So recently I was working on some aspects of my homebrew PF 1 Golarion setting in the course of porting it to 2e, and I read through Guns and Gears and was inspired by its content, especially in terms of lore and setting elements.
As such, I was interested in the idea of making some kind of magical clockwork android ancestry available to players to use. Any help on this in terms of design?
Fwiw, there is a bit of precedent with this kind of thing with the automaton ancestry iirc, not to mention things like sterling dynamo and basically "steampunk cyberware".
Android and Automaton would certainly be a good place to start. You can probably keep the mechanics and just change the flavor and description to what you want.
There are also things like the Clockwork Researcher and Saved by Clockwork and other similar backgrounds. Again you can add even more flavor and description to these while keeping the same mechanics.
Android, Automaton, and Poppet are all construct Ancestries in 2e, while we’re still waiting on 1e’s Wyrwoods to come over. Between those options, is there construct stuff you still feel isn’t covered?
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Android, Automaton, and Poppet are all construct Ancestries in 2e, while we’re still waiting on 1e’s Wyrwoods to come over. Between those options, is there construct stuff you still feel isn’t covered?
Huh. Not much at this point, besides surprise at the amount of choices for this kind of thing in the setting.
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Android, Automaton, and Poppet are all construct Ancestries in 2e, while we’re still waiting on 1e’s Wyrwoods to come over. Between those options, is there construct stuff you still feel isn’t covered?Huh. Not much at this point, besides surprise at the amount of choices for this kind of thing in the setting.
PF2's diversity of options, between Ancestries and Versatile Heritages, is an absolute blast! It's one of the highlights of the system.
Where else can your party be a vampiric Android, a fiend-blooded Gnoll, a cactus-person, and a friendly Skeleton?
It's almost to the point where if & when I achieve my master plan of getting enough money to secretly buy both WotC & Paizo & set up a special licensing agreement between them that'll allow paizo to publish all the non ogl stuff under pathfinder rules, making them do warforged might be a little redundant.
Android, Automaton, and Poppet are all construct Ancestries in 2e, while we’re still waiting on 1e’s Wyrwoods to come over. Between those options, is there construct stuff you still feel isn’t covered?
Thinking on it again, maybe some way to integrate gadgets and modifications and such would a good possibility.
(And I still hope we get more stuff like this, especially a tech guide and some kind of alchemy book with biomods and stuff).
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Sterling Dynamo and maybe Golem Grafter archetypes.