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I just want to take a moment to highlight a Pathfinder book I enjoy a whole lot. Previously, I talked about Ultimate Psionics from Dreamscarred Press. Today I want to share with you Monsters of Porphyra.

If you like monster books as much as me, and I love me a good monster book, you owe it to yourself to pick up Monsters of Porphyra. This book is chocked full of over 130 monsters for your game. Between the full color art and the downright fun descriptions, this is a monster book you will you enjoy in your game. From low level monsters like the carnage beetle to high level monsters like the ancient magi dragon, there are monsters here for your game, no matter what level you are playing. Make up an ogrillon, half orc-half ogre, druid and give him a mawgriff, a giraffe-like creature, as an animal companion. Give your villain a transforming longship that yells, “Decepticonstructs! Attack!” Ever wanted a vampiric dragon in your game? Here’s your chance. This monster has everything, from interesting plant monsters and oozes to undead that will just gross out your players.

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Hey Wyvaran Fans.

We know you want to play a wyvaran anywhere you want and a PDF is not always the most convenient format. So we are working to put up all of our game mechanics for the wyvaran up at d20PFSRD. Currently, we have the racial traits, all the favored class options, alternate racial traits and the racial feats. We will be adding more as we get time.

If you like this race, be sure to purchase it up at d20PFSRD as well as DriveThruRPG/RPGNow and Paizo.com. Your purchase helps us to bring you more awesomeness to your favorite races.

We’re putting the finishing touches on Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans right now and just thought we would share with you just what exactly is an elan.
First off, the elan race was not published by Paizo for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, but by Dreamscarred Press in Ultimate Psionics. They come from the 3.5 psionics rules and have been updated by Dreamscarred along with the rest of that rules subset. If you have not checked them out yet, I highly recommend you give them a look as they are faithful update and are well balanced.

As far as the race itself, elans are a secret cabal of people that have been infused with psionic energy and can live forever, barring disease or a violent death. They appear slightly off from a normal human, practically bursting with magical energy.

At their core, these are psionic being that chose a life of psionic, so this supplement is filled with psionic options for your game play, particularly flavored for the elan race. If you are a fan of psionics, this is a supplement that you will want to check out.
Today we are sharing the elan racial traits. Stay tuned to JonBrazer.com all week for more details of what is inside fantastic racial supplement.

Elan Racial Traits

+2 to One Ability Score: Elans gain a +2 bonus to one ability score chosen at creation to represent their varied nature.
Aberrant Blood: Elans are humanoids with the aberrant subtype.
Medium: Elan are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Normal Speed: Elans have a base speed of 30 feet.
Aberrant Nature: Although human in appearance, elans are seen as slightly “off” by non-elans. They suffer a –1 penalty to Charisma-based skill checks when dealing with non-elans.
Naturally Psionic: Elans gain the Wild Talent (UP) feat as a bonus feat at 1st level. If an elan takes levels in a psionic class, she instead gains the Psionic Talent (UP) feat.
Resistance (Su): Elans can use psionic energy to increase their resistance to various forms of attack. As an immediate action, an elan can spend 1 power point to gain a +4 racial bonus on saving throws until the beginning of her next action.
Resilience (Su): When an elan takes damage, she can spend power points to reduce its severity. As an immediate action, she can reduce the damage he is about to take by 2 hit points for every 1 power point he spends.
Repletion (Su): An elan can sustain her body without need of food or water. If she spends 1 power point, an elan does not need to eat or drink for 24 hours.
Psionic Aptitude: When an elan takes a level in a favored class, she can choose to gain an additional power point instead of a hit point or skill point.
Languages: Elans begin play speaking Common. Elans with high Intelligence scores can choose any languages they want (except secret languages, such as Druidic).

Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans is part of the Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Subscription. Purchasing the subscription now gets you Advanced Merfolk, Advanced Wyvarans, Advanced Changelings, Advanced Catfolk, Advanced Tengu, and Advanced Favored Class Options as well as Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans the moment it is completed and 6 more races released throughout 2015 plus the upcoming Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Compendium when it is finished. Download today at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, d20PFSRD, and Paizo.com.

The Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans comes out soon. We already shared the elan racial traits. Today we are sharing with you one of the archetypes central to this race, the Ratha priest slayer.

The Ratha are a group of elans that believe that the worship of a deity is dangerous and should be ended. Their priest slayers, as their name would imply, are prepared to use violence to accomplish their ends. Most startling to other elans, they are willing to kill their own kind if they should worship a deity. Since elans are a race created by non-deities, worshipping a deity is an anathema to the Ratha and should be stopped.

This organization can be used as protagonists, antagonists, and as uneasy allies. Having a ratha priest slayer in your group will be most handy against infernal and demonic deities that want to enslave or zombify the living. They also work great as antagonists if the players are assisting a good-aligned deity in their quest to stop evil, especially if that evil lacks a strong connection to a deity. At the same time, if both good and evil are strongly connected to a deity, a Ratha might be a force for chaos, helping both sides take out each other and having the priest slayers clean up whomever is still standing when the fighting is done.

Ratha Priest Slayer

Associated Class: psychic warrior
Associated Race: elan
Replaced Abilities: bonus feat (1st, 2nd, and 5th levels), expanded path (3rd level only), path skill (4th level only)
Psionic Feats: The Ratha priest slayer gains the Wild Talent (UP) feat and his choice of Psionic Shot (UP), or Psionic Weapon (UP) as bonus feats at first level. He must meet any prerequisites for the feat selected.
Hampered Divine Conduit (Su): At 2nd level, the Ratha priest slayer adds half his psychic warrior level to the DC of all concentration checks made by divine spellcasters that the he threatens.
Mind Armor (Ps): At 3rd level, the Ratha priest slayer gains mind armor as a psi-like ability. When maintaining psionic focus, the priest slayer gains a +2 enhancement bonus to armor class and a +2 resistance bonus to all saving throws against divine spells and effects. These bonuses increase by +1 every four ratha priest slayer levels thereafter. This ability does not stack with inertial armor or any source that grants an enhancement bonus to AC.
Infectious Doubt (Su): At 4th level, the Ratha priest slayer can disrupt a divine spellcaster’s tie to his deity. After the priest slayer confirms a critical hit against a divine spellcaster, that target must make a Will save (DC 10 + damage dealt). On a failed save, the target must succeed on a concentration check (DC 10 + damage dealt) when attempting to cast divine spells for a number of rounds equal to one-third the priest slayer’s level. A failed Concentration check means the divine spellcaster loses the spell. At 10th level, the DCs for both the Will save and the concentration check increase to 15 + damage dealt.
Shaken Faith (Su): At 5th level, the priest slayer’s touch can shake the faith of the devout. As a melee touch attack, he can inflict Wisdom damage equal to 1d4 + 1 per every four levels he possesses. A successful Will save (DC 10 + 1/2 the priest slayer’s level + his Wisdom modifier) reduces this damage by half. The priest slayer can use this ability once per day. At 10th level and every five levels thereafter, he gains an additional daily use of this ability. A creature targeted by this ability is immune to shaken faith for 24 hours.

The Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans comes out soon. We already shared the elan racial traits and the Ratha priest slayer archetype for the psychic warrior class. Today we are taking a look at three rogue talents that an elan can take.

Not all elans take a hard core psionic class. Some choose a class from the core book or one of the other books. So we made some psionic options to add an elan flare to the class. Read three of of the rogue talents in the book below. Advanced Elans also has a new cleric domain, a fighter archetype and more.

Force of Personality (Su): A rogue with this talent may influence interactions through sheer force of personality. When he expends his psionic focus he gains a +1d6 bonus to a single Bluff, Diplomacy, or Intimidate check.

Internal Discipline (Ex): Once per day, the rogue can roll two dice while making an Autohypnosis check, and take the better result. She must choose to use this talent before making the Autohypnosis check. A rogue can use this ability one additional time per day for every five rogue levels she possesses.

Psionic Weapon Training (Su): A rogue with this talent gains Psionic Weapon (UP) as a bonus feat.

Next week sees the release of the Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans and all week long we are showing off some of what is inside. We already shared the elan racial traits, an archetype for the psychic warrior, and some rogue talents. Today, we are sharing with some new powers that can be used by elans, or any other psionic-capable character.

Bad reference jokes in the this post’s title aside, psionic classes need powers and some of them are more used by elans than other races. The Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans includes five new psionic powers. Three of these new power are below for your enjoyment and for you to incorporate into your game right away. We hope you enjoy them.

Racial Powers

Many elans use these powers, as do others that learn them.

Fleeting Memory

Discipline telepathy (mind affecting); Level cryptic 1, psion/wilder 1
Display none
Manifesting Time 1 swift action
Range personal
Target you
Duration one Knowledge or Profession check
Power Points 1
You shuffle through memories normally inaccessible to you, memories of the forgotten life you lived before becoming an elan. You gain a +2 insight bonus to one Knowledge or Profession check. This power automatically fails if the caster is not an elan.
Augment For every 2 additional power points you spend, increase the insight bonus by +1, to a maximum of +4.

Defensive Drain

Discipline psychometabolism; Level psion/wilder 4, psychic warrior 3
Display olfactory
Manifesting Time 1 immediate action
Range personal
Target you
Duration 1 round
Saving Throw special, see below; Power Resistance yes (harmless)
Power Points 5
Your skin absorbs psionic power from attackers. Anyone who succeeds on a melee attack against you loses 1d6 power points. This power’s effect does not negate the attack that is currently being used against you. Creatures that do not have power points must make a Fortitude save or be nauseated for 1 round.
Augment For every additional power point you spend, this power’s duration increases by 1 round.

Wave of Terror

Discipline telepath [fear, mind-affecting]; Level dread 2
Display olfactory
Manifesting Time 1 standard action
Range 10 ft.
Area 10-ft.-radius burst
Duration instantaneous
Saving Throw Will negates; Power Resistance yes
Power Points 3
You generate a mental wave of fear that instantly sweeps out from your location. All creatures in the affected area must make a Will save or become frightened for 1 round.
Augment You can augment this power in one or more of the following ways.
For every additional power point you spend, you can exclude 1 creature from the affected area.
For every 2 additional power points you spend, this power’s save DC increases by 1.
For every 2 additional power points you spend, this power’s range and the radius of its area both increase by 5 feet.
For every 4 additional power points you spend, any creature who fails their save is frightened for an additional round.

Today being Friday, we wanted to just show off the art inside Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans. This week, you’ve seen elan racial traits, the Ratha priest slayer archetype, three rogue talents, and a few psionic powers. We wanted to end the week with a bit of fun.

You’ve already seen Lindiwe, our signature psychic warrior that graces our cover. She is a master of puzzles and lore, and more than adept at splitting skulls with your strong axe. She is not the only elan presented in this book. Here are four more images of elans you will find in this book.

Elan Artwork

Arabian Elan scandinavian elan colors no bg
mediterranean elan no bg native american elan colors no bg

Behold the Powers of the Mind

Immortal yet humanoid, human in appearance yet still aberrant in nature, elans are a race created instead of born. Filled with psionic energy, this mystical race makes the lives of elves appear brief. When you play an elan you choose to take the power invested in you to reshape the world; whether for good or for ill is up to you.

Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans gives you everything you need to play an elan character. This 22-page supplement features:

Standard Racial Traits for playing an elan, 10 character traits, and 7 alternate racial traits to customize your character for this unique play experience
11 New Character Class Options including 3 new archetypes, 6 new rogue talents, a new sorcerer bloodline exclusive to elans and a new domain
6 New Feats granting you greater insight into this psionic race
5 New Elan-Themed Psionic Powers
12 New Mundane Items, Psionic Items, and Cursed Items
A New Deity, the first elan ever created and the goddess of psionics
Details on elan adventurers as well as suggestions on how to incorporate this psionic race into your world

Be Heroic with This Advanced Race Today!

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We finished up Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Samsarans last week and released it to subscribers already. If you have not yet heard of the samsaran race, let me introduce you.

Samsarans are a human-like race that reincarnates into new life after death. This means that this life your character is experiencing is not his or her first life, and most likely won’t be the last. Samsarans remember their past lives like dream or by experiencing deja vu. This gives the samsaran a chance to right the wrongs committed in a previous life, or to reclaim the fortunes hidden by previous incarnations with no need for a map or divination spells. Samsarans are porcelain white in appearance with a hint of blue in their skin. The iris’s of their eyes are a washed-out white color.

Samsarans are born to human parents, and have exceptionally long lives. They typically begin adventuring around age 60, around the time that their human parents die of old age and everyone they grew up with has turned old and grey. Meanwhile, the samsarans are still youthful in appearance. As a result, samsarans begins adventuring after living what humans consider to be a full life. Samsarans typically worked for years in a profession and now that nothing is holding to the the place of their birth, want to go out and see whatever the world has to offer, and to see the places in their dreams.

The race originally appeared in Paizo’s Dragon Empire Primer, but with little detail. Since then the race has appeared in other official book with only a few paragraphs or a page of new accompanying material. We decided to take this race on and give it some serious detail. We hope that you enjoy our work as much as we do.

Samsaran Racial Traits

Samsarans have the following racial traits.
+2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, –2 Constitution: Samsarans are insightful and strong-minded, but their bodies tend to be frail.
Humanoid: Samsarans are humanoids with the samsaran subtype.
Medium: Samsarans are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Base Speed: Samsarans have a base speed of 30 feet.
Lifebound (Ex): Samsarans gain a +2 racial bonus on all saving throws made to resist death effects, saving throws against negative energy effects, Fortitude saves made to remove negative levels, and Constitution checks made to stabilize if reduced to negative hit points.
Shards of the Past (Ex): A samsaran’s past lives grant her bonuses on two particular skills. A samsaran chooses two skills—she gains a +2 racial bonus on both of these skills, and they are treated as class skills regardless of what class she actually takes.
Low-Light Vision: Samsarans can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light.
Samsaran Magic (Sp): Samsarans with a Charisma score of 11 or higher gain the following spell-like abilities: 1/day—comprehend languages, deathwatch, and stabilize. The caster level for these effects is equal to the samsaran’s level.
Languages: Samsarans begin play speaking Common and Samsaran. Samsarans with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: any human language, Abyssal, Aquan, Auran, Celestial, Draconic, Giant, Ignan, Infernal, Nagaji, Tengu, and Terran.

Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Samsarans goes on sale tomorrow at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, d20PFSRD, and Paizo.com.

Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Samsarans is part of the Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Subscription. Purchasing the subscription gets you Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Elans, Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Merfolk, Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Wyvarans, Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Changelings, Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Catfolk, Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Tengu, and Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Favored Class Options as well as Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Samsarans and 5 more races released throughout 2015 plus the upcoming Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Compendium when it is finished. Download today at DriveThruRPG/RPGNow, d20PFSRD, and Paizo.com.

Dreams of the Past Hold the Keys to the Future

To be a samsaran is to forge a new destiny from the sum of your experiences. Born endlessly into new lives, a samsaran reincarnates time and again until achieving enlightenment. They remember the pain and joy of their experiences only through their dreams, recalling random shards of lifetimes long gone.

Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Samsarans gives you everything you need to play a samsaran character. This 22-page supplement features:

Standard Racial Traits for playing a samsaran, 3 character traits and 6 alternate racial traits to customize your character for this unique play experience
6 New Character Class Options including 3 new archetypes, a new sorcerer bloodline, a new oracle mystery, and a new cleric subdomain
6 New Feats granting you a greater connection to your past lives
5 New Samsaran-Themed Spells
3 New Magic Items
A New Deity, the deity of dreams and hidden knowledge that reveals clarity in times of uncertainty
Details on samsarans adventurers, as well as suggestions on how to incorporate this race and its unique ties to the past into your campaign or world

Be Heroic with This Advanced Race Today!

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All week long, we are looking at the new options in the Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Samsarans. Monday we looked at the racial traits. Today we are sharing with you one of the class archetypes: the timeless warden.

Druids possess a deep connection with nature. Samsaran druids however find this connection to be more important than being reborn into the next generation. These druids become eternal guardians of the wild places, never dying and starting life anew.

Timeless Warden

Associated Class: druid
Associated Race: samsaran
Replaced Abilities: nature sense, spontaneous casting, wild empathy, woodland stride, resist nature’s lure, wild shape, venom immunity, a thousand faces, timeless body
Class Skills: A timeless warden does not gain Climb or Swim as class skills, but she adds Diplomacy, Disguise, Sense Motive, and Stealth to her list of class skills.
Spontaneous Domain Casting: A timeless warden can channel stored spell energy into domain spells that she has not prepared ahead of time. She can “lose” a prepared spell in order to cast any domain spell of the same level or lower.
Ancient Knowledge (Ex): Even young timeless wardens have a bounty of knowledge of the world around them, which they attribute to memories of past lives. A timeless warden adds 1/2 her class level (minimum +1) to all Knowledge skill checks, and may make all such checks untrained.
Nature Bond (Ex): A timeless warden may not choose an animal companion, and must choose a domain from the following domains not normally available to druids: Death, Healing, or Repose. Alternatively, the timeless warden can select one of the following subdomains APG: Ancestors, Restoration, Souls, or Undead.
Mysterious Stranger (Ex): Knowing that the secrets of reincarnation are jealously sought by those seeking immortality, the timeless warden strives to remain an enigma. Beginning at 2nd level, she adds 1/2 her class level to the DC of Diplomacy, Sense Motive, and Knowledge checks made to learn about her.
Channel Energy (Su): At 4th level, a timeless warden gains the ability to channel energy as a cleric, using her druid level as her effective cleric level. A good timeless warden channels positive energy, while an evil timeless warden channels negative energy. A neutral timeless warden must choose whether she channels positive or negative energy upon gaining this ability. Once this choice is made, it cannot be reversed. Any timeless warden can channel energy a number of times per day equal to 3 + her Charisma modifier. Though timeless wardens can take most feats that alter their channel energy ability, they cannot take the Alignment Channel feat or any feat that requires it as a prerequisite.
Malleable Soul (Ex): Once she reaches 4th level, a timeless warden has taken the first step toward true immortality. She can no longer be affected by raise dead, resurrection, or true resurrection, but when subject to a reincarnate spell or when reincarnated through some other way, such as her many lives ability (see below), she suffers no negative levels upon returning to life and may return as any race of her choice.
Many Lives (Ex): A timeless warden of 9th level has mastered her own death and attains a limited form of immortality, so that she might guard the world eternally. If she is ever killed, she may automatically reincarnate (as the spell) 1 day later. The timeless warden appears in a safe location within 1 mile of her body. At will for the next 7 days, she can sense the presence of her remains as if using locate object as a spell-like ability. If she is killed during these 7 days, she remains dead and does not reincarnate. The many lives ability does not function if the timeless warden is slain by a death effect.
Cyclical Mastery: At 13th level, a timeless warden can select another domain or subdomain from those available to her through her nature bond.
Beyond Time (Su): Beginning at 15th level, a timeless warden has gained mastery over her life force as she previously gained mastery over her death. She can change her apparent age and appearance at will, as if using the threefold aspect APG spell.

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All week long we are showing off the samsaran race and racial options in the Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Samsarans. Monday we shared with you the racial traits. Yesterday we shared the Timeless Warden archetype. Today we are sharing with you some of the spells that are well known to samsarans.

Before we share with you some of the spell inside, there is one aspect of samsarans that we have not delved too deep into as of yet when discussing this race. When a samsaran is reborn, the gender of the previous incarnation has no influence of the gender of this life. However familiar habits of previous incarnations can show through each generation. So it is hardly uncommon for a samsaran who was male for the past several generations to be born biologically a woman but dresses and acts in a way consistent with her male previous incarnations, or vice versa. This can be overtly obvious or non-existent. How your character chooses to identify his or her gender, regardless of the character’s birth, is up to you. With that in mind, check out these spells.

Beneath the Flesh
School transmutation (polymorph); Level alchemist/investigator 1, arcanist/sorcerer/wizard 1, bard/skald 1, cleric/oracle/warpriest 1, inquisitor 1, paladin 1, shaman 1, witch 1
Casting Time 1 round
Components V, S
Range touch
Target humanoid touched
Duration 1 hour/level
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance no
The touched humanoid’s features alter, revealing what is in the creature’s soul. A humanoid that brings wanton death and destruction might appear more gaunt, almost skeletal, while an honest person that fights for peace and justice would become brighter, almost shining, taking on an angelic appearance. The target may switch genders or take on the physical characteristics of a different race, without changing size, racial abilities or the target’s racial subtype. The eyes, being the windows to the soul, do not alter. This spell also gives the target a +4 enhancement bonus to Diplomacy or Intimidate checks for the duration

Past-Life Resurgence
School divination; Level alchemist/investigator 2, bard/skald 2, cleric/oracle/warpriest 2, druid/hunter 2, shaman 2, witch 2
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
Range touch
Target creature touched
Duration 10 minutes/level
Saving Throw Will (harmless); Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
You allow the target to call upon the knowledge of a past life for a brief period of time. They gain a +4 insight bonus to all Knowledge and Profession checks for the duration of the spell.

Speak with Past Lives
School divination; Level arcanist/sorcerer/wizard 3, cleric/oracle/warpriest 3
Casting Time 10 minutes
Components V,S,F (a relic from a previous life)
Target self
Duration 24 hours
The caster communes with his past lives, gaining a general sense of how his activities will go (as an augury spell) in the next 24 hours.
In addition, for the duration of the spell, the caster gains a +2 competence bonus on all Knowledge skill checks and can make such checks untrained. He may also apply a +10 competence bonus to any single skill check during the spell’s duration, but doing so automatically ends the spell.

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I know I am a bit late in finishing the previews for Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Samsarans, but I wanted to make sure that these were posted. The artwork within Advanced Samsarans is our most inclusive artwork yet. With transgender people so rarely represented in artwork, we made sure to include a transman and transwoman in our artwork. Also we noticed a distinct lack of heroic females that are overweight so we thought we would take the opportunity to have an incredibly intelligent woman as a hero as well. And for those that love beefcake men, we have a muscular man for eye candy.

We hope you enjoy these images as much as we do.

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Scratch For Sunlight. Gasp For Air.

The brave and the foolhardy flock to the dwarven village of Granitetop Mountain to make their fortunes escorting caravans and clearing mineshafts of monsters. When a cave-in pulls your adventurers into a massive fissure and strands them deep beneath the mountain’s surface with no obvious egress, they must use all of their wits and cunning to make it out alive. But survival is the only law in this deep and untamed wilderness, and adventurers are just as good as the next meal to the creatures that dwell in the darkness. Will the adventurers ever breathe the fresh air of the surface again—or will their lives be forfeit in these dangerous, maddening depths?

To Claw the Surface is an exciting adventure module in Jon Brazer Enterprises’ Deadly Delves series, and is compatible with the best-selling Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. This adventure is designed to challenge four to five 1st-level PCs like no other content has to date. Inside this 57-page volume, you’ll find:

11 new and modified monsters, 6 fully-statted NPCs, 11 new traps, and 2 new haunts for your Pathfinder campaign
11 full-color maps of the various passageways and forgotten structures buried deep under the mountain
20 new alchemical items, 3 new materials from which to make weapons and armor, 2 new pieces of equipment, a new intelligent item, and a new cursed item
Innovative encounters with the denizens of the deeps, including crazed derro, cruel duergar, hungry vermin, malformed giants, primeval dwarves, and vengeful haunts
Enough content to take your group of 1st-level PCs all the way to 4th level

Dangers Unknown. Treasures Untold. Adventure Awaits.

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Inside its 57 pages, Deadly Delves: To Claw the Surface features a number of new and modified monsters that you can use in your games, in this adventure or in one you create yourself. One of those monsters is the spring spark, this little ball of fuss can best be described as an electric tribble with feet.

By itself it does not pose much of a danger. When this static electricity hacky sack groups up with a bunch of others of its kind, it can give your players quite a shock.

Springspark CR 1/6

XP 65
N Tiny animal
Init +2; Senses low-light vision, scent; Perception +1

Defense

AC 14, touch 14, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +2 size)
hp 3 (1d8–1)
Fort +1, Ref +4, Will +1

Offense

Speed 40 ft.
Melee slam +4 (1d2–4 plus 1 electricity)
Space 2-1/2 ft.; Reach 0 ft.
Special Attacks staggering shock

Statistics

Str 3, Dex 14, Con 8, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 10
Base Atk +0; CMB –6; CMD 6
Feats Spring Attack (B), Weapon Finesse
Skills Acrobatics +6 (+10 jump), Perception +1; Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics when jumping

Ecology

Environment any
Organization solitary, nest (2–4), or colony (5–30)
Treasure incidental

Special Abilities

Staggering Shock (Ex) On a critical hit, the creature struck must make a DC 11 Fortitude save or be staggered for 1d3 rounds. The save DC is Charisma-based.

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We are finishing up Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Lizardfolk and it is about time that we share what is inside with you. Before I go any further, I state something upfront: we deviated from the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Advanced Race Guide on this one. To the annoyance of some of the writers on the Book of Heroic Races project, I have insisted that we stick with the racial abilities as presented in the ARG. I choose to break with that for Lizardfolk in two places: Hold Breath and Languages.

Every incarnation of Lizardfolk since the start of 3.0 has had the hold breath ability except for the ARG. They are a swamp-dwelling race with a swim speed. It seemed only natural that they either have some way to breath under water some way to hold their breath much longer than a person. We decided to bring back hold breath as a part of the race’s history and tradition.

The second area we changes is languages. According to the ARG, lizardfolk are a xenophobic race, meaning they only get their base language (Draconic) for free and up to four other languages with a high Int score. Well, a player race that cannot, by default, speak the same language as the rest of the adventuring party really is not going to work out very easily. So we decided to give it Common for free. The Advanced Race Guide does not specify which languages it should have so we had to choose. The 3.5 Monster Manual gives the race Aquan, Goblin, Gnoll, and Orc. Keeping Aquan was obvious, but the other three races do not share the same environment according to the Pathfinder rules. So we opted for a few languages that we felt were more appropriate: Dwarven, Grippli and Sylvan.

So here is our take on Lizardfolk. We hope you enjoy them. And stop back all week for other previews of the Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Lizardfolk.

Lizardfolk Racial Traits

Lizardfolk have the following racial traits.
+2 Strength, +2 Constitution: Lizardfolk are strong and hardy due to life in harsh, adverse habitats.
Humanoid: Lizardfolk are humanoids with the reptilian subtype.
Medium: Lizardfolk are Medium creatures and receive no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Normal Speed: Lizardfolk have a base land speed of 30 feet. They also have a swim speed of 15 feet, allowing them to move in water without making Swim checks and granting them a +8 racial bonus on Swim checks.
Hold Breath: A lizardfolk can hold its breath for a number of rounds equal to four times its Constitution score before it risks drowning.
Natural Armor: Lizardfolk have tough scaly skin, granting them a +2 natural armor bonus.
Natural Attacks: Lizardfolk have sharp teeth and hard nails, granting them two claw attacks (1d4 points of damage each) and a bite attack (1d3 points of damage).
Languages: Lizardfolk begin play speaking Common and Draconic. Lizardfolk with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Aquan, Dwarven, Grippli, and Sylvan.

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Scale, Fang, and Claw

Cannibals in the swamp, lizardfolk are considered by many to be heartless savages and mindless brutes. Now you can go beyond that stereotype—or embrace it—like never before. Join this ancient race and bring a new kind of strength to your character.

Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Lizardfolk is the essential guide for playing a lizardfolk character. This 24-page supplement features:

Racial Traits to play a lizardfolk, 7 alternate racial traits and 5 new character traits to customize your character for this unique play experience
8 New Character Class Options including the tribal defender archetype, the cannibal bloodrager bloodline, the anointed one prestige class, and 3 new subdomains
18 New Feats including several expanding upon draconic heritage
3 New Magic Items and a New Spell
2 New Deities, each with a unique perspective on power and community for these tribal people
Details on lizardfolk adventurers as well as suggestions on how to incorporate this race into your world.

Be Heroic with This Advanced Race Today!

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All week long, we are showing off what is inside Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Lizardfolk. You’ve already seen the Racial Traits. Today we are showing off the Tribal Defender archetype.

Lizardfolk are all about their tribe, whether it is the community that they were born into or it is the group of adventurers that they fight and bleed beside. As such, the tribal defender looks out for other members that are not as good at defending themselves.

Tribal Defender

Tribal defenders are the appointed guardians of lizardfolk settlements. Tasked with protecting the tribe’s younglings and elders, these soldiers hone combat techniques designed to shield weaker allies.
Associated Class: fighter
Associated Race: lizardfolk
Replaced Abilities: bravery, armor training 1, 2, 3, and 4
Body Shield: At 2nd level, when fighting defensively or using total defense, a tribal defender can, as an immediate action, grant an adjacent allied creature a natural armor bonus to AC equal to his own until the beginning of his next turn. The tribal defender can use this ability only when he is wearing no armor, light armor, or medium armor.
Covering Guard: At 3rd level, when the tribal defender is fighting defensively or using total defense, allied creatures that are adjacent to him gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Reflex saves. Every four levels thereafter (7th, 11th, and 15th), this bonus increases by +1 each time, to a maximum of +4.
Get Behind Me: At 6th level, when an adjacent ally makes a Reflex saving throw, the tribal defender may, as an immediate action, roll the same saving throw as if he were the one subject to the effect requiring it. He must declare that he is using this ability before his ally has rolled the save. If this save is successful, the ally takes no damage or ill effects from the effect that triggered the save; however, the tribal defender suffers half of any damage that would normally be dealt by the effect. Failure indicates that the original target of the effect takes damage as normal, and the tribal defender still takes half damage.
Savior’s Dash: At 10th level, when an ally within range of his base land speed is targeted by a melee attack, a tribal defender may immediately move up to his speed, but he must end his movement adjacent to the attacked ally. Using this ability also uses up the tribal defender’s move action for the coming turn.
Savior’s Block: At 14th level, when a tribal defender uses savior’s dash, he can also make an attack roll to parry the melee attack that triggered his movement. If his result is greater than the attacking creature’s result, the creature’s attack against the adjacent ally automatically misses.
Unrivaled Protector: At 18th level, a tribal defender is merely staggered rather than disabled or unconscious when at 0 hp or dying. While he is fighting defensively or using total defense, allies adjacent to him gain DR 5/— and are not subject to critical hits.

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Tribal Defender