Does taking Racial Heritage (Goblin) allow a PC to access content from the Goblins of Golarion book?
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Does taking Racial Heritage (Goblin) allow a PC to access content from the Goblins of Golarion book?
Gah, it's getting to the point where I want to see Racial Heritage flat out banned. Regardless:
(original in bold as well)To create a goblin character, you must have a Chronicle sheet that opens the race as a legal option at character creation. Only legal goblin PCs are allowed to choose anything from this book.
Only goblin PCs can use something from the book.
So are you saying its not considered a goblin PC unless you have the boon?
(which is fine)
Simply quoting back the additional resources isn't that helpful, as racial heritage would make you human and goblin and thus wouldn't you be considered a human/goblin PC.
Anyways, if it is that you need the goblin boon to use the content that is okay too.
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Sorry if Belafon's answer seems short or snippy. It's just that we get this question every few weeks around here.
For PFS purposes, Racial Heritage does not get you access to content from other Advance Race Guide races. Here's Mike Brock's clarification HERE.
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Sorry if that came off as short.
My issue with Racial Heritage is that it creates all kinds of problems for PFS Organized Play. The Advanced Race Guide and most of the race books were not out when Advanced Player Guide was released. Racial Heritage seems to have been written to allow you to do small things like take a gnome racial trait, or a feat like "Well-Prepared" (halfling only) as a human. (See - "Golarion is a human-centric campaign setting.") It has lots of uses in a homebrew campaign as well. This is one of those feats that really should have had the text "with GM approval" in it somewhere but that wasn't necessary at the time.
For the ARG they had additional restrictions, but not for other sources (such as the race guides). You could not use Racial Heritage to be a Treesinger [ARG], but you could for a Brightness Seeker [Elves of Golarion].
If I invoke the name Michael Brock, will he come and say whether a human with goblin heritage is goblin enough to access feats from Goblins of Golarion?
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For the ARG they had additional restrictions, but not for other sources (such as the race guides). You could not use Racial Heritage to be a Treesinger [ARG], but you could for a Brightness Seeker [Elves of Golarion].
If I invoke the name Michael Brock, will he come and say whether a human with goblin heritage is goblin enough to access feats from Goblins of Golarion?
No, here is the entire quote from the additional resources page, note the bolding is already in the original text as Belafon pointed out.
Pathfinder Player Companion: Goblins of Golarion
To create a goblin character, you must have a Chronicle sheet that opens the race as a legal option at character creation. Only legal goblin PCs are allowed to choose anything from this book.
Equipment: all equipment in the table on page 12 except cobbled item are legal for play; Feats: all feats on pages 24–25 are legal for play; Magic Items: all magic items on page 29 are legal for play; Misc.: all goblin gods and subdomains except flotsam on pages 26–27 are legal for play; Spells: all spells on pages 28–29 except limp lash are legal for play; Traits: all traits on pages 15–16 are legal for play
Note the line Only legal goblin PCs are allowed to choose anything from this book. If you do not have a boon that allows you to play a goblin then nothing in this book is considered a legal option to you.