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I started updating some stuff. It is still in the beginning stages.

Power of the Deities

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I did a thing. I've always liked the Deities and Demigods book from 3ed DnD and even played a deity in a campaign which was fun. I've been thinking of possibly elevating a character in my current game I'm running in my world, so I've been working on updating the deity rules for PF2. Here is what I've been working on. It is still a work in progress, but I would love any feedback. Thanks.

Deities

I know six months is not much time, but this seems very interesting and well-done so far! Is it still in progress, or has it been abandoned?

Thanks for looking at it. It hasn't been abandoned, but it is on the back burner for now. And with the remaster I've been busy updating my other home brew stuff.

I did a thing. I've always liked the Deities and Demigods book from 3ed DnD and even played a deity in a campaign which was fun. I've been thinking of possibly elevating a character in my current game I'm running in my world, so I've been working on updating the deity rules for PF2. Here is what I've been working on. It is still a work in progress, but I would love any feedback. Thanks.
Deities

Is there any precedent for that or did we both just spin that up?

I just came up with it for a few of the ancestries that I've created. Seems like a logical option.

If you are interested here is what I made for the Gith

In my world the two have been reunited into one again. Also there is true psionics in my world, but it is easy enough to modify what I made for your uses. I would love feedback.

Good idea. I like it.

I've tried my hand at making a drow heritage. It does include light blindness which I think is unavoidable for balance sake. I would love feedback on it.

Drow

I love the old psionics, and I don't feel that the occult spell list does it justice. I made my own home brew psionics that you can find here:

Psionics

How this helps and I would love any feedback. The Soulknife class i converted has been made into an archetype in the Dark Archive. Enjoy

At my table, all prepared casters do the flexible casting without the slot loss or the need to take the feat. It's just easier and more versatile, but not necessarily more powerful.

Thank you very much for the feedback. I reworked a lot of it, got rid of full caster and added invocations to give it a more warlock feel. As for the number of first level feats, since 6 of them are tied to a patron there are actually fewer unique options for a player that at first glance, so I left it as is. I also detached spells/invocations from the patron so having them all occult makes more sense. Finally, I beefed up pact stuff and worked on the feats. I hope that the rework is closer to what we imagine it should be. Thank you. Warlock v2

I've seen a few people make versions of the warlock, I thought I would give it a try myself. I would love feedback. Thank you.

Warlock

I've been struggling with the way ancestries are put together as well. I don't really get what the heritage is either. I like the versatility, and the choosing certain options as you level up, but there are some things that are difficult to make. I remember sun elves and moon elves and the like from Forgotten Realms. They were all elves, but had some different abilities, and even starting stats. It is difficult to create something similar in PF2. I almost want to see a third feat option in addition to heritage and ancestry feats to reflect the biology a little bit more. It could be called legacy or lineage or something. It could include its own ability boost and biological aspect of the ancestry. In order to create a certain type of elf (lets say drow) you would select a suite of feats (this lineage feat, this heritage feat, this first level feat) to create the drow. Just an idea I've been kicking around for my home brew world.

For both kinds of clerics, they ONLY get expert for their deity's favored weapon. They are the only class that doesn't get expert in simple (unless their is an errata I don't know about). At my table I give expert to all weapons that they are trained in at 11th level and I give the warpriest master in their deity's favored weapon at 13th level.

I agree that more doctrines are needed.

The one you proposed is interesting.

Usually heritages are a little more powerful than 1st level ancestry feats. Maybe giving a little something extra like a free general feat as well. That could give someone access to the Adopted feat at 1st level maybe.

Is it possible to attempt to use Intimidate on someone you communicate with using a message cantrip? What about with the telepathy spell?

My end goal is for someone to use a 17th level crystal ball which allows you to use telepathy when you scry. If they know the subject's True Name, would they be able to use the Revel True Name skill feat against someone they are scrying on? I've given a modified version of the crystal ball where they can use message on someone they are scrying on. Just need some advice on when they can do what. Thanks.

So, for about a year and a half my group wasn't meeting so I had a lot of time to come up with challenges for the characters. Reading Lovecraft at the same time may not have been the best of ideas. So, I created something called the Abstract to mess with one of my players. I would love some feedback about it. Thanks.

I've been developing my own world, Kethlan, for the past 20 years. I can't imagine running in a world that isn't my own.

I have a lot of additions that I'm using at my table. If anyone is interested here is a link:

My Stuff

I am very curious to see what variants, options, and house rules that other people use during the character creation process. I really want to see what options to bring into my group. I generally like power gaming in my group so I'm pretty open to different levels of character options during character creation.

I've seen (and like) an extra ancestry feat and an extra class feat. I'm mostly wanting to see what else is out there.

Thanks

Here is a home-brewed class that I made that focuses on defense. It gains armor proficiency at the same rate that a fighter gains weapon proficiency:

Brute

I would love some feedback on it.

Never mind, I found it here: Paizo playtest downloads

Yeah, I don't know. I looked around and can't even find the discussion forums for the playtest or anything. I do know that the errata for the playtest went up to 1.6 which had all of the previous errata in the document as well. Good luck in your search.

At this point I've finished the Soulknife, Wilder, and my version of the Psychic Warrior called the Battlemind. I also have a smattering of races that are linked to psionics in some way. I would love some feedback about them. The link in the first post should still work. Thanks.

Basically what you need to ask yourself is what is the role of the class? What niche will it fill? How will it be different than what is already there? What unique abilities will it have? And finally, what makes it interesting enough to want to play? Once you answer those then just compare to existing classes to see if it is balanced.

Looks good to me. I want to say "heck, go ahead and make it Common" but Paizo did specify "rituals are never common" in the CRB for some reason.

Thanks for the feedback.

It originally was going to be a common ritual, until I read that sentence. It still might be common in my world.

It always seems that while exploring a dungeon that is hundreds of years old that there are books or wooden doors that haven't completely decayed centuries ago. To explain this my group always said there was low level magic that was preserving the perishable materials from the ravages of time. I finally put that magic to paper:

Thoughts?

Thank you for all the input. I have to change the way I was thinking about Lore. I was just equating it to knowledge. Thanks for the clarification.

I don't know if this has been discussed before or not, I wasn't able to find a discussion for it so I apologize if this is a duplicate.

What lore skills do you actually use in your games? I'm looking for a focus on recalling knowledge in particular. Looking back on the old knowledge skill I used knowledge planes, history, and geography quite often and so will be using planar lore, historical lore, and geographical lore a lot in the games that I run. What other ones would be particularly useful?

Thank you.

Thank you for these, I am hoping to add kinesis/psionics into my game at some point and can't wait to see how well it works.

Cool Deal! Let me know how it works for you. I am open to suggestions for improvement. I'm also currently working on the soulknife, should be done within a week or so.

I love psionics so much and it is so integral to my homebrew world that I just went ahead and made my own stuff instead of waiting for a third party to do it for me. I made its own spell list, the psion, and an alternative with power points.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uP40j5HY29ClwZun8aAjETyyODBAusYo?us p=sharing

I made revisions based on feedback which include Psion specific focus powers. I also brought back Psionic Combat (it's pretty much a focus power now). Finally I created a variant that uses power points instead of spell slots. The link above should still work. I would love feedback and suggestions. Thanks.

I think that it looks pretty good.

I'm updating one of my 3rd edition races. It is inspired by the Podlings from The Dark Crystal. I played with a different idea with the heritages. I would like some feedback. Thank you.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k-PwxRVMS1h3uMKIl7jHQVOaiP6t-0p9/view?usp= sharing

Thank you for your feedback. This is the second class that I've made for PF2. I've found that it is a daunting task, I have a lot respect for the game designers.

I did base if heavily on the wizard and sorcerer because that is what I had to go on, and I was just doing a conversion at this time from the 3.5 version. Now that I have the framework, it would be easier to modify in the future to make it a little more unique. I've also been toying with the idea of using the power points instead of spell slots. All this just takes time. I'll get to it when I can.

A martial defensive class could be a fun design space and con would make a ton of sense there.

That's what I made:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1naO8ITeBY8S35tIzYNkGFuQ0szKbvbVw

I've seen blood mages in 3.0/3.5 that use con.

I also created a PF2 class that uses con that seems to work out pretty good.

I like it. I would probably just make a Quick Crafting skill feat (for balancing and stuff) and allow them to sell what they make.

UPDATE: I finally finished the psionic power/spell list with the descriptions for the new ones (18 pages long). I also finished the Psion class. Would like some feedback. Thanks.

So I LOVE psionics. My first exposure was the Psionic Handbook 3.0 and I've been hooked ever since. Since Paizo doesn't really seem to be moving in that direction and Dreamscarred Press isn't really doing much right now I just did it myself. I decided to tackle the task of creating the Psionic spell list and then went on to make the Psion for a member of my group who also likes psionics. What I have so far is in my drive folder. I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uP40j5HY29ClwZun8aAjETyyODBAusYo?us p=sharing

I don't see a problem with it. I think I've done it as well.

I also created a level 2 Cleric feat to add wisdom modifier to the amount healed. Very useful at low levels when you aren't rolling many dice. If the party is hurting really bad and you get one dice and you roll a two sucks really bad.

Very interesting. It's interesting how it gains abilities as the Str goes up. Alternatively it could be as the proficiency improves. Unwieldy in an interesting ability as well. This makes me start thinking of the mercurial greatsword and what stats it may have. Hmmmm

I'm using the Book of Eldritch Might III by Monte Cook in the game I'm running and am thinking of using something from the Mercenaries book by AEG from 2002

I'm going to disagree with Omni - I don't think a heritage should give you expert proficiency automatically. Consider for example that this means a Gokuto wizard gains expert unarmed a full 6 levels earlier than normal, which is a huge boost. It also doesn't need to grant trained proficiency, because everyone is trained in unarmed attacks. A better point of reference is the razortooth goblin heritage.

I would instead handle progression from there with ancestry feats, like ancestral weapons.

Yeah, your right. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote my original comment. Probably because I was getting familiar with the new book. The Razortooth is a good reference for balancing that ability. I herby withdraw my previous suggestion.

Hey all

I am completely new to pathfinder and will be running my first 2E game this Friday but I'm working on a homebrew setting and will be doing a few homebrew Ancestries. I've not included much information as I'm still working on full details but I'd love some feedback for what I've done so far.

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That looks pretty good. For the plains you may want to say that you get training proficiency in the unarmed attack. Maybe an automatic increase to expert at some point.

Gotta say, half-elf, half-halfling sounds pretty bizarre, but I'm sure love finds its way.

From a glance, Lore Obsession is a lot more powerful than the equivalent feat that Gnomes get. You should probably change it to 1 single lore, and have it become legendary only at level 15.

They aren't actually the combination of a halfling and elf, it just looks like it. They are a distinct race.

The Gnomes do get a second lore skill increase as well, it is just from their background. The 13/15th level thing seems like an error on my part. I fixed it on my master copy. Thanks

This is my first attempt to make a race for 2E. More crunch than fluff though. Let me know what you all think. Thanks.

I agree. Where are the previews?

I've been running my own world for 18 years. There are constant adaptations and adjustments, but I'm able to make it work with no difficulty. Pathfinder 2 seems to be a little Lost Omens-centric rather than a strictly generic gaming system, so more modifications may be necessary. It would be interesting if Paizo ever comes out with other campaign settings, that would probably change their perspective a little.

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I usually think the same thing. Also kudos on your attention to detail.

I didn't see spell resistance (SR) when I looked through the Bestiary.