Sometimes you want to sit down to a full meal of archetypes, base classes, feats, magic items, npcs, prestige classes, traits, classes, or spells, and sometime you just want a cheap, quick, and easy snack for .99 cents. To feed your craving Rite Publishing presents the “10 Series” which will presents 10 pieces for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
This time out we bring you 10 new magical items to supplement the Oracle base class introduced in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Player's Guide.
Otherworldly Disfavor: an armor/shield ability that curses those who strike you.
Mystical Favor: a weapon ability that transforms a simple weapon into a spirutal weapon as a swift action.
Amulet of Enigmatic Alacrity: use a revelation as a swift action.
Gloves of the Sin-Eater: consume the power of a fell enchantment as a swift action.
Harbinger’s Hood: increase the power of the oracle’s curse.
Mantle of Mysterious Metamagic: make metamagic easier to use with your mystery spells.
Ring of Revelation’s Rays: make touch spells and ray spells easier to use.
Sandals of the Oracle: Sidestep an opponent’s attacks.
Seer’s Lens: gain a gift for prophecy.
Vestments of the Divine Prophet: resist 3 types of energy.
Pages 3; Author Steven D. Russell, Cover Image by John William Waterhouse
Product Availability
Fulfilled immediately.
Are there errors or omissions in this product information? Got corrections? Let us know at
store@paizo.com.
This pdf is 7 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD and 1 page advertisement, leaving us with 3 pages of content, so let's take a look!
Kicking off with a nice, short paragraph of introductory fluff in the high quality we've come to expect from Rite Publishing, we are introduced to the oracle-themed magical items - kicking off with otherworldly disfavor, an armor/shield quality that allows the wearer to 1/day use a spells/he has access to that has the curse-descriptor to inflict it as a reaction to being successfully damaged in melee - one a successful save the ability use is conserved and since the quality is powered by the oracle's spell allotment, the quality actually scales with the curse-spells the oracle acquires. Nice scaling-method!
The Mystical Favor weapon special quality allows the oracle to exchange the enchanted weapon 1/day for a spiritual weapon, whereas the Amulet of Enigmatic Alacrity comes in 3 versions and allows the oracle to activate revelations with activation times of less than a round as a a swift action a limited amount of times per day - nice, also to see the different power levels.
The Gloves of the Sin-Eater allow oracles to expel possessing spirits and break curses via cha/oracle-level checks and aasimar oracles of the purifier archetype benefit even more from their use - something I really love Rite Publishing doing here - support for archetypes. I often wonder why there's not more archetype support out (instead of creating x ones that do similar things...) there and this is a step in the right direction. Good to see the notion used via feats etc. expanded further.
Harbinger's Hood increases the effective level of an oracle's curse and the mantle of mysterious metamagic reduced the metamagic-increase of mystery-spells and the greater variant even grants a metamagic feat that can exclusively be applied to bonus mystery spells. And there's a third, even better mantle here as well...
Rings of Revelation's Eyes also come in 3 versions and oh boy, touch spells get nasty, as these rings expand their range to a limited, yet significant range and allow oracles to use their spellcasting ability modifier as an insight bonus to touch attacks - this would be completely and utterly op, were it not balanced via X/day formulas that render it a powerful, yet cool choice to have. Sandals of the Oracle allow for the retrospective addition of a dodge-bonus to their AC and for additional 5-foot-steps (again, in 3 versions of different strengths).
The Seer's Lenses enhances or gives access to the seer archetypes gift of prophecy revelation or enhances it - cool item. Finally, we have the Vestment of the Divine Prophet, in 3 iterations, which grants resistance against ALL energy types - but no AC/DR. Interesting concept and surely a nice robe.
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are top-notch, I didn't notice any glitches. Layout adheres to RiP's 2-column full color standard and the pdf comes fully bookmarked - cool to see, as it makes navigation, even in such a short pdf, easier.
What can I say, I liked all of the items in this pdf, none struck me as unbalancing or too weak - they all have something going for them and the support for the archetypes and fact that you actually get, with the variants, much more than the advertised 10 items means that this is a great buy for a low and fair price-point. While not reinventing the wheel, it doesn't have to and can be, in the end, considered a more than solid, nice pdf that deserves a final verdict of 5 stars and my wholehearted recommendation.
Lucky oracles! For here, presented in delightfully atmospheric and in-character terms, are a collection of magic items specifically designed - by one Suilaliun of Our Sovereigns in Heaven - to suit their particular character and style. All delightfully illustrated in the pre-raphaelite style too, a feast for the eye as well as for the gamer.
A suit of armour that bites back - or at least, casts a curse spell at anyone who has the temerity to damage the wearer - starts the collection. with a fantastical cape whose mere appearance alone is wonderful even before it starts reducing the cost of using metamagic feats, a pair of sandals that aid the oracle's dodging ability and several other wonders following. All are soundly rooted in the peculiarities of the oracle class and appropriate to their qualities, yet they are also customisable to suit a given oracle's tutelary deity... at least, they would be if he has them made. Of course, you somewhat take what you find when rooting through treasure hoards!
If you have any oracle characters in your game, get this... and if you don't, a few hints about the goodies herein will have at least one player rolling an oracle up forthwith - yes, they are that good, that fun to play with.
