u/SpingusTheHingus

It's something that humans can get only one of at level 13

I am not relevant to Pathfinder 2nd Edition as a whole. Ask Me Anything. I may or may not answer

A small system my group uses for character creation that I think turned out pretty cool. When building a character, a player can choose one of two options:

• Free Archetype

• Ancestry Paragon + a personalized Relic

When I first pitched the idea to my group, I was worried one option was going to be notably more powerful than the other, but that does not seem to be the case. While Free Archetype has been more popular for us, the "Ancestry Relic" option has made for some pretty solid characters.

It's for when you can't find an archetype that fits, when you just love your ancestry, or want a plot-influencing magic item.

To spell out the specifics on how this version of a Relic works:

• The relic seed can be literally any object, from a ring, to a scar, to your weapon.

• You pick two aspects for your relic.

• It gains a minor gift at levels 1 and 5, a major gift at levels 9 and 13, and a grand gift at level 17. We might consider adding another grand gift at level 20, but we'll see when we actually play at that level.

• As something that isn't basically just copy-pasting from the GMC, the relic continues to function when in the possession of another creature (even if someone steals it) for 1 minute total (this timer resets each day). Though, if it's away from you during your next daily preparations, it always seems to find its way back to you (like that can of chef boyardee).

• As a minor gift, you can give the relic the ability to function indefinitely in the possession of another creature, and you (the player, not your PC) can decide whether it returns to you the next morning. This could be for a cleric that carries a medallion depicting their god, and bestows its power on their allies, for example.

While this whole shebang has probably been done before, I mainly just want to talk about the game in some way, cause my group hasn't played in a couple months.

This is also an opportunity to ask what other "character creation bundles" we could add to the list. I've been thinking of how we could work Skill Paragon into the list, but it's pretty dependent on the whole group using it. Anyway, thanks for reading this far.