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I have my book and those traits are very nice.
They are called exemplar traits and you can only hove one of them, but having an exemplar trait allows you to have multiple traits of the same type as the exemplar. The catagories for the exemplar traits are combat, region, magic, faith, and social.
the boosts come for every other 2 you have in the same type. also having an exemplar trait lets you pick the feat for additional traits more than once. however the power of an exemplar trait is not to be taken lightly. since it counts as 2 normal traits when you first pick it. so make sure you can handle it.
A slight correction on this: each of them counts differently. Curator of Mystic Secrets and Traveler of a Hundred Lands scale with every trait of their type, rather than every two.
If your campaign permits drawbacks, this is a way to start benefiting from those scaling benefits immediately. Plus whatever those other traits offer, of course. ^_^
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I have my book and those traits are very nice.
They are called exemplar traits and you can only hove one of them, but having an exemplar trait allows you to have multiple traits of the same type as the exemplar. The catagories for the exemplar traits are combat, region, magic, faith, and social.
the boosts come for every other 2 you have in the same type. also having an exemplar trait lets you pick the feat for additional traits more than once. however the power of an exemplar trait is not to be taken lightly. since it counts as 2 normal traits when you first pick it. so make sure you can handle it.
A slight correction on this: each of them counts differently. Curator of Mystic Secrets and Traveler of a Hundred Lands scale with every trait of their type, rather than every two.
If your campaign permits drawbacks, this is a way to start benefiting from those scaling benefits immediately. Plus whatever those other traits offer, of course. ^_^
These are really interesting, will have to dive into them more over the coming days.
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I have my book and those traits are very nice.
They are called exemplar traits and you can only hove one of them, but having an exemplar trait allows you to have multiple traits of the same type as the exemplar. The catagories for the exemplar traits are combat, region, magic, faith, and social.
the boosts come for every other 2 you have in the same type. also having an exemplar trait lets you pick the feat for additional traits more than once. however the power of an exemplar trait is not to be taken lightly. since it counts as 2 normal traits when you first pick it. so make sure you can handle it.
A slight correction on this: each of them counts differently. Curator of Mystic Secrets and Traveler of a Hundred Lands scale with every trait of their type, rather than every two.
If your campaign permits drawbacks, this is a way to start benefiting from those scaling benefits immediately. Plus whatever those other traits offer, of course. ^_^
I see these exemplar traits as almost the opposite of the capstones in terms of their effects. While the capstones are nice rewards to give characters at the very end of a campaign, these exemplar traits look like they provide an excuse to run one more 1st edition campaign from scratch, as I could imagine building characters around these traits from 1st level.
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THanks you for making great stuff paizo team. I really hope one days perhaps pathfinder 2.0 make mythic stuff beyond 10 level but any ways i like it.
What is the Witch Capstone called?
What does the Shaman Hex Mastery grant?
And what does Arch Familiar and Great Beast do?
And more info on Deep Magic please?
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What is the Witch Capstone called?
The Witch and the Alchemist already get a variable capstone, with grand hexes and grand discoveries, so rather than replace those I simply wrote one new grand hex and one new grand discovery.
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I was very much thinking of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain when I wrote it.
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As a note, Chronicle of Legends had so much great material that we couldn't fit it all in. Rather than leave it on the cutting room floor forever, I made sure it was available on the blog post for the product. Check it out!
Omg this looks amazing! Can anyone give a brief summary of the prestige classes?
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Omg this looks amazing! Can anyone give a brief summary of the prestige classes?
Eldritch Knight, but it's for psychic classes and Kineticist. That's right, Kineticist PrC! It's got half-progression, like Eldritch Knight.
What is the Witch Capstone called?
What does the Shaman Hex Mastery grant?
And what does Arch Familiar and Great Beast do?
And more info on Deep Magic please?
- Grants a Grand Hex.
- Improve intelligence and grant SLAs (Free Wish 1/day? Don't mind if I do.) for Arch Familiar. Improve physical stats and wisdom for Great Beast.
- Extra spell known of each level.
Excluding capstones, any options for the Kineticist?
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By the way, just wanted to mention my favorite thing in here from a section not yet covered: the vigilante talents.
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Our campaigns never make it to 20th level, so the capstones aren't of much interest to our group. The exemplar traits are really cool, but I was expecting something that leveled with experience rather than the number of traits of a type a character had...still useful and fun. The prestige class feats are really cool, though I will have to search to find the PRC's they compliment.
I think my favorite part of this book is the Magic Trick feats, though. Weaponizing the Daylight spell is something I have ALWAYS wanted. This gets that started in a big way!
It is all fun stuff, even if I may not use it all so thanks to everyone who contributed as this is a really nice farewell to classic Pathfinder!
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For the archmage's vestments, there is both a staff and a shield. If a wizard were to be using the full five piece set he would not be able to cast spells since he would have no hands free.
"A light shield's weight lets you carry other items in that hand, although you cannot use weapons with it."
Assuming that you are not trying to use your staff as a weapon, you could hold the staff with the hand of the same arm that is carrying your shield.
@QuidEst
On your favorite thing
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@QuidEst
On your favorite thing
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For the social talent, suppose you're playing a halfling. Your social identity can be a taller heavy-set male halfling who looks like they're from Cheliax, and their vigilante identity can be a shorter medium-built female halfling who looks like they're from Tian Xia. You can't change those two forms, though, and you can't have halfling and gnome. I won't go into how that works mechanically, though, because the book isn't out.
What does Vast Explosions (Alchemist Grand Discovery) and Proxy (Cleric capstone) do?
What does Vast Explosions (Alchemist Grand Discovery) and Proxy (Cleric capstone) do?
Vast Explosions: Bombs do more damage.
Proxy: Closer connection to deity. I am not sure how to describe this one without totally giving away the mechanics.
I was very much thinking of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain when I wrote it.Nice!
This scene looks like something that would happen frequently in Ustalav. Although the middle 1/3 looks positively Chelaxian/Infernal . . . .
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So far, the only major error I found was in the intro paragraph about exemplar traits. It contradicts itself about how often you can take an exemplar trait. I assume that the clearer sentence that you can only take one such trait is correct and that the other sentence needs to be translated into correct English.
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So far, the only major error I found was in the intro paragraph about exemplar traits. It contradicts itself about how often you can take an exemplar trait. I assume that the clearer sentence that you can only take one such trait is correct and that the other sentence needs to be translated into correct English.
I wouldn't even say that's an error, I understand it was talking about taking traits of its category type on first read through and didn't think anything of it until brought up just now. I can see people misreading it but that's different than it being an error.
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I think my favorite part of this book is the Magic Trick feats, though. Weaponizing the Daylight spell is something I have ALWAYS wanted. This gets that started in a big way!
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Any chance we can get a quick rundown on how Magic Trick affects Daylight? I have a cleric of Sarenrae ready for Tyrant's Grasp that would love to know haha.
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Any chance we can get a quick rundown on how Magic Trick affects Daylight? I have a cleric of Sarenrae ready for Tyrant's Grasp that would love to know haha....
I think my favorite part of this book is the Magic Trick feats, though. Weaponizing the Daylight spell is something I have ALWAYS wanted. This gets that started in a big way!
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Can beam it through a shield, buff a weapon against undead, use it on a lantern to increase the duration, increase it's intensity vs vampires, pretend to have a halo, or use it with a ranged weapon and have spell be pinned to the target.
There's a lot more to it than that obviously but that's the quick.
The two Daylight tricks I liked were getting hour-per-level duration and getting a flash of true sunlight.
Does the universal capstone never stay dead or whatever it was called (sorry just sneaking a reply at work) prevent you from dieing of old age?
Does the universal capstone never stay dead or whatever it was called (sorry just sneaking a reply at work) prevent you from dieing of old age?
Won't Stay Dead just makes it darned difficult to kill your character, as once a week he can miraculously survive one incident that would otherwise kill him or remove him from play.
What sort of theme and powers does the kineticist prestige class have, also what drawbacks would you say it has?
Would the ritual prestige class be of any benefit to a kineticist?
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The Esoteric Knight is set up to blend martial (and specifically fighter) feats at odd levels with occult spell progression and mystic combat abilities that are mostly activated by using up occult spell slots at even levels. It is set up so that a Kineticist can substitute wild talent and infusion progression for the occult spell progression and accumulating burn for using up spell slots. The drawbacks to this class are the spell/talent/infusion progression (only at even levels) and the lack of progression for any other features of your original base occult class. It works best for a Fighter who wants to dabble in occult stuff.
The Ritualist prestige class lacks the Kineticist references of the Esoteric Knight and thus is useless to Kineticists.
The Esoteric Knight is set up to blend martial (and specifically fighter) feats at odd levels with occult spell progression and mystic combat abilities that are mostly activated by using up occult spell slots at even levels. It is set up so that a Kineticist can substitute wild talent and infusion progression for the occult spell progression and accumulating burn for using up spell slots. The drawbacks to this class are the spell/talent/infusion progression (only at even levels) and the lack of progression for any other features of your original base occult class. It works best for a Fighter who wants to dabble in occult stuff.
The Ritualist prestige class lacks the Kineticist references of the Esoteric Knight and thus is useless to Kineticists.
Thank you
What is the feat designed for Duelists?
What is the feat designed for Duelists?
Surprising Strategy lets you perform certain combat maneuvers instead of a standard attack as your Riposte.
How many pages does the book have?
It's part of the Pathfinder Player Companion line, so 32 pages.
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As much as I want to buy and use this one sine it sounds awesome!
-> I have to say no new books for me until Heroes of Golarion gets corrected and the rather sloppy mistakes are getting their errata. Sad but true. :(
They only do Errata on reprints so...
Chances are any errors in this book and other Players Companions will seek corrections made and posted up on the Campaign Clarifications section of the site.
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As a note, Chronicle of Legends had so much great material that we couldn't fit it all in. Rather than leave it on the cutting room floor forever, I made sure it was available on the blog post for the product. Check it out!
Totally bookmarked this. It's too bad they couldn't make it into the book, but glad to still have them out in the open.
Can anyone let me in on the cleric capstone, Proxy?
^Getting a third Domain (presumably second Domain for some archetypes) sounds okay as far as it goes, but 20th level sounds awfully late for knowing whether your deity would approve of your actions, since you really needed to figure this out much earlier just to be able to get that far . . . .