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Landon Winkler is back with the second part of their preview of Lost Omens: Rival Academies. Here, they touch on the University of Lepidstadt, Magaambya, and the Monastery of the Unbreaking Waves.

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Pathfinder developer Landon Winkler previews some of the academies spotlighted in Lost Omens: Rival Academies, namely Kitharodian Academy, Cobyslarni, and the Academy of the Reclamation.

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Since War of Immortals has been out for a while now, I am curious: Does anyone have any experiences with the new Mythic Rules for 2E?

My group played through the 1E Wrath of the Righteous Campaign years ago, and while they were a lot of fun in the sense of being able to do some truly preposterous amount of damage, they were not exactly well-polished.

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Does anyone have the erratas for 2e in a format that I can print on sticky back paper and just glue in over relevant changed passages?

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u/double_blammit posted a new guide to the remastered Oracle over on r/Pathfinder2e that may be worth checking out. Their announcement post is quoted below.

I've finally finished up my remastered oracle guide (or near enough to put it out there). I've got a few last touches I'm putting in place for some Divine Access recommendations, but as a whole, it's finished. The last section that needs some love is items, which is where I'll be spending the bulk of my time this weekend.

There's a high likelihood that I haven't quite ironed out all the editing / conversion mistakes I wanted to. Feedback is very welcome!

Divine Gift: A Guide to the PF2e Oracle [Remaster]

I've also posted my Divine Access spreadsheet in a few scattered comments, but I've made some updates to it that should improve its value for spell selection.

Divine Access Spells [Remaster]

Shout out to u/w1ldstew, u/xxKhronos20xx, u/olu_igokra, u/lumgeon, u/Sovjohn, u/Basil06, and u/Suspicious_Agent for various reasons of being oracle stans and helping me out with guide issues, requests, and advice.

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Over on Reddit, u/ThreeDaysGuy announced a new Godot-based combat manager that they've been working on for Pathfinder 2e. Unlike the vast majority of PF2e tools, this one's an actual, honest-to-goodness desktop application.

It's still rather young, and it's not feature complete yet. It's pulling creature data from the PF2 Foundry module, and is a few months behind on updating that.

The author has Windows binaries up for download on Itchi.io, but the program is platform neutral. They just don't have any pre-compiled binaries for Linux or Mac yet (you can build your own using the Godot compiler). The code repository can be found here: https://github.com/Zain-A-Abbas/PF2E-Combat-Driver

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We're starting to see some action in the system neutral space again. There's this fascinating trend happening right now -- and maybe this is just an evergreen phenomenon that I haven't been paying any attention to -- of writers claiming (or believing) that their seemingly 100% flavour-text projects are somehow system restricted. Several books were listed with the author doing a lot of 5e thumping with zero mention of anything else, but their books actually appear to be OSR-style encounter tables or whatnot.

Gotta love a functional monopoly, eh?

Anyway, there are no Pathfinder-specific projects live right now, though there are a couple that have cropped up claiming to be 'Launching Soon'.


New Projects

Renegade Realms: Raven's Reach

  • An endlessly expandable hex map for 5e, Pathfinder, Shadowdark, Forbidden Lands, Mörk Borg & other fantasy tabletop role-playing games!

    Product Type: GM Reference, Hexploration, Maps

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: Thursday, 2 January, 2025

    End Date: Wednesday, 22 January, 2025

    Funded: true

Blights, Catastrophes & Scourges on the Realm

  • A collection of global catastrophic events impacting society that can be incorporated into fantasy RPGs. Claims D&D 5e compatibility, but appears to be system neutral in practice.

    Product Type: GM Reference

    Systems: D&D 5e, System Neutral

    Start Date: Wednesday, 1 January, 2025

    End Date: Friday, 31 January, 2025

    Funded: true

100 Unique Factions

  • A supplement packed with: Guilds, Clans, Cults, Orders, Houses, Leaders, 100 pages for your Campaign or Adventure! Claims to be for 5e, but doesn't appear to have any system-specific entries.

    Product Type: GM Resource, Lore & Worldbuilding

    Systems: D&D 5e, System Neutral

    Start Date: Saturday, 4 January, 2025

    End Date: Saturday, 25 January, 2025

    Funded: true

100 Amazing Events

  • A supplement packed w/ 100+ unique moments, twists, and challenges to bring your World to Life! Claims to be for 5e, but appears to actually be system neutral

    Product Type: GM Reference

    Systems: D&D 5e, System Neutral

    Start Date: Thursday, 2 January, 2025

    End Date: Saturday, 1 February, 2025

    Funded: true


Ending this Week

A Fetch of Ferrets

  • An in depth guide to an amazing magical item and spell; an arcane bag full of magical ferrets. For 5e, and frankly all fantasy RPGs!

    Product Type: Items & Equipment

    Systems: D&D 5e, System Neutral

    Start Date: Wednesday, 25 December, 2024

    End Date: Friday, 17 January, 2025

    Funded: true

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If you've got anything PF2e related on your DriveThru RPG wishlist, it's not a bad time to take a look at it. Quite a few titles are on sale right now!

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I'm looking at handing out some Relics to my players, but I'm having some difficulty understanding the guudance on Relic gifts in the GM Core. Specifically, I've been somewhat broken by the treasure-by-level table, and it's not clear to me whether a Relic us suppised to get 2 minor gifts at Level 5 and 3 major gifits at Level 10, or if it should receive its second gift at Level 5 and its third at Level 10, and those gifts should be a minor and major gift, respectively.

My default assumption is the latter, but... You know... Treasure by level...

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Another quiet week this week. It kind of felt like there was something else going on or something, though I can't quite put my finger on what it might have been. It does look like there's a fair bit of system neutral fantasy projects in the chamber waiting to fire in the new year, though. January looks to be maybe a bit quieter, but several projects have signalled a possible February launch date, and March looks positively packed.


Ending Soon

The Hobgoblin's Fortress: a Location for D&D and Pathfinder

  • Goblin mercenaries are about to mutiny against their officers. Will your party help them or sell them out?

    Product Type: Adventure, One-Shot

    Systems: D&D 5e, Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e

    Start Date: 2024-12-02

    End Date: 2024-12-30

    Funded: trure


Just Finished

Plug & Play Dungeons Vol. 4

  • Inspired by the Shadowdark Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur dungeon, this book contains 5+ dungeons with a focus on lived-in spaces inhabited by multiple factions. Each faction is intended to have its own motives, wants, and goals

    Product Type: GM Reference, Dungeons

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-22

    End Date: 2024-12-22

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

The D100 Encounters Collection

  • 100 adventure hooks for fantasy TTRPGs.

    Product Type: GM Reference

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-12-07

    End Date: 2024-12-22

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded


Taking Late Pledges

The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great Player

  • A guide to character creation, system interpretation, and roleplaying by YouTuber Guy Sclanders

    Product Type: Player Reference

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-04

    End Date: 2024-12-04

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: true

    Status: Succeeded

Nightfell - A Grimdark Fantasy setting for PF2

  • Beware the Moon in this PF2 Compatible Grimdark fantasy setting.

    Product Type: Setting, Character Options, Items & Equipment, Spells, Rules Extension, Lore & Worldbuilding

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e

    Start Date: 2024-04-17

    End Date: 2024-05-08

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: true

    Status: Succeeded

Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs

  • A palaeontology-themed supplement for tabletop roleplaying games.

    Product Type: Besetiary

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e

    Start Date: 2024-06-14

    End Date: 2024-07-14

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: true

    Status: Succeeded

Witchfyre: A Dark Fantasy RPG for 5E+ & Pathfinder

  • An RPG world of enthralling dark fantasy awaits. Bring new witchy classes, spells, crafting, and more to your table.

    Product Type: Setting, Adventure, Character Options, Items & Equipment, Spells, Bestiary, Rules Extension

    Systems: D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e

    Start Date: 2024-10-16

    End Date: 2024-11-15

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: true

    Status: Successful


2024 Lookback

2024 was a pretty good year, with respect to 3rd party support for Pathfinder systems, especially if you include system neutral fantasy offerings. I followed or backed (more followed than backed, of course) 28 projects this year in support of my PF2 game, and I'm pretty excited to see some of the bigger projects delivered in the coming months.

Figgy Pudding Steals Christmas

  • A Christmas themed adventure module where players have to investigate a very Grinch-like set of circumstances

    Product Type: Adventure, One-Shot

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, Shadowdark, D&D 5e

    Start Date: 2024-10-29

    End Date: 2024-11-19

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

GM's Toolbox 2

  • Adventure seeds, hazard ideas, name generators, NPCs, factions, and a bevy of other system-agnostic GM tools

    Product Type: GM Reference

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-01

    End Date: 2024-12-01

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great Player

  • A guide to character creation, system interpretation, and roleplaying by YouTuber Guy Sclanders

    Product Type: Player Reference

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-04

    End Date: 2024-12-04

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: true

    Status: Succeeded

Tapestry of Towns: A Game Master's Compendium

  • 20+ richly detailed fantasy settlements with maps, NPCs, and plot seeds

    Product Type: GM Reference, Cities & Towns

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-10-31

    End Date: 2024-12-06

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

The Fall of Rivenhelm

  • An adventure module set in the world of Myrr featuring low, mid, and high level scaling, new monsters, new magic items, and more

    Product Type: Adventure

    Systems: D&D 5e, Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e, DCC, OSE

    Start Date: 2024-11-07

    End Date: 2024-12-06

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

Legendary Bestiaries: SWARMS!

  • A monster book from Legendary Games that focuses on Swarm-type monsters. The Kickstarter also offers backers the option to 'catch up' on some of their previously released bestiaries

    Product Type: Bestiary

    Systems: Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e, Black Flag RPG, D&D 5e

    Start Date: 2024-11-13

    End Date: 2024-12-06

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

Merry & Magical Meetings: An RPG Book for the Holidays

  • Inside this lighthearted celebration of the season, you'll discover plenty of saccharine rumors, festive spells, and holiday adventure hooks that will help put the entire table in the mood for the yuletide season

    Product Type: GM Reference, Spells

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-12-02

    End Date: 2024-12-11

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

BattleZoo Ancestries: Year of Titans

  • A book focused on providing players with new character options, focused on large (and larger?) ancestries

    Product Type: Character Options

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, D&D 5e

    Start Date: 2024-11-12

    End Date: 2024-12-13

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

Vendors of the Vale

  • 30 different vendors with descriptions, backstories, plot hooks and a list of items they sell, including 240+ new items

    Product Type: GM Reference, Items & Equipment, Bestiary

    Systems: D&D 5e (Creatures), System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-19

    End Date: 2024-12-19

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

Dungeon Domains: Vault of Midias & Perilous Paths vol.2

  • Dungeon Domains are hand-drawn geomorphs representing sections of dungeons, caverns, sewers, or catacombs, fleshed out with flavourful and detailed descriptions of each area as well as a unique legend explaining the dungeon’s history

    Product Type: GM Reference, Dungeons

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-12-01

    End Date: 2024-12-21

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

Plug & Play Dungeons Vol. 4

  • Inspired by the Shadowdark Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur dungeon, this book contains 5+ dungeons with a focus on lived-in spaces inhabited by multiple factions. Each faction is intended to have its own motives, wants, and goals

    Product Type: GM Reference, Dungeons

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-22

    End Date: 2024-12-22

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

Fantasy World Design - Core Templates

  • 11 flexible worldbuilding templates, each covering different aspects of your unique and detailed world.

    Product Type: Templates, Lore & Worldbuilding

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-19

    End Date: 2024-12-19

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

The Hobgoblin's Fortress: a Location for D&D and Pathfinder

  • Goblin mercenaries are about to mutiny against their officers. Will your party help them or sell them out?

    Product Type: Adventure, One-Shot

    Systems: D&D 5e, Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e

    Start Date: 2024-12-02

    End Date: 2024-12-30

    Funded: true

The D100 Encounters Collection

  • 100 adventure hooks for fantasy TTRPGs.

    Product Type: GM Reference

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-12-07

    End Date: 2024-12-22

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

DMs Plot Twist Compendium

  • Toolkit of Thrills, and Twists for Every Fantasy TTRPG. Breathe life into your game—and terror into your players! Just drop in and use.

    Product Type: GM Reference

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-14

    End Date: 2024-12-14

    Funded: true

    Status: Succeeded

Nightfell - A Grimdark Fantasy setting for PF2

  • Beware the Moon in this PF2 Compatible Grimdark fantasy setting.

    Product Type: Setting, Character Options, Items & Equipment, Spells, Rules Extension, Lore & Worldbuilding

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e

    Start Date: 2024-04-17

    End Date: 2024-05-08

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: true

    Status: Succeeded

A Tale of Two Seas: Monsters & Adventure for 5E, PF1, & PF2

  • Monsters and adventures for DnD 5E and Pathfinder 1E and 2E from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean and all the seven seas!

    Product Type: Bestiary

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, Pathfinder 1e, D&D 5e

    Start Date: 2024-04-23

    End Date: 2024-05-23

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

Devabhumi: A TTRPG setting inspired by Ancient India

  • Explore the Land of the Gods and immerse yourself in the magic of Ancient India in this DnD 5e, Pathfinder 2e campaign setting!

    Product Type: Setting, Character Options, Items & Equipment, Rules Extension

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, D&D 5e

    Start Date: 2024-05-20

    End Date: 2024-06-19

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Succeeded

Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs

  • A palaeontology-themed supplement for tabletop roleplaying games.

    Product Type: Besetiary

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e

    Start Date: 2024-06-14

    End Date: 2024-07-14

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: true

    Status: Succeeded

Kobold Quest: From Ashes to Empire

  • A Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) 5e, Pathfinder, and OSR campaign where you play as kobolds.

    Product Type: Adventure

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, Pathfinder 1e, D&D 5e, OSR

    Start Date: 2024-06-15

    End Date: 2024-07-15

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Complete

Sea Monsters for 5E, ToV, PF1, PF2, plus Pirates & Plunder!

  • Doom rises from the depths with 60+ savage sea creatures for 5E, Black Flag, Pathfinder 1E & 2E, plus nautical adventure & pirate loot!

    Product Type: Besetiary

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, Pathfinder 1e, D&D 5e, TotV

    Start Date: 2024-07-23

    End Date: 2024-08-09

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Complete

Lugon: Evolution & Magic

  • Explore a world where Evolution, Ecology, and Magic are closely intertwined.

    Product Type: Setting, Character Options, Spells, Rules Extension

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, Pathfinder 1e, D&D 5e

    Start Date: 2024-07-30

    End Date: 2024-08-29

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Successful

Battlezoo Bestiary: Elemental Storm

  • Over 170 award-winning monsters, new elemental spells, new monster hunter rules, and monster crafting rules for 5E and Pathfinder!

    Product Type: Bestiary

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, D&D 5e

    Start Date: 2024-09-03

    End Date: 2024-10-09

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Successful

Dungeon Domains: Dwimmerdark Hall

  • An endlessly expandable dungeon for fantasy tabletop role-playing games!

    Product Type: GM Reference, Dungeons

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-10-01

    End Date: 2024-10-21

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Complete

RPG Double Feature: A Rattle of Bones and Eerie Encounters

  • Add a touch of the macabre to your next fantasy roleplaying game session with two new books by Lex Morgan and Philip Reed.

    Product Type: GM Reference

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-10-05

    End Date: 2024-10-10

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Complete

Witchfyre: A Dark Fantasy RPG for 5E+ & Pathfinder

  • An RPG world of enthralling dark fantasy awaits. Bring new witchy classes, spells, crafting, and more to your table.

    Product Type: Setting, Adventure, Character Options, Items & Equipment, Spells, Bestiary, Rules Extension

    Systems: D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e

    Start Date: 2024-10-16

    End Date: 2024-11-15

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: true

    Status: Successful

Mycologist’s Primer

  • A magical mixture of science, folklore, and world-building for your tabletop role-playing adventure.

    Product Type: Lore & Worldbuilding, Items & Equipment, Adventure

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-10-15

    End Date: 2024-11-15

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: false

    Status: Successful

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u/JM-the-GM over on Reddit is offering to run new players through Menace Under Otari in January. If you know anyone who might be interested trying the game out, and they use Discord, it might be worth a look.

I will be running Menace Under Otari for new players or players that haven't played it yet free of charge through the month of January. The module will consist of 2-3 3 hour sessions. We will be utilizing Foundry for the game and Discord for communication. If interested, please send me a DM or contact me on discord at JM_the_GM

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Not a whole lot of news in the world of crowd funding this week. A bunch of campaigns have wrapped, with nothing new on the PF/System Neutral front materializing. We do have a couple of SN projects coming to a close in the next week, though.

I've gone back to add some additional fields to my growing set of campaign data, including whether campaigns are taking late pledges. I'm still collecting data by hand, though, so changes to the status of these finished campaigns may get missed.

As the year closes out, though, it seems to have been a fairly good one for projects supporting Pathfinder, both 2e and 1e. I'm looking forward to growing my library of monsters I'll never get an opportunity to use in 2025.


Ending This Week

Dungeon Domains: Vault of Midias & Perilous Paths vol.2

  • Dungeon Domains are hand-drawn geomorphs representing sections of dungeons, caverns, sewers, or catacombs, fleshed out with flavourful and detailed descriptions of each area as well as a unique legend explaining the dungeon’s history

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-12-01

    End Date: 2024-12-21

    Funded: true

Plug & Play Dungeons Vol. 4

  • Inspired by the Shadowdark Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur dungeon, this book contains 5+ dungeons with a focus on lived-in spaces inhabited by multiple factions. Each faction is intended to have its own motives, wants, and goals

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-22

    End Date: 2024-12-22

    Funded: true

The D100 Encounters Collection

  • 100 adventure hooks for fantasy TTRPGs.

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-12-07

    End Date: 2024-12-22

    Funded: true


Taking Late Pledges

The Practical Guide to Becoming a Great Player

  • A guide to character creation, system interpretation, and roleplaying by YouTuber Guy Sclanders

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-04

    End Date: 2024-12-04

    Funded: true

    Late Pledges: true


Recently Completed

Merry & Magical Meetings: An RPG Book for the Holidays

  • Inside this lighthearted celebration of the season, you'll discover plenty of saccharine rumors, festive spells, and holiday adventure hooks that will help put the entire table in the mood for the yuletide season

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-12-02

    End Date: 2024-12-11

    Funded: true

BattleZoo Ancestries: Year of Titans

  • A book focused on providing players with new character options, focused on large (and larger?) ancestries

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, D&D 5e

    Start Date: 2024-11-12

    End Date: 2024-12-13

    Funded: true

Vendors of the Vale

  • 30 different vendors with descriptions, backstories, plot hooks and a list of items they sell, including 240+ new items

    Systems: D&D 5e (Creatures), System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-19

    End Date: 2024-12-19

    Funded: true

Fantasy World Design - Core Templates

  • 11 flexible worldbuilding templates, each covering different aspects of your unique and detailed world.

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-19

    End Date: 2024-12-19

    Funded: true

DMs Plot Twist Compendium

  • Toolkit of Thrills, and Twists for Every Fantasy TTRPG. Breathe life into your game—and terror into your players! Just drop in and use.

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-14

    End Date: 2024-12-14

    Funded: true

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I missed last week due to work and family commitments. I spent some time this week actually setting up a recording, storage, and filtering system for what I'm tracking, and it should reduce the amount of time it takes me to actually output stuff going forward, I it shouldn't be an issue again.

That said, last Friday saw a bunch of projects ending, as they rushed to get Print-on-Demand books out the door and in peoples' hands before Christmas. Things are a little slower this week, with only one Pathfinder-specific project of note coming or going: BattleZoo Ancestries: Titans.

Many projects are taking late pledges, though. I'm going to update things this week and try to list some of those going forward, starting next week.


New This Past Week

The D100 Encounters Collection

  • 100 adventure hooks for fantasy TTRPGs.

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-12-07

    End Date: 2024-12-22

    Funded: true


Ending This Upcoming Week

BattleZoo Ancestries: Year of Titans

  • A book focused on providing players with new character options, focused on large (and larger?) ancestries

    Systems: Pathfinder 2e, D&D 5e

    Start Date: 2024-11-12

    End Date: 2024-12-13

    Funded: true

Vendors of the Vale

  • 30 different vendors with descriptions, backstories, plot hooks and a list of items they sell, including 240+ new items

    Systems: D&D 5e (Creatures), System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-19

    End Date: 2024-12-19

    Funded: true

Fantasy World Design - Core Templates

  • 11 flexible worldbuilding templates, each covering different aspects of your unique and detailed world.

    Systems: System Neutral

    Start Date: 2024-11-19

    End Date: 2024-12-19

    Funded: true

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Read over the playtest classes last night. Going into it I was most excited about the necromancer as a sorta ultimate summoner. After reading though it feels more like just sorta a casting mcguffin as the thralls can't really do anything independently but take up space. It makes sense given the rules and balance but then it would seem it could get annoying as the necromancer could like fill a room with thralls. Its like they have a really crappy never ending wall of flesh spell that they can channel effects into. The runesmith though. Wow. Its a martial with magic that makes it less versatile but I feel more powerful than the magus. My rp class is druid but for quick and easy to play that have a huge effect I have like grabbing bard, ranger, and magus before but runemaster as it stands would be a new choice in the mix. punch an enemy and set a rune then activate it followed by raising a shield with a special blowback rune and get a better ac than a normal shield along with a magical retalitaion to the block. medium armor so grab sentinel and then bastion for the shield.

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I was looking for the playtest pdf's on paizo forums and saw it might be some hours but while doing so I encountered someone questioning the rituals which sorta sent me down a rabbit hole on aon for create demiplane and it mentions them being create in the astral or etheral plane. My question is does that mean one can pass the boarders of the plane and be on the astral/etheral plane and can anyone on that plane accidentally find your plane. I assume no and you have to have the key and the spell but the part saying its located in the planes confuses me. I thought it was more like an overlapping plane like first world.

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Either a specific named class from 1e, D&D, or another game, or a general concept.

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The rules state:

If you find a scroll, you can try to figure out what spell it contains. If the spell is a common spell from your spell list or a spell you know, you can spend a single Recall Knowledge action and automatically succeed at identifying the scroll’s spell. If it’s not, you must use Identify Magic (page 238) to learn what spell the scroll holds.

And Identify Magic says:

Once you discover that an item, location, or ongoing effect is magical, you can spend 10 minutes to try to identify the particulars of its magic. If your attempt is interrupted, you must start over. The GM sets the DC for your check. Cursed magic or esoteric subjects usually have higher DCs or might even be impossible to identify using this activity alone. Heightening a spell doesn't increase the DC to identify it.

Critical Success You learn all the attributes of the magic, including its name (for an effect), what it does, any means of activating it (for an item or location), and whether it is cursed.
Success For an item or location, you get a sense of what it does and learn any means of activating it. For an ongoing effect (such as a spell with a duration), you learn the effect's name and what it does. You can't try again in hopes of getting a critical success.
Failure You fail to identify the magic and can't try again for 1 day.
Critical Failure You misidentify the magic as something else of the GM's choice.

It makes sense to me that the DC should be the spell rank DC. What's not clear to me is how, if at all, a success vs critical success should be played. On a non-critical success, would they get a sense of the type of effect of the magic, but not know the specific spell?

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My PCs encountered a vampire. The barbarian successfully trips the vampire and then grabs her.

Que the vampires turn and I am thinking about using the vampires special vapor form, Turn To Mist to get rid of the conditions - there is nothing preventing the vampire using it, it's not even manipulate.
But some of my well-versed-in-rules players seemed to really dislike it, mainly the "free" getting up (which I countered with the polymorph trait, you are getting magically reformed).

In my book it still costs 2 actions (physical to gas then gas to physical) same as removing the grabbed and then Standing up would, it does bypass rolling the fortitude check and any reactive strikes though.

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On the list of Familiar Abilities one is "dragon". I have a player thinking about picking up the Witch multiclass archetype for a familiar, and asking if theirs can be a dragon.

Is this allowed? Or is there some other context that I might be missing?

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