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Just something I cooked up (looking for feedback, of course).

Thinblood Sorcerer (Archetype)

The strength of a sorcerous bloodline does not necessarily run true and, often, a particular line of descendants may find it increasingly difficult to sire a true sorcerer. In societies where magical prowess indicates a sign of prestige, these so-called thinblood families have developed rituals, which often rely on the imbibing of drugs or other alchemical substances to enhance the spellcasting ability of any family member that shows even the smallest sign of magical power.

Addict: A thinblood has lantent magical power, but cannot access this power without chemical intervention. Each thinblood family perfects a drug, which enables its members to access their power. A drug will only enhance the spellcasting of an individual belonging to the family that created the drug. At 1st level, a thinblood sorcerer chooses the drug’s type (ingested, inhaled or injury) and damage (1d2 points of attribute damage to any non-Charisma attribute). Once this choice has been made, it cannot change. Regardless, of the choice, all of these spellcasting enhancement drugs share the following properties:

Type: As chosen above.
Addiction: minor, Fortitude 12
Price: 10 gp
Effect: 4 hours; +2 alchemical bonus to Charisma. This effect only works for members of the thinblood family that created the drug.
Damage: As chosen above.

A thinblood can cast spells and use the supernatural and spell-like abilities provided by her bloodline normally while benefiting from the effect of the drug or suffering from damage caused by the drug. A thinblood loses access to her supernatural and spell-like bloodline abilities and may only cast cantrips when not benefiting from the effect of the drug or suffering from damage caused by the drug A thinblood sorcerer may create her own supply of the drug, which has a Craft (alchemy) DC of 12. This ability replaces Eschew Materials.

Cross-posted at my blog.

A huge +1 to Wayne and Paizo for using this auction to aid Japan.

Pretty neat! But needs more Zettai Ryouiki...

[decides to needle James a bit]

EDIT: Speaking of which...Interesting Feats

Another proponent of the golden ratio appears? :P

I'm coming into this conversation a little late and most of what I would have said has already been said. Instead, I'm going to try something a bit different:

As part of the looking back process, I'm going to try and apply the lessons learned to the designs I didn't submit for the competition. Every round, I had more than one potential candidate for submission (including round 1) and, through tweaking and redesigning these items, I hope to be able to better codify what I've actually picked up during the contest. Right now, I'm not sure if this project will provide any tangible results, useable by others, but I do hope it does. Internet willing, perhaps I'll be able to later provide some sage advice for next year's competitors.

I've already begun the process on my own blog and will be cross-posting the results to the homebrew forums as and when things develop. Be warned though, I might get stuck on archetypes. It took several days before I could walk without a limp after reading the commentry on the tengu, but that's where I learned a lot, possibly the most, about the industry. I still don't think I've learned everything there is to learn from that particular discussion thread.

To end off, I'd like to thank Paizo for hosting this amazing competition; the judges for taking the time to tackle my submissions as they did; the Paizo community for their comments, votes and for making the exit polls as stressful as possible; and my gaming group for tolerating such an absurd amount of game downtime.

This thread deserves a +1.

Throughout the contest, whenever I even thought about something Lawful Evil, I couldn't help but wander what would RPG Succubus say.