AWAKENED ANIMAL ANCESTRY GUIDE - Pathfinder 2e
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Pathfinder 2e has officially added in Awakened Animals as a playable ancestry! Any animal in the world can magically gain sentience and pursue a life of adventure! Let's see what it brings to the table!
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I think the Int penalty represents how most Awakened Animals lack a formal education, making things like Arcana, Society, Occultism, and Crafting hard for them. Remember, Alternative Attribute Boosts are a core rule and Paizo assumes anyone can get the 2 Free Boosts if they don't like the base attributes for their Ancestry, so an Awakened Animal that was once a Wizard's familliar is free to choose, say, +1 Dex, + Int for their boosts.
Ok fair, but in a medieval world a lot of people would lack formal educations. 10 is the standard Commoner human intelligence and it covers everyone from serf to merchant.
@@CommissarMitch Even without formal education a humanoid still lives in a culture and has at least some non formal education through their culture. Awkened Animals dont have even that.
@@Kaziel1919 OK true and fair.
I think a charisma penalty makes more sense as an awakened animal would likely struggle to interact with normal society. Hell even dwarves get a charimsa penalty just for being xenophobic and reserved towards other ancestries.
I just want to play a awakened crow thaumaturge that collects random trinkets/shinies and believes they are the weaknesses to creatures. "This is the pudding wrapper of Sarenrae, it allows me to better destroy the fiends of Asmodeus." But since he believes it so much, it just works.
Love this idea so much!
@@noahmellemstrand4756 This is basically Another Crab's Treasure
13:40 - Coyotes don't howl at night, they order night vision goggles from ACME, some sticks of dynamite, and a portable hole then head out.
Every Hanna Barbera character can now become a reality.
Wouldn't all of them be Bards though?, except Scooby Doo, and all his clones, being Investigators.
That reminds me, if you want a system that's built on those old school cartoons there's TOON from the 80's and the more recent one MADCAP RPG. Good times were had with those.
Wait, how do we play the dune buggy?
@@gen.giggles Construct Innovation for an Inventor
YES! I can finally play an awakened dog named Buddy who's looking for his human. It's homeward bound time!
Awakened Animal, Flying Animal Heritage with the Sea Legs Feat, Investigator class
Introducing Detective Drake Mallard. Solving crimes with the power of deducktive reasoning.
"Quack"
This it I’m making a bear monk who makes puns all the time. “Do we want a reward? Do I sh*t in the woods?”
"I have the right to bear arms!"
@@EnemyN7 Ironic for a monk
Activates: Bear hug.
Time to do a fucking Wizard zebra for some reason, I guess.
But what about a wizard lizard
@@TheLucydOne better not be a Unicorn that has some baggage for example Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog was nearly pressured by one to JFK a man
@@Skaxarrat i'm guessing a Zebra because Nethys, the god of magic in pf2, has a Zebra for his Sacred Animal?
Playing an Awakened Animal Giant Japanese Spider Crab Monk. ITS SO FUN
YES! Bro!
now that is horrific if you give them a group to command its gonna be like War of the Worlds but with Crab
So you're a giant allied crab? Takea rogue dedication to attack weak spots for MASSIVE DAMAGE!
Be carefull that enemies dont attack your weak point for massive damage.
I’d imagine this would make your Gm rather…
Crabby?
Got one character with this ancestry in mind before the book came out - an Awakened Squirrel Gunslinger. Why yes I was watching a trailer for “Squirrel With A Gun” at the time. :P
There is that in Dota btw
@@questmarq7901 maybe but I haven’t played DOTA in over a decade so “Squirrel With A Gun” gets the credit here. :D
As a person who played a frog with a gun, I approve of this
Time to play a goldfish in a bowl that is also a Kineticist.
base the story off of the cartoon My Goldfish is Evil
a child must keep stopping his pet from ruining earth constantly got to love the concept of the big bad boss is a innocent child
I love the idea of playing an awakened animal. So many fun concepts both thematically and mechanically.
Bloodhound Detective/Tracker/Bounty-Hunter
House Cat cat-burglar.
Pig that loves to eat and is a chef. Maybe something like a reskinned alchemist that gives out consumables that provide buffs.
Some extraordinary circumstance caused an animal companion of a druid player to become awakened before the events of the game, so another player plays that character as an awakened animal. From a roleplay angle, think parent and angsty teenager.
Horse that has a tight relationship with another character who you partner with as a mount.
Parrot bard.
Octopus Grappler.
I could go all day!
Already planning my Velocipastor character.
I can finally turn the Bee movie into a Pathfinder campaign
I have looked into all Ancestries and Heritages that grant flight. Most are 2-3 Ancestry feats. If 3 feats, like the Flying Awakened Animal or Strix, they usually get a "Jump" like small fly early, with a boost to that early one's speed, with permanent flight as the 3rd feat. If 2 feats, like the Skyborn Tengu or Nephilim, they get a once per day fly at mid levels, with a 2nd feat to make it permanent at higher levels.
They said it in one or more of the streams about Starfinder 2E - Flight in Pathfinder is heavily restricted, especially at low levels, because the game assumes largely melee or very short range combat, while in Starfinder Flight is less restricted because everyone can cast Gun.
At 23:35 with Awakened Stride 17th level feat you state that you can spend 3 actions instead of 2 from Wild Stride to move three times with that bonus speed. Looking at your PDF there's no action listed. It's a straight upgrade to Wild Stride where you move 3x for the same 2 actions with the bonus to your speed. That's amazing! An Unbound Stride psychic running awakened animal can spend 3 actions to move 5x for a max of 200feet before gear. Monk base with psychic archetype and it gets ridiculous.
I would let players use awakened animal lore for lore involving the animal type they are. So an Awakened Lion could use their Awakened Animal lore for lore about cats and cat adjacent creatures(like a weretiger or a Lamia)
Edit: Actually sea legs applys really well to Elephants bc they love swimming and they use their trunks as snorkels, at least I didn't correct you on the Coyote thing ☺️
My first awakened character is a Crane Hermit monk who had cultivated so much he can take form of a human and etc.
I love it.
brb, making an Awakened Bee. After dealing the the horrors of Knowing, she tries to track down the rest of her hive (who were also awakened but taken; what someone would want with a hive of Awakened bees she doesn't know)
Get the swarmkeeper archetype as well!
Sounds like a horrible choice as bees die after stinging once.... Awakened angry wasp... that would be better.
Land Legs seems like it's functionally what Water-Dwelling gets, but from the other angle. Also, whoever came up with "You're so Cute!" during brainstorming needs a raise.
If anyone ever builds Puss in Boots from Shrek as a PF2E character, this feat HAS to be on the list.
Broooo perfect timing. One of my players is playing an awakened cat.
23:38 Doesn't even require the third action! It's just when you use Wild Stride. Seems amazing for any character wanting some real mobility.
Also, just flicking through my own copy of Howl of the Wild, centaurs and minotaurs also get the beast trait, so some options there. They do, however, also have the humanoid trait, so awakened animal is still the only pure beast ancestry.
5:09
Int is knowledge too, not merely aptitude.
And since variant ability scored is allowed - i see it as a suggestion that they often know less due to less social linked heritage and etc.
I view it the same way.
I want to see an Awakened Elephant who has spent its entire life swimming with its trunk held above the water suddenly have its trunk slip under and realize it can breathe under water (for ten minutes). It would be unstoppable.
Oh my god!!! You know what this means, don’t you? Basically… ALL THE POKÉMON BUILDS ARE UNLOCKED WITH THIS ANCESTRY
If you want to play as an Aquatic in an all land based campaign, just buy the Land-Delver's Chair from HotW and you’ll be able to breathe fine with a 20ft move speed. It’s common so if you got permission for an Aquatic character just spend your first 5 gold on that before anything else.
There ARE wheelchair options for aquatic adventurers, there is both a regular and traveler's (land dweller's) submarine chair that is essentially like a fishbowl wheelchair designed for merfolk
The Book of The Dead has an interesting side bar about flight in the ghost archetype section that my table uses. A player who's ancestry/heritage should be able to fly starts with a fly speed of 15 and any feat that would normally affect their ability to fly in some way instead increases that speed by 5. Of course its up to the GM and their willingness to plan encounters around flying players but it has worked great for our table at least. I hope anyone who didn't know about this finds it useful!
I can't help but notice it says nothing about the life span of an Awakened Animal being affected. Which makes me worried they might retain their normal animal ones. So it's like, "congratulations on becoming an Awakened Mouse! You've only got 3 years to live..."
I’m gonna be playing an awakened animal claw dancer monk next campaign. The tiny cat shall reign supreme
Fun fact: some species of scorpion actually don't mind the water and can survive for up to 2 days underwater.
An awakened plesiosaur.
Adding "awakened ferret rogue" to my list of character concepts.
my high-school friend who became a Ferret Vtuber would love you
sucks he rebranded as an Alien
Time to create a chip n' Dale : Rescue Rangers one shot.
We're getting ready to play Outlaws of Alkenstar and I'm going to run an Awakened Kangaroo Kineticist with Gunslinger archetype. His name is Remy Roux and I love him already and I haven't even rolled one dice for him. I love this ancestry.
Immediately thinking of an idea of being a tiny aquatic creature that lives in a small tub of water...but they are a spellcaster that casts primarily water based spells using the tub as their water source.
I make a dual gate kineticist water air great white shark that creates a bubble of water around him and floats with it using air.
I find the concept of fully non-humanoid playable characters in TTRPGs very fascinating, unfortunately not many do it and those that give that opportunity do not make much use of the non-human thing mechanically... I hope this one works as well in practice as it does on paper, and hey - maybe it'll open a door for more (I know there's the spider people, but in effect the shapeshifting thing nullifies all disadvantages of being non-humanoids and at the table, they're humanoid most of the time.)
It's 100% my favorite ancestory. I LOVE that xenofiction style fantasy and to finally be able to play just an animal(feral, PF2e has great anthro ancestories already) is amazing! I've already written up 3 different characters just because of how open the ancestory is.
Just got to be creative about the hand waving away how you hold things! Hahahaha!
Offical dragon playable ancestory when tho Paizo?
In Core 2 there is dragonborn ancestry. Take dragon disciple archetype and job's done.
I could see a druid or wizard where one player is the humanoid, the other 1 or 2 could act as their animal companion, and the other their mount. Or a variety of similar combinations
Hey Nonat! That turtleneck is a winner for sure!
I have a brother who's long awaited the day he could play a proper bar-bear-ian.
Ladies, and Gentlemen, Tremble in fear. It's Jango Time.
You thought the dwarf was surly? Meet Honey Badger!!!
Awakakened Honey Badgers should be required to Barbarians.... just kidding.
23:37 It doesn't say anything about increasing the action cost surprisingly. So it's a lot stronger than it sounds. Awakened Stride is effectively 2 actions to Stride 3 times with up to a 10ft bonus and concealed.
This ultimately means something like a monk or thief rouge with monk dedication could just run 150ft then flurry of blows into someone's face our of nowhere which is hilarious.
Makes me think of that race of cybernetically enhanced bears from Starfinder.
Awakened Stride doesn't say it costs more actions, so I'd argue it's two actions to do a three action stride with the bonus speed and concealment.
I'm actually playing a Strength of Thousands game with a variant of the Awakened Animal Ancestry, a Hyena Druid. Decided for narrative purposes not to be bipedal/have hands, just because a talking animal is something I wanna have to work around (aka learning Telekinetic Hand/etc to do basic tasks, etc), but it's been a really fun Ancestry to kind of dive into... a good excuse to look up a bunch of animal videos and articles, too!
Ok, before watching any further than 3:18, so he might talk or throw this suggestion out but...
Awakened Tiger or Wolf and use the Animal Instinct Barbarian.
"Why? Why did you make me think? Feel these feelings? I was happy in my ignorance! Now I have insecurities! Debts!"
And they rage out as a coping mechanism.
People are really sleeping on Scurry. Medium and larger creatures provide light cover when you're in their space. Also, creatures do not receive a Reaction until their first turn begins in combat, so the movement will not trigger Reactive Strike. It is an amazing feat if you're a squishy caster, and even if you're not, you can do stuff like run under the ogre boss at the start of the fight. Pre-battle repositioning is tactically gold, especially for a tiny creature which might have special movement types.
I can finally play Roosan, the chicken champion, also in pf2e
Ok so my character idea - a deer named Bambi who is an animal instict barbarian. Out for revenge, looking for the hunter that killed his mom! 😅
Who else heard Barry Kripke from Big Bang Theory in their head when Nonat was talking about the raffle?
Elephants can swim really good. They can go for 30 miles and for six continuous hours.
Behold! My Awakened Cat, a Thaumaturge Sailor!!!
Honestly, I think that it’d be fine for Flying Animals to have the Take Flight action as part of their heritage and at least get a level one Ancestry to make them more unique.
Can you make a video on the Hobgoblin ancestry? They have so many interesting ancestry feats and are among my favorite.
Ooh this'll be good to help me work on my Awakened Chameleon Swashbuckler Pirate
For what it’s worth, in my opinion Take Flight would be an absolutely awful substitute for High Jump because flying upwards is difficult terrain so to fly 5ft up would already take up 10 of your 15speed. I really wish Take Flight just came with the heritage while still looking full flight to 2 feats and level 9.
So now there are 3 different ways to make: dog-people, cat-people, rat-people, snake-people, lizard-people, bird-people, hyena-people, monkey-people, frog-people, kind of fox-people, and again kind of... rhino-people (maybe you could also make a case for bat-people with the Nyktera heritage for sprite).
Thanks for the content.
Just realized that a decent justification for flying animals losing their flight is that their time perception has been distorted.
I don't know why but the first idea that came to mind was a hedgehog.
Hedgehog Monk named Sonic that collects gold fanatically and jumps well..... I will see myself out now.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the verbiage, but I don't see anywhere in Awakened Stride that it says you have to spend a third action. Wild Stride is a two action activity that lets you stride twice, and Awakened Stride just says you can use it to stride three times.
omg this is AMAZING
14:20 I hate to be that guy literally RIGHT after the coyote bit but… scorpions can’t swim well but CAN survive 48 hours underwater
An 8(-1) Intelligence turtle is still an incredibly smart turtle.
"House Cat, Giant Instinct - Barbarian"
And let me guess your name's, Battle Cat!
I was thinking making a vorpal bunny but then my friends and I thought we should all make awakened Cow gunslingers 🙂
I want to play an Awakened goldfish, swimming in a fishbowl and have a robot body.
3:48 Gadamit. Thats what i wanted to do
Woooo!
Time to make The Mouse Guard in PF2e.
I'm making Rupert, a bard fish on a land campaign
(Anyone old enough to get this reference?)
Awakened ferret barbarian named Pants
I've already made an Awakened animal- Awakened Bear Barbarian who is just FUCKING PISSED about becoming cognizant, and on a hellbent quest to kill the druid who did this to him. He's OBVIOUSLY Animal Instinct, Bear for the animal, and his """name""" is bear because "I do NOT want a name, I am JUST a bear"
Aw! I was looking forward to making Ray Filet but manta ray's don't have feet so I can't! 😢😢😭
It never said legs couldn’t be added :)
Mr. Beaver from Narnia joins the chat.
Awakened animal plus werewolf = reverse werewolf!
Hahahahah, every full moon they shift into a human psycopath murdering hobo....
Small reminder. Flying up is considered difficult terrain. So no 15 foot jump
Hoping to play an awakened housecat as another player character's familiar.
I just thought of the Awakened animal lore. I would likely allow it for anything relating to the animal they were. Werewolves and such feels like a weird stretch to me that does not really make sense. Why would a random bear who got awakened suddenly know about werewolves?
Take flight makes me want to play something like a chicken or fowl that is crap at flying
I know it wouldn't be allowed, but I'd love to play an awakened giant spider with an English accent and very developed manners. Likely a wizard or other educated class.
Intelligence flaw is the correct choice: they are awakened, yes however their book-knowledge is still missing, because they never had a book... or knowledge before.
Awakened stride: I'm maybe wrong here but you don't need to use 3 actions it just upgrade that 2 action activity.
TORTLE .. YEAH
Would you still love me if I was an awakened worm... armor inventor named Jim?
Hmmm... but what if you're an awakened reefclaw which is aquatic but can survive on land indefinitely. Does that mean that I'm no longer able to breathe air?
My Fat Cat Sorcerer named Pudding is ready.
I can finally okay as an insectoid creature! Woo!
It's so sad that pf2 remaster is not translated on my language and will not be in foreseeable future and fun made AoN transition is also not made for the remaster. My friends don't know English well enough to play it so I am stuck in OGL era :(
Do channel members also get entries?
14:46
Moving up is a difficult terrain.
Hence it sucks a bit, you have no reach whatsoever...
Alan-A-Dale is gonna become real(er).
Dark souls sword doggo time.....
I want to he an awakened Housecat Bard
Rattlesnake bard incoming.
That would take the "you have two hands" mechanic to wierd levels
Time to make Nanaki from FF7 or Great Wolf Sif
If Awakened animal has a flaw in intelligence, I’m gonna play my cat. They were the dumbest cat ever but they were adorable!
If I make an awakened animal monkey monk with Wild Stride…
Is there not a standard rule where you can have your character get 2 Free Ability Boosts with no negative?
So Pathbuilder2e does not specify how much damage the Animal Attacks does, and I have not seen it on AoN yet.
Does anyone have a list I can to by?
The list is in the book itself, so if you got the book or PDF of the book it's there. Since it's in the book it'll eventually be on both sites you mentioned, likely, they just didn't get around to it yet.
See at 8:50 They vary from 1d4 to 1d6 of the various weapon types (B,P,S)