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[zaraegis]

My latest comm!!! A very cool group shot with some stylish looks!!

I finally get to go ham on suit shading :DDD

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[kalvincent]

Goblin Society Part 2: Education and Faith

Education

Here we can see the worst effect of goblins' high mortality rate: few elders live long enough to gather and pass on wisdom, forcing many clans to endlessly learn and relearn the same lessons and talents. Skills and memories are lost between generations, keeping most goblin clans from building on existing knowledge or technology. But still they manage to preserve some basic teachings through their oldest tradition: story and song.

Clans with stability paint an even brighter picture, with wise goblins passing on their knowledge and learning to new generations. These clans develop distinct goblin culture, lore, and innovations. Over time, they can become as technologically advanced as any other race, provided they don’t fall into anarchy before they reach that point.

Story and Song

Goblin clans make simple sing-song rhymes, tell elaborate stories, make humorous poems, or otherwise preserve knowledge in a spoken format. Stories and parables teach young goblins when to sneak, when to strike, and when to run.

Goblins repeat these songs and stories around fires and before raids, cementing learnings that can stretch back decades or centuries. These stories shift greatly over time, becoming distorted with each telling, yet often retain their kernel of truth. Sometimes they pass along these snippets of wisdom without even understanding what they mean - a goblin might chant a simple rhyme about trolls to themselves, only to realize in the midst of combat that the rhyme gives the answer on how to defeat such a foe.

Reading and Writing

An often repeated tidbit about goblins is that they have great superstitions surrounding reading and writing, and that they frequently believe that writing a word down causes it to be pulled from your mind forever. This is at least partially true. 

Few goblin clans have much use for reading and writing, since every day is focused on survival in the harsh climes they inhabit. A story can last a hundred years but a piece of paper is lost to a single spark, so why waste time scribbling when you could be singing? In areas where goblins clash with bigger folk, they might develop superstitions centered around the written word and its association with wizardry (which is very rarely mastered by goblins). These superstitions also crop up as a push-back against other races trying to force literacy on goblin-kind.

This isn’t to say that goblins never learn to read or write, but rather that on their own they rarely see the point.

Religion

Goblin religion is absolutely befuddling, and is a topic of endless debate in niche scholastic communities. This confusion goes both ways, as most goblins are confounded by the idea of organized religion. More often, goblins as individuals (or sometimes as families) pick unique objects of worship.

Goblins can commonly be found to praise and pray to impressive ancestors, powerful monsters, natural phenomenon, wandering demons or angels, or almost anything else. Fire tends to be a common area of concern within goblin worship, possibly due to the importance of communal gatherings around fire in goblin society, but others might bend knees and pray to mountains or even rain.

This hodge-podge of religious fervor makes goblins extremely resistant to religious conversion, especially since goblins are prone to becoming bored of praising the same deity over and over.

Goblins who have lived among longshanks (the bigger races) their whole lives do sometimes pick up the religion of those around them. Even this adopted religion tends to be a bit à la carte, however. Praises to one god might get mixed in to hymns to another.

[haltraveler]

I want to thank that Ancestry Guide cover for reminding me how pretty she is 

[bran-ridire]

[littlemissonewhoisall]

Gotham Bestiary: Minyad Angel

Angel, Minyad

This lithe figure’s shadowy form, glassy black eyes, batlike wings, and mouthless face all give it a somewhat fiendish appearance, but its body language gives off a strangely gentle and nonthreatening impression.

Minyad Angel CR 14

XP 38,400

NG Medium outsider (angel, extraplanar, good)

Init +7; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision; Perception +29

Aura protective aura

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DEFENSE

AC 28, touch 18, flat-footed 20 (+7 Dex, +1 dodge, +10 natural; +4 deflection vs. evil)

hp 199 (19d10+95)

Fort +11, Ref +18, Will +16; +4 vs. poison, +4 vs. evil

DR 10/evil, Resist electricity 10, fire 10, Immune acid, cold, petrification

Defensive Abilities anticipate action; SR 23

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OFFENSE

Speed 60 ft., fly 120 ft. (good)

Melee +2 holy unarmed strike +25/+20/+15/+10 (1d8+6) or +2 holy merciful unarmed strike +25/+20/+15/+10 (1d8+1d6+6 nonlethal)

Ranged +2 holy shuriken +28/+23/+18/+13 (1d3+6) or +2 holy merciful shuriken +28/+23/+18/+13 (1d3+1d6+6 nonlethal)

Special Attacks merciful strikes

Spell-Like Abilities: (CL 15th)

At will- darkness, deep slumber (DC 17), detect evil, discern lies (DC 18), dispel evil (DC 19), greater teleport, plane shift (DC 19), remove disease, shield other

3/day- death ward, suggestion (DC 17)

1/day- atonement, greater forbid action (DC 19)

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STATISTICS

Str 19, Dex 25, Con 20, Int 16, Wis 21, Cha 19

Base Atk +19, CMB +23, CMD 40

Feats Dodge B, Greater Vital Strike, Improved Unarmed Strike B, Improved Vital Strike, Lightning Stance, Mobility, Power Attack, Spring Attack, Snatch Arrows, Stunning Fist, Vital Strike, Wind Stance

Skills Acrobatics +29, Bluff +26, Diplomacy +26, Fly +33, Intimidate +26, Knowledge (Planes) +25, Perception +29, Sense Motive +29, Stealth +29; Modifiers +4 Fly

Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Common, Infernal (cannot speak); truespeech

SQ silent speech

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ECOLOGY

Environment any (good-aligned planes, the Maelstrom)

Organization solitary, pair, or colony (3-6)

Treasure double

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SPECIAL ABILITIES

Anticipate Action (Su) As a free action once per turn, a minyad can attempt to anticipate the actions of one creature within 30 ft by making a Sense Motive check with a DC equal to 15 + the creature’s Hit Dice + its ranks in Bluff. If the minyad succeeds, then it can anticipate the creature’s actions until the minyad’s next turn. After the targeted creature makes an attack or casts a spell, but before the result of the spell or attack is revealed, the minyad can make a combat maneuver check to cancel the action. If the maneuver is successful, the attack is wasted or the spell is lost.

Merciful Strikes (Su) All weapons wielded by a minyad are treated as a +2 weapon with the merciful and holy weapon properties, including its unarmed strikes. In addition, the minyad’s unarmed strikes deal damage equivalent to that of an 8th-level monk.

Silent Speech (Su) A minyad has no mouth, and cannot speak aloud, but it is able to use its truespeech ability through gestures and body language as if it were speaking.

In the cosmology of the outer planes, evil is often seen as something inherent to a being’s nature. The lower planes are seen as being composed of pure malevolence, and as such everything spawned from the essence of those planes is evil in its entirety. The truth is less simple, however, and though it is rare good beings can arise from the lower planes, though not without difficulty.

On rare occasions, an evil outsider is able to recognize its own lack of agency in its moral choices, and thus achieve a state of enlightenment that allows them to reject that fiendish nature and become something else. These fiends spontaneously metamorphose over the course of several days, and emerge into the higher planes as minyads.

Minyades are champions of redemption and change, seeking to guide evil beings to the same enlightenment that allowed them to escape the shackles of their home planes. As such, despite their impressive power they tend to avoid killing even the most horrific of creatures, knowing from their own experiences that even things born of pure evil can be redeemed. The only exception to this merciful nature is against qlippoths, for their primordial evil is beyond any salvation, and a minyad usually strives to eliminate them on sight.

[scots-dragon]

Eldritch Hunter (PF 1E)

Pathfinder Homebrews The Eldritch Hunter By Susanna McKenzie and Rhona MacFarlane Eldritch Hunter Eldritch hunters are peerless combatants that meld a ranger’s array of skills with a wizard or sorcerer’s repetoire of spells. They typically hail from orders of rangers sponsored by their world’s ...

A new Pathfinder 1st edition prestige class by myself and @transdejahthoris, intended for those who really want to play a multiclass ranger/wizard or ranger/sorcerer but previously couldn’t. Mostly inspired by the fact that you actually kinda could, back in the halcyon days of the original Unearthed Arcana book.

[talesfromthedmportal]

I’m in a Pathfinder RPG group on Facebook and one of the other group members has been working on a series of rules flowcharts for some of the more obscure and/or harder-to-grasp aspects of Pathfinder. They’re inspired by previous flowcharts, but have been cleaned up for more clarity and ease of use!

I have permission from the user to post the images here, but if you’d like to see his original post on Reddit I encourage you to do so.

[nerdtrekdotcom]

Crisis of the World-Eater: The Collected Epic

Crisis of the World-Eater: The Collected Epic

Crisis of the World-Eater: The Collected Epic

The collected version of the Crisis of the World-Eater-serial clocks in at 106 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 1 page SRD, 2.5 pages of advertisement, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 99.5 pages of content.

  Now, I have spent already too many hours dissecting what started with such promise in the Prologue – which is included…

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