The Book of Many Things Vol 2: Shattered Worlds - Pathfinder 1E Pop Culture Supplement

Description

It’s dangerous to go alone, so join us as we explore the races and classes of several different settings through the lens of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

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The Book of Many Things Volume 2 is the latest repository of options built from fan requests related to its theme. Inside is a compilation of character options related to different video games, movies, cartoons, and other mediums; fleshed out and made playable. Surprise enemies with your array of combat options as a generational hero. Hunt dragon pirates through the realities, or become one yourself. Become a master of whip, sword, and cross as you stalk the creatures that go bump in the night. You could even become an outlaw, beast master, or shadow priest. A variety of different races, classes, archetypes, feats, and spells await within the Book of Many Things Volume 2.

The Book of Many Things is a series of regularly updated resources, with new content being added over time. If you have something you’d like to request, just reach out to us (details inside) and we’ll work with you to try and include it. You’ll even receive a thank you in the credits.

==What's Inside==

43 New Ancestries, including homages to:

• Final Fantasy with leporines, maithar catfolk, materian humans, chisai moggish, and enlightened ursaren
• Legend of Zelda with fiari, runekin, scrub leshys, sky forest elflings, tsura, and Zaelin elflings
• Metroid with the Jin-ku energivores and hybrid samsarans
• Pokemon with form-changing dalets and nerudes
• World of Warcraft with world soul dwarves, elves, gnomes, minotaurs, orcs, reborn, skinwalkers, tieflings, trolls, and ursaren

11 Classes

• Astrologers are a simple spellcaster class who use the alignment of the stars to gain their magic.
• Gamers are an alternate barbarian class that takes advantage of knowing how to play the game within the game.
• Generational heroes are a hybrid alchemist/ranger class that knows how to find hidden passages, secret doors, and princesses to save.
• Jun-Ku bounty hunters build and alter a personal blaster, bombs, and power armor they use to great effect.
• Metaphysicians take abstract thought and apply it to combat and spellcasting.
• Monster Tamers are a hybrid druid/monster trainer with a companion monster and the ability to transform herself into her captured monsters.
• The philosopher is a hybrid cleric/wizard able to refute reality with their divine genius.
• Potentialists harness potential energy and use it to interact with others in combat while remaining perfectly still.
• Priests of Volwryn balance the magic of light and shadow, shifting their specialization as the need arises.
• Pythia are based on the Sisters of Karn from Doctor Who. They can change their shape and use druidic magic spontaneously.
• Revokers steal magic from spellcasters, preventing them from using it against the revoker and their allies.
• Symbiants are otherworldly beings that bond to their host and improve their combat ability.

42 Archetypes that build on the Shattered Worlds, such as

• the burdened warrior concept of a reluctant hero who keeps coming back.
• Legend of Zelda's foursword
• Castlevania's Belmont family, forgemasters, and fiendcrafters
• Final Fantasy's dragoon, red mage, Shinra, Squall, Vincent
• Green Lantern Corp
• Ninja Gaiden's Ryu
• Necromantic Studies including ancestral, bone reader, death mask, fiendish, trade, and voodoo
• Otherworldly invoker patrons for dragons, djinn, fey, and a nascent Patron that must be raised.
• World of Warcraft's shaman, blood knights, frost knights, and plague knights
• The Witcher's Geralt

Feats with fun concepts, including

• Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, Dark Soul, God of War, Guitar Hero, Hero of Might and Magic, Monster Hunter, Portal, Rock Band, Street Fighter, Tomb Raider, and Witcher
• New multiclass feats for the classes introduced here
• Ancestry feats for those introduced here.

Character Options

• New warg convergence allows you to channel your mind through nearby animals.
• Noble paths offer a specific benefit for your chosen ancestry to make them better.

Spell lists for new classes, as well as 16 new spells

• Spell chains allow multiple spellcasters to contribute to a greater magical effect by casting specific spells in order.

Magic Items

• Fantasian orbs can be used for temporary increases or attached to specific equipment for powerful benefits.
• Discovery items can be found on slain enemies randomly by characters with the Harness Discovery item creation feat. They include options like mushrooms that enlarge you, flowers that grant you fire magic
• 17 different Magical locations, which are areas of the world imbued with powerful magic that can be drawn on by those who remain long enough to understand them.

Equipment

• Buster blades, gunblades, and strike balls all harken back to Final Fantasy weapon ideas, and bokochi make great mounts.
• Bastard weapons can be wielded in one or two hands.
• Tower weapons are more complex, two-handed weapons.
• Break open a specialized bottle to regain health, magic, or both.
• Eldritch organs are like cybertech, but magical in nature. They include things like an adamantine skeleton and strange additions to other body parts.

and more!