I'm wondering if the idea of something like a grisgris bag, hexbag or medicine bag has been introduced in Pathfinder at all? If so, what's the official way they work?
If not I'm thinking they might work a bit like runes or potions, in that they require a feat to create but that they allow you to imbue a spell into the bag which you can set off later. I like the idea of making some raise dead hexbags and leave them around on dead bodies so you can raise them as needed. Or that you can plant one on an enemy and then curse them with various malignant spells. That sort of thing.
If it already exists in some form I want to run it the official way, if there isn't anything like this yet, then what do you folks think of my way of handling it?
There are a few archetypes that have it.
The Juju Oracle has a craft feat to make Juju Fetishes. It's in AP #39- Serpent Skull: City of Seven Spears.
I'll look that up. Thanks!
So I'm back. Turns out City of Seven Spires is one I actually own (a gift from Sean K. Reynolds it turns out!) so I got to actually pull it right down and read it rather than have to hunt it down on the PFSRD or buy a PDF to find it. I love it when that happens.
So while the actual items I was looking for aren't there, the conceptual framework is pretty much exactly what I'd hoped for! It gives me plenty of space to introduce the things I want, which thematically are right in the vein of the examples they give.
So I'll call that a win. Thanks again!
You bet! If you can find it, there's a hardcover from 2002 (3rd ed D&D) called, "Nyambe: African Adventures" which has some great African flavor. Not official PF, but a good source of inspiration anyway.