Class Features That Give A Hometown Bonus?

[J. A.]

Apart from campaign-specific traits, are there any class features, archetypes, feats, etc. that give a bonus while in a specific hometown?

I know I’ve come across something like this recently, but can’t call it to mind. I’m looking for anything in official Pathfinder 1E, but I’m open to official Wizards content if there’s anything similar.

[Scott Wilhelm]

Rangers' Favored Terrain

[J. A.]

Thanks. I should clarify that I'm looking for anything that gives a bonus while the character is in a single, predetermined location, eg. Magnimar.

I do like favored terrain, but (to use a real-world parallel) if your favored terrain is "chaparral," then that bonus will apply in southern California, southern France, parts of South Africa and a small region of Chile, since chaparral occurs in all those places.

What I'm looking for is something that allows a character to select one town as his hometown, and gain bonuses only while in that one town. I feel like I've come across this recently in one of the Pathfinder books, but I can't bring it to mind.

[Ryze Kuja]

There aren't any class features, archetypes, or feats that I'm aware of, but there's a GM tool called Special Circumstances that provides Circumstance bonuses to performing certain actions while in your hometown. Like, if I was your GM, and you were a PC visiting your hometown, you would be familiar with almost everyone there, so your Diplomacy rolls to Gather Information would receive a sizeable (probably +5, +8, or +10) circumstance bonus, because not only would you have the knowledge of who to talk to, but that person would also be more agreeable to divulge information to someone they know (even if you had beef with them during your childhood/backstory, as long as said beef didn't elevate you to "mortal enemies for life"). The same circumstance bonus would be afforded to most Cha-based skills, but also even skills like Stealth or Sense Motive.

Good IRL example: two weeks ago my fridge stopped working, and I live about 40 miles from my hometown. I called a childhood friend back in my home town and asked him if I could use his truck with a tailgate lift on it, he said yes. So I headed to his work (in our hometown) after I got off work, we started chatting and I said I was planning on going up to Home Depot near my place because my wife found a new fridge for $800. My friend said "hold up, have you checked the appliance store in our hometown yet? I've got a buddy over there who can give you a screamin deal". I said no, good idea, I'll head over there. My friend called over to the appliance store and asked them to give me the "friend" price. Sure enough, long story short, the guy gave me a brand new fridge that had a dent in it (so they couldn't sell it as a new fridge) for $350 out the door, and then delivered it for free.

Obviously, I probably had a +10 circumstance bonus to my Find Fridge roll because I was looking for one in my home town, and I must've beaten the DC by over 20 because I saved about $450.

[Cornebre]

The vigilante get hometown bonus with the renown talent and it's dependencies.
Anyone with a renown really (Either thought RP or the renown feat Masked Renown)

[ErichAD]

Site bound oracle curse works a bit like that. There's also a spell that functions like bless with a long duration while in your home town. "Blessing of the Watch"

[Orodhen]

Celebrity Bard, Urban Ranger Ranger, Zeitgeist Binder Spiritualist.

[VoodistMonk]

The Ranger archetype called Dandy gets Favored Nation.

[avr]

There's a handful of feats along these lines. Probably favored community, but the town tamer and nation builder story feats or the masked renown general feat might be relevant.

[J. A.]

Thanks for all the suggestions, folks, I appreciate it.

And Ryze, I sure wish I'd had a friend like yours when I was shopping for a new fridge last year.

: )