#ancestries

[honourablejester]

I really, really adore the sketchy-style character art for the ancestries in Daggerheart. There are just so many fantastic looking characters in there!

There’s an adorable little miner clank with a pickaxe and a miner’s headlamp built into their head.

There’s a hyper-skinny little thief-looking drakona who looks like pipe-cleaners were heavily involved in their construction.

There’s an absolute unit of a firbolg warrior lady who looks like she could bench press most other characters you could care to name.

There’s a cheerfully plus-sized elf with a full belly and two magical prosthetic limbs.

There’s a pragmatic bearded human wizard (or spellcaster of some stripe) with a crossbow and another prosthetic leg.

There’s a pair of orcs with all-over body hair standing proudly.

There’s a fantastic and slightly spooky-looking ‘shroomshell’ (mixed ancestry galapa/fungril) with an ink-cap shell.

There’s an excitable goblin spellcaster with a witch’s hat and the biggest goddamned ears.

There’s a faerie who appears to be literally just an absolutely huge bipedal armoured beetle with wings and hands. You can just be a seven-foot, burly-ass iridescent horned beetle over here.

IDK, they’re just lovely. You just feel like an artist or several artists just had a lot of fun iterating sketches on a theme. They feel like a sketchbook combined with anatomy notes, but they’re just so playful and enchanting.

[homebrewingverity]

Dwarfkin!

A small disclaimer: Most of the Ancestries I have created still contain the term ‘Race’ quite frequently. I did this mostly to keep things clear for people who would be confused by the term ancestry without the added context the greater Campaign Guide will provide. This will be edited and fixed by the time I create the full guide.  Dwarkin, simply due to being alphabetically the first ancestry, was the first one I made. Dwarfkin are the sturdy, flexible, and short ancestry of Verity that takes what I believe to traditionally be the role of humans because I find humans to be, in most fantasy settings, exceedingly boring simply due to them already existing in real life and the trend as a result of that which says that humans must always be the adaptable ancestry that’s not really amazing at anything, but usable at everything.  Dwarfkin is an umbrella term for three different ancestries - Dwarves, Gnomes and Halflings. A note about Races/Ancestries in my world is that all of them are able to pick any stat distribution they want. I disliked that in the base game, most races were limited heavily in what classes they could effectively be used for simply due to their attribute bonuses they received. Dragonborn, for example, struggle to effectively play a lot of classes because their attribute bonuses are so niche. So I’ve done away with that and simply given every ancestry the option to either A: take +2 to one ability score and +1 to another, or B: take +1 to 3 different ability scores.  Secondly, these ancestries all have far more racial abilities than the ancestries in the PHB or other official materials. This is also intentional on my part to make each ancestry feel unique. I do believe that by and large this will make Player Characters stronger simply due to the added tools at their disposal, but I think the tradeoff for that unique feel for each ancestry is important.  Without further ado, here is the Dwarfkin. I welcome feedback on this! My next Ancestry will be posted tomorrow as I quickly power through all of the things I’ve already written to get to the new stuff. Homebrewery Link

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Truth !

[dartagnantt]

Aasimar Reborn | You'd think being descended from the heavens would come with more consequences, wouldn't you

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Really holding onto that empyrean thing for a long time, aren't I? Well, in my defence, they do get wings as well. But more on that, if I recall the new non D&D term for aasimar in pathfinder is Empyrean, as well. So I've got that going for me.

The original aasimar wasn't terribly interesting for me. And I need to make my own anyway, for reasons that are now public. So, I went with interesting options. They might have to change, but at least they're interesting

And now to plug my stuff. I release homebrews weekly over on my Patreon. Anyone who pledges $1 or more per post don't have to wait a month to see them, and also help fund my being alive habit.

At the moment, they have exclusive access to the following:

Harpies take Flight

Elemental Versatility

A Sense of Pride and Accomplishment

Gladiator Background

I also have three classes, and a splatbook over on DriveThrueRPG to check out:

The Rift Binder. A class specialising in summoning monsters and controlling the battlefield.

The Witch Knight. A class that combines swords and sorcery in the most literal way.

The Werebeast. A class that turns you into a half beast to destroy your foes.

d'Artagnan's Adventurer Almanac. A compendium of races, subclasses, feats, spells, monsters and more!

[honourablejester]

A random collection of my favourite PF2e (legacy and remastered) ancestry feats:

Collapse (Skeleton). As a reaction of suffering a crit, you can make like a cartoon xylophone skeleton and collapse into a pile of bones instead, taking normal damage and being unable to act except to reform into a standing skeleton again. This is such a cartoon move, and I love it.

Kneecap (Goblin). This may be the short person spite over here, but I just love little guys kneecapping bigger guys to slow them down. Everybody’s shorter than you when they’re on the floor!

Innocuous, Easily Dismissed (Halfling). You know that thing in Assassin’s Creed where you ‘blend into a crowd’ and despite the fact that you’re still a white-clad hooded assassin in broad daylight, the guards suddenly don’t see you? Halflings are good at that. They good at looking innocent and they’re good at blending into the background, and I love that about them.

Forlorn (Elf). “Watching your friends age and die fills you with moroseness that protects you against harmful emotions.” Comparative mortality makes some elves so emo that they’re resistant to artificial influences on their emotions. Which. You do you, guys!

Right Hand Blood (Gnoll). Borrowing from the myths of your people, you can use blood from your right side to aid medicine checks, but blood from your left side causes them to auto-fail. I just. I love the mythology of this. The sense of a living, embodied folklore.

Plague Sniffer (Ratfolk). If you’re a long-nosed rat, you can smell disease. No notes, I just love this. A lot of the ratfolk feats, are they useful, maybe not, but they really do fulfil the fantasy of playing a rat.

Gaping Flesh (Fleshwarp). If you came to the Fleshwarp for body horror, this is the feat for you! If someone hits you, the sight of your wound yawning open appalls and sickens them. It’s a great little vengeful ‘honey I have seen so much worse’ sort of vibe. Although all the Fleshwarp feats are so fun and lovecraftian. I adore them so much.

Crystal Luminescence (Kashrishi). First thing to know about me, I like shiny things. The little psychic crystal unicorn people (best. ancestry. ever) can make their crystal horns go glowy, and it’s everything my tiny childhood unicorn-loving self could want.

In a similar vein, Halo (Nephilim). Exactly what it says on the tin! You get a halo that sheds light. I want it. This is why I love Crown of Stars in 5e. I just want shiny things on my head!

Then, to finish up, if I’m picking a favourite dwarven feat … I am tempted by Echoes in Stone (tremorsense) and Defy the Darkness (you think you can make the darkness magical and have it beat me? I’m a dwarf, sugarplum. Try again), but I think the award for most dwarfy dwarven feat has to go to Dwarven Doughtiness. Yes, the magic of stone and all that, but at the base of everything, dwarves are just too stubborn to stay scared, and I love that about them.

[dartagnantt]

Brenneri (Otterfolk) | Empathetic Space Otters just in time to be late

PDFs of this and more can be found over on at my Patreon here! I release everything for free, so your support makes this possible. I've also started making a new system based off of 5e, 6th Dawn! Become a patron and join the playtest.

For our second post of sin, we have space otters. Why are otters sinful? They know what they did. That said, starfinder's brenneri are quite unsinful, so that can also work.

So, I designed this a month ago for a friend who wanted to play one in a starfinder game, and at the time I don't think Starfinder Galactic Ancestries was announced yet, or I at the very least didn't know about it. Anyway, about a week or two after I posted this on my patreon, another friend told me about this and that it's release date was April 1st. So I can only assume that this is Paizo's april fool's joke against me in particular.

That's right, I said Starfinder. Because this is a conversion of the Starfinder 1e brenneri race into a Starfinder 2e ancestry. Since they aren't there yet. I'm using my pathfinder 2e theme here, because it's the same system now and I didn't want to make a starfinder theme. That said, they are equally valid as a pathfinder ancestry too, since their ancestry feats don't reference computers or technology.

They also really like that rock guys.

And now to plug my stuff. I release homebrews weekly over on my Patreon. Anyone who pledges $2 or more per post don't have to wait a month to see them, and also help fund my being alive habit.

At the moment, they have exclusive access to the following:

Sin Magic

Demonic Corruption Origin

Lost Draconians

Spiteful Spells

I also have four classes, and two splatbooks over on DriveThruRPG to check out:

The Rift Binder. A class specialising in summoning monsters and controlling the battlefield.

The Witch Knight. A class that combines swords and sorcery in the most literal way.

The Werebeast. A class that turns you into a half beast to destroy your foes.

The Beguiler. A spellcaster dedicated to illusions, enchantments, and general fuckery.

d'Artagnan's Adventurer Almanac. A compendium of races, subclasses, feats, spells, monsters and more!

d'Artagnan's Lycanthrope Survival Guide. A book of lore, stats, and werebeast subclasses for lycanthropes.

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