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The power of magic echoes forth across all peoples, it whispers in the ears of those who are downtrodden and those who live in opulence alike. Used by the mightiest mage and the simplest cantrips, its utterances can be found throughout history and fantasy, sparking both wonder and terror.
Hello all! The public playtest for Echoes of Magic is finally here!
(Note: All AI art are placeholders while I wait for the artist I worked with on Shards of Power and Whispers of Immortality to work their magic.)
It's a Pathfinder 1e 3pp playtest that expands upon the use of magic in the pathfinder 1e, giving new options for Akashic Magic and the optional Words of Power subsystem introduced in Ultimate Magic!, adding a ton of new words, new optional rules to balance out the system including a soft redux to the rules for combining words, and support for the 1pp classes that were released after Ultimate Magic that never received support (like the hybrid and psychic magic classes!).
This release includes a ton of new feats, racial archetypes, prestige classes, class archetypes, and even provides support for the optional words of power system for so called 1.5pp classes like Omdura and Vampire Hunter.
Playtest Doc can be found here, go take a look!
Some of the things you can find inside:
- -41 New Effect Words
- -6 new Meta Words
- -5 New Target Words
- -10+ New Class Archetypes
- -3 New Prestige Classes
- -4 New Alternate Racial Traits
- -1 Completely new race: The Vira-Lorr, a race of planetouched seers that possess a third eye that sometimes sees more than it should.
- -18 New Feats
- -1 New Minor Veil
- -14+ New Veils!
- -And Much More!
More content will be released as the playtest goes on, so make sure you look in on it!
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Hello everyone! Some updates and edits were made:
- -Order of Appearance: The Words of Power content has been moved to the beginning of the book, given the other content is based off it or uses it this only made sense.
- -Prydyn Bloodrager Archetype: Runeweaving now has a link to the Daevic Veil list. Unleash Bloodrunes and Wordweaving ability effects edited for clarity. Bloodbinding ability now allows binding of blood chakra veils at 13th level. Bloodrune Mastery edited for clarity.
- -Solfège Bard/Skald Archetype: Veilweaving ability edited for clarity.
- Lastly, a Rules Clarification:
For the Experimental Spellcaster feat could you confirm that: (1) Spherecasting satisfies the “Ability to cast spells” prerequisite; or (2) The Spell Dabbler or Spell Adept feats (Ultimate Spheres of Power p425) satisfies the “Ability to cast spells” prerequisite? Alternately could you create a spheres equivalent feat to Experimental Spellcaster?
To sum up, yes, both the ability to cast sphere effects and the spell dabbler/adept feats qualifies as the ability to cast spells. As for creating a spheres version of Experimental Spellcaster, that I will have to think on, simply due to how the two systems would mesh could be problematic. Worth giving consideration though.
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-Updates and Additional Content-
Several edits have been made and the first veil of the Regalia of the Celestial Maiden (cue Veilor Moon jokes, blame Rooroom) veil set has been added! Please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc! The playtest is slated to continue until the end of July.
- -Work has been done on the Amanuensis (Protean Scribe Archetype), it will be out soon!
- -Celestial Tiara, a veil that crowns you with the light of the moon and stars to give you new uses for Perform (Comedy)!
- -Edits for clarity made to the Words of Power section.
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-Updates and Edits-
Several changes have been made and new content added!
- -Table of Contents added to help navigate the document
- -Slippers of the Celestial Maiden veil has been renamed Dance in the Moonlight
- -Edits made for clarity on the Unbound Potential ability for the Unbound Prestige Class, prohibiting the veils it shapes from being used with akashic treasures
- -Sigil of Necromancy veil added, allows veilweavers to manipulate the scales of life and death
Good to have some free peepins' of some Echoes of Magic Public Playtestin' stuff out there for PF1e, RecordedChaos. ;)
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Several changes have been made and new content added!
The second veil of the Regalia of the Celestial Maiden (more Veilor Moon jokes, still blaming Rooroom) veil set has been added! Please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!
- -Venator (a Wordcasting and akashic Ranger archetype) has the following edits: Companion's Collar veil added to the Veil of Nature ability, links added for the Akashic Hunter feats
- -Robes of the Crescent Moon (formerly Robes of the Moon): a new veil that allows the veilweaver to swap between identities like a legendary hero
- -Sigil of Necromancy: weal and woe effects have been renamed to boon and bane to keep them distinct from Sigil of Divination effects
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As shadows twist the familiar into the unknown and terrifying, so too does the presence of a Tenebrosum warp the world around them. Their touch can transform what was comfortably mundane into eldritch and terrible mockeries.
Hello all and welcome to another update to the Echoes of Magic Public Playtest!
This time the update is a new Archetype for the Eclipse and Eclipse Retold akashic class, the Tenebrosum.
The Tenebrosum's very touch can painfully twist the mind and body of their foes, and they gain additional power when shaping veils tied to the mind, darkness, or fleshwarping.
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Several changes have been made and new content added! The third veil of the Regalia of the Celestial Maiden veil set has been added!
As always, please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!
- -Venator- Initial and Maximum shaped veils reduced by 1 (to a maximum of 6). Huntcraft ability improvement at 10th level now ignores 1 point of DR/Hardness instead of 2. 15th level ability effects edited for clarity. Runic Literacy ability now grants words from the Druid word list. Hunter's Adaptation ability's 18th level improvement now allows the venator to change any number of their bodily adaptations at-will as a full-round action.
- -Locutor PrC- Archaism ability edited for clarity. Polyglot ability is now linked to the feat. Linguaphile ability edited for clarity.
- -Maiden's Voice- New veil that empowers the veilweavers words, granting new uses for the Perform (Sing) skill and the ability to call upon an animal emissary to aid them.
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A couple changes have been made and new content added! The fourth veil of the Regalia of the Celestial Maiden veil set has been added!
As always, please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!
- -Dance in the Moonlight: a new veil that grants new uses for the Perform (Dance) skill and allows the veilweaver to grant bonuses to ally's d20 rolls and eventually penalties to enemies.
- -Ardent Prestige Class: Impassioned ability wording for ability edited for clarity. Ever Shifting Muse ability edited for clarity and the 6th level improvement now allows use as a standard action.
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Some edits made to two of the alternate racial traits and a new feat for the Cailleach Changeling added.
As always, please continue to leave any comments, requests, or notes either here or on the doc!
- -Cailleach Changeling: Edited Riven Brand racial ability for clarity. Sacred Woad ability renamed to Ritual Scarification.
- -Rune Giant Scion Half-Giant: Edited Runemarked racial ability for clarity, removed the bonus essence it granted.
- -Bind Riven Brand: New feat for the Cailleach changeling that allows them to bind their chosen brand veil and empowers it when they use their racial claws to harm a foe.