loreweaver:

charlesoberonn:

insomniac-arrest:

• an Elf family forcing their reckless elf son to become a human mortician for a time to remember that mortality is still a thing
• fairies becoming contract lawyers and big CEOs of tech companies with huge legal agreement clauses
• vampires with so many restraining orders on each other (you rack them up after a couple centuries) they have to live in the middle of nowhere, end up becoming lumberjacks
• Spinx’s who host late night game shows
• Werewolves becoming astronomy professors and even astronauts after having to pay so much attention to the moon cycle 

• Mummies becoming historians to catch up on what they missed while in their tomb
  

• a witch pharmacist who quietly adds a touch of this and that to generic prescriptions for her ailing customers because, really, mass-manufactured medicine is fine but it can never truly compete with that personal touch
• merfolk running ocean life exhibits out in carefully-curated natural environments in the actual sea; go diving with them and they’ll show you what life is really like at thirty fathoms
  

Better Than Luck – Grit Drawback

“Some gunslingers claim they belong to a mystical ‘way of the gun,’ but it’s more likely that the volatile nature of firearms simply prunes the unlucky and careless from their ranks.”

Yep.

That’s all quite true.

But there are also a rare few gun-magicians walking the lonely darkness, working the will of an unseen and inhuman sponsor in a weave of iron, brimstone & gunsmoke, blessed with a deathly-steady hand, an eerily keen eye and the dark one’s own damnably good fortune.

You should know. You happen to be one of them.

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Prerequisite:Grit class feature; this Drawback must be taken when the 1st level of the Gunslinger class is selected; see Special, below

Effect: Grit and Deeds are always considered to be Supernatural abilities (rather than Extraordinary abilities) when used by you. Thus, for example, you may not use Grit or Deeds while in the area of an antimagic field and you may not gain levels in the Anti-Witchcraft Armor Integrated Combat Enhancile Prestige Class.

Choose any one named sentient creature with a total Challenge Rating no lower than 12 and no higher than 19 (or just below the “ceiling” of CR for your campaign, as described by your GM) to serve as your Sponsor.

This creature must be approved by your GM; many of the creatures listed as “Voldemorts” here might function as appropriate Sponsor. Within the Bloodlines & Black Magic setting, this creature may not be one of the Grand Archons but is instead always assumed to be a Lesser Goetic Spirit.

With your GM’s permission, you may work together to build an appropriate Sponsor for your character; remember that your Sponsor is not in service to you, and that you cannot command nor control your Sponsor in any way.

If you find yourself hoping to beg a favor from your Sponsor, remember that she is under no obligation to assist you … and in most cases would actively benefit from not helping you, since you work for her.

Be advised that your Sponsor is, in many ways, similar to a Witch’s Patron; your GM is the final arbiter of what creature might serve as an appropriate Sponsor for your gifts.

Your alignment may not be diametrically opposed to the alignment of your Sponsor, if your Sponsor’s alignment is known.

For example: Jacqueline Lopez is a Mysterious Stranger in service to Amaana Qaruun, Golden Daughter of Erebus, a creature known to be Lawful Evil; Jacqueline may not be Chaotic Good but may otherwise follow her own desires as she sees fit.

“Opportunity” Knox, meanwhile, is a Bolt Ace drawing power from Rysha Spurr, who possesses an alignment that is not known to Ms. Knox. As such, Opportunity may possess any alignment that she chooses & may behave accordingly.

Once per game session, your Sponsor may make a request of you, such as delivering a simple message that is dictated to you in a dream or found stamped on the back of a dollar bill.

These requests always arrive to you via mysterious means: a note found in your possessions, an unbidden & alien impulse, a voice in the dark or a scrawl in the steam clinging to a cold mirror. You may always choose not to perform this favor, but doing-so immediately costs you access to all supernatural abilities granted to you by the Gunslinger class for a number of days equal to one-half your Gunslinger level (rounded down) +1d6 days, rolled secretly.

Sample Favors [roll 1d12]:

1. Transcribe a short message & hand-deliver it to a particular address.
2. Watch a certain person for 1d6+1 hours during a specific day.
3. Purchase a singular item (costing less than 10 gold) and leave it in an odd but nearby place within 24 hours.
4. Sit on a rooftop (or in the woods) and count all of one kind of animal (such as crows or foxes) that you see within a three-hour period.
5. Cook a sumptuous meal (a task requiring a minimum of one hour) and leave it in a specific place at a specific time within the next week.
6. Create an art object and leave it in the home of a specific person known to you without being seen by anyone.
7. Write a poem and burn it. Smear the ashes on the door of an enemy.
8. Stand unarmored (but not unarmed) at a specific spot at midnight.
9. Shoplift a specific palm-sized object with a value no greater than 10 gold and place it in your shirt pocket.
10. Kill a specific creature with a Challenge Rating no greater than half your HD within the next 24 hours.
11. Locate & speak to a specific individual known to you for at least one half hour within the next 24 hours.
12. Make a specific marking at a specific location (or on a specific object) within the next hour without being seen by anyone while making the mark.
    

Your GM may always choose to refrain from having your Sponsor make a request of you for any reason or for no reason, unknown to you.

If your Sponsor is ever killed or destroyed, you immediately lose all access to all supernatural abilities granted to you by the Gunslinger class until such time as your Sponsor is reinstated in its power or until you acquire a new Sponsor: a process requiring a great deal or research, roleplay and at least a month of in-game effort.

Special: You may, if you choose, select both this and another Drawback such as Arcane Bonds of Obedience,Buried Memoriesor Warded Against Nature. If you do so, you may gain a single feat instead of gaining a Trait.

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Long Hours of Invisible Quiet – Pathfinder (1st Edition) Spellcaster Feat

You can step silently from the vision & knowledge of others with ease … and remain there, cloaked in unseen shadow & hidden just out of view, for as long as you desire.

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Prerequisite: Ability to use spells, supernatural abilities or spell-like abilities.

Benefit: You add vanish as a 1st level spell to any one spell-list you possess (such as to your Mesmerist spell-list or to your Witch spell-list, for example).

Whenever you become invisible by any means, you may choose (as a free action) to extend the duration of the effect indefinitely. While the duration of your invisibility is artificially extended in this way, you must stay both silent and still: you must remain in the same 5-foot square, and you may not make or cause any sound above the very barest of whispers (audible only to creatures directly adjacent to you).

Violation of either of these rules, voluntarily or involuntarily, ends your invisibility instantly.

Any use of Pierce the Veil(seeBloodlines & Black Magic, pg. 10) or any divination spell automatically overcomes your invisibility – no roll, action or check required – while you are artificially extending the duration of your invisibility in this way.

Campaign Note: Within the Bloodlines & Black Magic setting, this ability is most common amongst magicians drawn from the Shadow Bloodline; rumors persist that members of the now-vanished Lineage known as the Eyes of Nyx (see page 61) were the truest masters of this dark art.

Apex Goetic Servant – Pathfinder (1st Edition) Urban Fantasy Template forBloodlines & Black Magic

When a powerful witch dies, his familiar – the earthly tie to that Goetic Spirit whom he serves – may live on. Such a creature may, in rare instances, consume the corpse & memories of its master, undergoing an apotheosis into something far more powerful: a invisible tool of subtle warfare against the Archons.

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AnApex Goetic Servant is created when the familiar belonging to a powerful fallen witch consumes the corpse of its master in a specific way at a specific time (perhaps on one of several auspicious dates?); such creatures are rare in the extreme, and there is no known way to create such a creature purposefully.

When an Apex Goetic Servant is created, its stat-block is rebuilt entirely; the creature loses all of its previous ability scores & statistics and becomes an utterly new creature, transformed by ritual & the favor of a Goetic Spirit.

Designer’s Note: This is an opportunity to add something truly weird to your Bloodlines & Black Magic game, such as an Awakenedunholyhalf-fiendtiger; each Apex Goetic Servant is a unique & powerful entity with its own goals & motives, perhaps filling the same “slot” as high-CR named dragons or outsiders in a more traditional sword-&-sorcery fantasy game.

This template may be added to any intelligent creature with the Missing Template; such creatures retain all memories of their lives as familiars and also gain access to the memories once possessed by their former master.

Challenge Rating: Same as base creature +0

Special Qualities:

Mask of Mundane Flesh (Su): At will as a standard action, an Apex Goetic Servant may use beast shape II (unlimited duration) to take the form of a single Tiny-sized creature (such as a catorowl) identical to its former shape. This form is chosen when the template is gained and cannot be changed.

This spell-effect may be dismissed again at will as a standard action.

While this spell is in effect, the Apex Goetic Servant loses the Displacement and Invisibility special qualities granted by the Missing Template.

Campaign Notes: The Archons task each & every of their loyal servants – including such disreputable Lineages as The Masters (seeBloodlines & Black Magic, page 56) – to hunt-down & execute any and all Apex Goetic Servants, as well as any magician researching the means to create such a beast.

Of course, such a command is easier to issue than it is to enforce.

In general, most servants of the Archons simply take great care to completely destroy both the body & the familiar of any witch they discover, hoping to make whatever bizarre ritual creates Apex Goetic Servants impossible.

Prompt #14193

“I water my garden with manna.”

Prompt #14192

“We have nine bottles of magic. Each one can make you a Wizard for one day.”

Prompt #14191

“This gondola can ride on the clouds. The trick is getting up there.”

Prompt #14190

“At the end of every year, a new continent emerges from the sea.”

Prompt #14189

“You shed your humanity like snakeskin.”

Prompt #14188

“What book could possibly need this many locks?”

Prompt #14187

“Lord Death lives in a cabin made of coffin lids. And insets emanate from the chimney.”

Prompt #14186

“I’ve heard legends of blades that became human. They can catch blades in their hands and make people bleed with the slightest touch.”

Prompt #14185

“You’re hiring an extortionist to protect you?”

Prompt #14184

“Lord Death followed me for a whole year, because my hourglass was dropping sand in the negatives.”

Prompt #14183

“That platinum is worth more than all your spell books put together.”

Prompt #14182

“My grandmother was a witch and an assassin. Though, truthfully, her broom did most of the work.”

Prompt #14181

“Clock towers are defunct time machines.”