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I'm a PFS player,and my friend has a dissidence with me.
The description of the feat "Racial Heritage":
Prerequisite: Human
Benefit: Choose another humanoid race. You count as both human and that race for any effects related to race. For example, if you choose dwarf, you are considered both a human and a dwarf for the purpose of taking traits, feats, how spells and magic items affect you, and so on.
According to the Additional Resources about the book 《Inner Sea Races》，“The racial heritages section from page 236–254 is a legal resource when qualifying to play a character of a different race, much as if the player owned a copy of the corresponding Bestiary or Advanced Race Guide”.
I'm not very good at English，so I'm confused about weather can I use Racial Heritage to choose，for example，the Vishkanyas,so that I can use the Deadly Courtesan Archetype.What does the word " when qualifying to play a character of a different race" exactly mean,is it a condition,or just a purpose?
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It means that you can use the section of the book mentioned if you want to create a character of that race, provided you qualify by having a boon certificate, or the race is available to all players as listed in the Guide.
You should check Additional Resources for the sourcebook that contains the Deadly Courtesan to see if the archetype is restricted for PFS play (as opposed to Pathfinder game rules) to a vishkanya character. If that is the case, Racial Heritage won't help.
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Racial Heritage is probably the most confusing feat published. Many PFS players try to use it to do things that it isn't intended to do.
You must be human to take the feat. It doesn't change your race. What it does is let you count as another humanoid race for purposes that affect only that race.
For example: If you choose Racial Heritage (Elf) you qualify to take the Elven Accuracy feat. You also count as an elf (and still as a human) for purposes of a ranger's favored enemy.
The Additional Resources section for Advanced Race Guide includes this line:
Note: Alternate racial traits, racial archetypes, racial evolutions, racial feats, and racial spells are only available for characters of the associated race.
The Racial Heritage feat is not very useful in PFS, as it does not overcome PFS house rules that limit certain options to actual members of a given race. It is far more useful in a non-PFS game.
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The Racial Heritage feat is not very useful in PFS, as it does not overcome PFS house rules that limit certain options to actual members of a given race. It is far more useful in a non-PFS game.
That depends. Only for certain source books are the race-specific options actually limited to that specific race. For other source books, you can take them with Racial Heritage even in PFS.
That also applies to other methods. For example, if the question is "can I use Shadow Conjuration to duplicate a race-specific spell?" then the answer is "that depends on which book it's from".
Check the AR document for details.
One generalization I can make is this: In PFS, Racial Heritage generally will not give you access to any ability associated with a race that either requires a boon to select or is not available at all.