The Chosen of the Gods

[Jeffrey Swank]

This is a work in progress, as there are a lot of Deities in Golarion. I always liked the idea of a gods "chosen" or favored...
The Chosen

Please feel free to give feed back, tips, suggestions, threats...etc.

[Joynt Jezebel]

I have some feedback. Negative at first sadly-

Chosen of Abadar-

"They can use detect poison and detect magic at will, but only when used to evaluate goods, wealth, or contracts."

Those spells are not really relevant to evaluating those things most of the time.

Maybe a version of Discern Lies that works on written documents as well. That is a 4th level spell so you might want to move it to something you get at higher level.

Then I realised how many of these templates there were and decided I wasn't going to go through all of them.

Second and more generally-

1 Rather than this format-

"If chosen at character creation, typically these abilities become available at 1st level (Level 1), 5th level (Level 2), 10th level (Level 3), and 15th level (Level 4)."

Just say level 1, level 5 and so on with each entry. It just simplifies things and makes it easier on players who skip the introductory parts. They are being lazy but it certainly happens.

2 Adding a template to character races isn't the way PF1 normally goes about things. It gives some characters a power boost, that is fine for NPCs, but it does not really work with PCs.

Unlike my other suggestions this isn't a gentle criticism. If you give one PC a template unless you give the other PCs one too, which alters the power of everyone, the PCs who miss out will scream the house down. I would.

If you want to make the idea idea more compatible with the game as is for PCs you could re-do these ideas as archetypes. Some such archetypes exist already e.g. Asmodean Advocate for the cleric. But that means major changes to your idea, which is what I mean by this not being a gentle criticism.

[I grok do u]

Joynt Jezebel wrote:

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2 Adding a template to character races isn't the way PF1 normally goes about things. It gives some characters a power boost, that is fine for NPCs, but it does not really work with PCs.

Unlike my other suggestions this isn't a gentle criticism. If you give one PC a template unless you give the other PCs one too, which alters the power of everyone, the PCs who miss out will scream the house down. I would.

If you want to make the idea idea more compatible with the game as is for PCs you could re-do these ideas as archetypes. Some such archetypes exist already e.g. Asmodean Advocate for the cleric. But that means major changes to your idea, which is what I mean by this not being a gentle criticism.

A follow-up on this that may require less reworking - make this a variant of VMC (VVMC?). Abilities become available at levels 3, 7, 11, 15, and 19 at the expense of feats. Give Deific Obedience feat either at level 3 and your powers starting at level 7, or 1st power at level 3 and Deific Obedience feat at level 7. Maybe add the bonus of allowing Chosen to choose which path of obedience they want (Evangelist, Exalted, or Sentinel) either exclusively or as though given Diverse Obedience as a bonus feat.

[Azothath]

sounds like a Prestige Class rather than what you've done. There are existing examples and working with a base class (stacking) is a perennial issue.
As stated, Obediences are a RAW example.
I'm not keen on VMC style building.

[Jeffrey Swank]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Awesome ideas. I am revisiting these as Prestige classes as Azothath suggested, love that idea.

Joynt Jezebel wrote:

Maybe a version of Discern Lies that works on written documents as well.

love this!

The whole Level 1 thing was initiated because my home table has a background chart we all role on, A Chosen is one of those rare rolls everyone has an chance to land on.

[Here4daFreeSwag]

Good to have some free Chosen of the Gods stuff out there for PF1e, JeffreySwank. ;)