Pathfinder 2e Ancestries (Tian Xia) in 7 Minutes or Less
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Normally I post on Mondays, but this is one day late. Blame the holiday.
Thank you Paizo for my complimentary copy of Tian Xia Character Guide!
I was surprised by a few things in this book. First, the heritages of existing ancestries are REALLY different. A lot of them are basically new ancestries, like the leshies or sprites.
My one complaint is that there isn't official documentation about which ancestries are common/uncommon in which countries. For example, I would imagine Tengu are Common in Kwanlai, the Tengu kingdom. But I couldn't find that information anywhere. Maybe it's in the Tian Xia World Guide?
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"And they have a flaw to Wis, which is just another bonus to partying"
I love that line😂
“Wait, you wanna be a Hungerborn human who lives in a box?”
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“And your cleric spells reflavored as cleansing flame?”
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“No, I’m not letting you rp as Nezuko”
*sad bamboo muzzle sounds*
You forgot to mention Hungerseed shoot lightning from their eyes. (Well their third eye but still)
Sparky sparky boom man lives!!
@@mogscugg2639 My first thought was Space Ripper Stingy Eyes from JoJo. Even though that's a line attack instead of a cone. I'd probably allow a player to take that with a slightly buffed range though.
That is a very cool ancestry feat, though I usually only stick with the first level ones!
@@KingOogaTonTon Understandable, but my player loves it, Even if he's not a jojo fan, before the book came out proper that's what I labeled the placeholder feat in foundry.
Love your videos, it’s a great way to learn about pathfinder.
Good stuff man, you're spreading the world on the superior system!
Love these videos, they help me get away from D&D
I’m shapeshifting my hand into a thumbs up!
Hungry eyes as an oni feat is giving me dirty dancing flashbacks :D
Nagajor did nothing wrong. Nagaji are the loyalest of the Ancestries, & held themselves against vicious empires for longer than anyone else. The Sneks took one look at avaricious Dragons & said "Come at me bro." And the Dragons never did.
A tanuki isnt a tanuki without they huuuge ba.... bells
You missed the Yaoguai heritage that is Born of Object, but this was a vute watch noneetheless
AUGH!
It's not 'Kit soon' it's Kit soo nay. E isn't silent in Japanese, which is where the word Kitsune originates. :)
Otherwise, good video. :)
You are correct about Japanese, and the etymology of the work Kitsune. But language isn't prescriptive. If millions of people say 'Kit-soon' then it becomes a dialectical difference. American's aren't out here getting corrected by "The Department of the English Language" on their spelling of "Honour" or pronunciation of "Park" (no "r" sound in that word originally).
On the other hand, he nailed Sarangay pretty well!
Yeah, that really hurt my ears.
I mean if you wanna be picky nay is also wrong (that would be kitsunei), the u is an unrounded (and devoiced in fast speech) u that has no English equivalent and will more or less sound wrong no matter what unless a person is actively studying Japanese, and ki is more accurately kyi (it's palatized). ne would be more accurately pronounced neh and the player ancestry would be more accurately referred to as a Youko （妖狐）anyway.
I wonder why fantasy writers choose to use only East Asia inspired names to represent places and creatures in a fantasy _Asia_ as a whole. Actual Asia is a humongous contintent with very populous and distinct people living on it… The possibilities are endless and I find it kind of boring that they are ignored.
I think there are Pathfinder analogues of other Asian countries as well, like Vudra being India. But you'll always be right, because the real world is huge and extremely interesting.
@@KingOogaTonTon you are right… I believe I shouldn’t have used the word “only” it’s not very fair because other inspirations exist. Just wishing we see more of other wonderful stuff our world has to offer inspiring fun stories as well ♥️
Asia is too large to include from everyone and they prob will update with other myths at some point. But like samsaran is very much Indian mythology inspired since the blue skin is literally depicted in half the Indian gods
@@muditjohar5323 I 100% disagree on “Asia being too large.” Because it’s NOT about including literally everyone. It’s about having a wider point of refrence and a richer source material. Because fantasy writers did a very poor job about this since the 70s. For example; almost every main story stuff in DnD’s Forgotten Realms is Eurocentric from start to finish, despite Europe being extremely small in the grand scheme of things. With that much focus shifted on other places there would be hundreds more different regions used as refrence. In fantasy writing they just won’t focus on any other area and it’s simple as that. The entire Asia and Africa and Americas in that matter, with their tens and thousands of years of history are heavily ignored and are almost exclusively only there to inspire “distant lands.” *And the stuff we get outside Europe generally tend to be very stereotyped and superficial refrences to just two or three cultures. While countless interesting stories and mythos sit there to collect dust.* Fantasy writers have simply been extremely notorious for not putting their toes in the sea of non-European cultures. Despite Europe itself having its roots in Mesopotamia, North Africa and West Asia. All of which are also ignored in favour of Middle Age and Discovery Era Europe.
Kitsune is pronounced "kit-soon-nay". Just wanted to point that out
He was all over the place with pronunciation in this one.
I know...blame Google.
I really wanted the tikbalang to be a playable ancestry. For those who want to know what that is, picture BoJack Horseman.
I just Googled it, and it looks extremely badass.
So goloma but only two eyes instead of a dozen? I could see that as a heritage
@@runedoomSarangay is a lot more obscure than the tikbalang. I think they chose it because of the unique mechanics they can mine from its gemstone.
I think that’s why they picked Sarangay.
Besides, Tikbalang is already a monster in PF2e.
You could just go Idyllkin Lineage Nephilim Sarangay and give yourself a horse head.
...WTF were they smoking when coming with the different races?
Asian myths and folk tales.
Golarian lore is (based on) real folklore!