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I am curious if it is legal for a Human character to take Racial Heritage: Catfolk. The additional resources document has conflicting information.
In Chapter 2, nothing from the catfolk, drow, hobgoblins, kobolds, and orcs entries are currently legal for play.
Catfolk: all alternate racial traits, favored class options, racial archetypes, racial equipment, feats, magic items, rogue talents, and spells are legal for play.
This makes it sounds like both nothing related to the Catfolk is legal, and yet everything related to the Catfolk is legal.
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I'm not sure where it was written, but somewhere out there it was stated that if a Human wanted the Racial Heritage of a Boon race, they needed to burn the Boon to get access to it.
Pretty sure there would be pleas for restraint and/or offers of trade to prevent a Catfolk Boon from being used like that, though...
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The line in the AR is making those options legal in conjunction with a Catfolk boon. Here is a thread where John chimes in on the topic link
Edit: Ninja'd by Phillipe as he explains exactly the same point.
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That’s where the boon comes in. The boon opens up access to the race for you for a single character. Somewhere along the line, one of the PFS developers was asked if you want to spend your boon opening up access for racial heritage, could you, and they said yes, but it expends the boon just like if you’d made a character of that race. I haven’t been able to track the post down, but it’s out there somewhere.
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There was just a thread where it was linked here in this group a couple of weeks ago...
EDIT: Found it.
EDIT EDIT: And it's not just a developer comment, it's a PFS FAQ.
EDIT EDIT EDIT: So John's comment is 4 years out if date and superceded by the new FAQ.
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The Gencon race boons also have a habit of finding their way into general circulation. I wouldn't be surprised to see Catfolk show up as either a Regional Support boon or a regular convention boon sometime in the next year or two, since it's a popular race that doesn't seem broken, and there's finally Golarion lore for them.
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Basically the only way I will ever get to play one is if they get bumped into the 'Featured' races when they move on from the elemental planar races. I don't GM, and on the rare occasion I actually get to go to a convention, I never get to play or volunteer time.
Maybe some day they will figure out what they are doing with Ultimate Wilderness and I'll be able to play a cat themed Shifter or something along those lines.
I suppose I could always play a Druid, or one of the other animal themed classes/archetypes...beast totem barb? beastmorph alchemist?
If you wanted to play a cat person in PFS without needing a boon, how would you go about it?
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The Agathiel Vigilante is interesting. If I am reading it correctly your vigilante identity becomes a full blown animal shape, but without most of the benefits of full blown Beast Shape?
Not quite what I am after, I was thinking more along the lines of a human (or maybe other humanoid race like elf) that gains cat-like features (claws, fur, maybe a tail)
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Agathiel trades those benefits for other benefits, like keeping your armor and speaking.
There are two different shape-changing barbarians, one of which grants a hybrid form (Mooncursed).
There's lion shaman druid archetype.
Skinshaper druid (wildshape into a catfolk).
Beastmorph alchemist is good or metamorph alchemist.
