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[fantastictalesofadventure]

𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺, 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘪𝘯. 😏

[mathematikerin-freyja]

I guess I am a little unusual here as I don't desire to bite anyone... However, I would like to be able to impress romantic interests by displaying an ability to bite through rocks in front of them and chew the rock up and spit out concrete that settles into the fissures of their driveway thereby sparing them considerable expense in its maintenance.

[dailycharacteroption]

Fun with Feats 14: Martial Arts Technique Feats

(art by LittleWelshArtist on DeviantArt)

Before there were style feats, there was a series of feats for monks and unarmed builds that didn’t have a name or special rules, but still evoked the idea of special martial techniques. Some of them even had “style” in the name. It’s pretty clear from the fact that some of these were in the core rulebook that A. The writers liked the idea of martial artists having more special techniques than just stunning fist and quivering palm, and B. They really wanted to express martial arts styles somehow, but hadn’t fully figured it out yet. Heck, give it a few more years, and we wouldn’t have had to wait for Starfinder 1e and later Pathfinder 2e to get martial artists using their ki to do their best Dragonball Z/fighting game impression with flight and energy blasts and such.

But it is those early technique feats that we’ll be focusing on today and the sort of tricks and debuffs that they could deliver with them, among other things. If you pay attention, you might even see in them the precursors of a few other things that bore fruit in Second Edition too, such as martial art styles including special strikes with their own damage type when one enters the stance for one.

Obviously, most of these require Improved Unarmed Strike to even take in the first place, either by way of the feat or by being a monk or brawler. A few others require Stunning Fist as well.

The first set of these are Scorpion Strike, which lets the warrior target the limbs to hamper speed, followed by Gorgon’s Fist to stagger them. Next up is Medusa’s Wrath, which if a follow-up granting extra attacks to a hindered foe. Finally, there is Cockatrice Strike, that can actually turn a foe to stone on a lucky strike against a hindered foe, dipping into actual supernatural territory.

Next up is Adder’s Strike, which allows them to effectively use poison on their unarmed strikes without poisoning themselves, as well as Pinpoint Poisoner, that adds darts to the mix.

Inspired by the devils of hell, there are also several techniques named after them. Belier’s Bite gives them training on dealing bleeding wounds. Next is Hamatulatsu, which lets them deal stabbing wounds with stiffened fingers, followed by Hamatula Strike, which lets them grapple and hold foes they’ve stabbed, and Hamatula Grasp, that improves the harm they do.

Other techniques are more mundane, like the Ki Throw line, Punishing Kick, Perfect Strike, and so on.

Others are blatantly supernatural, such as Nightmare Fist, Nightmare Weaver, and Nightmare Striker, which improve the ability to fight in darkness, intimidate foes while creating magical darkness, and punish foes marked by faerie fire, all of which makes sense as a martial art created for and by the drow.

Stepping aside from those requiring knowledge of punching, Spider Step and Cloud Step are both monk only feats that are clearly special techniques, allowing the monk to run on walls and even air briefly.

Plenty of other feats have Improved Unarmed Strike as a prerequisite, but not all of them could be described as techniques or proto-styles. It was nice to look back on this as the precursor to a lot of things that would come in both editions of both games. Even back then, Pathfinder had a lot of fun ideas they were trying to explore. That does it for this week though, check back next week for more character options and the like.

[rpgsandbox]

Skull Expert by AdramastesGM on reddit

[official-dnd-posts]

feat of the day: Sharpshooter

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[phoenixlionme]

Laika Animation Studio Becomes a Certified B Corporation; Meets Standards for Social and Environmental Performance (EXCLUSIVE)

The animation studio Laika has become a certified B Corporation.

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[coolclaytony]

Rescuer Hombrew Class for Pathfinder 1st Edition (version 2)

This document comes with the following:

A new player class, the Rescuer.

Favored class options for every race that I know exists in the game, plus options for homebrew races created by @thecreaturecodex .

Rescuer archetypes, including: the Lifewarden, the Lifeguard, the Wealthy Philanthropist, the Firefighter, and the Babysitter.

15 new feats!

6 new magic items!

And the iconic rescuer, Kardann!