Races: Crystalline

I've suddenly had the idea of designing races for pathfinder, and not all the silly anthros, I want to do some very strange races, the kind of thing that would be playable, but would be more likely used to format an NPC in that weird lost civilazation your PCs just discovered, so if this post has been a long time coming, there's why.

Crystalline:

Crystalline's are 2 ft. tall pieces of gem that move about. though their color and appearance may fool some, they are really not made of crystal at all, but rather a highly flexible substance that closely resembles crystal. They take on the coloration of whatever gem they fed on most recently, allowing them to easily hide in their natural environment. Crystalline's live deep underground, thousands of miles past the limits that the underdark even lead to. due to this, travel there is impossible unless some special means of travel is procured, perhaps a seemingly bottomless pit that none have ever dared travel, or some fissure that opens up as a part of the world ending calamity to give you a few ideas. But I digress.  

The caverns that Crystalline live in are covered in a rich supply of gems, every surface in the entire system is made up of some type of gem. Among them, there is a certain elite that protect what is called the motherstone (translated), which is actually the core of the planet. The guardians of this stone use small fragments of it to fuel a special source of magical energy (this will be a class I make in the future). The motherstone has a strange effect on the gems that are around it, and there is a field of rainbow gems that constantly grow towards the motherstone, which the Crystalline harvest in order to sustain themselves. The Crystalline's believe that the motherstone is the birthplace of all life. Keep in mind that they have never left their single existing city. The stats for a Crystalline are as follows:

Type: Aberration

Size: Tiny

Base Speed: 20 ft.

Ability Score Modifiers: +2 Cha, +2 Con, -4 Int. Members of this race are rather hardy, and therr gem-like appearance makes them very well-liked, but they have slightly less developed brains than other creatures.

Languages: This species communicates with vibrations, and speak a unique language, it is considered very difficult for them to speak other languages, and will not likely ever be able to speak other languages (unless you put some different flavor to them.)

Racial Traits:

Bond to the Land: Members of this race gain a +1 dodge bonus to AC when in the (newly added)
Crystal terrain type. (we can't do underdark, because they aren't stone)

Crystalline Form: Members of this race have reflective, crystalline skin that grants them a +2 racial bonus to AC against rays. Once per day, they can deflect a single ray attack targeted at them as if they were using the Deflect Arrows feat.

Camouflage: Members of this race gain a +4 racial bonus to stealth checks made in the crystalline terrain type.

Cave Dweller: Members of this race gain a +1 bonus on Knowledge (dungeoneering) and Survival checks made underground.

Skill Training: Knowledge (dungeoneering), and stealth are always treated as a class skill for members of this race.

Magic Items: 20 Custom Rare/Magic Items for Your Players to Steal

     Been a while, but my page was down. Which I was thankfully able to fix. After all, what would you do without me? Anyways, this is the start of a series of five (at least for now) posts that I will be making, so at the end, We should be at 100 magic items. Let's begin, shall we?

1. Pen of Messaging: This pen, when used to write on a paper, will send a mental thought of the      message to another person. It reads exactly what is on the paper. (fun roleplaying if bad grammar is involved)

2. Shifter's Armor: Made with a series of buckles and straps, this armor, which can come in many varieties, comes undone, and falls off when the user shifts out of human form. (this item does not give off a magical aura)

3. Shifter's Claws: (this one is meant specifically for the Shifter class) a set of gauntlets that morph along with the user's hands, allowing a shifter to deal an additional 1d4 damage.

4. Poisoner's Vial: Once per day, you can fill this ceramic vial with water, by the end of the day, the water will have turned into a single vial of potion.

5. Ring of Bad Judgement: when worn, this ring causes a -2 penalty to all wisdom based rolls. This is a cursed item. The player does not know about this effect.

6. Goggles of Violence: when worn, these goggles grant a +1 bonus to all rolls made while in a rage, the DC to get the user out of a rage, however, increase by 4.

7. Seductress' Corset: An extremely tight corset that allows you to, once per day, use a spell-like ability as charm. When used, you must make a DC 13 fortitude save or faint.

8. Black Book: a book containing a list of names, it also has an inked arrow that points in the direction of the person, a person's name is crossed off if they are dead.

9. Folding Table: A square metal cube weighing nearly nothing with a button on the side, when pressed, it expands into a small table that can seat two people comfortably.

10. Quick-Flick Rapier: This is a gold embossed rapier that allows a second attack per round, this does not incur the normal two-weapon fighting penalties, and takes up the time of a single attack.

11. Mask of Identity: When touched to a dead body, this mask takes on their characteristics, when it is worn, You gain the voice and features of that person, the features can be replaced once a week.

12. Talisman of Blinding: On command, this necklace can either blast out a single blast of light, causing all creatures in the room to make a save vs. blinding, or it can be used to give four hours of dim lighting, It must be placed under the sun for two hours in order to charge this ability.

13. Shell of the Golden Kappa: A golden shield decorated like a tortoise shell, this shield has the ability reflect evocation magic attacks, however, due to the uneven surface, It will reflect in a random direction, chosen by whatever method suits you.

14. Dark Destiny: This powerful sword takes the shape and properties of your preferred weapon, but always deals 1d12 damage, every time you kill a creature with this weapon, you need to succeed at a DC 20 will save or the weapon will devour your soul. Only a wish or miracle can restore the soul.

15. Scouter's Lens: when held over the eye, you can see an arial view of your surroundings, things that would block a bird's vision, such as trees, blocks yours too.

16. Box of Secrets: on command, this locked box bursts into flames, leaving nothing behind. (This includes metals.

17. Spacious Wagon: A covered wagon that works like a bag of holding, except people can sit in it as well. (This is OP, but would be cool for a smuggling operation, especially if the objects being smuggled are humans...)

18. Devourer Gem: A diamond you put part of your mind into, allows you to cast multiple spells at once, but you take a -2 penalty on all spells based rolls, and also for intelligence based skill checks, the penalty for skill checks can be reduced to neutral by having someone hold the gem up to your ear, this only works for spells if you are not attempting to cast both spells. treat this item as an intelligent item with the PCs personality, the PC does not share consciousness with the gem.

19. Ever Changing Map: A map of a certain area (most likely a continent), it displays a compass that moves with you on the paper, It also shows various weather patterns, and changes political borders immediately after disputes over them are settled.

20. Hat of Secrets: A hat that can have small objects stored inside it, up to 4 items that weigh 1 lb. or less, when you reach into the hat, you can pull the object out, the objects sit in another dimensional space, as bag of holding, and thus cannot be seen, and do not fall out of the hat when held upside down.

Homebrew: Witch-Hunter

         Welcome Back,

         Apologies for this post being down, I was unable to reupload it until recently after I had accidentally turned it into a draft, sorry if anyone needed it.

         Yes, yes, yes. I know that it shares it's name with an inquisitor archetype, but i think the inquisitor archetype sucks (don't take it personally, i just do). so I made this:

Class: Witch-Hunter

While many see magic as an aid to society, there are those who have differing opinions, some more strongly than others, those that become Witch-Hunters, however, take this to the extreme. having devoted much of their life to the studies of Hogsline, an antimagic force, have become true champions against the accursed arcane arts.

Role: The job of the Witch-Hunter is to quickly incapacitate casters then finish them off, making the fight more fair for martial-oriented characters.

Alignment: any neutral, witch-hunters generally don't care what happens to others, as long as their revenge is quenched.

Hit Die: 1d8

Starting Wealth: 4d6x10 (average: 140 GPs)

level	BAB	Fort save	Ref. save	Will save	special
1	+0	+0	+2	+2	Spell resistance
2	+1	+0	+3	+3	Dispel Magic
3	+2	+1	+3	+3	evasion
4	+3	+1	+4	+4	Force Armor
5	+3	+1	+4	+4	Spell resistance
6	+4	+2	+5	+5	Bonus Feat
7	+5	+2	+5	+5	uncanny saves
8	+6/+1	+2	+6	+6	Protection from Spells
9	+6/+1	+3	+6	+6	Spell resistance
10	+7/+2	+3	+7	+7	Dispel Magic, Greater
11	+8/+3	+3	+7	+7	-
12	+9/+4	+4	+8	+8	Bonus Feat
13	+9/+4	+4	+8	+8	Spell resistance
14	+10/+5	+4	+9	+9	improved uncanny saves
15	+11/+6/+1	+5	+9	+9	Bonus Feat
16	+12/+7/+2	+5	+10	+10
17	+12/+7/+2	+5	+10	+10	Spell resistance
18	+13/+8/+3	+6	+11	+11	Bonus Feat
19	+14/+9/+4	+6	+11	+11
20	+15/+10/+5	+6	+12	+12	Bane of Magi

Class Skills

The witch-hunter's class skills include: appraise (Int), bluff (Cha), climb (Str), craft (Int), disguise (Cha), escape artist (Dex), intimidate (Cha), knowledge (arcana) (Int), knowledge (history) (Int), knowledge (planes) (Int), knowledge (religion) (Int), perception (Wis), profession (Wis), sense motive (Wis), spellcraft (Int), stealth (Dex)

Skill Ranks per Level: 5+Int Modifier

Table: Witch-Hunter

Class Features

The following are the class skills of the Witch-Hunter:

Weapon and Armor proficiency: the witch-hunter is proficient with all simple and martials weapons, light armor, medium armor, and shields (except tower shields)

Spell Resistance: at level 1, the Witch-Hunter gains spell resistance equal to his level+ his wisdom ability score.

Dispel Magic:  at 2nd level, the witch-hunter gains the ability to deliver a melee touch attack as a swift action that acts as the dispel magic wizard spell, this ability is usable twice per day, and can be used an additional time per day every 3 levels beyond second, up to a total of five times at 18th level.

Bonus Feat: at third level, the Witch-Hunter gains access to the evasion feat as a bonus feat.

Force Armor: at 4th level, the witch-hunter can use one hour of study to generate a protective force around his armor, this force allows the witch-hunter to apply his armor class to touch armor class as well as armor class, at 11th level, the witch-hunter no longer requires the hour of study to activate this effect.

Bonus Feat: at 6th level, and every three levels thereafter, the witch-hunter gains access to a single bonus feat selected from the list of combat feats.

Uncanny Saves: at seventh level, the witch-hunter gains the ability to reroll one saving throw required by a magical effect, this class ability otherwise functions as the ability luck.

Dispel Magic, Greater: at 10th level, the witch-hunter gains the ability to cast dispel magic, greater as a melee touch attack, prepared as a swift action, this ability is usable an additional time per day at every three levels after the tenth.

Improved uncanny saves: at 14th level, the witch-hunter gains the ability to reroll both an extra save to a magical effect, as uncanny saves, and also the ability to make a DC 30 saving throw against magical effects that don't normally allow a saving throw.

Bane of Magic: at 20th level, the Witch-Hunter gains the ability to deliver a ranged touch attack that has the ability to leech all of the life force from a spell-caster class (decided by GM discretion), the caster is allowed DC 25 will save to negate, this ability is usable once per week.

        Feel free to give suggestions, also, this class is currently non-play-tested, so anyone who feels like doing so is free to do so.

until we meet again.