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Archetypes Compendium

Browse alternate class packages by parent class, source, and summary. This is the quick compendium surface before dropping into full archetype rules text.

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Rogue

Some criminals steal with finesse, their victims only discovering the crime when the rogue is long gone and the coin already spent.

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Rogue

Some rogues are not content with just disabling traps—they love to build them, finding a captivating beauty in the turning of gears and the slither of ropes over pulleys.

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Sorcerer

A crossblooded bloodline combines the powers of two distinct heritages.

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Sorcerer

A wildblooded sorcerer has a mutated version of a more common bloodline, with one arcana and at least one bloodline power that are different from those of an unmutated bloodline.

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Summoner

Most summoners bond with one eidolon for their entire lives, but the broodmaster forges a link with multiple smaller eidolons that make up his brood.

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Summoner

Changing an eidolon's evolutions is normally a slow process.

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Summoner

Most summoners forge a bond with a single, powerful eidolon, but some summoners seek to control a variety of creatures.

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Summoner

Rather than summon an eidolon to serve by his side, the synthesist fuses his eidolon's essence to his own.

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Witch

While all witches are intimately tied to their familiars, a beast-bonded witch's craft focuses specifically on her familiar bond and developing the relationship with her patron through her familiar.

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Witch

Having much in common with necromancers, the gravewalker is obsessed with the occult manipulations of the dead, particularly mindless undead such as zombies.

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Witch

Among witches, there are those who devote themselves to the care of others and restrict their practices to the healing arts.

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Witch

A sea witch's affinities are tied to the vast oceans and the rolling waves.

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Wizard

To many wizards, the experimentation of the alchemist seems quaint, if not dangerous or frightening.

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Wizard

To some wizards, a scroll is not just a written form of a spell, it is a physical weapon meant to be used in combat like a sword or a shield.

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Wizard

The siege mage combines his arcane mastery with a supernatural link to siege engines.

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Wizard

While few contest the seductive allure of commanding arcane and occult powers, there are those wizards who become obsessed with the natural mysteries of black powder.

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