planet-sized mass of living fungus that feeds parasitically on any world or plane it is able to contact, corrupting them and absorbing them into itself. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_94ce4e0 | type |
Black Blood | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_94ce4e0 | comment |
Black Blood: Some people and creatures can possess black blood, which possess necromantic powers and resistance to cold. Oracles and Bloodragers for having archetypes based around this ability. | |
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1.0 | |
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Geometric Magic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_94eb5311 | comment |
Geometric Magic: The various symbol spells invoke this trope. The Sacred Geometry feat, on the other hand, doesn't — it improves your spellcasting if you can solve a number puzzle. | |
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1.0 | |
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Vikings In America | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_967ae225 | comment |
Vikings In America: Ulfen explorers from the Land of the Linnorm Kings are believed to have been the first explorers from Avistan — the setting's equivalent of medieval Europe — to have reached Arcadia — the equivalent of pre-Columbian America — and maintain the hardscrabble settlement of Port Valen on its shores. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: How did Aroden die? Per the developers, that question will never receive an official answer. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_96a33f11 | |
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Moral Guardians | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_96e5792c | comment |
Moral Guardians: In a rare actually good example of this, the exscinder archons have the ability to magically censor any text. Given that in the Pathfinder universe reading the wrong thing literally kill you, and that things like the Necronomicon and sapient, evil grimoires of fiendish origins do very much exist, such measures are not at all unreasonable. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_97aaa7f3 | type |
In the Blood | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_97aaa7f3 | comment |
In the Blood: Sorcerer bloodlines are defined by this. Sorcerers gain magic from some kind of change to their bloodline at some point, causing magic to manifest based on the source. Usually the explanation is that someone in your family was affected, and that meeting had a ripple effect down the line. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_97aaa7f3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_984d58c7 | type |
City of the Damned | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_984d58c7 | comment |
City of the Damned: Dis, the Infernal City, is the second layer of Hell. It's a metropolis of staggering size, filled with towers of iron, brass and obsidian and monolithic buildings the size of entire mortal settlements, and home to a teeming population of devils, other lawful fiends such as velstracs and asuras, and hordes of damned souls, all under the watchful eye of Dispater, the archedevil of cities, prisons and rulership. It even has twinned canal systems for ease of transportation, although one runs with liquid fire and the other with the memory-draining waters of the River Styx. It's given a detailed look in Distant Realms, a sourcebook dedicated to extraplanar metropolises, which describes it as one of the greatest trade hubs in the universe. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_984d58c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_984d58c7 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_98ca838 | type |
Disciplines of Magic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_98ca838 | comment |
Disciplines of Magic: There are eight schools of magic: abjuration, conjuration, divination, enchantment, evocation, illusion, necromancy, and transmutation. Every spell falls under one of these schools, but it usually only matters to Wizards, who need to specialize in one school. There are also four primary magical "traditions" and a number of minor traditions that relate to the source of the magic. Some spells are found in multiple traditions, for instance "Heal" can be divine or primal. Additionally, in 2nd edition traditions act as spell lists shared by multiple classes, instead of each class having a unique spell list that has to be updated with each new supplement. Arcane magic is the type used by wizards and maguses, and is typically derived from the use of material components or written incantations. It tends to focus on powerful rearrangements of physical nature, such as explosions, transmutations and the animation of non-living matter. Divine magic is the kind used by oracles and clerics. Its power is granted by the divine entity its user worships, whether this is a deity, nature or a more abstract force. It tends to be less dramatic than arcane magic, and often focuses on healing and protection. Primal magic is the type utilized by druids and rangers, as well as by elementals and the fey. It is particularly linked with instinct and the elements of nature. In 1st edition Psychic magic is derived purely from one's own mental or spiritual faculties and could be used without physical foci, components and gestures. 2nd edition instead has the Occult tradition, based around attempts to understand the unexplainable and categorize the bizarre, and makes bards the most prominent practitioners, though psychics also use Occult magic. In either case the spells focus around Psychic Powers and communing with the dead. However, it's implied that the distinction between the four great magic traditions may be less fundamental than it appears, and that it may be more an artifact of how Golarion's people practice and study magic than anything else. High-end mythic spellcasters can learn to effectively ignore their divisions, and the legendary wizard Old-Mage Jatembe is known to have been of the opinion that the four schools were not strictly divided in nature; many of his writings focus on the similarities between arcane and divine magic, and the Wizarding School he founded still teaches arcane, divine and primal spells side-by-side to this day. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_98ca838 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_99390db0 | type |
Saintly Church | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_99390db0 | comment |
Saintly Church: Most of the churches of good-aligned deities qualify, but Sarenrae and Iomedae really stand out as examples. | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_99390db0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_99a7aa94 | type |
Seven Deadly Sins | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_99a7aa94 | comment |
Seven Deadly Sins: Originated as the seven virtues (rewards) of rulership, formulated by an ancient emperor. His seven subordinates promptly twisted them into the more familiar sins. Some (but not all) of the sins are represented in the archdevils. Mammon embodies greed; Belial is extremely lustful; Moloch is a being of seething wrath; Baalzebul represents envy; Mephistopheles is famous for his great pride. Furthermore, there is a corresponding species of demon for each of the seven deadly sins: Dretches (sloth), shadow demons (envy), succubi (lust), nabasus as well as vrolikai (gluttony), vrocks (wrath), nalfeshnees (greed), and mariliths (pride). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_99a7aa94 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_99a7aa94 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9aa3d869 | type |
Creative Sterility | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9aa3d869 | comment |
Creative Sterility: The titans were jealous of gods' ability to create mortals, so they tried to create a race of their own to worship them. What they got were the demodands, a race of twisted, fiendish mockeries. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9aa3d869 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9aa3d869 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b045a08 | type |
Wendigo | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b045a08 | comment |
Wendigo: Very powerful evil spirits in the setting, straight from the most terrifying native myths. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b045a08 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b06c1d4 | type |
Sense-Impaired Monster | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b06c1d4 | comment |
Sense-Impaired Monster: Creatures with the "blindsight" special ability use non-visual senses such as smell or hearing to compensate for loss of vision to perceive their surroundings within the specified range. This negates penalties for being blind, as well as other creatures' invisibility or concealment (including miss chance from spells like displacement or blur); however, a creature with blindsight can't make out visual or color contrast, meaning for example that they can't read. The "blindsense" ability is a weaker form of blindsight with more penalties. Creatures with the "tremorsense" special ability are able to detect other creatures out to a specified range by the vibrations they give off when they move, including such things as the somatic components of spells. Normally this functions through transmission of the vibrations through the ground; however, aquatic creatures with tremorsense are able to detect vibrations through the surrounding water. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b06c1d4 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b06c1d4 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b54d536 | type |
Evil Counterpart | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b54d536 | comment |
On a darker note, Lamashtu is revered in some cults as the "Mother of Monsters": an Evilutionary Biologist who likes nothing better than to bring new and vile monsters into existence to set them loose on Golarion. She's seen as a patron goddess by many goblinoids. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b54d536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9b54d536 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfa1697 | type |
Eye of Newt | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfa1697 | comment |
Eye of Newt: Ultimate Wilderness devotes a section to describing how monster body parts can be used to replace spell and crafting components — a devil's tongue, for instance, contains the essence of law and can be used to replace any lawful spells when creating magic items; a demon's heart can similarly be used to stand in for evil spells; matter harvested from elementals can used to craft items pertaining to elemental powers or energy damage; troll livers, still holding their owners' Healing Factor, can be used to craft healing items; the organs that produce a dragon's Breath Weapon can be used to infuse items with the breath weapon's energy type. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9bfa1697 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9bff4924 | type |
Treetop Town | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9bff4924 | comment |
Treetop Town: Selona, a city in the First World, is built entirely in the canopy of Usu, a single tree of immense size. Its university district is built within a massive hollow-out bole, while a formerly posh district was turned to ruins when a lightning strike set a part of the tree aflame. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9bff4924 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1f758a | type |
Kill It with Fire | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1f758a | comment |
Kill It with Fire: Sarenrae, the Neutral Good Goddess of Healing and the Sun, reserves this for those who have no interest in redemption. Generally, the easier option for dealing with trolls. Unless you're a wizard or alchemist (or just Crazy-Prepared) you probably won't have acid lying around. On the other hand, while it isn't as bad as in 3e, fire is the most common immunity. Oracles with the Blackened curse gain access to an assortment of fire spells in exchange for burn-scarred arms that cost them on weapon attack rolls. | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1f758a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cbb0add | type |
HulkOut | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cbb0add | comment |
Alchemists in general tend to blow things up as a primary form of offense/defense when they're not Hulking Out. | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cbb0add | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cbf01d6 | type |
Stay in the Kitchen | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cbf01d6 | comment |
Stay in the Kitchen: Downplayed with Erastil, the Lawful Good god of hunting, agriculture, family, and rural communities. One of the most ancient deities of the pantheon, he actually has no problem with strong women or even female warriors, he just thinks they should at some point get married to equally strong partners and start families with them. He's mildly baffled by fellow Lawful Good goddess Iomedae'snote goddess of justice, valor, and duty, essentially the Patron God of paladinhood disinterest in marriage, but at the same time has an Odd Friendship with Neutral Good Love Goddess Shelyn, due to her own support for marriage and families (Shelyn herself is part of a thruple with Desna and Sarenrae). Many of his older views on family dynamics were gradually toned down. Taldor, the local Fantasy Counterpart Culture for the Roman Empire, enforced strictly patriarchal gender roles. These have softened over time, especially after the loss of their foreign territories, but are still somewhat present: one of the sticking points in the War for the Crown Adventure Path is the proposal to handle the looming Succession Crisis in Taldor by allowing women, specifically Princess Eutropia, to inherit titles. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cbf01d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cbf01d6 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cde2df1 | type |
Hand Cannon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cde2df1 | comment |
Zigzagged by the firearms rules. In real life, gunners displaced archers because firearms were equally lethal with a much smaller learning curve, making conscripts effective fighters in a fraction of the time. Pathfinder embraces the simplicity and classifies them as simple weapons (meaning almost every character is proficient with them by default) but then gives them damage appropriate for simple weapons in the name of balance. This results in some strange stat lines, such a weapon called a, "Hand Cannon" that deals 1d6 damage (the second-smallest damage die type and equivalent of a light crossbow). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cde2df1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9cde2df1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f | type |
Character Alignment | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f | comment |
Character Alignment: invoked Through 2023, both editions used the "good-neutral-evil" and "law-neutral-chaos" system, much like its predecessor. The "Champions of..." Player Companion line gave have a bit of a more "in-depth" look at the typical alignments. invoked In Champions of Purity, the typical Lawful Good roles are governmental Builders, evil hunting Crusaders, and Guardians. The typical Neutral Good roles are Healers, Mediators, and Redeemers. The typical Chaotic Good roles are Activists, Freedom Fighters, and Vigilantes. invoked In Champions of Balance, the typical Lawful Neutral roles are Executors, Judges, and Mechanists. The typical True Neutral roles are Agents of Balance, Fatalists, and Naturalists. The typical Chaotic Neutral roles are Impulsives, Rebels, and Saboteurs. invoked In Champions of Corruption, the typical Lawful Evil roles are manipulative Despots, evil-serving Minions, and Swindlers. The typical Neutral Evil roles are Annihilists, egotistical Narcissists, and Psychopaths. The typical Chaotic Evil roles are Devotees, Furies, and Hedonists. In 2023, as part of the migration of Second Edition off of the Open Game License onto the new Open RPG Creative License (sparked by an abortive attempt by Wizards of the Coast to end use of the original OGL), Paizo announced that the traditional alignment system would no longer be in use going forward, in favor of expanded use of edicts and anathema with divine effects labeled "holy" and "unholy". | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9d9a875f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9dbf9610 | type |
World of Technicolor Hair | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9dbf9610 | comment |
World of Technicolor Hair: Gnomes are close kin to fey and often have brightly-colored hair — scarlet, blue, purple, green, yellow, white, and so on — as a result; mundane shades are almost entirely unknown. Elves also have more diverse coloring than humans but tend to match their surroundings, so their primary unusual color is green for forest-dwelling elves. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9dbf9610 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9dd0f9bf | type |
Acid-Trip Dimension | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9dd0f9bf | comment |
Acid-Trip Dimension: The Maelstrom is a chaotic and ever-shifting realm of constant inconstancy manifesting as a dimension-sized vortex of constantly forming, eroding and mutating debris and chunks of landscape. The First World, the home of the Fey, is a collection of the many original blueprints for the material plane, whose laws of physics, such as they are, were haphazardly stitched together out of every possibility the gods considered and discarded while making the world. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9dd0f9bf | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9e83f027 | type |
Amazing Technicolor Population | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9e83f027 | comment |
Amazing Technicolor Population: Gnomes come in a wide variety of colors. Some fall within the normal range of human skin color, while others are green, blue, or orange. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9e83f027 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9ecb2ba8 | type |
Reimagining the Artifact | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9ecb2ba8 | comment |
Reimagining the Artifact: The whole idea behind some of the Bestiaries; in particular, "Misfit Monsters Redeemed" reimagines some of the most bizarre creatures of the Gygax-era bestiaries. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9ecb2ba8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9ecb2ba8 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9ee0d3eb | type |
Land of Faerie | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9ee0d3eb | comment |
Land of Faerie: The First World. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9ee0d3eb | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1 | type |
Our Vampires Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1 | comment |
Our Vampires Are Different: There are several vampire offshoots. Each, notably, has a unique way of resisting Permadeath. The ancient, sterile Nosferatu. The bestial, plague-bearing Vrykolakas. The memory-eating Vetala. And the hopping, Life Energy-drinking Jiang-Shi. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9f63d4f1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9f7769a2 | type |
The Gunslinger | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9f7769a2 | comment |
The Gunslinger: Available by name in First Edition as a new class in Ultimate Combat which allows you to be a Wild West hero with Gun Fu. They use "grit" points to fuel their Improbable Aiming Skills, and regain grit by being cool. The class returned for Second Edition in Guns and Gears. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9f7769a2 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9fd18130 | type |
Animals Hate Him | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9fd18130 | comment |
Animals Hate Him: The goblins, as a race, particularly by dogs and horses. The feeling is mutual. | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_9fd18130 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a080eec4 | type |
Gorgeous Garment Generation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a080eec4 | comment |
Gorgeous Garment Generation: The rod of splendor garbs its wielder in magical noble's clothing — the finest fabrics, plus adornments of furs and jewels, worth 7,000-10,000 gold pieces. This particular item is a holdover from 3.5. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a080eec4 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a0c55654 | type |
The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a0c55654 | comment |
The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Galt has been stuck in the "Reign of Terror" phase of its revolution for about half a century now, with no end in sight. Lynch mobs surrounding the mysterious, and politically powerful, Grey Gardeners crop up monthly to make a bloody example of whomever has fallen out of the crowd's favor. To add insult to injury, the souls of those executed remain imprisoned in their guillotine blades. | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a0c55654 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a10f3840 | type |
Heaven | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a10f3840 | comment |
Heaven: Good-aligned souls are usually sent to one of the three Upper Planes based on where they fall on the Law-Chaos spectrum: Heaven is a realm of perfect goodness and exquisite order, and its residents see the two as inextricably linked—righteousness requires structure, but structure is pointless without a just and noble goal. Nirvana is a realm of pure good—an idyllic wilderness of enlightenment and redemption that promises sanctuary to the weary and enlightenment and transcendence to those who seek it out. Elysium is a place of bold deeds and fiery passions, where heroes clash and revel, and freedom is prized above all. Its inhabitants represent a wide variety of freely given benevolence, often willing to directly aid visitors but more often serving as inspirations and muses to foster positive change. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a10f3840 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a1154544 | type |
Grumpy Old Man | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a1154544 | comment |
Grumpy Old Man: Erastil, God of Farming, Hunting, Trade and Family: cranky, conservative and reactionary... and Lawful Good. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Blind Seer | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a122bf2f | comment |
Blind Seer: The Oracle character class can select this as their Curse, severely limiting their normal eyesight but gaining the Darkvision special ability to compensate. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a18fda9c | type |
Dumb Muscle | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a18fda9c | comment |
Dumb Muscle: A few NPCs fit this mold. Auchs from Kingmaker is a villainous Psychopathic Manchild, while Owlbear Hartshorn in Skull and Shackles is a potential ally and a bit of a Woobie. The player can also be one of these. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a18fda9c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a1a41714 | type |
Hot God | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a1a41714 | comment |
Hot God: Shelyn, the goddess of beauty, romantic love, and the fine arts, is the main standout, typically depicted as a slim brunette dressed in revealing silks. Predictably, Even the Girls Want Her: she's canonically in an on-again-off-again relationship with Desna, goddess of freedom, and Sarenrae, goddess of the sun. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a1a41714 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a2c9143 | type |
Non-Player Companion | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a2c9143 | comment |
The Summoner class includes a note that the player's eidolon cannot wear armor because it "interferes with the Summoner's link to it". This is just a patch to prevent all Summoners from making their eidolons humanoid-shaped so they can put them in armor and double their armor class. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a2c9143 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a2c9143 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a33bdefe | type |
Fast-Killing Radiation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a33bdefe | comment |
Fast-Killing Radiation: Zig-zagged. Radiation causes an instantaneous Constitution drain and Maximum HP Reduction, which can be a One-Hit Kill from a strong enough exposure. Afterwards, it only deals damage per day, much more slowly than conventional poisons. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a33bdefe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a33bdefe | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a4c8e609 | type |
Glad You Thought of It | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a4c8e609 | comment |
Glad You Thought of It: The special action "Plant Notion", introduced in Giant Hunter's Handbook, combines a Diplomacy check (to convince the target of a course of action) and a hard Bluff check (to make them believe it was their idea all along). In addition to the misdirection, it bypasses the usual penalty for attempting Diplomacy on an unfriendly character. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a4c8e609 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a4c8e609 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a52faac6 | type |
Benevolent Conspiracy | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a52faac6 | comment |
Benevolent Conspiracy: The Esoteric Order of the Palatine Eye is equal parts Secret Circle of Secrets and Mystery Cult, hoarding occult lore and keeping their operations hidden behind several layers of ritual and initiation. They also oppose both the Whispering Way and the Night Heralds, and succeeded in saving Golarion from being consumed by Aucturn in 4718 AR. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a52faac6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a52faac6 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a5de0ab9 | type |
Polyamory | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a5de0ab9 | comment |
Most famously, the goddesses Shelyn (love and beauty), Sarenrae (the sun and healing), and Desna (travel and freedom) are canonically a thruple. Second Edition has a cult called the Prismatic Ray that worships them as a trinity. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a5de0ab9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a5de0ab9 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f7120 | type |
Physical God | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f7120 | comment |
Physical God: Walkena, the leader of Mzali, was born a mortal, but ascended to godhood after his mummification in order to repel a colonizing army. Gods having a physical presence is extremely rare on Golarion, but the nature of his ascendency has somehow allowed him to remain. Unfortunately for the people of Mzali, Walkena rules it with an iron fist like a petty, childish tyrant. Fortunately for everyone else, his xenophobic nature means he only cares about the Mwangi Expanse, and tends to focus far more on Mzali than anywhere else. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f7120 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f7120 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a6327754 | type |
Touch the Intangible | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a6327754 | comment |
Touch the Intangible: Magical attacks inherently interact with normally-intangible targets, but only deal 50% damage. Umbral dragons have the ability to interact with spectral undead as if they were corporeal creatures — a useful trait for them, as ghosts, specters, shadows and the like are their favorite source of food. All Psychopomps' attacks naturally affect incorporeal beings, as do those of crypt dragons, helping them with their tasks of corralling restless spirits and watching over the souls of the dead. Unicorn horns innately function as ghost touch weapons in this manner, allowing them to directly interact with spiritual entities. The Amulet of Grasping Souls from Tears at Bitter Manor zig-zags the trope. A corporeal wearer can physically interact with incorporeal creatures like ghosts; an incorporeal wearer can interact with their surroundings as if they were corporeal. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a6327754 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a63bb3bd | type |
Ascended Demon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a63bb3bd | comment |
Wrath of the Righteous also has the Ascended Demon Arueshalae, who can potentially (and is encouraged) to form a romantic bond with one of the heroes. As she is a succubus seeking to redeem herself, she'll be this trope for any PC regardless of their ancestry. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a63bb3bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a65288e2 | type |
Ascended Extra | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: While Paizo has created creatures and races of their own, and have used plenty of favorites from Wotc's library, much of their world is rounded out with more obscure D&D races. Most notably, Aboleths largely take the place of Illithids. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a65288e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a65288e2 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a | type |
Scaled Up | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a | comment |
Scaled Up: The Form of the Dragon spell lets it's users take the form of a dragon. It's only available to high level wizards and sorcerers, making it the kind of thing that might be given to a main antagonist. But there's nothing actually stopping the PCs from doing this as well, especially draconic bloodline sorcerers who get the spell for free, making it ideal for a climax. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a675997a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a72e8cbe | type |
Scarab Power | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a72e8cbe | comment |
Scarab Power: The Scarab Sages are an Ancient Tradition of Egyptian-inspired priests and wizards who seek the ancient secrets to create a better future. They picked the scarab as their symbol to invoke wisdom and ancient power. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a72e8cbe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7544a0f | type |
Beneath the Earth | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7544a0f | comment |
Beneath the Earth: The world beneath is known as the Darklands and draws inspiration from pulp fiction of the early 1900s, such as Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar. It's divided into three "layers"—the uppermost is home to fairly normal humanoids like goblins and dwarves, the middle layer is home to more reclusive races like the serpentfolk, and the deepest pits are artificial Vaults, vast terrariums which may be Lost Worlds or the homes of unspeakable horrors. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7544a0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a75c8dc9 | type |
Left-Justified Fantasy Map | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a75c8dc9 | comment |
Left-Justified Fantasy Map: Partially averted, the areas that have been detailed so far are Avistan — a rough Europe analogue, Garund — an equally wild and varied Africa analogue, and the western region of Casmaron — roughly equivalent to the Middle East and Central Asia. More Recently, Tian Xia, an analogue of eastern Asia, has been detailed as well. Arcadia (an American analogue) has been mentioned, but not detailed yet. Ditto for Vudra, the southeastern part of Casmaron, which is basically the Indian subcontinent. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a75c8dc9 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a75c8dc9 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7ae714 | type |
Planetary Romance | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7ae714 | comment |
Planetary Romance: The other worlds in Golarion's star system are designed to facilitate this. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7ae714 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7bb930 | type |
Prestige Class | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7bb930 | comment |
Prestige Class: 1st Edition does offer a wide selection. Unlike the game from which it sprang, however, there are also generous rewards for players who abstain from a Prestige Class and set out to attain high levels in a base class, and the archetype class modifications make it easier to specialize without having to take a prestige class. In fact it's arguable that the efforts by Paizo to address Empty Levels and increase the flexibility of base classes through the archetype system actually makes taking a prestige class counterproductive if the level 20 cap is kept. Second Edition offers some mid- to high-level archetypes that might functionally act as these, although you take them in place of your class's feats instead of taking separate levels of them. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7bb930 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7bb930 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7beb2c5 | type |
Non-Human Head | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7beb2c5 | comment |
Non-Human Head: Rakshasas, as per D&D, have animal heads, and sometimes fur and tails, but with a greater diversity in which species they appear than just tigers. For instance, Vimanda Arkona has that of a fox. With the Rakshasa bloodline, a player sorcerer can become one, too, though you don't have to be as evil as they are. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a7beb2c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a86069f | type |
Alternate History | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a86069f | comment |
Alternate History: The Rasputin Must Die! module in the Reign of Winter Adventure Path is basically a take on what events during World War I could have been like if magic and other supernatural elements were involved. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a86069f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a86069f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a8a04f6f | type |
And I Must Scream | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: The drow love doing this to their captives via fleshwarping magic, turning them into tortured, barely sentient abominations for their amusement. Captured elves have it particularly bad — their fleshwarped forms, the irnakurses, are tortured, horrific tree-like masses of twisted flesh and broken bones, wracked with pain and barely able to move. Drow usually stick them in jars of nutrient fluids and put them around their palaces as permanent decorations. The fate of demon lords who are Killed Off for Real is to be permanently stuck in the walls of the Rifts of Repose, fossilized but still conscious and unable to do anything. Unless Nocticula killed them; then they instead become an island in her domain. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a8a04f6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a8a04f6f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a8cff6a | type |
Familiar | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a8cff6a | comment |
Familiar: Wizards, witches, and default sorcerers have the automatic option of gaining one of these. Wizards can choose to establish an "arcane bond" with either a living familiar or an inanimate object, such as a magic amulet, weapon, or wand. Only one type of sorcerer gets this bonding ability. Witches, however, MUST have a familiar, which acts as a link to the mysterious patrons that grant witches their magical power. Several other spellcasting classes has familiars (only familiars, those with something like the item bonding tend to do it for specific, restricted types of item) as a possible class feature, and a feat chain can allow anyone with strong enough will to get a familiar. Second Edition also allows bonding with a living familiar as a first-level feat for Magi, Sorcerers, Thaumaturges, and Wizards. Druids of the Leaf Order can bond with a leshy familiar, while Alchemists in general can create an alchemical familiar. Witches once again have a mandatory familiar, and use their familiar to prepare spells. There's also a Familiar Master archetype that lets you get a familiar (or enhance your existing familiar), then improve it in various ways. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a98abeda | type |
Roguish Romani | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a98abeda | comment |
Roguish Romani: The Varisians, the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the Romani, are often unfairly stereotyped in-universe as thieving vagabonds — however, there is a very good reason for this: a decentralized international network of ethnic Varisian smuggler and thief gangs collectively known as the "Sczarni". So while not all Varisians are rogues, the vast majority of Sczarni rogues are Varisian. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a98abeda | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a9ea8193 | type |
Unholy Nuke | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a9ea8193 | comment |
Unholy Nuke: The Talisman of Ultimate Evil. In the hands of an Evil High Priest, it could be used to open a flaming crack at the feet of a Good priest and send them to the center of the planet. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a9ea8193 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_a9ea8193 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_aa2bd65c | type |
Mordor | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_aa2bd65c | comment |
Mordor: Virlych, an area near Ustalav, has been corrupted with intense negative energy due to The Whispering Tyrant ruling for centuries. Even after he was eventually imprisoned in his own lair of Gallowspire, the land is still filled with undead and other horrors, as well as being permanently dark and cloudy. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_aa2bd65c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_aa2bd65c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_aabe2fb | type |
Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_aabe2fb | comment |
Deliberate Values Dissonance: Andoran's democratic government and opposition to slavery were seen as naive and absurd even by other good factions. Opposition to slavery has rapidly become more popular over the last 10-15 years, however, to the point that even the tyrannical nation of Cheliax de jure abolished slavery in 4722 AR—even if it's questionable whether they truly abolished it or merely switched to debt slavery. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_aabe2fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_aabe2fb | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_abe166cc | type |
Bond Creatures | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_abe166cc | comment |
Even spellcasters get their own unique stuff. Clerics' domains give increasing bonuses and abilities as levels go up (as opposed to D&D, where, aside from spells, the domains gave their full payout at level 1), sorcerers have their Bloodlines that keep getting better, wizards get either increasing bonuses from being specialists, or from being a balanced generalist, and Summoners gain "Evolution Points" that they can use to tweak their Bond Creature. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_abe166cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_abe166cc | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac5afbd8 | type |
Hellfire | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac5afbd8 | comment |
Hellfire: Made by devils, its damage is half fire and half (unholy) divine energy, meaning that being fireproof is not protection enough. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac5afbd8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac5b526d | type |
Hellgate | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac5b526d | comment |
Wrath of the Righteous: Attack on crusader city during a holy day -> Plot to turn magical defenses against crusaders and enslave them -> Attempt to cause the Worldwound to increase in size, drawing much of Golarion within its influence. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac5b526d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac5b526d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac69035c | type |
Master Poisoner | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac69035c | comment |
Master Poisoner: A number of classes such as rogues, assassins and ninjas are proficient poisoners, but it's the Alchemist who can really exploit poison. Alchemists who specialize enjoy complete immunity, reduced creation time and costs, and design poisons that contaminate the weapon longer and are more difficult to resist. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac69035c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac69035c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac6ecb56 | type |
Plague Doctor | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac6ecb56 | comment |
Plague Doctor: A module features the "Queen's Physicians", who dress like this. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ac6ecb56 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_acd7e590 | type |
Sticky Situation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_acd7e590 | comment |
Sticky Situation: Aside from the webs of giant spiders, the Adherants are covered in extremely sticky fibers that can potentially trap any melee weapon used on it, and any barehanded attack risks leaving the attacker stuck to the monster. The Flail Snail can also leave a trail of glue-like mucus behind it. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_acd7e590 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_acd7e590 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_acf33d00 | type |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The rivals of a famous athlete named Kurgess set a trap to kill him in the arena. It worked, but his death protecting the other competitors was so awesome it ultimately resulted in him ascending to godhood. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_acf33d00 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_acf33d00 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ad62678e | type |
Living Shadow | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ad62678e | comment |
Living Shadow: The spell shadow projection allows you to make your own shadow into this. The sceaduinar, the native inhabitants of the plane of negative energy, which lies at the core of the Plane of Shadow, are a variation of this, being crystallized manifestations of the destroying energies of the plane. They are quite hostile to all living, and unliving, creatures. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ad62678e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ad62678e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ae945566 | type |
Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ae945566 | comment |
Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving: Characters in First Edition can invest in Craft and Profession skills, many of which are so specific and so orthogonal to the adventuring trade that they're only of use to NPCs or in particular acts of Item Crafting. The Unchained expansion lets characters gain even more specialized expertise in those skills. Second Edition downplays this—some skill feats can have oddball, very specialized effects, but almost all skills as a whole have a defined niche. Played straight by Lore skills, however, which function as "very specialized knowledge" skills. | |
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Wizarding School | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_af11866 | comment |
Wizarding School: Many of these: the Arcanamirum in Absalom, the Acadamae in Varisia, the Ebon Mausoleum in Geb, and the various arcane colleges in the Magocracy of Nex. The oldest and arguably most prestigious is the Magaambya in the Mwangi Expanse, the setting of Strength of Thousands. | |
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Plant Person | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_af19229b | comment |
Leshies are a type small plant people created from spirits inhabiting bodies grown from special plants. Most are based on species of true plants such as broad-leaved trees, Venus flytraps, pumpkins, lotuses, cacti and so on. The exceptions are fungus and lichen leshies, which are grown from fungal bases. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_af4d6174 | type |
Setting Update | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_af4d6174 | comment |
Setting Update: With the change from 1st Edition to 2nd Edition in 2019, the Golarion setting was updated, moving the calendar for the setting forward a few years and declaring canonical endings for several of its adventure paths, with those endings influencing the new setting. | |
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Armor-Piercing Attack | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_afc8ddc7 | comment |
The spell "Named Bullet" enchants a piece of ammunition to deal an Armor-Piercing Attack, an automatic Critical Hit, and extra damage against the named creature. | |
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Only Killable at Home | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b12be8fb | comment |
Only Killable at Home: inverted for the fey, who will die permanently if slain anywhere except their plane of origin, the First World. The First World, as a prototype of creation that was abandoned by the gods, exists outside of the normal cycles of existence, including those of life and death. While in the First World, fey — and non-native beings who become acclimated to it — will gradually reform if killed, although not without some loss of power. This is one of the primary reasons behind the fey's bizarre behavior — they genuinely aren't used to thinking of death, whether their own or others', as anything more than a temporary inconvenience, and its permanency in other worlds tends to catch them somewhat flat-footed. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Do NOT get captured alive by drow in this setting. If, on the other hand, Zon-Kuthon worshippers kindly invite you to a party in your honor, you should probably politely decline even though there is certainly going to be really good food and drink. | |
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Omnicidal Maniac | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b1619b3c | comment |
Omnicidal Maniac: Rovagug, who wants the end of the entire universe. Then there's the daemons who certainly look this way to anyone on the outside. The fire giants: any action they take, constructive or destructive, according to their religion, brings the day closer when their God uses the Sword of Twilight to smash reality, causing the world to never have existed. | |
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Medicinal Cuisine | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b1e81b53 | comment |
Medicinal Cuisine: A Witch can learn to cook magical meals that can cure poisons or disease, grant power-ups, or suspend the effects of old age. The catch is that they need to be made from intelligent humanoids. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b1e81b53 | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b2280b66 | type |
Retcon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b2280b66 | comment |
Retcon: Seltyiel was originally a fighter/wizard/eldritch knight. As of the release of Ultimate Magic, he's now a (presumably single-class) magus. The Second Darkness Adventure Path stated(and showed) that an Elf that descended too far into Evil could spontaneously transform into a Drow. They have since backed away from that concept. In the first edition of the campaign setting guidebook, the world map showed Golarion's polar ice cap bordering the entire northern expanse. Later on, the dev team realized that unless Golarion was in an ice age, the ice cap was way too far south, and changed it so that the only large bit of ice on Avistan's northern border was a single large glacier. Likewise, the Five Kings Mountains (the dwarven homeland) were originally listed as belonging to the human nation of Druma until the third edition of the campaign setting book gave it a separate entry as a sovereign land. Paladins of Asmodeus do not happen. Forget you ever read that. Antipaladins of Asmodeus however, are allowed with the Insinuator and Tyrant archetypes (the latter even requires you being Lawful Evil). Inner Sea Gods compiles all articles written about the twenty core gods from Gods & Magic, Faiths of Purity, Faiths of Balance, Faiths of Corruption, and various adventure path modules. But Inner Sea Gods also changes many details from these articles that the developers have backpedalled on; for instance, in Gorum's article in War of the River Kings, there is mention of growing tensions between him and Pharasma, who is otherwise stated to be the one god that none of the other gods cross. In Inner Sea Gods, this is changed to growing tensions between Gorum and Urgothoa. There was a period during which only nobles being allowed beards and Sarenrae being banned in Taldor was outright retconned out by Word of God, although between Inner Sea Races and Taldor, the First Empire they were brought back as things that had been the case once, but have not been true for some time (and Taldor have a habit of 'forgetting' embarrassing things like that in its histories). There is no evil counterpart to the Pathfinder Society in Cheliax called the Darklight Sisterhood. Queen Abrogail being a Royal Brat has been quietly retconned, since it was decided that it didn't fit with the developers' vision of Cheliax. Beastiary 1 said that Satyrs were also called Fauns. Beastiary 3 established Fauns as a separate but related creature, and furthermore stated that both Satyrs and Fauns were annoyed by the confusion. Second Edition's bestiary mentions that Ratfolk's own ethnonym is "Ysoki". The previous edition and Starfinder repeatedly state that's (at the time of Pathfinder) only the name of the Ratfolk on Akiton, who may not even be directly related to the ones on Golarion. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b298a3fe | type |
Lord of the Ocean | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b298a3fe | comment |
Lord of the Ocean: There are two main sea gods, both known for their tempestuous and fickle natures: Gozreh takes this role in his female incarnation as the goddes of the sea (as opposed to her male incarnation as the god of the sky); as the ruler of the seas, she's depicted as a woman with sea-green hair whose lower body is a pillar of roiling water. Being the god of the seas in one incarnation and of winds and storms in the other, Gozreh is worshipped by most people who make their living in or on the water, especially fishermen, merchants and sailors, and favors the trident as a weapon. While the cult of Gozreh is well-established and predominant in the continents of Avistan and Casmaron, the people of Tian Xia worship Hei Feng, the god of sea and storms. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b298a3fe | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b38b6147 | type |
Science Fantasy | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b38b6147 | comment |
Science Fantasy: Strongly on the fantasy end of things, but some species of aberration are creatures from outer space. The illustrations, by-and-large, have a more Renaissance feel to them than Medieval, and some look outright like early Steampunk. For obvious reasons, no one has complained about this. The economy of Numeria (featured in the "Iron Gods" adventure path) revolves entirely around plunder extracted from mountain-sized chunks of a crashed starship, with robots, cybernetic implants, powered armor, pharmaceuticals, and laser guns all found there. The reason this technology hasn't spread is due to the surrounding inhabitants — the justifiably superstitious Kellid barbarians, who consider the alien ruins taboo after suffering some spectacular disasters among them, and the power-hungry Technic League, who jealously hoard all the scientific secrets they can find. The Technology Guide, which features many of these gadgets, also includes feats and rules that allow characters to tinker with alien tech like they would with magic items, even converting magical energy for technological use and vice versa. One issue of the Pathfinder Adventure Paths gives brief descriptions of the other planets in Golarion's solar system. Out of the three most heavily-populated worlds, Castrovel is pure fantasy-themed (but with Psychic Powers instead of magic), Akiton has a "science fantasy" Planetary Romance theme, and Verces is futuristic sci-fi (though presumably still aware of magic). The Alkenstar/Mana Wastes region, due to its inherent magic-screwing properties, meanwhile, has developed the first firearms to compensate. They're mostly seen as noisy, impractical and onerous curios elsewhere. "Reign of Winter" actually has the PCs travel to two alien planets. One of them being Earth | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b3eecaae | type |
Colony Drop | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b3eecaae | comment |
Colony Drop: Caused ten thousand years ago by the aboleths to punish their uppity human pawns. Resulted in a thousand years of darkness and a Class Two dieback of surface civilization. The Starstone also turned out to be very powerful (whether in its own right or through the sacrifice of two gods who tried to stop its fall), including the ability to elevate mortals to GODHOOD, four times actually. Though the Aboleth were not aware of its real nature, so this was not intentional...at least from the point of view of the Deep Masters. | |
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The Worm That Walks | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b4754f84 | comment |
The Worm That Walks: Hive Minded piles of vermin formed when a particularly evil spellcaster clings to life by possessing the scavenging creatures — usually worms or maggots — eating its corpse. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b4754f84 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b50475dd | type |
Kamaitachi | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b50475dd | comment |
Kamaitachi: Kamaitachi are malicious fey creatures resembling flying weasels with curved blades instead of legs, who delight in causing pain and suffering. They have the ability to delay the actual damage caused by their slashing claws — effectively, someone they cut won't actually start bleeding and hurting until the kamaitachi decides they should — and use this to force people to shame and demean themselves in exchange for their lives. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: The 2E bestiary notes that the fact that Cave Bears live in caves should be obvious from the name, doubtless a shot at the infamous "Bear lore".= | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
In-story, goblins have been built up as braindead idiots with no survival instinct. Rules-wise, however, they have the same Intelligence and Wisdom as the average human. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b58b4e3c | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b5ab695c | type |
Fantasy Conflict Counterpart | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b5ab695c | comment |
Fantasy Conflict Counterpart: The Taldan war with Qadira and the Chelaxian independence revolt mirrors the breakup of the Roman Empire and the expansion of Islam into Europe, albeit with the order of events reversed (the Taldan-Qadiran war provided Cheliax the opportunity to break off and take half of Taldor with it). The entire nation of Galt is copied directly from the Reign of Terror period during the French Revolution: demagoguery turned the Red Revolution on itself after the noble class was bloodily overthrown, and Galt has become a failed state, with the only consistent power center being the Grey Gardeners, the secretive order of executioners that mans the magical guillotines. Andoran's independence war, on the other hand, mashes up the French 1848 revolution with the American Revolution: having learned the lessons of Galt, the Andoren revolutionaries overthrew their noble class with the minimum possible bloodshed and then wore out the willingness of Cheliax to hold onto its eastern province, thus successfully establishing the first large representative democracy in the Inner Sea region. The Mendevian Crusades are, well, meant to be analogues to the Crusades, with the difference being that they're against demons boiling out of an interplanar breach called the Worldwound. The First Crusade was a notable success story, but the three subsequent Crusades were at best barely able to hold onto its gains due to infighting. The Wrath of the Righteous adventure path (and its CRPG adaptation) deals with the Fifth Crusade. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b6025c77 | type |
Elixir of Life | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b6025c77 | comment |
Elixir of Life: The sun orchid elixir will restore its drinker's physical age to that of its species' young adults, allowing potentially unending life if drunk once every few decades. Because of this, and because the secret of its making is a closely kept secret and sun orchids are vanishingly rare, it's far and away the most expensive and desired product in Golarion. | |
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Fantastic Race Weapon Affinity | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b6178aeb | comment |
Fantastic Race Weapon Affinity: Non-human races get free proficiencies with weapons associated with their race, such as elves automatically knowing how to use longbows and long swords (technically martial weapons that need specialized warrior training). Additionally, there are exotic weapons with racial monikers in their names, such as the "elven curved blade" or the "orc double axe": specified races are automatically proficient with them if their class gives martial weapon proficiency, while all others have to take Exotic Weapon Proficiency feats to learn how to use them. In a close variant, clerics and inquisitors receive free proficiency with their patron deity's preferred weapons — often a significantly better choice than they would normally get from their class. | |
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Firearms Are Revolutionary | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b67be25d | comment |
Firearms Are Revolutionary: A mechanical example. The optional rules for firearms introduced in Ultimate Combat have dramatic effects on game balance. Guns roll against the target's touch AC rather than their normal AC when fired within their first range increment, making them quite deadly given their above-average damage dice and critical multipliers. This can get really crazy if the setting's tech level is advanced up to "Commonplace Guns" or higher, which reclassifies firearms as martial or even simple weapons instead of exotic weapons, making many classes proficient with them without needing to spend a feat. | |
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Double-Edged Buff | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b73379e4 | comment |
Double-Edged Buff: A core feature of the 1E Alchemist class is a mutagen that temporarily boosts and penalizes one of their physical and mental attributes, respectively. They can learn stronger versions (with even more penalties) and cognatogens, which hone their mind and harm their body. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b73379e4 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b749f89d | type |
Our Ogres Are Hungrier | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b749f89d | comment |
Our Ogres Are Hungrier: They're sickeningly horrifying embodiments of brain-damaged inbred hillbillies. Distantly related are the bugganes, a race of 9-foot tall molerat people who share their ogre-cousin's brutality, but combine it with a frightful capacity for stealth and persistent hunting. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b749f89d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b77a6d82 | type |
Evil Is Deathly Cold | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b77a6d82 | comment |
Evil Is Deathly Cold: The kingdom of Irrisen was conquered by the immortal Wicked Witch Baba Yaga, who placed it under a spell of eternal winter. The "Reign of Winter" Adventure Path involves her daughter trying to spread it over the whole planet. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b78ccff7 | type |
Griping About Gremlins | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b78ccff7 | comment |
Griping About Gremlins: An entire subset of tiny, malicious fey. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b7c53a22 | type |
Blood Knight | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b7c53a22 | comment |
Blood Knight: Golarion orc society tends to emphasize fighting, pain, and glory. How this is received by others varies highly on context and politics — the orcs of Belkzen are generally seen as barbarous for their standoffish nature and border raids, but the Matanji orcs are considered heroic by their neighbors due to them focusing their aggression on fighting demons and teaching others how to do the same. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b82ca416 | type |
Rage Against the Heavens | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b82ca416 | comment |
Rage Against the Heavens: Primary motive of the asuras, constantly reincarnating beings born from divine mistakes. They're actually quite Affably Evil, possessing little in the way of greed and quite sagely about reality. Doesn't mean they don't fight dirty-these guys are next-door neighbors to devils. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b89ed08a | type |
Obvious Rule Patch | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b89ed08a | comment |
The Pathfinder Unchained family of supplements for First Edition includes a number of variant rules, ranging from Obvious Rule Patches to several classes (notably Rogue and Summoner), to Revised Action Economy, which essentially back-ports the action economy of Second Edition into First Edition. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b9085a47 | type |
Summon Magic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b9085a47 | comment |
Summon Magic: Conjurers are a school of Wizards who specialize in conjuration, magic that creates matter from nothing or summons creatures. The Summoner is a base class that forgoes all magic but conjuration. Summoners also summon "Eidolons" from the realms beyond the material plane in arcane rituals lasting a minute or so, a la Final Fantasy. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b97a2fa7 | type |
Forced Transformation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_b97a2fa7 | comment |
The spell "baleful polymorph" can be used to transform the target into an animal that can't survive its current environment, such as a fish on land, but the target gains a bonus on the saving throw to resist it. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ba9073e6 | type |
Land Downunder | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ba9073e6 | comment |
Sarusan is Australia. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ba9073e6 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_baeb2d6f | type |
Glass-Shattering Sound | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_baeb2d6f | comment |
Glass-Shattering Sound: The shatter spell. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_baeb2d6f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bb7ae292 | type |
Child by Rape | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bb7ae292 | comment |
Child by Rape: Pathfinder, being Darker and Edgier than Dungeons & Dragons played up this aspect of Half-Orcs, something that the game's designers have defended as emphasizing both the darker nature of their setting and the innate heroism of half-orc player characters. That said, there are at least two named half-orc NPCs in two separate adventure paths who were born of consensual encounters; a male half-orc pirate in Skull & Shackles who was born to a human man and the female orc he befriended and helped escape, and Irabeth Tirablade, a female half-orc paladin born to a male orc that abandoned his people's evil ways to marry a human woman. Ironically, as of right now, not a single Half-Orc iconic/major NPC in Pathfinder has this origin. Oloch? Consensual, but his father stole him away and raised him as a slave. Imrijka is a Doorstop Baby, so how she came about is unknown. The Player's Guide to the Carrion Crown adventure path doesn't quite spell it out, but mentions that "the residual bloodlines caused by generations of orc attacks on human settlements still pop up in even the most prestigious of families." Since those attacks happened a thousand years ago, one can imagine the scale required for them to still have a genetic impact now... Ogrekin are also assumed to be universally born from this, as Pathfinder ogres are monstrously sadistic 10-foot-tall+ inbred hillbillies who no sane human-sized person would ever want to mate with. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bb7ae292 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bb7ae292 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bb80bc49 | type |
Anthropomorphic Transformation | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bb80bc49 | comment |
Anthropomorphic Transformation: The "Anthropomorphic Animal" spell temporarily or permanently transforms an animal into a humanoid version of itself, complete with prehensile limbs, the intelligence of a (very dim) human, and the power of speech. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bb80bc49 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bb80bc49 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bba82718 | type |
Asmodeus | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bba82718 | comment |
Asmodeus: Asmodeus is the ruler of the Nine Hells, and the only devil to be a true deity. Instead of being associated with lust, he is associated with Lawful Evil, slavery, tyranny, and contracts. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bba82718 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bba82718 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbcdd673 | type |
One-Gender Race | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbcdd673 | comment |
As part of the Bestiary-wide, sweeping attempt to eliminate One-Gender Race in 2E, they note that Changelings can be either male or female, males simply not being usually detected as such. However, they can still turn into hags, which are all female. This became explicit when the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide went into more depth on the subject. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbcdd673 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbcdd673 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbd9b10a | type |
Phantom-Zone Picture | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbd9b10a | comment |
Phantom-Zone Picture: The mirror of life trapping, which can imprison multiple victims who look into it. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbd9b10a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbd9b10a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbd9b10a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbf11c0 | type |
Genius Bruiser | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: Despite being more brutish-looking than their female counterparts, male Lashunta are notably the first canon race that has a bonus to both Strength and Intelligence. The other are the "scaleheart", or werecrocodile-kin skinwalker breed, which are noted for their violent tendencies. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbf11c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbf11c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbf11c0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbfaa837 | type |
Knight Templar | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbfaa837 | comment |
Knight Templar: The Hellknight orders of Cheliax, which can be effectively summarized as Judge Dredd in fullplate. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbfaa837 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbfaa837 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bbfaa837 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: If you meet a jyoti, do NOT talk about the sceaduinar. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc74ef27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc74ef27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc74ef27 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc8271df | type |
In a Single Bound | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc8271df | comment |
In a Single Bound: When Rushing, the Tarrasque's jump is practically Not Quite Flight. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc8271df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc8271df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bc8271df | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bd3dc623 | type |
Fiendish Fish | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bd3dc623 | comment |
Fiendish Fish: Numerous giant versions of mundane fishes exist, including giant gars and amphibious swamp barracudas capable of pursuing their prey on land. Warm, shallow seas are home to armored dunkleostei, which can rapidly open their mouths to suck prey into their shearing jaws. Tizheruks are long-bodied freshwater fish up to fifteen feet long. Their flesh is almost entirely transparent, making them excellent ambush predators — odds are you won't see one until its jaws are already closing on you. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bd3dc623 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bd3dc623 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bd3dc623 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bd79d896 | type |
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bd79d896 | comment |
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Every Adventure Path turns out to be this, in some way. Rise of the Runelords: Goblin attack on a small town -> Plot to resurrect evil tyrant that has been dead for millenia. Legacy of Fire: An astrologer dies to a mysterious fire -> Mad genie and its minions try to steal an Eldritch Abomination's power. Kingmaker: Nation offers a group of adventurers a chance to forge their own kingdom -> Mad faerie plans to steal a large chunk of Golarion to attract her former lover's attention. Carrion Crown: Accidental death of a doctor -> Attempt to bring back a powerful lich. Skulls & Shackles: People get shangaied to work on a pirate ship -> Cheliaxian plot to take over a pirate nation. Iron Gods: Flame that fuels Torch's industry gets stolen -> Mad AI tries to become a god. Wrath of the Righteous: Attack on crusader city during a holy day -> Plot to turn magical defenses against crusaders and enslave them -> Attempt to cause the Worldwound to increase in size, drawing much of Golarion within its influence. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bd79d896 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bd79d896 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bdbc35e7 | type |
Blade Enthusiast | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bdbc35e7 | comment |
Blade Enthusiast: "Never the sharpest knife in the drawer, as the saying goes, Merisiel [the iconic rogue] has learned to make up for this by carrying at least a dozen of them on her person." | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bdbc35e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bdbc35e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bdbc35e7 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bdd4c302 | type |
Perky Goth | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bdd4c302 | comment |
Perky Goth: Laori, an NPC in Curse of the Crimson Throne, who is really quite incongruously cheerful for a cleric of the god of darkness and suffering. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bdd4c302 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bdd4c302 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_be03ba89 | type |
Lost World | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_be03ba89 | comment |
Lost World: The Vaults of Orv in the lowest levels of the Darklands are these. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_be03ba89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_be03ba89 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_be8416ea | type |
Shrouded in Myth | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_be8416ea | comment |
As the book Monsters of Myth is dedicated to detailing monsters that are Shrouded in Myth and how they can be used in an adventure, this trope was bound to come up. Most of the monsters in the book are either truly supernatural, have a Multiple-Choice Past, or both, but there is one exception. The Melfesh Monster is actually a series of spawn of a subterranean fungal colony that exist to bring it food. There is nothing that is particularly maleficient about this colony—it just needs to eat. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_be8416ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_be8416ea | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bea77379 | type |
Youkai | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bea77379 | comment |
Youkai: Lots. As per Paizo's love for obscure mythical creatures, Bestiaries 3 and 4 as well as the Jade Regent campaign detail many obscure ones like jimenju, sagari, umibozu, and aoandon. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bea77379 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bea77379 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bec0417c | type |
Happily Married | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bec0417c | comment |
Erastil, the god of hunting, agriculture, and community, is very family-oriented and is Happily Married to the minor agriculture goddess Jaidi, with whom he has two children. He frequently tries to set other Good-aligned deities up with partners, and considers Love Goddess Shelyn a friend for her support for marriage and family. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bec0417c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bec0417c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bec2f925 | type |
Murder Into Malevolence | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bec2f925 | comment |
Murder Into Malevolence: Zig-zagged. Most forms of The Undead force a Character Alignment invoked change to evil, but ghosts might retain their original personality and alignment in death; the rules only note that a death traumatic enough to cause someone to linger as a ghost might also drive the victim to evil. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bec2f925 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bec2f925 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bf9163d9 | type |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bf9163d9 | comment |
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Magdh, an Eldest of the fae, is all three. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bf9163d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_bf9163d9 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c027dd64 | type |
Kicking Ass in All Her Finery | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c027dd64 | comment |
Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Falayna, an Empyreal Lord, is practically the patron saint of kicking ass and looking good doing it. She herself is described as a beautiful woman who wears gleaming silver armor, silk robes, and an incredible number of colorful jeweled rings on her fingers. Her followers are likewise encouraged to embrace feminine beauty and train for battle at the same time. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c027dd64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c027dd64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c027dd64 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c091ce5f | type |
Samurai | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c091ce5f | comment |
Samurai: Introduced in Ultimate Combat, the samurai is a cavalier sub-class. Rather than forcing the player to play a Dual Wielding Screaming Warrior like the 3.5 samurai, the Pathfinder samurai can choose its focus (mounted combat, archery, or, yes, katana). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c091ce5f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c091ce5f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0935922 | type |
Dragon Rider | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0935922 | comment |
Dragon Rider: The Dragon Legion of the planet Triaxus, which consists primarily of natives who form bonds with the (relatively) small, weapon-using Dragonkin. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0935922 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0935922 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0d1354b | type |
Metaplot | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0d1354b | comment |
Metaplot: The game's default setting, Golarion, advances in real-time, with Adventure Paths typically taking place roughly concurrently with their real-life release dates. Thankfully, it manages to avoid most of the pitfalls that metaplots can lead to. While it's generally assumed that Adventure Paths "go well", writers rarely explicitly reference them or their outcomes in non-AP material (barring the Cutting Off the Branches in the transition to 2nd Edition), so players don't need to buy decades worth of books just to catch up. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0d1354b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0d1354b | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0f8b680 | type |
Trickster God | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0f8b680 | comment |
Grandmother Spider's job was to weave the web of fate, but she rebelled against this role and became a Trickster God. She still has the Fate domain. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0f8b680 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c0f8b680 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c2288824 | type |
A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c2288824 | comment |
One of the more powerful nations in the setting, Cheliax, are diabolistic human supremacists that intend to subjugate the world in the name of Asmodeus. The queen has a pit fiend as her chief advisor; not to corrupt her, mind, just to ensure she doesn't slip into Stupid Evil. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c2288824 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c2288824 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c2288824 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c25c7890 | type |
Fun with Acronyms | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: The license used by remastered version of 2nd Edition, which replaces the older OGL, is called Open RPG Creative License (ORC for short). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c25c7890 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c25c7890 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c28692cf | type |
Mystical Jade | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c28692cf | comment |
Mystical Jade: The munavris, a species of pale humans who live in the deepest reaches of the Darklands, live on a scattered archipelago of jade islands floating on the waters of the Sightless Sea. The origin of these islands isn't known — the munavris simply found them when looking for somewhere to live — and they seem to possess magical powers. The aboleths, fishlike monsters and some of the munavris' most bitter enemies, are unwilling or unable to come close to them, and it's believed that the islands' influence played a part in the development of the munavris' Psychic Powers. The jade is tough enough for the munavris to make armor out of it, and each island is made up of a unique color of jade, which their inhabitants use as badge of their island of origin. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c28692cf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c28692cf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c28692cf | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c2c9748c | type |
Standard Fantasy Setting | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c2c9748c | comment |
Standard Fantasy Setting: For the most part, Golarion is a pseudo-medieval world inhabited by the Standard Fantasy Races, menaced by the traditional lineup of necromancers, barbarian hordes and demon lords, populated by the usual Fantasy Counterpart Cultures and flavored with a few pseudo-Asian, -African and -American areas. The setting diverges in some areas, which include elements drawn from pulp and horror fiction instead. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c2c9748c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c2c9748c | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c30dba21 | type |
Parasites Are Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c30dba21 | comment |
Parasites Are Evil: Ghlaunder, the Gossamer King, is a Chaotic Evil god of parasitism and disease strongly associated with biting insects — he himself takes the form of a hideous, mosquito-like monster. Thematically, his cult and mythos emphasize motifs of feeding off of others while spreading weakness and disease to one's victims. First edition's second Bestiary specifically notes that parasitic animals, such as lampreys or ticks, do not have counterparts among agathions, Neutral Good outsiders who resemble humanoid animals of various sorts. While the text notes that parasites are not intrinsically evil, it also states that their habits and natures are too far from the noble goals of the upper planes for blessed souls to wish to model themselves off of them. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c30dba21 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c30dba21 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c30dba21 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c34a1799 | type |
Kaiju | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c34a1799 | comment |
Kaiju: Achaekek the Mantis God (one of the few gods with stats) qualifies, as do the Spawn of Rovagug — unique gigantic monstrosities that are the spawn of the Rough Beast Rovagug, god of destroying the world. The Tarrasque is just the most famous of the Spawn. Rovagug himself is typically depicted as a monstrous beast as well, rather than anything remotely humanoid. Other gigantic, high-power monsters can be considered this, like Mu spores, behemoths, krakens... A kaiju template, inspired by high-powered Japanese movie monsters like Godzilla and Gamera, was scheduled for appearance in Bestiary 3, but it was cut because it would have been eight pages long. Paizo held off on releasing it until they got mythic rules (ie, rules for playing near-demigods) ironed out, so it didn't appear until Bestiary 4. However, they made a change. Rather than a template, it was Actual Kaiju. First, there's Agyra the Forever Storm, a massive two-headed pterodactyl that can spit lightning bolts from each head, create a hurricane, and produces sonic booms when she flies and top speed. Bezravnis, known as the Inferno Below, resembles a monstrous, distorted three-tailed scorpion whose powers include throwing webbing that constricts on its prey until it's crushed to death and firing heat rays from each stinger. Finally, Mogaru the Final King is a twin-tailed, energy-absorbing, Breath Weapon-wielding saurian creature. In Second Edition, Secrets of Magic adds the 10th-level primal spell Summon Kaiju, which briefly summons one from a list of specific kaiju. It arrives the turn it's summoned, then departs the next—with each part having calamitous effects. The 10th-level primal spell Nature Incarnate allows you to turn into a kaiju for one minute. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c34a1799 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c34a1799 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c37813c5 | type |
Ninja | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c37813c5 | comment |
Ninja: Introduced in Ultimate Combat as an alternative version of the rogue class (which had the potential to be pretty ninjariffic already). The "proper" ninja is focused more on stealth and less on general trickery, and uses ki energy to fuel supernatural powers. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c37813c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c37813c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c37813c5 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3acbc20 | type |
Raiju | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3acbc20 | comment |
Raiju: Raijus are creatures native to lightning-wracked regions of the Plane of Air, but are often flung to the material world by the elemental fury of the storms they live in. They naturally resemble small, foxlike creatures crackling with electricity, but are actually born as spheres of living electricity and, when in the material plane, they usually take the forms of small, common mammals from their new home area so as not to stand out. They return to their true forms during the fits of furious activity that lightning storms engender in them, and are constantly seeking to return to their home plane. There are also kaenjus, rarer relatives of raijus that come from the Plane of Fire instead. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3acbc20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3acbc20 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3c1af5d | type |
Splat | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3c1af5d | comment |
Pathfinder has taken steps to avert this trope with a vengeance. Unlike 3.5, where most of the martial classes would end up having most their levels granting nothing but an attack bonus, practically every non-spellcaster class gets a class feature every level—something the official guide for converting splats from 3.5 specifically points out. Spellcasters, of course, get spells instead. This has the side effect of nerfing Prestige Classes by comparison: you miss out on a lot more features of the base class than before. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3c1af5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3c1af5d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3fc7139 | type |
Wutai | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3fc7139 | comment |
The land of Tian Xia has the god Tsukiyo, the most prominent Good deity to provide the Darkness domain to his clerics. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3fc7139 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c3fc7139 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c45beb12 | type |
Academy of Adventure | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c45beb12 | comment |
Academy of Adventure: Many magical schools exist throughout Golarion, but especially the Magaambya, highlighted in the adventure Path Strength of Thousands. Players spend the first two books as students, being pulled into teacher-led adventures of magic and intrigue. They spend the last four books as teachers, leading their students on adventures of magic and intrigue. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c45beb12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c45beb12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c45beb12 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c4b09e97 | type |
Doppelgänger | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c4b09e97 | comment |
Doppelgänger: In Second Edition, the Reflection Versatile Heritage from Dark Archive can be used to show a character is this. Reflections can Impersonate their progenitor without Deception checks (unless they do something out of character or interact with someone who knows them personally), while their ancestry feats all play with doppelganger and shapeshifting tropes in different ways—such as leveraging their uncertain distinction from their progenitor to deceive foes or even letting the Reflection make a temporary copy of an enemy. Mirror Self/Mirror Monster: A Mirror-Risen Reflection is a Reflection who originated from magic involving mirrors. Notably, while Mirror-Risen created by a Darkside Mirror trap are always evil, others often have either the exact same or opposite alignment as their creators. They get a once per day ability called Mirror's Trickery, letting them tap into their residual connection to mirror magic and create a short-lived illusory duplicate to potentially avoid or mitigate a hit. Later feats let them can hide objects in a hand mirror or temporarily hide themselves in a mirror. Body Backup Drive/Custom-Built Host: A Clone-Risen Reflection is a Reflection created through a clone ritual or alchemy to serve as an vessel for another, one that somehow developed an independent will. They get a once per day ability called Empty Vessel, letting them temporarily suppress their sentience to resist a mental effect or mental damage. A later feat lets them transform their malleable body in a similar way to Illusory Disguise for an hour once per day. Shapeshifter Mode Lock: A Morph-Risen Reflection didn't start that way (usually)—instead, they were a shapeshifter or polymorphing mage who got "stuck" as a copy of another being. They passively resist transmutation magic, and get a critical success on saves against morph and polymorph effects they'd otherwise only succeed normally at. A later feat lets them temporarily warp the form of people they hit up close into something like their own. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c4b09e97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c4b09e97 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5474384 | type |
Vow of Celibacy | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5474384 | comment |
Vow of Celibacy: In First Edition: Paladins can take an Oath of Chastity, which works like an archetype (i.e. subclass): the paladin adds a ban on engaging in romantic activities or sexual acts to their code of conduct, and gains resistance to charm effects and critical hits, and additional spells. Monks can take a Vow of Celibacy, which gives an increased ki pool in exchange for not being able to touch another person ever except to attack them. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5474384 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5474384 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5474384 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5b47b36 | type |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5b47b36 | comment |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: By necessity, any canon ending to the events of the adventure paths is this, but the writers seem to have chosen the coolest possible outcomes. For instance, judging by the wording, the adventurers in Reign of Winter seem to have accomplished the near-impossible task of defeating Elvanna non-lethally. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5b47b36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5b47b36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c5b47b36 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c660bc15 | type |
Fan Disservice | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: Urgathoa◊, Goddess of Gluttony, Disease, and Undeath. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c660bc15 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c660bc15 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c660bc15 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6671b4e | type |
Brain Theft | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6671b4e | comment |
Brain Theft: The neh-thalggus, or brain collectors as most others know them, are one of the numerous races of monstrous aliens that make up the star-faring empire knows as the Dominion of the Black. Their name comes from their ability to remove brains from living humanoids and store them in special blisters on their bodies, which they wire into their own nervous systems in order to increase their intellect and brainpower. The captured brains are still alive and aware through this process; the neh-thalggus don't care. Old and powerful neh-thalggus can absorb their stored brains to transform into larger, stronger yah-thelgaads; these can only store six brains at a time, but can collect the brains of non-humanoid organisms as well. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6671b4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6671b4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6671b4e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c66cb5a9 | type |
Human Sacrifice | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c66cb5a9 | comment |
Human Sacrifice: A tradition among the evil religions, though the particulars can vary. The Demonic Obedience for Lamashtu for instance involves sacrificing a life that is younger than 4 weeks old. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c66cb5a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c66cb5a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c66cb5a9 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6898a73 | type |
Ret-Canon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6898a73 | comment |
Ret-Canon: The Player Party in the 2018 Pathfinder: Kingmaker video game, adapted from the tabletop Kingmaker Adventure Path by Owlcat Games, included two characters from the tabletop game (Amiri and Jubilost Narthropple) and eleven original characters. In 2022, Paizo released an add-on for the Second Edition remake of the Kingmaker Adventure Path, the Kingmaker Companion Guide, which adapted Owlcat's implementation of all thirteen characters back into tabletop format, along with personal sidequests for seven of them. The contemporary Kingmaker Bestiary re-stats Amiri, Ekundayo and his dog, Jubilost, Linzi, Nok-Nok, Tristian, Valerie, and many NPCs for use in First Edition runs. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6898a73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6898a73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c6898a73 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7575bab | type |
ElvesVsDwarves | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7575bab | comment |
Elves vs. Dwarves: Consciously averted. Elves actually are really good neighbors with Dwarfs in this setting due to both being fairly isolationist. According to one sourcebook this is because "good fences make good neighbors". Lead designer James Jacobs explained that it's because Elves vs. Dwarves is a prominent trope in Forgotten Realms, and Paizo wanted to avoid comparisons between the two settings. Apparently played straight as of the Advanced Race Guide, which includes character options for both elves and dwarves which divide up their favored enemy bonuses between the standard orcs... and each other, thanks to the usual ancient grudge. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7575bab | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7575bab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7575bab | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Has its own page. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c75df49a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7a80503 | type |
Burn Scars, Burning Powers | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7a80503 | comment |
Burn Scars, Burning Powers: 1e Oracles with the Blackened curse have shriveled and blackened forearms, as if they had plunged their arms into a bonfire. The curse inflicts a penalty on weapon attack rolls but adds several fire spells to the character's spell list. Emberkin aasimars, descended from fire-connected outsiders called peri, can take the "Burnished Skin" race trait during character creation, which states they were severely scarred in a fire and grants a bonus on saves against illusions. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7a80503 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7a80503 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c7a80503 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c88cfc34 | type |
Thread of Prophecy, Severed | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c88cfc34 | comment |
Thread of Prophecy, Severed: Aroden, the patron god of humanity, was prophesied to descend from the heavens to rule mankind as a God-Emperor in a new golden age in 4606 AR. On the prophesied date, worldwide natural disasters wracked Golarion: Aroden had instead died of unknown causes. In the century-plus since, no prophecy has come to pass anywhere, which has caused problems for Pharasma's priesthood since she's the goddess of prophecy in addition to life and death. Ironically, Pharasma supposedly knows why, or at least knew in advanced, Aroden would die. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c88cfc34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c88cfc34 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c88cfc34 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c92cf19a | type |
Undead Child | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c92cf19a | comment |
Undead Child: Attic whispers (which are formed from the spirits of children who died of neglect) and drekavacs (formed from children who died of disease). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c92cf19a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c92cf19a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c92cf19a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c98b7916 | type |
Messianic Archetype | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c98b7916 | comment |
Messianic Archetype: Ihys, brother of Asmodeus and the first god along with him. Besides his name being apparently taken from the Christogram, he actually combines Jesus and Prometheus into one savior archetype. He created mortals and then granted them free will out of sympathy, before being murdered for it by Asmodeus with a spear that remains a holy relic (i.e., the Spear of Destiny). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c98b7916 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_c98b7916 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca27661f | type |
Too Many Halves | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca27661f | comment |
Too Many Halves: Mechanically possible via abuse of the various "half-x" templates. Using only first-party material, it is theoretically possible (though any sensible GM would veto it for a player character) to have a creature that is half-fiend (there are actually ten subvarieties), half-celestial, half-dragon, half-janni, and half-serpent, for a creature two-and-a-half times as big as you'd expect. Averted in Second Edition, where you can only have one Versatile Heritage. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca27661f | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca27661f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca27661f | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca967579 | type |
Torture Cellar | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca967579 | comment |
Torture Cellar: Black dragons are such hateful creatures that they consider torture victims to be their most prized "treasure", and hoard tormented captives in their lairs. Dripping acidic spittle on chained-up prisoners — beautiful ones especially — is a black dragon's idea of great entertainment. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca967579 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca967579 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ca967579 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cb17923a | type |
Paranormal Gambling Advantage | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cb17923a | comment |
Paranormal Gambling Advantage: Nudge the Odds is a spell that enhances the user's skill at gambling. The catch is that it turns a physical feature of the user like their iris or a lock of their hair gold, which can't be concealed using magic. As every village on Golarion will have at least one professional magic user on average, don't bother. Magic is common enough that the odds that you'll be caught are quite high, and it's only a minor boost. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cb17923a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cb17923a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cb17923a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbe687ab | type |
Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Pretty much the entire leadership of the Lumber Consortum | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbe687ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbe687ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbe687ab | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbf07961 | type |
Body Backup Drive | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbf07961 | comment |
Body Backup Drive/Custom-Built Host: A Clone-Risen Reflection is a Reflection created through a clone ritual or alchemy to serve as an vessel for another, one that somehow developed an independent will. They get a once per day ability called Empty Vessel, letting them temporarily suppress their sentience to resist a mental effect or mental damage. A later feat lets them transform their malleable body in a similar way to Illusory Disguise for an hour once per day. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbf07961 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbf07961 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cbf07961 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4b45f6 | type |
Word of God | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4b45f6 | comment |
There was a period during which only nobles being allowed beards and Sarenrae being banned in Taldor was outright retconned out by Word of God, although between Inner Sea Races and Taldor, the First Empire they were brought back as things that had been the case once, but have not been true for some time (and Taldor have a habit of 'forgetting' embarrassing things like that in its histories). | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4b45f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4b45f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4b45f6 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4d190a | type |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: As of Bestiary 4, you can! And Hastur and Bokrug, too! True, they're just knocked unconscious and sent back into their cans, and Hastur and Cthulhu have nasty tricks that allow them to revive instantly if you're not cautious (the former tries to trick you into putting on his robes so he can use you as a last-minute gateway back, and the latter reforms, though badly dazed and you can only prevent him from coming at you again if you get him again while he's dazed), but "knocking out" when you don't actually lose anything to them inherently is definitely this trope. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4d190a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4d190a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cc4d190a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cda501da | type |
Killed Off for Real | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cda501da | comment |
The fate of demon lords who are Killed Off for Real is to be permanently stuck in the walls of the Rifts of Repose, fossilized but still conscious and unable to do anything. Unless Nocticula killed them; then they instead become an island in her domain. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cda501da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cda501da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cda501da | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cec7dac0 | type |
The Magocracy | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cec7dac0 | comment |
The Magocracy: The two most prominent examples are the nations of Nex and Geb. The former nation focuses on standard magic (like evocation and transmutation), while the latter is a necrocracy focusing almost exclusively on necromantic magic. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cec7dac0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cec7dac0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cec7dac0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf0a35a | type |
Resistant to Magic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf0a35a | comment |
Resistant to Magic: Characters and monsters with Spell Resistance (SR) have a chance of No Selling any spell (except for a select few) cast against them. Specifically, the caster needs to make a 1d20 + spellcaster level check against the target's SR value, otherwise the spell just bounces off — and even if it doesn't, the target is still entitled to any regular saving throws the spell allows afterwards. Enemy SR can completely shut down low-level casters, because it usually starts in the high teens and there are very few ways to improve your rolls to overcome SR beyond simply leveling up, forcing casters to focus on indirect damage, like manipulating the environment or buffing their non-magical party members. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf0a35a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf0a35a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf0a35a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf57aca1 | type |
Orwellian Retcon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf57aca1 | comment |
Orwellian Retcon: The January 2023 controversy over Wizards of the Coast's attempts to change the Open Game License prompted Paizo to begin divesting Second Edition of remaining references to classic D&D lore. So far for "2.5e", drow have been deleted from the setting in favor of expanding the role of the serpentfolk, in effect rendering the Second Darkness AP Canon Discontinuity. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf57aca1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf57aca1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf57aca1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf7bd78d | type |
Steampunk | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf7bd78d | comment |
Steampunk: Details for steampunk elements are included in the Gamemastery Guide along with a lot of other, more unusual aspects for DMs to use in their campaigns at their own discretion. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf7bd78d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf7bd78d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_cf7bd78d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d08049db | type |
Taken for Granite | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d08049db | comment |
The spell "stone to flesh" restores a petrified creature to normal, but has a chance to kill them from the shock of the transformation. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d08049db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d08049db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d08049db | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d0f0a80d | type |
One-Word Title | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d0f0a80d | comment |
One-Word Title: Also a Portmantitle. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d0f0a80d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d0f0a80d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d0f0a80d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d10d5eb5 | type |
Made of Indestructium | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d10d5eb5 | comment |
Made of Indestructium: Major artifacts need to be destroyed by fantastic means. A different, and always difficult, method is needed for each one. No conventional attempts can harm them. Pathfinder owes this trope to one of its inspirations through a long line of descent. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d10d5eb5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d10d5eb5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d10d5eb5 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d250df04 | type |
Creation Myth | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d250df04 | comment |
Creation Myth: The earliest days of Golarion are shrouded in mystery, as archeological and historical records pre-Earthfall are understandably scarce. Even directly asking the gods, many of whom were probably directly involved with the universe's creation, only produces vague, often-contradictory answers about it. Thus, many cultures and ancestries attempt to fill in this gap at the beginning of history with their own mythologies, most of which place said cultures in a suspiciously-central part of the narrative. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d250df04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d250df04 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d250df04 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d251db87 | type |
Alchemy Is Magic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d251db87 | comment |
Alchemy Is Magic: The alchemist is a base class introduced in the Advanced Player's Guide. It focuses on infusing chemical reagents with magical energy, creating potions, poisons, mutagens, and incendiaries. Its ultimate (20th-level) ability is the "grand discovery", which can take numerous forms, including immortality or the creation of a philosopher's stone. The Ultimate Magic splatbook adds more Discoveries, many with a Body Horror and Mad Scientist vibe. Also lots of Herbert West shout-outs. Mostly averted (mechanically, at least) by Second Edition, where alchemy uses a completely different system from magic. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d251db87 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d251db87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d251db87 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d2566b32 | type |
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d2566b32 | comment |
Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: Taldor has a tradition called a "peasant hunt" where a convict is released into a hunting preserve dressed in an animal costume for partying aristocrats to pursue. If the peasant stays uncaptured for a full day, they get a pardon. Less malevolent than most examples because, at least in theory, the hunters are only allowed to use nonlethal means to bring down their quarry. The PCs have an opportunity to take part in one in part 2 of the War for the Crown campaign, but one of their rivals rigs the draw of hunting grounds to assign them to a territory he knows is inhabited by a powerful manticore, hoping it will kill them. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d2566b32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d2566b32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d2566b32 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d2c0e2ed | type |
Schmuck Bait | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d2c0e2ed | comment |
If, on the other hand, Zon-Kuthon worshippers kindly invite you to a party in your honor, you should probably politely decline even though there is certainly going to be really good food and drink. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d2c0e2ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Our Ghouls Are Creepier | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d2d520f4 | comment |
Our Ghouls Are Creepier: If they can curb their appetite they look like chalk-white, hairless, red-eyed elves, perfectly "fresh" and even beautiful at times. But if they indulge their hunger for flesh, they putrefy and start rotting away as new meat replaces the old... | |
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Politically-Active Princess | |
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In War for the Crown, Princess Eutropia Stavian of Taldor is a Politically-Active Princess who is trying to become an Internal Reformist monarch. | |
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Written by the Winners | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d41832cc | comment |
Written by the Winners: Ask an average dwarf about their ancestral Quest for the Sky, and they'll describe a glorious time when the dwarven people united as one, heroically fought their way out of the Darklands, and found their way to the surface of Golarion. Ask your average orc, whose ancestors were brutally attacked and displaced by the dwarves with near-genocidal tactics during the Quest, and you'll get a very different perspective. | |
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Our Monsters Are Weird | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d42fb539 | comment |
Our Monsters Are Weird: Many of the classic weird D&D monsters reappear. Notably, the flavor text often comes up with fairly sensible explanations for them. For instance, the infamous flumph is a Lawful Good aberration acting as a defense against more evil aligned ones, the carbuncle's signature attack of dying for no reason other than depriving players of loot became a deceptive teleportation effect that leaves behind a fake corpse, and the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing, who provides the page quote, had its lure changed from a part of its body to a puppeteered cadaver. | |
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Imported Alien Phlebotinum | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d45ad2f5 | comment |
Imported Alien Phlebotinum: Findable in Numeria, in the wreckage of a spaceship that crashed millennia ago. This is the focus of the Iron Gods campaign path. | |
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Mirror Self | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d4852f50 | comment |
Mirror Self/Mirror Monster: A Mirror-Risen Reflection is a Reflection who originated from magic involving mirrors. Notably, while Mirror-Risen created by a Darkside Mirror trap are always evil, others often have either the exact same or opposite alignment as their creators. They get a once per day ability called Mirror's Trickery, letting them tap into their residual connection to mirror magic and create a short-lived illusory duplicate to potentially avoid or mitigate a hit. Later feats let them can hide objects in a hand mirror or temporarily hide themselves in a mirror. | |
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Lawful Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d495c874 | comment |
invoked Hell, the Lawful Evil plane, is ruled by the devils. It is also inhabited by the asuras. A third Lawful Evil race of fiends, the velstrac (called kytons in 1E), lives on the Plane of Shadow but has embassies in Hell. Devils are formed from the souls of evildoers, who are slowly and carefully tortured over eons until nothing remains except pain, obedience, and hate, at which point they become of the least of devils. Asuras are the twisted result of gods making mistakes, and very angry about it. Velstracs are mad, twisted beings obsessed with pain, who create more of themselves by torturing people until they can't tell the difference between pain and pleasure. | |
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Lawful Good | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d496979d | comment |
invoked In Champions of Purity, the typical Lawful Good roles are governmental Builders, evil hunting Crusaders, and Guardians. The typical Neutral Good roles are Healers, Mediators, and Redeemers. The typical Chaotic Good roles are Activists, Freedom Fighters, and Vigilantes. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d4c98786 | type |
Writing Around Trademarks | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d4c98786 | comment |
Writing Around Trademarks: Since the phrase Dungeons & Dragons is trademarked by Wizards of the Coast, Paizo has to refer to it as "the world's oldest fantasy roleplaying game". | |
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Proactive Boss | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d4fd643b | comment |
Proactive Boss: In the Rasputin Must Die adventure, the titular mad monk uses Astral Projection magic to harass the heroes as they attempt to gain access to his extraplanar sanctum. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d4fd643b | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d5ac9158 | type |
Harping on About Harpies | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d5ac9158 | comment |
Harpies, being a One-Gender Race comprised solely of women, need to mate with humanoid males to propagate their race (as well as just for fun). However, they usually eat their lovers once they're done with them — indeed, it's noted that it's actually considered bad luck in standard harpy culture to not eat the father of their daughter, unless he is powerful enough that it is worthwhile not to consume him once the harpy has been fertilized. | |
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Anomalous Art | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d6ddddf1 | comment |
Anomalous Art: Trompe L'oeil paintings are magically-enhanced copies of an original creature that can step off the canvas, assume solid three-dimensional forms, and even inhabit other paintings. These entities can only be permanently killed by destroying the painting that generates them. Invoked with the Seeded Doom Occult Ritual, which corrupts a book, artwork, or piece of music. Anyone exposed to the work or one of its copies is infected with madness or a Curse chosen by the ritualists. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d71d51fd | comment |
Rovagug's "children" include Tarrasque, the infamous and nigh-indestructible creature that likes to end civilizations when it awakens. But even that pales in comparison to Rovagug himself... | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d71d51fd | featureApplicability |
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Introduced Species Calamity | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d7c65f26 | comment |
Introduced Species Calamity: Pest drakes are dragonets about the size of a pigeon that became major fad pets a few centuries in the setting's past. Many were released into the wild when they grew too big to care for, and more were freed when the fad passed, and they ended up becoming extremely common and destructive urban pests. Spellsong Lyrebirds, from the upcoming Howl of the Wild, are the result of wizards attempting to create familiars that could cast spells. They escaped, and now they are birds that can cast fireball. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d7c65f26 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d7c65f26 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d83f3588 | type |
Depending on the Artist | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d83f3588 | comment |
Depending on the Artist: Catfolk have three primary sources for their visual representation and none of them look remotely similar. When they first showed up in one of the Bestiaries, there was only a picture of a female catfolk who looked like a Cat Girl. Then came the Advanced Race Guide, which had images of both a male and female catfolk that were very similar to khajiit. And finally, one adventure path showed catfolk that looked like something out of ThunderCats. | |
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Love Redeems | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d842e380 | comment |
In the second adventure for Reign of Winter, a potential non-player character ally is Greta, who is a female winter wolf note a race of intelligent, evil, talking white-furred wolves with frost-breath attacks and cold immunity currently transformed into a human form by the magic of her city of residence. Unlike Undrella, it's quite explicit that she's looking for romance, but a player character could eventually use this to help her to make a Heel–Face Turn. It's easier to get her interested if the PC is using a certain magic item that makes her assume they're also a transformed winter wolf, but it's possible to do so without it, and even if she is misled in the first place, she doesn't care when she finds out that her lover isn't a winter wolf. That said, it does make her especially interested in finding some way of maintaining a human form if she leaves the city, something the AP accounts for in the end if the players chose to do so. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d8463201 | type |
Quieting the Unquiet Dead | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d8463201 | comment |
Quieting the Unquiet Dead: Ghosts will rejuvenate if destroyed normally, even if by the most powerful spells. To permanently get rid of them, it's needed to find the reason it's persisting and to fix what was made wrong. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d8463201 | featureApplicability |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Connections! | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d8573ef9 | comment |
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The Final Blades of Galt were intended as a way to defy the trope. They are guillotines designed to trap the souls of people beheaded on them to prevent the rich and powerful from escaping their fate by arranging to be resurrected. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d8573ef9 | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d8573ef9 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d88e125e | type |
Our Dragons Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d88e125e | comment |
Our Dragons Are Different: In addition to the classic D&D evil chromatics and good metallics, there are the elemental primordial dragons, the savage linnorms, the twisted azi, rideable Dragonkin, and a whole bunch of draconic critters. There are also the Imperial Dragons, based on Asian mythology. Now there are also Outer Dragons, who are rather alien and shimmery looking. There are also the much weaker, lesser drakes, which can largely be summed up as want-to-be-dragons. | |
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Eat the Summoner | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d980738c | comment |
Eat the Summoner: Daemons stand out among Evil-aligned Outsiders as Omnicidal Maniacs that will immediately try to devour their summoners, body and soul, and usually continue to try even if they get roped into a Magically-Binding Contract. While Devils will try to ruin their summoners with bargains and Demons encourage For the Evulz-style debasement, Daemons just want all life to end. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d9d2c40b | type |
Amazon Brigade | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d9d2c40b | comment |
Queen Ileosa of Korvosa (the primary villain of Curse of the Crimson Throne) is a tyrant who keeps an Amazon Brigade of spies and bodyguards called the Grey Maidens brainwashed to follow her without question. She's psychotically petty and vain, too: she specifically picks beautiful women and then has their faces scarred as part of their induction. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d9d2c40b | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d9e946ae | type |
Cute Monster Girl | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_d9e946ae | comment |
Thriae, again, are a Cute Monster Girl race prone to eating their mates. But they're actually treated oddly sympathetically. First, only the Queens treat their consorts this way. The others form more emotional attachments. They also only do so when a lover has grown too old and feeble to reliably fertilize the Queen anymore, and they always use an anaesthetizing venom to render their former lover unconscious and devoid of pain before they begin. Finally, the consorts of Thriae queens are almost always volunteers. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_da38c13f | type |
Lamarck Was Right | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_da38c13f | comment |
Of course this is often a case of Lamarck Was Right, with the example for the undead bloodline suggesting that your ancestor became a lich or the infernal bloodline suggesting that the power is actually a lingering effect of an ancestor's Deal with the Devil, | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_da38c13f | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: While always an option in any role-playing game, it's notable that the "iconic" characters featured in Pathfinder's artwork have either been an even balance of the sexes or slightly favoring women (as opposed to many games in which the fluff is male-dominant while the rules don't discriminate). This extends to teams of pre-generated characters for adventures, frequently featuring three women with a lone man or the full four-woman party of the Carrion Crown campaign. (This may be a Mythology Gag since Carrion Crown was an adventure series devoted to horror tropes. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dae5c997 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dbb38c16 | type |
Magical Star Symbols | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dbb38c16 | comment |
Magical Star Symbols: A major symbol in The Magocracy of ancient Thassilon is the Sihedron Rune, a seven-pointed star representing the power of magic, the seven disciplines of Thassilonian magic, and their associated Runelords. The original Sihedron is also a powerful Dismantled MacGuffin. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dc1128e9 | type |
Succubus in Love | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dc1128e9 | comment |
Succubus in Love: Nocticula, a Demon Lord and the first succubus, became lovers and rivals with the succubus Shamira after Shamira infiltrated her bedchamber. Their relationship was extraordinarily unusual for Chaotic Evil demons, all the more so when Nocticula became a Chaotic Neutral goddess yet remained Amicable Exes with Shamira. In "Wrath of the Righteous", the player characters meet the currently working on being redeemed succubus Arushulae, who the AP sets up as a love interest if the players are interested. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dc1128e9 | |
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Deliberately Non-Lethal Attack | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dc26df5a | comment |
Deliberately Non-Lethal Attack: In 1E, all attacks made with weapons that aren't specifically labeled as non-lethal deal lethal damage by default, but by announcing a non-lethal attack before rolling to hit and taking a -4 penalty on said roll, a player can convert their weapon's regular damage into non-lethal one. If the cumulative amount of non-lethal damage exceeds the target's remaining Hit Points, they are rendered safely unconscious (whereas if they were just reduced to 0 HP, they'd be unconscious and risk bleeding to death without immediate first aid). In 2E, all attacks made with weapons that lack the nonlethal trait deal lethal damage by default, but can take a -2 circumstance penalty to deal nonlethal damage instead. Weapons with the nonlethal trait invert the trope, needing a -2 circumstance penalty to deal lethal damage instead. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dc26df5a | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dc26df5a | |
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Start My Own | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dca6a9d | comment |
Start My Own: Pathfinder got started when a group of big-name D&D 3.5 fans and writers, unhappy with the drastic changes made to D&D in 4th Edition and the more restrictive licensing policy that came with it, got together and decided to keep the old game going under a new name. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dca6a9d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dca6a9d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dcd2459e | type |
Anthropomorphic Food | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dcd2459e | comment |
Anthropomorphic Food: Ghorans are humanoid Plant People descended from magically engineered food crops. They even have a racial disadvantage called delicious! Also the Vegepygmies, engineered by the Drow so that even their vegetables could suffer. They're humanoids who were killed, infested, and turned into Mushroom Men by a virulent fungus, and the infection is contagious. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dcd2459e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dd0882e0 | type |
Seal the Breach | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dd0882e0 | comment |
Seal the Breach: Golarion suffers from the Worldwound, a nation-spanning Hellgate and demon-infested Reality Bleed. Five crusades are mobilized to fight back its advance, and in the climax of the Wrath of the Righteous adventure path, the Player Party can kill the Demon Lord responsible and ritually seal the Worldwound forever, which is what canonically happens. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dd0882e0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dd3d1f69 | type |
Wicked Witch | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dd3d1f69 | comment |
Wicked Witch: The Witch character class doesn't have to be one of these, but if they want to, they have access to all the tools needed, including a wide range of curses, an annoying cackling laugh, the ability to smell small children, and being able to cook people in a cauldron to make magical foods. Of course, Baba Yaga and her daughters play it completely straight. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ddc15c81 | type |
Precision-Guided Boomerang | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ddc15c81 | comment |
Precision-Guided Boomerang: Specifically, Weapons with the returning properties (mundane boomerangs do not return). Even Melee weapons (if they also have the throwing property). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ddc15c81 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_de085a36 | type |
Green-Skinned Space Babe | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_de085a36 | comment |
Green-Skinned Space Babe: Lashunta women. The Lashunta are a species of psychic humanoids from a neighboring planet in Golarion's solar system, and female Lashunta resemble tall, beautiful human or elven women with antennae. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_de9cad68 | type |
Pike Peril | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_de9cad68 | comment |
Pike Peril: Giant pike are described as aggressive predators that will attack any living thing they encounter. Like those from its parent game, they vary between nine and twenty feet in length. | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_de9cad68 | |
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Kubrick Stare | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dea5fe1 | comment |
Kubrick Stare: The King of Roses◊ from the adventure The Conquest of Bloodsworn Vale. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Our Gnomes Are Weirder | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dee04580 | comment |
Our Gnomes Are Weirder: Gnomes are fey creatures exiled from the First World in the wake of a disaster of uncertain nature; they can't quite adjust to Golarion, and spend a lot of time obsessing over minutiae and seeking out new experiences in order to avoid going mad(der) or going through a usually-lethal process called Bleaching, a process of literally being bored to death which slowly reduces them to a pile of dust and bones. It's darkly hinted by the developers that the story of the disaster may be a fabrication, and gnomes are really humanoid interface devices through which vastly more powerful beings can study the material world. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Updated Re-release | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_df1793de | comment |
Updated Re-release: The Rise of the Runelords, Curse of the Crimson Throne and Kingmaker Adventure Paths were remastered a few years after the original release. All three rereleased versions compiled each AP's six softcover adventures into one hardcover and converted the adventures from their original edition to the then-current edition (from D&D 3.5E to PF1 for the former two, and from First Edition to Second Edition for Kingmaker). The Kingmaker hardcover also added three whole new chapters (two adapted from the Pathfinder: Kingmaker video game, one brand new), incorporated the video game's companions as NPCs with their own quests, and rule conversions for those that play Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition or have sticked with 1st Edition. The Crown of the Kobold King hardcover, which was released for 2nd Edition, provided the same treatment to three classic 3.5 Edition adventures Crown of the Kobold King, Hollow's Last Hope and Hungry Are the Dead. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_df60d405 | type |
Culture Chop Suey | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_df60d405 | comment |
Culture Chop Suey: Less prevalent than you might think, and seems to be more based on Rule of Cool than ignorance. For example, county Sinaria in Ustalav is essentially a gothic horror Louisiana with Opera Populaire thrown in, as a border province in Ãœberwald. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_df60d405 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dfa71e43 | type |
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dfa71e43 | comment |
In the We Be Goblins! modules, the players play as goblins invading a human town to steal fireworks. Considering how pathetic goblins are, they are more likely to be viewed as Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains than anything else. (At one point, they have to fight an ordinary horse which can easily kill them in one hit if it gets a critical.) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dfb675b | type |
Dangerously Garish Environment | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dfb675b | comment |
Dangerously Garish Environment: The First World, a plane of existence that serves as Golarion's version of the Land of Faerie, is said to have been the gods' "first draft" at creating the world. It is a garishly and wildly colorful world that is as unpredictable as it is beautiful, and it is easy for mortals who enter it to become lost forever even if they don't fall victim to ill-advised pranks by the native fey. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dfb675b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dfb675b | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dfcb2c08 | type |
The Evils of Free Will | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dfcb2c08 | comment |
The Evils of Free Will: Asmodeus's motivation for trying to grind all creation under his Lawful Evil heel. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_dfcb2c08 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0207930 | type |
Humans Are Special | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0207930 | comment |
Humans Are Special: Subverted. The rise to power of the first human civilization, Azlant, was covertly backed by aboleths, and one can argue that humanity wouldn't have the status it now does without that start and its consequences. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0207930 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0207930 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e03533c8 | type |
Blood Bath | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e03533c8 | comment |
Blood Bath: The Everdawn Pool, a powerful magical artifact found by the Runelord Sorshen. The pool has many powers, but chief among them is the ability to transform the body of one who bathes in it after filling the pool with the blood of several thousand sacrificed sentient beings. The Big Bad of Curse of the Crimson Throne, Queen Ileosa, intends to become an immortal being this way, slaughtering much of the population of Korvosa, including her own followers, in the process. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e03533c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0789c2a | type |
Your Head A-Splode | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0789c2a | comment |
Your Head A-Splode: There's a spell in Occult Adventures called Explode Head. It does what you'd expect. Psychics in Second Edition can take the Cranial Detonation feat at Level 18, which allows them to chain detonate people's heads when they use a spell to defeat a non-mindless creature. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0789c2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0789c2a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0b0058a | type |
Chaotic Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0b0058a | comment |
Ghlaunder, the Gossamer King, is a Chaotic Evil god of parasitism and disease strongly associated with biting insects — he himself takes the form of a hideous, mosquito-like monster. Thematically, his cult and mythos emphasize motifs of feeding off of others while spreading weakness and disease to one's victims. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0b0058a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0b0d4b3 | type |
Chaotic Good | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0b0d4b3 | comment |
Desna is a goddess associated with stars and the night sky, making her a cross between this and a variation of God of Light. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0b0d4b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0b0d4b3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0c00a95 | type |
Absurdly Sharp Blade | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0c00a95 | comment |
Absurdly Sharp Blade: Vorpal Swords, elaborated on in Classic Treasures Revisited. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0c00a95 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0c83877 | type |
Fertility God | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0c83877 | comment |
Fertility God: Erastil is the patron god of rural communities, family, agriculture, and hunting. He is also husband to Jaidi, an ancient Azlanti agriculture goddess; together they are parents to Halcamora, a demigoddess who specializes in parks, gardening, and wineries. On a darker note, Lamashtu is revered in some cults as the "Mother of Monsters": an Evilutionary Biologist who likes nothing better than to bring new and vile monsters into existence to set them loose on Golarion. She's seen as a patron goddess by many goblinoids. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0c83877 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0c83877 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0e12e67 | type |
Hell Seeker | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0e12e67 | comment |
Hell Seeker: There are a lot. Pretty much anyone who makes a Deal with the Devil for instance. Oddly enough subverted to a degree with the country of Cheliax, who see Hell's Infernal Hierarchy more as a model for government than as a place they want to be. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0e12e67 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0e12e67 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0e3579a | type |
Fungus Humongous | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0e3579a | comment |
Other gigantic, high-power monsters can be considered this, like Mu spores, behemoths, krakens... | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e0e3579a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ecdac3 | type |
Our Gods Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ecdac3 | comment |
Our Gods Are Different: Unlike some other D&D settings, most gods of Golarion have no stat blocks and are explicitly immune to mortal adventurers. To drive the point home, there have been a few examples in the fiction where a mortal being has defeated a god or god-like being, but was unable to truly end them, just remove them as a threat for the present. Ydersius, the god of the Serpent Folk literally had his head cut off and thrown in lava, and it didn't actually kill him, instead rendering his body mindless and wandering the Darklands and leaving his head....well, entombed in a pit of lava. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ecdac3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ecdac3 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1fcb183 | type |
Loony Laws | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1fcb183 | comment |
Loony Laws: Mayor Barzillai Thrune's decrees at the start of Hell's Rebels include edicts to control rats and stray dogs, mandatory display of the queen's portrait, restrictions on the wear of embroidered clothing, a ban on drinking tea after sunset, and a ban on mint. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1fcb183 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1fcb183 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ff8ff6 | type |
Fantasy Kitchen Sink | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ff8ff6 | comment |
Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Even moreso than might be expected from a D&D-type setting, Golarion was built to encompass all sorts of campaigns. As well as everything D&D had already (or at least reasonable facsimiles), there are the Cthulhu Mythos, Edgar Rice Burroughs-style Planetary Romance and Beneath the Earth locales, things like the Jabberwock and Bandersnatch and Jubjub birds, monsters based on old Sinbad movies, extra-terrestrials including the classic Greys, and even modern folkloric monsters like mothmen and chupacabras. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ff8ff6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e1ff8ff6 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e2154617 | type |
The Lightfooted | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e2154617 | comment |
The Lightfooted: The Ninja's "Light Steps" ability lets them walk across any surface without difficulty or disturbance: rough terrain, ice, the thinnest tree branches, Booby Trap triggers, Caltrops, water, lava... The '2e'' Rogue's Cloud Step feat lets them Stride over water, air, and solid surfaces that can't otherwise hold their weight. Downplayed in that they still have to end their turn on solid ground. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e2154617 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e2154617 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e277967 | type |
What Is Evil? | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e277967 | comment |
What Is Evil?: Ostiarius kytons will tell those who who ask that condemning the kytons' sadomasochism as evil is simplistic. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e277967 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e294a0be | type |
Our Souls Are Different | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e294a0be | comment |
Our Souls Are Different: The planes are constantly being worn away by the Maelstrom, and so need a constant supply of divine energy from the Positive Energy Plane to maintain themselves and grow. The gods couldn't trust each other to divide this divine energy fairly, so they divided it into discrete packets, gave those packets free will, and allowed them to choose — via dedication to a deity or Character Alignment — which plane would be their ultimate home. Those packets of free-willed divine energy are souls. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e294a0be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e294a0be | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e3226029 | type |
Bag of Holding | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e3226029 | comment |
Bag of Holding: A staple magic Item and elaborated on in Classic Treasures Revisited. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e3226029 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e3915747 | type |
The Rule of First Adopters | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e3915747 | comment |
The Rule of First Adopters: The same creative team that made The Book of Erotic Fantasy for 3.5E made a version for Pathfinder 1E called The Book of Passion. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e3915747 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e4965307 | type |
Composite Character | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e4965307 | comment |
Composite Character: The herald of Cayden Cailean is named Thais. She is named after two different real life and seems to be a combination of the two (being a freedom loving angel like creature) The Tatterman from Strange Aeons is like a combination of Slenderman and Freddy Kreuger. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e49a3a77 | type |
Offering Another in Your Stead | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e49a3a77 | comment |
Offering Another in Your Stead: Shabti are artificial copies of a living person created to take the person's place in the afterlife, almost always so the original can escape damnation at the shabti's expense. Psychopomps work to correct the Karmic Misfire and have shabti Rescued from the Underworld. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e49a3a77 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e4cf1ef0 | type |
Load-Bearing Boss | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e4cf1ef0 | comment |
Load-Bearing Boss: Once during Council of Thieves, where the chain reaction that leads to the destruction of the mayor's villa and the release of the pit fiend starts with one single, murdered Kyton (although sad Kyton is killed by an NPC before the heroes arrive). In the retired Pathfinder Society scenario Skeleton Moon, the final boss is a huge assassin vine that's been infused with a soul by accident. It tears away from the tower it's attached to leading to mere rounds before the whole thing comes crumbling down on the PCs. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e4cf1ef0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e4f5affb | type |
The Chew Toy | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e4f5affb | comment |
The Chew Toy: The first issues of no fewer than five Adventure Paths have featured members of the Vancaskerkin family as supporting characters — first Orik, then his brother Verik, their father Saul, their half-sister Natalya, and their cousin Lullaby. There is one of them that can catch a break in canon, but the fans love 'em for keeping on. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e4f5affb | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e50987a9 | type |
Reconstruction | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e50987a9 | comment |
Reconstruction: In 2nd Edition, firearms no longer pierce armor. Long story short, the justification as to why is that if armor can be made to protect against a dragon's horn, it can protect against a bullet. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e50987a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e50987a9 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e5405d4e | type |
Baku | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e5405d4e | comment |
Baku: Baku resemble floating, shaggy and tusked tapirs, and can when feeding choose to eat all of a person's dreams (causing them to wake up later exhausted and unrefreshed) or only their nightmares (which grants immunity to nightmare-inducing magic or dream haunting by malicious beings). They are mortal enemies of the dream-haunting night hags, and go to great lengths to hunt them down, fight them and prevent them from preying on sleeping minds. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e5405d4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e5405d4e | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Zon-Kuthon and the velstracs are expies of the Cenobites. King Mogaru, a kaiju detailed in Bestiary 4, is Godzilla. The Blind Angels of Oppara, a wing of gargoyles with angelic appearances that cannot move while being watched, are the Weeping Angels The nation of Brevoy is basically a high-fantasy version of Westeros. Grandmother Spider is a Distaff Counterpart of Anansi. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e54326a2 | type |
Hell | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e54326a2 | comment |
Hell: The tree Lower Planes are designated for evil mortal souls depending on their alignment: Hell is the multiversal seat of tyranny and malignant law, where the souls of evil mortals and victims of the devils' machinations endure unending torments. Here every act is authorised, calculated, recorded and set like perfectly ordered clockwork within a vast machine driven on methodical suffering and greased with pain and purification. Abaddon embodies the concept of oblivion of the mortal soul, where the Four Horsemen rule over a population of daemons epitomizing every iteration of mortal death. The Abyss is a place of horror and destruction fed by mortal sin. Each of its innumerable realms is a unique iteration of chaos and evil, each with its own terrible and twisted environment, with one driving maxim: the strong survive, while the weak suffer and are destroyed. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e54326a2 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e543a655 | type |
Light Is Not Good | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e543a655 | comment |
Light Is Not Good: Shining Children (creepy borderline-Eldritch Abomination evil outsiders with light and fire themed powers) and Lurkers in Light (creepy extraplanar evil fey with abilities that make them most dangerous in well-illuminated areas) from the second Bestiary. There is also the demon lord Nurgal, representing the merciless, destructive power of the sun, and has a portfolio of pointless conflict. The positive energy plane is home to a race of creatures called the jyoti, highly xenophobic guardians of the sources of life and other positive energy aspects. While those who know of their existence frequently assume them to be good, they are jealous and violent defenders of their home plane, frequently coming to blows with adventurers with the slightest provocation. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e543a655 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e545e190 | type |
Nerf | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e545e190 | comment |
Nerf: And buffs too. A nearly-comprehensive list of each can be found on GiantITP, or you can ask around Brilliant Gameologists. Just be prepared for some backlash. Druids and clerics were the only base classes to actually be weakened by the conversion from 3.5, to partially address the CoDzillanote "Cleric or Druid + Godzilla", i.e. the classes being Game Breakers as implemented issue: both classes were capped at 4 base spell slots per level per day at max level (down from 5 for 1st through 5th level spells, bringing them into line with the other full casting classes), clerics lost access to heavy armor (but gained access to their patron deity's favored weapon, previously reserved for the War Domain), and Wild Shape was changed to use the rules for the wizard spell beast shape. Prestige classes, which 3.5 had seen go from 'rare alternate class options' to 'virtually mandatory powerhouse classes', were generally reduced in power across the board. Further, some of them were later almost entirely superseded by new Paizo base classes (such as magus and ninja) which fit those niches from Level 1. Dragons generally saw a reduction in Challenge Rating. Not counting undead or templates, the strongest dragons in the Pathfinder bestiaries are the ancient gold dragons, with a CR of 20, compared to D&D 3.5 Monster Manual, in which an ancient gold dragon clocked in at CR 24, and still had two age categories to go above that, maxing out at CR 27 as a great wyrmnote A CR 26 red dragon and a CR 27 gold dragon were added with the Dragons Revisited supplement, however.. On the other hand, the Tarrasque receives a significant buff, going from CR 20 in the Monster Manual to CR 25 in the Bestiary, the highest CR of any monster until Bestiary 4 started statting H. P. Lovecraft's Great Old Ones. The Challenge Rating of just about everything was reduced compared to 3.5, principally because Pathfinder PCs got more feats and class abilities to work with. Second Edition, being an entirely new system that deliberately distances Pathfinder from its 3.5e roots while trying to fix issues like Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards, does plenty of both nerfs and buffs compared to its predecessor. Spellcaster player characters in particular lost a significant number of their "I win the encounter" buttons and generally had the power level of their spells massively reduced, while martials got a net power increase by comparison. Several especially useful spells are now rituals that any party can theoretically access. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e596f27b | comment |
The Tien deities Shizuru, goddess of the sun, and Tsukiyo, god of the moon, are Star-Crossed Lovers who are only able to be together during a solar eclipse after he was murdered by his brother Fumeiyoshi and then brought back to life. | |
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Chain Pain | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e6b3e4f2 | comment |
Chain Pain: The spiked chain is a weapon option. Also, the Prince in Chains, herald of the god of pain. And velstracs (previously called chain devils), whose skins are essentially living spiked chains. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e6b3e4f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d | type |
Rubber-Forehead Aliens | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d | comment |
Female Lashunta. While all Lashunta are reasonably human-looking apart from the antennae, the men tend to be short, hairy, and unprepossessing, while the women are beautiful Green Skinned Space Babes. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e78aa97d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e791e16b | type |
Weapons-Grade Vocabulary | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e791e16b | comment |
Weapons-Grade Vocabulary: The blistering invective spell can give your rants the ability to actually set people on fire! | |
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1.0 | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e8b0f099 | type |
Dark Is Evil | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e8b0f099 | comment |
Zon-Kuthon is the god of darkness and de facto ruler of the Shadow Plane. He's also an evil deity whose faith is centered around Cold-Blooded Torture. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e8b0f099 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799 | type |
Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: Many neutral outsiders, particularly the Aeons (enigmatic True Neutral entities that are guardians of various aspects of reality), as well as beings from the First World such as many Fey (gnomes, being refugees from the place, have shades of this as well). Special mention to Lawful/Chaotic Neutral, outsiders who basically tend to have Blue and Orange Morality, but Black and White Ethics. For instance, a LN outsider would punish slavers in areas where slavery is illegal, but in places where it is legal their targets become escaped slaves. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e96bdbc7 | type |
Non-Damaging Status Infliction Attack | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e96bdbc7 | comment |
Non-Damaging Status Infliction Attack: Trips, disarms, dirty tricks, feints, grapples etc. are placed under an umbrella called the "combat maneuver" and given a unified pair of statistics to work from, Combat Maneuver Bonus and Combat Maneuver Defense, which work much like Armor Class and Spell Resistance in that a character rolls a d20 plus their CMB to overcome the target's CMD. As in 3E, combat maneuvers provoke attacks of opportunity when used unless the user spends a feat on the "Improved" version (except feints: they don't provoke A of O and "Improved Feint" instead downgrades them to a move action from a standard action). The game also inherits 3E's slate of non-damaging "save-or-suck" spells and adds several of its own. The Witch class specializes in save-or-suck spells, getting few that inflict direct HP damage but many designed for inflicting status effects or ability damage. They also have the "hex" as a core feature, which can be used on an unlimited number of creatures once per day per creature. The Slumber hex, available at 1st level, is a single-target Forced Sleep effect that is considered almost mandatory for Witch PCs. 2e maintains large numbers of status-inflicting skill actions and spells meant to inflict status effects only. They no longer use a separate Combat Maneuver bonus/defense, though. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_e96bdbc7 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ea39d156 | type |
Who Wants to Live Forever? | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ea39d156 | comment |
Who Wants to Live Forever?: While not actually immortal (only very long-lived), the Forlorn elves have this problem. They grow up amongst humans and reach adulthood at age 110 (equivalent to a 15-year-old human), meaning a usual elven young adult has seen roughly two to three generations of "childhood friends" become adults, marry, have children of their own, grow infirm and finally die of old age. When they themselves die between the age of 350 and 750, many more shorter-lived companions will have come and gone. It is perhaps not entirely surprising that many of these elves are rather cynical and insular. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ea39d156 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eaa8a7d8 | type |
Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers! | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eaa8a7d8 | comment |
Oh no! I'm haunted, objects that I drop or attempt to retrieve are suddenly not there or several feet away, but as I level I gain the ability to tell gravity to GTFO. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eaa8a7d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eaa8a7d8 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eaab053b | type |
Become Your Weapon | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eaab053b | comment |
Become Your Weapon: A high-level summoner has the ability to merge forms with their eidolon, combining their stats and effectively acting and fighting as one being. The Synthesist archetype allows them to do it from level 1, at the cost of not being able to summon the eidolon as a separate being. Heavily nerfed in Second Edition, however. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eaab053b | featureApplicability |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eb81c601 | type |
Big Damn Heroes | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: How the iconic summoner's eidolon came into being. See the Awesome Moments page. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eb8e4fa8 | type |
Jerkass | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eb8e4fa8 | comment |
Jerkass: Alain, the iconic Cavalier who appears in the Advanced Player's Guide is the kind of guy everyone can't help but hate. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eb8e4fa8 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ebe34da1 | type |
The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ebe34da1 | comment |
The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: Unlike Galt's Red Revolution, Andoran's People's Revolt went through with the minimum possible amount of bloodshed: it was influenced by the same ideals but its founders didn't want a repeat of Galt's failed state status. The result was the first large representative democracy in the Inner Sea Region, and one that has become quite prosperous and which abolished slavery at its inception. The Hell's Rebels AP has the players leading an uprising against the Thrice-Damned House of Thrune after it starts a crackdown on the northwestern Archduchy of Ravounel, previously known as an oasis for free-thinkers in Infernal Cheliax. A core part of the AP is managing the uprising and giving freedom to those oppressed by House Thrune in Kintargo. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ebe34da1 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ecaab580 | type |
Technology Levels | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ecaab580 | comment |
Ultimate Combat, which introduces firearms to First Edition, lists off five possible different campaign-wide Technology Levels for guns, modifying which types of firearms and gunslinging classes are available. These range from "No Guns", to the midlevel "Emerging Guns" (the Gunslinger class introduced in the book is intended for this tech level), up to "Guns Everywhere" (guns are reclassified as simple weapons and cost 10% of their listed value). | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ed43de19 | type |
Hunting "Accident" | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ed43de19 | comment |
Hunting "Accident": Attempted in War for the Crown Part 2: Songbird, Scion, Saboteur. After clashing with the PCs, Lord Titus Lotheed-Casava rigs the draw of hunting grounds for a "peasant hunt" so that the PCs are assigned to hunt in lands where he knows a powerful manticore has taken up residence, hoping it will kill them. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ed43de19 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ed66b11a | type |
Giant Animal Worship | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ed66b11a | comment |
Giant Animal Worship: Krakens are sometimes worshiped by coastal communities, either as avatars of nature or as divine figures themselves. In a variant, krakens are highly intelligent and malevolent and tend to think that Humans Are Insects, so they might accept the reverence — or demand it. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ed66b11a | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ee19033d | type |
Atlantis | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ee19033d | comment |
Atlantis: Azlant, complete with Sub-Mariner-looking "gillmen". Was propped to power, and disposed of after becoming a bit too big for their britches, by the aboleths. | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ee19033d | featureApplicability |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ee19033d | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ee19d278 | type |
Blob Monster | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ee19d278 | comment |
Blob Monster: Of course, since "ooze" is kept as a creature type. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ee19d278 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ee1aeda6 | type |
Mortality Grey Area | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_ee1aeda6 | comment |
Mortality Grey Area: There are a few races that, for a variety of reasons, are functionally very close to the undead (typically, they're animated by negative energy and hurt by positive energy, whereas all living creatures by definition work the other way around) but are still flesh-and-blood beings with active metabolisms and the needs of living creatures. Dhampyrs, the children of vampires and living humanoids, are once such race. Similarly, there are mortics, former mortals who were exposed to immense amounts of negative energy and survived... technically. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eec07277 | type |
Artificial Insolence | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eec07277 | comment |
Artificial Insolence: Mediums gain Powers via Possession by spirits. Some actions give their channeled spirit additional influence over them; if they reach 5 influence points, the spirit takes over their body for the rest of the day. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eec07277 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eff83d77 | type |
Mundane Utility | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eff83d77 | comment |
Mundane Utility: Particularly in adventure paths, several items and materials that are usually focused on for high-end adventurers are shown to have uses above and beyond adventuring careers. One example is Mithril — one adventure path has a character who has a mithril frying pan. Not only is it a masterwork item (thus giving a cook a +2 to their check when they cook with it), but it's naturally non-stick. Exaggerated in 2e by the High-Grade Mithral Waffle Iron, which uses extremely high-quality mithral to make waffles that are slightly better than waffles from regular Mithral Waffle Irons. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_eff83d77 | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f00fce0e | type |
Resourceful Rodent | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f00fce0e | comment |
Resourceful Rodent: The Ratfolk are humanoid rats with a particular knack for tinkering, which grants them bonuses related to alchemy and operating magical devices. In Starfinder, they instead have a racial bonus to the Engineering and Survival skills. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f0508c08 | type |
Decomposite Character | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f0508c08 | comment |
Decomposite Character: The Warlock class from D&D is notably absent in both editions. Instead, we have the Witch, who has inherited the Warlock's general aesthetic of dark magic and pacts, but uses Vancian Magic for its mechanics, and the Kineticist, who has inherited the "blast shape with a handful of support abilities" style of play, but is themed around Elemental Powers rather than The Dark Arts in terms of fluff. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f0864fd9 | type |
Combat by Champion | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f0864fd9 | comment |
Combat by Champion: Combat on a boarded ship is for practical reasons resolved as a one-to-one fight between the captains. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f19ee38d | type |
Fantasy Aliens | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f19ee38d | comment |
Fantasy Aliens: Golarion is for the most part a High Fantasy setting with pulp influences, but also features cosmic and extraterrestrial elements fairly often as a result of Genre Blending. These are usually inspired by either Planetary Romance stories such as John Carter of Mars or by Cosmic Horror, but also feature such things as a hyper-advanced starship that crashed into one of the world's countries, populating it with robots and aliens who escaped from its shattered hulk. Of particular note is that the entire elf species originated on a different planet in Golarion's solar system, which they temporarily fled back to in advance of Earthfall. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f1eb7e68 | type |
Naginatas Are Feminine | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f1eb7e68 | comment |
Naginatas Are Feminine: A close variant: the western cousin to this weapon, the glaive, is the sacred weapon of Shelyn, Goddess of Love and Beauty, who is worshipped both in the western continents of Avistan and Garund and in the eastern continent of Tian Xia. Strangely the actual naginata is favored by a male deity, Fumeiyoshi, the Tien god of undeath and dishonor. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f22249e | type |
Body of Bodies | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f22249e | comment |
Body of Bodies: This game features an undead creature called the Charnel Colossus, which is basically a huge undead monstrosity that was meant to be used as an unliving library, and is composed of an entire graveyard worth of "like-minded individuals." | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f283319c | type |
Tortured Monster | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f283319c | comment |
Tortured Monster: Fleshwarps, Broken Souls, Taninivers, Yao-guai, most undead. etc. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f2c01f65 | type |
Axis Mundi | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f2c01f65 | comment |
Axis Mundi: Pharasma's Spire is an impossible tall stone tower in the Outer Planes, at whose peak sits the Boneyard when Pharasma holds her court and judges the souls of the dead. It plays an integral part in the settings cosmology — all mortal souls pass through it on their way to the other Outer Planes and, as they do so, the spire grows infinitesimally taller each day. One day, unguessable far in the future, some prophecies say that it will grow tall enough to reach the far side of the hollow sphere that makes up the outer layer of the cosmos and pierce it, causing the universe to collapse like a bubble pierced by a needle. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f3fac450 | type |
Brain in a Jar | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f3fac450 | comment |
Brain in a Jar: Wake of the Watcher, fourth volume of the Carrion Crown Adventure Path, features a "brain archive" that contains several of these. Valley of the Brain Collectors, fourth volume of the Iron Gods Adventure Path, features a motley assortment of Mi-Go and agents of the Dark Tapestry. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f52cc7b8 | type |
Entropy and Chaos Magic | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f52cc7b8 | comment |
Entropy and Chaos Magic: Primal Magic. This exists in areas where The First World invades upon the material plane or in places like the mana wastes between the war-torn arcane countries of Geb and Nex. | |
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| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f541fb16 | type |
Super Gullible | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f541fb16 | comment |
Super Gullible: Characters with low Wisdom and Sense Motive/Insight modifiers tend to have trouble discerning truth from lies, and therefore often fall under this trope. | |
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Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f541fb16 | |
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Adorable Evil Minions | |
| Pathfinder (Tabletop Game) / int_f56b24c4 | comment |
Adorable Evil Minions: Quasits, goblins, cacodaemons, kobolds, a lot of such critters live on Golarion. | |
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Hit Points | |
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In 1E, all attacks made with weapons that aren't specifically labeled as non-lethal deal lethal damage by default, but by announcing a non-lethal attack before rolling to hit and taking a -4 penalty on said roll, a player can convert their weapon's regular damage into non-lethal one. If the cumulative amount of non-lethal damage exceeds the target's remaining Hit Points, they are rendered safely unconscious (whereas if they were just reduced to 0 HP, they'd be unconscious and risk bleeding to death without immediate first aid). | |
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Living Drawing | |
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Living Drawing: Trompe L'oeil paintings are magically-enhanced copies of an original creature that can step off the canvas, assume solid three-dimensional forms, and even inhabit other paintings. These entities can only be permanently killed by destroying the painting that generates them. | |
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Medieval European Fantasy | |
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Medieval European Fantasy: Played straight with the continent of Avistan, but averted overall: Garund is a stand-in for Africa, Casmaron is Central Asia, Tian Xia is East Asia, and Arcadia is the pre-Columbian Americas (upgraded to a similar tech level to Avistan and Garund). Pathfinder draws heavily from many pulp sources, so while Avistan has a lot of medieval Europe in it, other continents and time periods are equally well represented. | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect? | |
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Dude, Where's My Respect?: Frequently as much averted as played straight, but there are some fairly notable times where you might be wondering what the devs were thinking. Such as being able to build up an entire nation in the Kingmaker Adventure Path and still having random NPCs give you, their liege, fetch quests. | |
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The Minion Master | |
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The Minion Master: The Thrallherd prestige class from 3.5 returns in Psionics Unleashed. | |
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Afterlife of Service | |
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Afterlife of Service: Wealthy people who are worried about their fate in the afterlife sometimes create Shabti, Golem-like simulacra with copies of their memories, to suffer divine judgement in their place. Psychopomps try to get Shabti Rescued from the Underworld so they're not punished for their creators' misdeeds and can live out their own lives. | |
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Standard Fantasy Races | |
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Standard Fantasy Races: Pathfinder largely inherits the pattern developed in D&D, with humans who rule most nations and civilizations, reclusive dwarves and elves who remain in scattered holdouts of their ancient, fallen empires, halflings and fey gnomes who live in other races' lands, and half-elves and half-orcs often left as outcasts. Monster races include the goblins, hobgoblins and orcs, whose long histories of war against the other races have left them distrusted and despised, but have begun to attempt to integrate better in global politics while forming closer ties with each other, as well as ancient and powerful dragons, reclusive treants and fey who distrust anyone intruding in their forests, and a variety of Snake People and Lizard Folk whose empires were ancient before any warm-blooded nation arose. That being said, there are also a number of setting-specific peoples that avert the trope. | |
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Perpetual Storm | |
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Perpetual Storm: The Eye of Abendego in the default setting of Golarion is a colossal hurricane that has picked up in the southern seas shortly after the death of one of the setting's main gods, Aroden, and stayed in place for over a century since. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: As to be expected for a fantasy setting, and suitably handwaved because A Wizard Did It, but now and again there are still things that are... odd. | |
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Destroyable Items | |
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Destroyable Items: Some items are "fragile" and will break when either critically hit (in the case of armor) or when you critically fail an attack (in the case of weapons). Some spells like shatter allow items to give applicable saving throws to avoid being destroyed. And of course, if you want to take a smack at someone's sword, shield, or armour, you can. As of "Ultimate Combat" Items can now be made out of fragile materials like Bone which can break on a critical failure. Even before these rules Goblin-Made weapons like dogslicers were liable to break on their first critical failure. | |
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Ridiculously Cute Critter | |
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Ridiculously Cute Critter: The spell pup form from Ultimate Combat invokes this trope, by turning an animal into a small, adorable version that prevents others from attacking it out of guilt. The spell leaves an exception: evil creatures are not affected and "in fact, some particularly heinous creatures might go out their way to do the target harm." Naturally, the accompanying artwork shows the spell in effect on Lini's snow leopard partner. The druid just looks confused as little Droogami chases a butterfly. | |
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Our Sirens Are Different | |
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The players can actually cause this in a monster; a member of the siren race is noted in the Bestiary 2 for her tendency to commit suicide, or literally die of heartbreak, if a male she has her heart set on escapes from her whilst she's courting him. | |
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All Trolls Are Different | |
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All Trolls Are Different: The savage aspect of the common D&D troll is played up; they're feral wilderness creatures who see everything as food, have no fear of death, and have odd intergender relations, though they do treat their young with care and some are capable of civilized conversation. The trope name also holds true within the setting, as art depicting trolls can be wildly inconsistent without even taking into account troll subraces (ice trolls, water trolls, etc.). The Jotund Trolls are notable for being strange even by troll standards, having nine arguing heads. | |
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Was Once a Man | |
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Was Once a Man: Several examples, including the unfortunate victims of drow fleshwarping, as well as a number of demon lords. | |
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Semi-Divine | |
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Semi-Divine: Aasimar are the descendants of mortal humanoids (normally humans) and good-aligned Outsiders, and they've got the unearthly beauty, longevity, and light- and good- powers to go along with it. Celestial bloodline sorcerers can be any race, and either have a good-aligned Outsider ancestor, or were blessed by a god at their birth. They get Holy Hand Grenade powers and flight with angelic, feathery wings, among other things. | |
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Gloomy Gray | |
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Gloomy Gray: Gnomes who don't get enough excitement and novelty in their lives suffer "the Bleaching", which turns their skin, hair, and eyes grey and ultimately causes Death by Despair. | |
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Lady of War | |
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Lady of War: The goddess Iomedae is, well, the goddess of this. Also, Seelah, the iconic paladin. While not her main aspect, the goddess Sarenrae fits the bill when she needs to, as seen here◊. | |
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Our Gargoyles Rock | |
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Our Gargoyles Rock: They barely need to eat or sleep, and honestly only kill things (slowly and tortuously) because it's fun. They're also almost literally made out of rock, will last as long as a statue will (although they usually end up killing one another before that), and occasionally come in gemstones. Oh, and some of them are Weeping Angels. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: The gremlins personify this trope. They are all small and not very powerful but like to put curses on people and destroy property just to be assholes. | |
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