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I had this submission sitting around for two days, but paizo has been down for two days straight (!!!), so here is a very late submission and I hope nobody minds me adding it.
281. A race of people whose entire life stories are chronicled in a book/some sort of record they keep on their persons.
The chronicle are a subrace of gnomes whose entire live stories are woven into knots in their hair and beards. A chronicles hair will naturally grow long, magically forming knots at specific lengths. This is a form of knot writing, documenting the chronicles and allowing others to view it in turn in a public display of their personal stories. Chronicles can naturally read this writing, though other races would require considerable study to interpret their patterns. Usually, the chronicles hair do not record every event in their lives, merely an update on their past weeks or months, and any significant event that might occur. A chronicle who engages in a thrilling life form elaborate braids and knots, though even an uneventful life can be quite detailed and enlightening.
Physical Description A chronicle appears similar to a gnome, though with the obvious exception of their numerous locks of knotted hair. While typical gnomes have striking hair colours, a chronicles hair colour changes at various lengths depending on the emotional state that the gnome was in during specific events of their life. Often this is within similar hues, creating a cascade of colour across their hair and beards. A chronicles hair is impossible to destroy, even by the chronicle, as any cut length grows back rapidly into the same formation. Altering their hair, such as by colour or trying to force new knots, is also impossible. As such, chronicles with quite long hair typically work their locks into more functional and fashionable hair styles.
Society Because of their extremely long lives and natural collection of firsthand accounts of historical events, chronicles find themselves frequently among scholarly communities. Chronicles themselves are quite adept at academic pursuits, and usually find themselves in such vocations. Otherwise, chronicles are dispersed in among other communities and rarely do chronicles form their own permanent settlements. Despite their similarities from an outside perspective, gnomes and chronicles do not live in close proximity to each other, viewing the other group as inconsolably disagreeable.
Relations Chronicles find themselves similar relations with other races as gnomes, as most of their attitudes are similar. But other long-lived races typically see them as fascinating if extremely infuriating that the chronicles seem to take their abilities for granted. Chronicles are, however, quite concerned with understanding and connecting with one another. Chronicles are typically used to being forthright and honest as a result of literally wearing their lives on their sleeves. This behaviour is significant enough that gnomes and chronicles can find themselves strangely at odds. Gnomes are natural pranksters and often enjoy mischief and misleading others. While chronicles often leave little of their lives or thoughts to the imagination of complete strangers, even to an uncomfortable degree. This difference is infuriating between each group, and utterly baffling to outsiders.
Alignment and Religion Chronicles need to share and understand, and will go to great lengths to achieve this goal. Asking probing questions of others, lacking in personal boundaries, taking dangerous or clearly unfavourable chances and risks to collect new accolades in their lives. Their various exploits often push them towards chaos. However, few chronicles are malicious in their intentions, and typically wish the best of others and often they hope their questions and actions might be enlightening or even bring fascinating new experiences to others and see the world closer to how chronicle see it. As such, most chronicles are chaotic good.
Adventurers Chronicles are driven to adventures, wishing to turn themselves into a walking autobiography that would rival some of the greatest epics of history. Chronicles will often favour harrowing and exciting adventure over a more calm and static lifestyle, even if those adventures are brief interludes to more standard living.
+2 Constitution, +2 Intelligence, -2 Strength The chronicled need not look far for accumulated knowledge, and their hardiness matches that of other gnomes, along with their natural weak physical prowess.
Type Chronicles are humanoids with the gnome subtype.
Size Chronicles are Small creatures and thus gain a +1 size bonus to their AC, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –1 penalty to their Combat Maneuver Bonus and Combat Maneuver Defense, and a +4 size bonus on Stealth checks.
Base Speed Chronicles have a base speed of 20 feet.
Languages Chronicles begin play speaking Chronicle Knot Writing, Common, Gnome, and Sylvan. Gnomes with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Giant, Goblin, and Orc.
Low-Light Vision Chronicles can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light.
Chronicle Magic Chronicles add +1 to the DC of any saving throws against divination spells that they cast. Chronicles with a Charisma of 11 or higher also gain the following spell-like abilities: 1/day—detect magic, prestidigitation, read magic, and comprehend languages. The caster level for these effects is equal to the gnome's level. The DC for these spells is equal to 10 + the spell's level + the chronicle's Charisma modifier.
Gathered Knowledge Choose one Knowledge skill. Chronicles always treat this skill as a class skill and can make checks with this skill untrained. If this skill is already a class skill, they receive a +2 racial bonus with that skill.
Hatred Chronicles receive a +1 bonus on attack rolls against humanoid creatures of the reptilian and goblinoid subtypes due to special training against these hated foes.
Open Book Chronicles receive a +2 racial bonus on Diplomacy checks and a -2 penalty on Bluff checks when lying.
Thrillseeker Chronicles gain a +1 dodge bonus to AC against attacks of opportunity.
Transmutation Resistance Chronicles get a +2 racial saving throw bonus against transmutation spells or effects.
Unalterable History Chronicles are immune to effects that would alter their memories. Their hair is also immune to any effect that would alter it and regrows to its previous state in 4d6 hours should the chronicles hair be cut or partially destroyed (such as from being burnt).
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Vutava did do a write up for The Botahvan:
82. Hermaphrodite telepathic plant people with no vocal cords or mouth (they feed with their roots and their pair of feeder tendrils).
It is easy to miss because he posted it in a link just before the Mundanes.
Yeah, I was too lazy to point this out earlier, so we're actually at a total of 34 races now! KC was also cut off by Paizo's inexplicable technical difficulties last night, so before All Saint's Day is over I expect we'll be up to races. A new record!
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Yeah, I was too lazy to point this out earlier, so we're actually at a total of 34 races now! KC was also cut off by Paizo's inexplicable technical difficulties last night, so before All Saint's Day is over I expect we'll be up to races. A new record!Vutava did do a write up for The Botahvan:
82. Hermaphrodite telepathic plant people with no vocal cords or mouth (they feed with their roots and their pair of feeder tendrils).
It is easy to miss because he posted it in a link just before the Mundanes.
Sorry I did not see yours, if I had I would have included it in the race counts I was doing.
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Yeah, and I miswrote the Grend's language as the Grand Reckoning instead of Grand Rendering (which should have been easy to remember since I based their name on it) in many places. I was rushing.
We can edit the entries when KC puts them on the Google Doc, but these were supposed to be fast rough sketches, not perfectly balanced, completely edited, beautiful, publishable races, anyways.
Vutava did do a write up for The Botahvan:
82. Hermaphrodite telepathic plant people with no vocal cords or mouth (they feed with their roots and their pair of feeder tendrils).
It is easy to miss because he posted it in a link just before the Mundanes.
That was on my own time and not during October though.
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Uh, am I too late for this? I've been working on this over the last week but never had time to finish it.
But when a plague of rats threatened their granaries, the halflings were forced to call in outside assistance. They conscripted a strange bard who claimed to have experience with vermin. His price was steep, but the halflings felt they had no choice. He promised to rid them of their vermin infestation, to ensure their children would never need fear going hungry. They promised him half their year's harvest and prayed he knew what he was doing.
That night, sinister flute music filled the mountainside. The halflings stayed indoors, as they had been told. And in the morning, the rats were gone.
But now the halflings, rid of their current danger, fell to bickering. Some supported paying the bard what he was owed. Others feared that they would not survive the winter. Others suspected he had caused them this plague, finding the ease at which it was dispelled questionable. They argued through day and night, honor and honesty warring with hunger and practicality. And soon the bard grew tired of waiting.
That night, sinister flute music filled the mountainside. The halflings were too busy arguing to notice, though. And in the morning, the bard was gone, and has not been seen since.
Neither have the village children.
Stolen from their homes long ago and lured into a land of eternal youth, the pied children are a race as endearing and sweet at first glance as they are disturbing and alien at the second. Some call them "little gnomes", but this is inaccurate in most regards save one: Both share a connection to the First World. They are devoid of fear and possessed of a strange empathy difficult for most to understand, making them seem almost horrifying at times.
Laughs at a dragon
Giggles at grief
Watch your eyes and guard your pockets
From the pied soulthief
Physical Description: The pied children were originally halfling youths, but their size might lead one to assume they descended from humans or elves, or are even full-grown halflings. Only their large—but hairless—feet and slightly pointed ears betray their true lineage and age. Pied children stand roughly three feet tall, and appear to be trapped in a state of perpetual pre-pubescent youth. They almost invariably dress in checkered clothes, a strange tendency that occurs regardless of the style of clothes they wear. Pied children do not age, and can live essentially forever, barring violent ends. Unlike gnomes, they do not face the Bleaching.
Pied children numbers are not finite, though they obviously have no tradictional means of reproduction: "Reproduction" occurs through a strangely sinister ritual performed upon other creatures to connect them to the First world.
Society: Pied children are quite social with one another, immediately dropping into a Halfling-Sylvan pidgin tongue the moment they see another of their kind. They often give the sense of a common enterprise or agency. It is hard to be certain whether they actually have some common interests, or are simply very, very tight-knit. They are so close, they often sleep together, assembling tattered "nests" of torn cloth, paper, and foliage and piling atop one another.
Relations: Pied children are almost always exceedingly friendly and social, to the point of it being a little unsettling, and often settle within non-pied communities. Gnomes tend to be frightened by the pied children, who always show a disturbing level of interest in the former fey. Halflings tend to deny any relation to the pied children, who in turn seem completely unaware that there is a difference between themselves and the grown halflings. With their long memories, elves mistrust the pied children as deceptive kidnappers, while dwarves and humans tend to regard pied children as misguided innocents—but definitely thieves.
Alignment and Religion: Despite their childlike innocence, pied children seem to struggle with empathy on all but the most obvious levels: They rarely realize they're being annoying, or understand why others find them unsettling. Most distressingly, they rarely understand why gnomes, halflings, and larger humanoids' children might not want to be "pied". While not overtly malicious, the pied children rarely recognize any real drive to curb their more sinister behaviors, and so they are usually neutral or neutral evil. They want to multiply. Pied children favor all sorts of gods, treating them almost like storybook characters.
Adventurers: Many pied children eagerly pursue adventure, treating it almost like a game. They excel at the work of the scout in particular, though there are many pied children bards.
Small: Pied children are Small creatures and gain a +1 size bonus to their AC, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –1 penalty to their Combat Maneuver Bonus and Combat Maneuver Defense, and a +4 size bonus on Stealth checks.
Fey (2 RP): Pied children are fey with the extraplanar subtype.
Fast Speed: Pied children have a move speed of 30 feet.
Low-Light Vision: Pied children can see in conditions of dim light twice as far as halflings.
Fearless (4 RP): Lost children are fully immune to fear effects.
Subconscious Thieves (4 RP): Pied children steal almost out of sheer habit. They gain a +8 racial bonus on Sleight of Hand checks. However, if asked by an ally to return an item, asked if they have stolen an item, or asked to not steal from a particular person again, the pied child must make a Will save, DC 15 + their own hit dice, or obey the request/identify themselves as responsible.
Child's Innocence (2 RP): Much as it is sometimes difficult to remember, lost children are still children, and any good-aligned creature hesitates to harm them. They gain a +2 deflection bonus to AC against good-aligned creatures. They gain half this bonus against neutral creatures, but this bonus vanishes if the neutral creature is given reason to doubt the child's moral character to any serious degree.
Vulnerability to Music (-1 RP): Pied children retain a strange weakness towards simple tunes. Whenever any music of high quality is played (including any bardic performance and any musical Perform check with a result of 20 or higher), they must make a DC 20 Will save or be sickened as long as the music lasts. They take a -4 penalty on saves against any song-based attacks, including a bard's fascinate ability, a harpy's song, and lullaby.
Conversion (1 RP): Pied children "reproduction" is a sinister and strange process. If at least three pied children manage to capture or secure the cooperation of a small-sized humanoid, or the child of a Medium-sized humanoid race, they can begin the process of "pieing". This requires the subject to be either willing or helpless for three hours. Each hour, an unwilling subject may make a DC 15 Will save to resist the effects. At the conclusion of the third hour, if they have failed all three saves in a row, the subject is transformed into a pied child, replacing all racial abilities and ability modifiers with those of a pied child. Unlike with reincarnate, this effect affects their personality and mental scores.
Languages: Pied children begin play speaking Piedspeech, Sylvan and Common. Pied children with high Intelligence scores can learn to speak Halfling, Elven, Gnome, Dwarven and Sylvan.
Get the f@$@ out of here. You're too late. Get out of my thread.
Aw, man...
GTW's good, though. She was pretty close.
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That was on my own time and not during October though.Vutava did do a write up for The Botahvan:
82. Hermaphrodite telepathic plant people with no vocal cords or mouth (they feed with their roots and their pair of feeder tendrils).
It is easy to miss because he posted it in a link just before the Mundanes.
Doors this mean that the Botahvan do not count for the final race count?
We don't count races that were created outside October, with the exception of the odd last-minute entries.
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Feel welcome to make any edits to the races you created (I just did a quick run-through with Google's spellchecking system, which . . . is possibly more inaccurate than MS Word's).
P.S. If anyone finds a better pic for anthrozoans (anthro limpets), please link it to me :V
This looks amazing. The pictures for the races I designed were very well chosen, and fit quite well. (especially the Extremians!)
I made a small edit to the wording in Batfolk.
Also, kinda sad the Wechuge didn't make it, but oh well.
Edit: Did it just get accidentally skipped? I noticed it's on the list.
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We decided to exclude wechuge from the compilation doc because it's a) not really a "parapromo" race (unless you actually made it during October?) and b) relies on implied rape for its existence. Nothing against the statistics, but it's not really appropriate for this project.
312. A race that communicates solely through the language of flowers.
313. These dudes (scroll down to the first response).
317. The inhabitants of a Bob Ross painting.
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321. Mobile, though typically sedentary and placid trees, that consume dryads or other people that attempt to step inside them, such as with tree stride (possibly even affecting incorporeal creatures), and can also redirect such transporting creatures to themselves instead of a nearby target tree.
[Optional: They also eat kobolds or goblins, just in the more traditional way or by crushing them against their trunks and letting their sweet, sweet kobold and goblin juices dribble down beneath their roots.]
Why would you say these mean things :(
326. A race of tomten-like creatures with long probosces that lurk in areas of discussion and cause discord with their bad manners, baiting comments, and passive-aggressive suggestions.
327. Atlas Shrugged...but as a person.
328. Communist mosquitoes, but they just suck the blood of the rich and share it amongst themselves to sustain the next generation. Alternatively, see them as ragamuffin vampires of the swamp.
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Also, one last thing:
Look what I got published! Hot diggety, am I right? If you want to see the bunnytaurs, blesmolfolk, merriepetals, misborn, kindercloaks, painterlilies and shadowfriends professionally edited for your use, check it out!
It's also worth noting that I basically got here just by sending them my favorites of the 2016 collection I designed. So, y'know, you can use the races you write up here to make those Choice Dollars, if you're lucky and talk to the right people!
329. A race of aberrations that look and act human. They escaped from the dark tapestry and are trying to fit in. Their true form is that of an M sized Shoggoth.
