Occult Character Codex: Mediums (PFRPG) PDF

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Let the Spirits Arise Within You!

Occult Character Codex: Mediums contains 20 detailed medium stat blocks, including both ordinary mediums using their powers to let eldritch spirits of legendary heroes and villains to wield their powers by opening themselves to their spiritual influence and channeling the power of haunts and spirits alike through trances and séances, as well as relic channelers and reanimated mediums alike! You'll find medium humans and halflings, dwarves and elves, but also stranger races like centaurs, aasimars, and monstrous berbalangs, running the gamut from good to evil and all points in between. With the Occult Character Codex, you'll have an entire arsenal of medium characters waiting and ready to blow your players' minds!

The Occult Character Codex series brings you a fantastic collection of detailed, ready-to-use stat blocks for psychic characters using the new classes in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Occult Adventures rulebook. These characters can be used by GMs as allies or villains, friends or rivals, helpful characters or mysterious strangers, or any other use the GM can think of. Every installment includes 20 fully developed premade characters from 1st to 20th level, drawn from many races and specialties within each class and designed with a full array of spells, magic items, feats, psychic abilities, and detailed tactics for ease of use. If you'd love to introduce elements of the new psychic and occult rules into your campaign but feel a bit overwhelmed by the sheer volume of new material to absorb, this is the book for you. Each Occult Character Codex is an ideal complement to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game NPC Codex from Paizo, Inc.

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An Endzeitgeist.com review

5/5

This installment of the Occult Character Codex-series clocks in at 28 pages, 1 page front cover, 2 pages editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page how-to-use, 2 pages of advertisement, 1 page SRD, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 19 pages of content, so let's take a look!

Occult Adventures is a great book, but the rather complex classes in the book do provide a challenge regarding time-investment to create sample NPCs. This is where this series comes in for the time-starved GM - basically, we have a collection of characters herein, spanning the CRs from 1 - 20, all ready and set for your perusal.

So how were they made? Well, for one, the builds use Pathfinder Unchained's automatic bonus progression, which means that the characters have a better chance to stand against the PCs sans flooding the campaign with magic items. The builds are not made to be sheer exercises in powergaming superiority that exist in a vacuum, instead championing the approach of making viable characters that work concisely as though they were proper characters, complete with a brief personality sketch, but expect no lengthy elaboration of motivations etc.. Options and buffs are included in the statblocks, though handy pre-buff sections provide the information sans them, should your PCs be able to catch the character unaware. There are also some minor pieces of advice for GMs using the character

As far as diversity of the statblocks is concerned, there is, particularly concerning the racial variety, enough going on: Beyond the core-races, we actually get e.g. centaurs and berbalangs. Now, as in previous installments, e.g. the berbalang and centaur-builds look similar in archetypes used, but that similarity comes apart almost immediately once you take a look at feat-choice, spells etc. - so no, no boring straight progressions.

Archetype-wise, we slightly deviate from the formula established by the series - that is, this time around, three archetypes are used in builds: Here, that would be the relic channeler and the storyteller and we also get a reanimated medium - unfortunately, the others aren't covered. On the plus-side, the tactics-section for the respective builds is relatively detailed and the statblocks include buff-suites, where applicable as well as stats for the unbuffed iterations of the respective character. Now, class-specific things to consider would be the following: The mediums presented here are presented with the spirit they usually channel - different spirits obviously have different ramifications. The general selection of spirits featured in the builds is pretty diverse. Taboos have not been preselected - an array of suggested taboos would have been nice. The pdf also noted that archmage's spells do not suffer from arcane spell failure and tactics are based on mediums not gaining additional influence.

The builds themselves, as organic characters, sport barkeepers, con artists and master merchants as well as adventurers; quite a few flavors are covered and provide different foci for the respective characters. Skills and magic item selection is similarly diverse, offering a broad selection of foci for the respective builds.

Conclusion:

Editing and formatting are top-notch, I noticed no glitches. Layout adheres to a beautiful, two-column full-color standard and the pdf sports several beautiful pieces of full-color artwork, some old, some new. The pdf comes fully bookmarked for your convenience

Julian Neale's collection of mediums is diverse, concise and covers a significant array of different roles and builds. While I would have loved to see all archetypes covered, I get why not all of them are part of this pdf's cadre of NPCs. All in all, this is a solid collection of NPCs that does what it says on the tin. My final verdict will clock in at 5 stars.

Endzeitgeist out.


Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

Time to show your occult spirit! Come and get possessed (of this awesome PDF)! :)


Reviewed first on endzeitgeist.com, then submitted to Nerdtrek and GMS magazine and posted here, on OBS, d20pfsrd.com's shop and amazon.com.


That's a great review as always, End. I admit to some amused surprise at hearing about a centaur medium, but if it works...


Thanks, Eric! :D

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