Screw the archetypes, I'm interested in the "new system for generating character backgrounds and motivations using the harrow deck, with associated traits." That's the real meat of this book.
The free fan magazine Wayfinder has rules of this type, done by the lovely website gninja Liz Courts! It's in the Varisia/first year themed issue.
I am very interested about that sorcerer bloodline, so what can you tell us about that one?
Why is it that the people that actually get these books in advance come on just long enough to tell everyone they have the book then drop smoke pellets and disappear when we have a metric ton of questions for them?
Everyone, start throwing virtual rotten eggs immediately!
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This little tidbit is most of the Witch Archetype.
This ability replaces the witch’s familiar. The following familiar ability works differently for a cartomancer.
Deliver Touch Spells (Su): At 3rd level, when the cartomancer uses the Deadly Dealer feat with a card from her spell deck, the card is not destroyed and gains the returning weapon special ability.
In addition, the cartomancer can deliver a touch spell with a thrown card. This uses the Deadly Dealer feat (see below), except the attack is resolved as a ranged touch attack and the card deals no damage of its own. This ability can be used with any card (not just one from the cartomancer’s spell deck).
I added the bold, because it's important.
The rest of the archetype is it replaces the second level hex with Deadly Dealer.
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I am aware, but I'm interested in what the system is like in this book. I'm hoping for something that allows me to generate ability scores (because come on Paizo, the way the suites are in Harrow makes it such an obvious use for the cards!), but if not I'll just combine the two systems somehow.Screw the archetypes, I'm interested in the "new system for generating character backgrounds and motivations using the harrow deck, with associated traits." That's the real meat of this book.The free fan magazine Wayfinder has rules of this type, done by the lovely website gninja Liz Courts! It's in the Varisia/first year themed issue.
The system in the Harrow Handbook is for creating a background as presented in Ultimate Campaign. The creation system in Wayfinder #5 does indeed use the cards to generate ability scores. :)
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This little tidbit is most of the Witch Archetype.
** spoiler omitted **
I added the bold, because it's important.The rest of the archetype is it replaces the second level hex with Deadly Dealer.
THAT IS AWESOME!!!
I'm so making one of these the second I get the pdf in my downloads. FINALLY GAMBIT!!!
Please tell us about the Magus change. Man it sounds awesome. Is it compatible with the staff magus build?
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Please tell us about the Magus change. Man it sounds awesome. Is it compatible with the staff magus build?
Let's see, card caster modifies Arcane Pool, replaces and modifies spellstrike, and replaces the arcana gained at third level, so yes it is compatible with the staff magus.
Spellstrike and Arcane Pool only work with throwing weapons for the Card Caster, unlike Myrmidarch however the Card Caster can use touch spells with thrown weapons, and they gain Deadly Dealer for free at first level.
Awesome!
I really hope Society management is serious about revisiting Harrow legality in general so that this book can wind up being legal for PFS at some point.
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Awesome!
I really hope Society management is serious about revisiting Harrow legality in general so that this book can wind up being legal for PFS at some point.
There is hope, considering this facebook update.
What is the Harrowed bloodline like?
What does the Story summoner do? sounds like a great fit for the harrowing module.
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Hey Dylos, might you give me a tiny spoiler. Is their any Oracle options present? I don't need to know the full details of course.
There is an Oracle Mystery, the Solar Mystery, but personally, the mystery doesn't seem very appealing.
The revelations are a Shadow Walk-like ability (its a SU btw), a fire attack that is really weak 1/day, min/level form that spreads light as a sunrod and grants blur, +1/2 your level on survival and fly and learn 3 languages, the ability to sustain yourself purely off light and eventually become immune to poison and disease, even weaker fire attack that can later be used to bull rush 3+Cha times per day, Dodge feat+Wind Stance at 8th and Lightning Stance at 15th, an ability similar to the shadow dancer's shadow jump except in bright light or the area of a daylight spell, clairaudience/clairvoyance spell-like that later becomes scrying and eventually greater scrying, and the ability to double the range of a torch or similar object. The final revelation causes you to cease aging and automatically effect any conjuration (teleport) or fire or light spells with enlarge without increasing spell level.
What is the Harrowed bloodline like?
Well, the Arcana is very focused on Divination spells, it reads
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What does the Story summoner do? sounds like a great fit for the harrowing module.
Additionally, the Story Summoner replaces bond senses with the ability to augment their summons by drawing a card from the harrow deck, depending on the card, they apply a template.
At level 8 the story summoner replaces transposition with the ability to swap the base form of their eidolon upon leveling.
are the templates just numbers or do cool aesthetic things happen as well?
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If you want the harrow to really effect your summons, you need this feat
Prerequisite: Harrowed (Pathfinder Campaign Setting: The Inner Sea World Guide 287).
Benefit: When you cast a conjuration (summoning) spell or use a spell-like ability to summon one or more creatures, you can draw two random cards from a complete harrow deck you own. Doing so adds both a somatic component (if the spell does not already have one) and a focus component (the harrow deck) to the spell, but does not increase the spell’s casting time. For the duration of the spell, each summoned creature gains a +4 enhancement bonus to the corresponding ability scores of the drawn card’s suits. If both cards are the same suit, each summoned creature gains a +6 bonus to that ability score instead. If either card’s alignment is a true match for the summoned creatures’ alignment, the duration of the spell is doubled, while drawing an opposite match halves the duration of the spell. If both a true match and an opposite match are drawn, the spell’s duration is unchanged. A creature summoned in this way is distinctly altered by the cards drawn. Its physical appearance reflects the visual elements of the cards (for example, a creature summoned with The Publican might have only one eye). The creature’s personality is also influenced by the cards, but not so much as to alter its alignment (for example, The Snakebite might summon a creature that likes to gossip).
Thanks for answering kurt questions, btw.
Do the templates do anything funky?
Just 15 days to go. *sigh*
It sounds like the Story Summoner isn't compatible with any of the other archetypes (Blood God notwithstanding)? That's a shame.
I hate to ask much more of you but what's the cavalier order about? Using lucerne hammers?
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It sounds like the Story Summoner isn't compatible with any of the other archetypes (Blood God notwithstanding)? That's a shame.
I hate to ask much more of you but what's the cavalier order about? Using lucerne hammers?
Oddly, they would be much better off using their own fists. Their 2nd level ability gives them monk unarmed damage, as long as its nonlethal, if its lethal they do normal unarmed damage.
Here's the fluff: Cavaliers of the order of the hammer respect might over all, and believe that those who prove their strength have earned the right to make decisions for the weak. When the cavalier’s own goals conflict with those of a mighty ruler, the cavalier must prove that her own strength and ideals are superior.
what is the Sczarni Swindler? Grig Jig?
what is the Rabbit's Blade?
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Rogue archetype, rogue talent, magic item.
Rogue archetype, rogue talent, magic item.
..............True, though a spoiler would have been more.................desirable.
Go read the Rabbit card then :)
*sigh*
Well I'll keep waiting for the 28th to arrive. ;)
"Eccentric Osirionologists insist the god Nex gifted the Land
of the Pharaohs with harrow cards during the period of
his rule over the desert nation."
Surely you mean Nethys?
Solar oracle mystery? Praise the sun! :D
But what does it do?
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Anyone who looks at the oracle becomes blinded by the light.
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I'm now tempted to make an NPC sun goddess with 20 levels of oracle and ten tiers of hierophant, using the Divine Source mythic ability. Maybe throw the Half-Celestial template on top just for good measure.
