So, I really liked this race when I saw it and want to homebrew a PC version, but I don't quite understand what the "Modernized Arms" means.
Modernized Arms (Ex) Any izalguun equipment that would normally have the archaic weapon property loses this property when wielded by an izalguun.
Does it mean that:
a) Archaic weapons built by Izalguun lack that property?
b) All archaic weapons suddenly lose that property when an Izalguun picks them up?
c) Archaic weapons built by Izalguun lack that property when wielded by them but gain it when used by others?
I'm leaning towards a) or c) because it's an Ex ability, so I can't imagine it miraculously remove the Archaic property of a PCs club when an Izalguun picks it up.
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This should probably be in the GM Discussion thread, but since you asked, I'd run with the inverse of C - izalguun weapons have the archaic quality, but when an izalguun wields it, they get to ignore it. Their weapons look primitive, but when they start wielding the weapons, it somehow can slip past modern armors.
I think C. It seemed a little metagamey but that was the idea
Depends. I can entirely buy the concept of a person or species with some kind of "preternatural weapon usage", whose features include "ignore the archaic property". I know nothing about the Izalguun, though, so I can't judge appropriateness.
I think the idea is that while their tech looks primitive, it's actually not, so outsiders don't know how to use it correctly, and so in their hands it's no better than the primitive version.