Fetchling


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Anyone play a Fetching yet with 2E. I find the Ancestry very interesting.

Wayfinders

I'm playing one at the moment (a LE Kuthite bard in a converted Hell's Vengeance, formely a sort of shadow puppeteer), and it's pretty fun, though I haven't had too many opportunites to really get in on the fetchling ancestry weirdness yet - but I intend to swap over to the shadowcaster archetype once we wrap up the current chapter - which is interesting given my current heritage is bright (because, y'know, shadowcasting requires giving up your inner light and all that) - but my GM is willing to let me swap my heritage as part of the process, a sort of additional sacrifice for becoming a shadowcaster.


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I'm playing a kayal in PFS. He's a bounty hunter background ranger, sent by the Nidalese army to hunt down a deserter (one of my other [human] PFS characters).

He's going to take a shadow sorcerer dedication at Level 2 to round out some of the feel.

I've been playing him as loyal to the Nidalese army more so than religiously tied to Zon-Kuthon. He repeats a lot of propaganda, and doesn't really question it. Coincidentally, in his first adventure, he ran into another kayal, a follower of Desna / Cosmic Caravan, so he's had plenty of opportunity to extol the virtues of Zon-Kuthon.

Mechanically, there's nothing weird about the class. Just a lot of very interesting roleplay, IMO.

I imagine (and it's been hinted at in the canon) that kayal and azarketi consider themselves underappreciated keepers of ancient human traditions that were mostly wiped out during Earthfall.


Watery Soup wrote:

I'm playing a kayal in PFS. He's a bounty hunter background ranger, sent by the Nidalese army to hunt down a deserter (one of my other [human] PFS characters).

He's going to take a shadow sorcerer dedication at Level 2 to round out some of the feel.

I've been playing him as loyal to the Nidalese army more so than religiously tied to Zon-Kuthon. He repeats a lot of propaganda, and doesn't really question it. Coincidentally, in his first adventure, he ran into another kayal, a follower of Desna / Cosmic Caravan, so he's had plenty of opportunity to extol the virtues of Zon-Kuthon.

Mechanically, there's nothing weird about the class. Just a lot of very interesting roleplay, IMO.

I imagine (and it's been hinted at in the canon) that kayal and azarketi consider themselves underappreciated keepers of ancient human traditions that were mostly wiped out during Earthfall.

How easy is it to get non-core ancestry picks in PFS? I haven't looked at that too closely.


Watery Soup wrote:

He's going to take a shadow sorcerer dedication at Level 2 to round out some of the feel.

Mechanically, there's nothing weird about the class.

I suspect you meant 'ancestry', but you said 'class'. So I am commenting on that.

One thing to watch out for is that the shadow sorcerer bloodline spell Dim the Light is a bit clunky. Very few spells trigger the reaction, and the effect that it provides is not very useful after you have already spent two of your three actions during that round casting a spell.

But with your character only having the Sorcerer archetype, that is avoidable and at worst it is still only a small part of the character's mechanical power.


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Perpdepog wrote:
How easy is it to get non-core ancestry picks in PFS? I haven't looked at that too closely.

It varies.

Everything is controlled by AcP. Typically, you get 4 AcP for playing a scenario, and double for GMing. Everything is a 1.25x modifier for conventions, 1.5x for special conventions. So I'll just give prices and let people decide what "easy" means. :)

The baseline price for Uncommon ancestries/heritages is 80 AcP. The baseline price for Rare ancestries is 160 AcP.

Catfolk and hobgoblin are Uncommon but 120 AcP. Iruxi are Uncommon but 40 AcP. Kobold and leshy are 0 AcP (free).

Kayal are 80 AcP. I spent another 20 AcP buying access to the spiked chain (Uncommon but accessed through a purchased boon). Obviously, you can't have a kayal as your first character, but by the time they reach level 6, you definitely have enough for access for your second character.

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