December 2021

New

Ancient Changes

• Followers of Belladonna, Path of time: Followers of Belladonna can now gain a handful of powerful time manipulation abilities. These include being able to accelerate, slow down, and even reverse time.

• Followers of Belladonna, Path of Order: Followers of Belladonna can now gain several order related abilities. These include additional damage, bonuses against undead, and dealing damage to users of chaos.

• Followers of Teo, Path of Desire: Followers of desire gain a variety of bonuses from a number of options, creating a benefit path that is unique for each person.

• Followers of Teo, Path of freedom: Followers of freedom gain benefits that perpetuate their own freedom by lowering perk requirements and allowing them to resist certain effects.

• Followers of Teo, Path of Mortality: Followers of mortality gain abilities that help preserve life and save others from death.

• Followers of Kreed, Path of Magic: Gain the ability to turn overshields into magic and drain enemy overshields.

• Followers of Kreed, Path of Artifacts: Gain a holy focus of kreed and build a unique weapon of legendary power.

• Followers of Jaged, Path of Chaos: Gain the ability to inflict large amounts of chaos damage.

• Followers of Jages, Path of Disorder: Gain random benefits stolen from other ancients.

• Followers of Deber, Path of War: Gain a variety of significant combat advantages and grant your allies several bonuses as well.

• Followers of Deber, Path of Honor: Duel your opponents and force them into single combat while stripping away their defenses.

• Followers of Deber, Path of Earth: Shape the battlefield in your favor.

• Followers of Bolest, Path of Plague: Summon heralds of plague to spread disease and infect your enemies.

• Followers of Bolest, Path of Terminality: Mark a target and watch them wither away as disease and status effects strip away their life.

• Followers of Luna, Path of the Moon: Gain a number of night and lunar themed abilities, including the ability to summon a lunar ally.

• Followers of Luna, Path of the Change: Gain a number of varied benefits that aid the character and their allies.

• New tribal god: Genie. These beings of power grant their followers a tiny bit of that very power.

Alchemy

• Added recipes to create gems of average to perfect quality of any size.

Perks

• Moving Target, level 12: The character can move 5 feet at the end of each turn in the turn order.

New Creatures

• Black slimes: Toxic blobs that inflict radiation and enervation and anyone nearby while digesting living food.

• Arcing ooze: A fragile slime with an electric punch.

• Large weapon slime: A living arsenal capable of demolishing a small village

• Huge weapon slime: A living arsenal capable of demolishing a sizable village or even ill equipped city.

• Moving frost: A fast slime covered in icy spines

• Rainbow slime: Slimes that deal a large amount of aether and chaos damage

• Small rainbow slime: Similar to the rainbow slime, but smaller and weaker. They can consume another slime to grow into a standard rainbow slime.

• Giant bat: These flying mammals are friendly, easily tamed, and more than willing to accept food from traveling parties.

• Huge bat: These flying mammals are friendly, easily tamed, and more than willing to accept food from traveling parties.

Spells

• CL 8, Cleric: Suppress Curse, the caster temporarily suppresses a curse afflicting a target.

• CL 2, universal: Lesser Extinguish, the caster puts out a target fire.

Races

• Orcs now have more society information, including marriage and trade.

Rituals

• Remove curse: A long ritual taking up to several hours that allows a character to be cured of a single curse.

Changes

• Gifted - Infestor

  • All Body Infestation powers have been buffed. Previously, they were low duration (2-5 rotations), low Psionic Stress cost powers to animate the dead. They now cause significantly more Psionic Stress, last at least 24 hours, and higher versions of Body Infestation powers will heal an already Infested minion!

  • New Rank 1 ability that makes Infested minions visually indistinct from the living. The aim is to allow Gifted - Infestors to have minions that can pass for living, have personalities, speak, and perhaps even be properly resurrected.

• The majority of alchemy items that had % based effects no longer have % based effects.

• Tweaks to the wording of changeling parasite’s vitality drain ability.

• Artificer - Hybrid Technician, the damage bonuses from improved hybrid receiver have been increased and tweaked for clarity.

• Artificer - Hybrid Technician now gains a few rounds at low ranks to get started.

• Artificer - Combustion Technician, the damage bonuses from Improved Barrel Design have been increased and tweaked for clarity.

• Magic warped goblins no longer give an additional trait.