Force for Good trait


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Does the aura empowering affect any aura or just Good auras? It would seem to affect any aura as written, which could be really humorous.

Guide to PFS Organized Play wrote:

Force for Good: Your good-aligned spells are especially

powerful, and they function at +1 caster level. This trait
makes your aura more powerful (one step higher), as
outlined in the detect evil spell.


Pathfinder Starfinder Society Subscriber

By RAW, it would seem to affect only your (non-existent) evil aura, since it references the detect evil spell and that spell only detects evil auras. By RAI, it should probably affect your aura of good.


I'm fairly certain it references Detect Evil because that's where the chart is. My thought was a character with an Evil aura getting this trait to enhance it.

Scarab Sages

Serisan wrote:
I'm fairly certain it references Detect Evil because that's where the chart is. My thought was a character with an Evil aura getting this trait to enhance it.

Just talk to your GM and ask if you can make the opposite trait, force of evil, which empowers certain evil aligned spells (there are more evil spells than good spells IIRC) and moves you one step up on the evil aura table.


Considering the trait is PFS-oriented, it's meant for Good-aligned characters, as PFS is Good only.


PFS is Good/Neutral, but you can still be Neutral and worship and Evil deity, giving you an Evil aura, if you happen to be a class with the Aura class feature.

There's definitely something to be said about worshipping something Evil and being in the Silver Crusade faction, but you could also theoretically be Good and worship a deity that would give you a Chaotic or Lawful aura instead - Abadar, Gorum, Irori, etc.

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