Rules For designing Objects Outside Craft? Custom Items, Racial Traits, etc.?


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Is there a ruling in Pathfinder that covers designing your own items outside the Craft rules or creating your own feats or racial traits published by Paizo?


Your question is a bit unclear. Do you mean "Has Paizo published any documents that cover a) designing your own items (besides the Craft rules); b) creating your own feats; or c) creating your own racial traits?


Write it up and run it past your GM.
If you are the GM, go for it. There is a very helpful homebrew forum who will give you feedback if you want to sanity check your idea.

There is:
designing spells

The notoriously imbalanced race designer

Designing classes

there is also a point buy weapon design system in weapon masters handb-book.

Nothing for general item, feats or traits that I could find. Trawling through those should give you an idea of design principles - maybe. Common sense tells you not to make something so good it knocks anything else out of the water. Don't make something that makes stacking ability scores on to one skill/ability too easy. The type bonuses are there for a reason. etc.

Have fun.

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CrystalSeas wrote:
Your question is a bit unclear. Do you mean "Has Paizo published any documents that cover a) designing your own items (besides the Craft rules); b) creating your own feats; or c) creating your own racial traits?

All of them at once, I suppose.

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dragonhunterq wrote:

Write it up and run it past your GM.

If you are the GM, go for it. There is a very helpful homebrew forum who will give you feedback if you want to sanity check your idea.

There is:
designing spells

The notoriously imbalanced race designer

Designing classes

there is also a point buy weapon design system in weapon masters handb-book.

Nothing for general item, feats or traits that I could find. Trawling through those should give you an idea of design principles - maybe. Common sense tells you not to make something so good it knocks anything else out of the water. Don't make something that makes stacking ability scores on to one skill/ability too easy. The type bonuses are there for a reason. etc.

Have fun.

Thanks for the feedback. All great ideas. I will look into them.

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