#goloma

[impact-frame]

The art for my Pathfinder character, now that that game's gotten off the ground. Ōto is a researcher that specializes in investigating mysterious and dangerous phenomena. They often play into their frightening appearance to ward off unwanted trouble.

[monstersmashorpass]

SMASH OR PASS: The Goloma, Pathfinder

Goloma (Race)

Smash (and/or date/smooch/etc)

Pass (not my type)

Voting ended onJun 1

[dinoserious]

okaysie im back from my internet black hole. heres a kofi comm fr BarkingBarghest over there i didnt get posted before i left 👍

[akuakourin]

An acquaintance from a now cancelled PF2e campaign commissioned me to draw his Goloma barbarian! Small issue about that was that there was barely any Goloma character for refs and inspiration, so we deep dived into research and finding inspirations in irl African culture and other animals. The OG Goloma are horse-like humanoid creatures who look like predators, but they are actually leaning prey pretending to be predator from what I know. Those drop shaped things in his hair? Those are eyes! They have a whole feat that allows them to look all around them for danger.

Eyes in the Back You have eyes that point in several different directions and instinctively notice movement in the peripheries of your vision. When you use the Seek basic action, you can look for creatures in two areas instead of one. If precision is necessary, you can select two 30- foot cones or 15-foot bursts within line of sight instead of one.

The symbols carved into the chitin parts of his body are called Adinkra! And oh boy, I had to unearth a site from 2001 (last updated 2007) to be sure the meanings were right! It was honestly fun to discover it together and add little bits of African culture to this pseudo-African ancestry from PF2e.

Even the accessoiries relate to monster the barbarian struck down! A Giant Badger (necklace), a crocodile (bracelet) and a deinonychus (feathers), all of which are creatures he fought on his travels and took trophies of.

[theirishhalfling]

Horror-themed campaign you say? Well, let me just pick out the ancestry that's predisposed to be terrified of everything because everyone is out to steal your eyes.

That and I thought it was time I pick something that's not your average humanoid (human, elf, halfling, gnome etc etc). So multi-eyed bipedal horse-like creature with claws it is. Because why would I want to draw something easy?

So this is Sen (Sentry of Many Eyes), my goloma investigator (Pathfinder 2e), who's spooked by pretty much anything, but forces himself to try and overcome his fears.

There's not much info on goloma and only a couple of official pictures, so I took some artistic liberties. Namely giving him some whacky teeth and a set of little eary-like horns to use for conveying emotion (because his eyes are just globes, he probably doesn't even blink??). Also since the campaign has an Asian setting, I wanted to lean into that with some of his design, so took a few little bits from hanfu. I have no idea if goloma can put their hair up when it's covered in tiny eyes, but Sen does, because the way their face plate (??) flicks up at the top looks a bit like a Han dynasty-esque crown.

Likewise, the guy has tens of eyes, and yet he wears a pair of spectacles he doesn't even need. He just wants to be like a regular two-eyed person... So long as they don't take his eyes to make him like them.

[thespongemagic]

Commission for @/shiny_admiral on IG of their Goloma cowboy

Before you ask, it's a species from Pathfinder.

[art-of-rei]

Drawing of an OC I used for a one shot in DnD/Pathfinder. His name is Viktor. Hes supposed to be a species called a goloma. With my own twist on it.

[dailycharacteroption]

Class Feature Friday: Cosmos Mystery (Pathfinder Second Edition Oracle Mystery)

(art by Oscar Westberg on Artstation)

We’ve circled back around to second edition oracle mysteries again and this time we find ourselves with some notable tweaks to how oracle mysteries in 2e work.

While these mysteries still have their curses, they seem like they give fewer benefits as the curse magnifies compared to the non-remastered version. However, in exchange, it seems like they gain more granted spells in addition to the basic cantrip and the mystery focus spells, so it’s a bit of a trade-off, and less a race to maximize the curse as much as possible for the passive benefits, so I suppose I can understand.

In any case, the Cosmos mystery!

Quite obviously a renamed take on the old Heavens mystery from First Edition, this mystery is a blessing from the gods of the stars and sky, as well as the void in between, which I suppose means that it’s actually a blending of both Heavens and the Dark Tapestry mysteries.

Regardless, whether these oracles look to the stars or the darkness in the night sky looking for answers, they find them. These beings often look as those gravity has only a minor hold on them, and might also be marked by hair or eyes that sparkle with starlight, or other phenomena.

So originally, oracle mysteries got a passive benefit. However, now they get a bonus feat from their class list, so for posterity, I will include both. The oracles of the cosmos have a knack for sensing incoming danger, allowing them to warn their allies, better preparing them to react, and also reducing the damage they take from the first few attacks that hit them. This replaces the passive benefit where cosmos oracles instead had bodies that were partially composed of stellar material, reducing the harm of physical attacks.

Initially the basic cantrip of this mystery was the conjuring of a few floating lights. However, now they conjure a single powerful floating orb of light, as well a blasts of color that overwhelm the senses, fields of darkness, and a moon-addled frenzy in others. What’s more, their basic focus spell conjures a spray of star-like sparks to burn and dazzle foes.

Previously, oracle mysteries only granted access to two domain choices, but now they get four, being darkness, moon, nothingness, and star. These are useful for creating areas of darkness, blasting foes with sacred moonlight, warding themselves against mental attack with nothingness, and creating bright stars to track someone, respectively.

With greater revelations come new magical effects, such as freezing foes with the chill of empty space, and creating bridges of moonlight for them and their allies to cross while others fail to do so.

Naturally, they can also take the advanced spell of their domain as well. These can grant greater darkvision, granting cycling benefits based on the phase of the moon, creating sucking rifts to elsewhere, or create a burning asterism that harms those that pass through the lines, respectively.

The sky pulls at those with this mystery, cursing them with light bodies. The original version of this curse offered several benefits to being lightweight such as being impossible to trip or even allowing them to walk on unstable surfaces. However, the remastered version only makes the oracle easier to knock around.

The remastered version of the class does offer a feat or two associated with various mysteries, including Trial by Skyfire, allowing them to rain down fiery bolts from the heavens on foes.

There are, however, general feats that prove useful to them, including Reach Spell, Widen Spell, Knowledge of Shapes, Detonating Spell, Surging Might, Water Walker, Quickened Casting, Lighter Than Air, Blaze of Revelation, Mystery Conduit, and others that fit your build.

This mystery definitely lends itself more to the blasty side of things, but also offers ways to buff others and themselves, as well as some good utility. I will say I do miss the added benefits to advancing one’s curse, but I also understand the need for the curse to be the consequence of overusing certain abilities rather than something to immediately farm for each day and encounter.

Being an oracle of the cosmos means feeling the call of the stars and the beings with power over them. Does the oracle embrace such higher powers, or live in fear of them? I suppose it all depends on whether they embrace the vastness above or not.

Many-Eyes-of-Heaven lives up to their name, their many eyes as a goloma twinkling like stars in their mane. Unlike others of their kind though, they believe that it is time to cast aside fear and befriend the many peoples of the world and beyond, befitting their role as a star-gazer.

Blessed by the stars both by her heritage as a lunar naga and by the divine will of the gods, Eisaveth is among the most powerful of her kind, and many go to her seeking wisdom from the heavens. However, a new group of petitioners approaches that seeks the answers to their questions, and the naga’s death to prevent those answers from spreading, something she has forseen, and summoned the party to prevent.

After years of fending off the threats from the night sky, the remote village of Olgans has grown distrustful of the stars, to the point when a child born with constellation birthmarks begins showing signs of divine power, there is a debate about their fate.