orc (hold-scarred) tome thaumaturge/cavalier 3 | ◆◇↺ | Exploration Mode: Search AC 20 | Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +8 | Perception +8 w/ Darkvision| Speed 20 ♥️ 25/42 | ☘️ □□✅| ✋empty/tome implement | ⚕ none | Dying/Wounded □□□□□
Rash is hit by the Reactive Strike for 9 damage.
Here it is. I don't learn anything except for weaknesses. I can either use an actual weakness or the thaumaturge's personal antithesis with my strikes.
Frequency once per round
Requirements You are holding your implement.
You scour your experiences and learning to identify something that might repel your foe. You retrieve an object from your esoterica with the appropriate supernatural qualities, then use your implement to stoke the remnants of its power into a blaze. Select a creature you can see and attempt an Esoteric Lore check against a standard DC for its level, as you retrieve the right object from your esoterica and use your implement to empower it. You gain the following effects until you Exploit Vulnerabilities again.
Critical Success You remember the creature's weaknesses, and as you empower your esoterica, you have a flash of insight that grants even more knowledge about the creature. You learn all of the creature's resistances, weaknesses, and immunities, including the amounts of the resistances and weaknesses and any unusual weaknesses or vulnerabilities, such as what spells will pass through a golem's antimagic. You can exploit either the creature's mortal weakness or personal antithesis (see below). Your unarmed and weapon Strikes against the creature also become magical if they weren't already.
Success You recall an important fact about the creature, learning its highest weakness (or one of its highest weaknesses, if it has multiple with the same value) but not its other weaknesses, resistances, or immunities. You can exploit either the creature's mortal weakness or personal antithesis. Your unarmed and weapon Strikes against the creature also become magical if they weren't already.
Failure Failing to recall a salient weakness about the creature, you instead attempt to exploit a more personal vulnerability. You can exploit only the creature's personal antithesis. Your unarmed and weapon Strikes against the creature also become magical if they weren't already.
Critical Failure You couldn't remember the right object to use and become distracted while you rummage through your esoterica. You become flat-footed until the beginning of your next turn.
You can attempt to Exploit Vulnerabilities in one of two ways: either by invoking properties that repel that type of creature, or by attempting a more improvisational, ad-hoc method with your esoterica that can impose a custom weakness on any creature, albeit one that usually isn't as dire as a creature's existing weakness.
Mortal Weakness After identifying a creature's weakness, you use a thematically resonant bit of esoterica to attune your attacks to your discovery. Your unarmed and weapon Strikes activate the highest weakness you discovered with Exploit Vulnerability, even though the damage type your weapon deals doesn't change. This damage affects the target of your Exploit Vulnerability, as well as any other creatures of the exact same type, but not other creatures with the same weakness. For example, when fighting a pack of werewolves, you might use silver shavings or crushed moonstone to deal damage that applies their weakness to silver to your attacks against any of the werewolves, but you wouldn't apply this damage to any other monsters with a weakness to silver.
Personal Antithesis You improvise a custom weakness on a creature by forcefully presenting and empowering a piece of esoterica that repels it on an individual level; for instance, against a tyrant, you might procure a broken chain that once held a captive. This causes the target creature, and only the target creature, to gain a weakness against your unarmed and weapon Strikes equal to 2 + half your level.
◆ Stride
◆ Strike Trident:1d20 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15Piercing:1d8 + 3 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 3 + 2 = 12The robot has weakness 3 to the attack unless Raash uncovered a greater weakness.
orc (hold-scarred) tome thaumaturge/cavalier 3 | ◆◇↺ | Exploration Mode: Search AC 20 | Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +8 | Perception +8 w/ Darkvision| Speed 20 ♥️ 25/42 | ☘️ □□✅| ✋empty/tome implement | ⚕ none | Dying/Wounded □□□□□
Raash guides his "steed" down the stairs as he holds his weapon in one hand and his tome in another. The book, which was the field journal of an early and prolific Pathfinder agent is open to a section detailing some Azlanti disoveries.
TExploration Activity Investigate (Azlant Lore)
Weapons out? Trident/Tome
Light? Darkvision. Wayfinder extinguished.
Place your Token on the Map in Marching Order done
orc (hold-scarred) tome thaumaturge/cavalier 3 | ◆◇↺ | Exploration Mode: Search AC 20 | Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +8 | Perception +8 w/ Darkvision| Speed 20 ♥️ 25/42 | ☘️ □□✅| ✋empty/tome implement | ⚕ none | Dying/Wounded □□□□□
"If a wayfinder were just an ordinary compass, I'd say we hit upon the biggest chunk of lodestone in all Avistan. But wayfinders aren't ordinary from what little I've learned about them.
orc (hold-scarred) tome thaumaturge/cavalier 3 | ◆◇↺ | Exploration Mode: Search AC 20 | Fort +8, Ref +8, Will +8 | Perception +8 w/ Darkvision| Speed 20 ♥️ 25/42 | ☘️ □□✅| ✋empty/tome implement | ⚕ none | Dying/Wounded □□□□□
A maimed orc leans against the rail, he walked with difficulty due to the injury to his legs and hip. His "steed," a magical plant chair that scuttle around with many roots gave him extra mobility on land. One of his eyes had been put out and was replaced by a magical prosthesis. This too was a gift of the Society to whom he has pledged allegiance.
You've heard his sad tale. He was an orc of the Death's Head tribe. He'd had hopes of one day joining the Knights of Lastwall. As a Gozren, he despised the undead and Whispering Way that embraced such an unnatural state. But some of his tribe were swayed by the promise of power in undeath and betrayed him. One day, while on Patrol, the conspirators lured him into an ambush. They left Raash to die in a field bringing back only a tall tale of wild animals tearing him apart. Raash did not die, however and over the next few weeks he slowly made his way to Freedom Town. There he met a venture-captain of the Pathfinder Society who took pity on him.
Raash has a normal wayfinder.
Raash is a cavalier with a rootball chair mount. His order is the Pathfinder Society
As a newly minted agent he was sent here on his first assignment. (This character is a complete rebuild of another PC after the remaster, so no prior history)
