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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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Cleric

A theologian is an expert on one particular area of her religion.

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Cleric

An undead lord is a cleric focused on using necromancy to control undead.

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Druid

Some druids form a close bond with one type of animal.

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Druid

A shaman with this totem calls upon the mighty ape, a peaceful but powerful simian whose strength is beyond compare.

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Druid

Shepherds of the lakes and seas, aquatic druids guard ecosystems ranging from shallows streams to deep ocean trenches, ministering to their residents and communing with the tides.

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Druid

An arctic druid watches over the stark landscape of the far frozen reaches of the world, tending the stunted and rugged life that ekes out its survival in the least habitable climes.

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Druid

The bat shaman's totem is the agile bat, flitting and turning with incredible speed through even the most convoluted mazes.

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Druid

The devoted servants of nature corrupted, ruined, and destroyed, blight druids are the caretakers of lands ravaged by natural disaster.

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Druid

A boar shaman chooses the stolid and ferocious boar as her totem.

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Druid

Far from the green fields of the world above lies a lightless expanse beneath the surface.

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Druid

Not all climates are verdant paradises, but even in the sere deserts there is life—though often hidden from the sun and rarely friendly—and raw, desolate beauty.

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Druid

Your totem is the legendary dragon, fearsome and deadly yet cunning and wise, a creature born of pure magic and raw elemental fury, bound within a shell of fangs, claws, and scales that few dare to challenge.

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Druid

The fecund jungles of the equatorial regions are rich in life and ancient tradition; druidical guardians of sacred pools, elder trees, and trembling volcanoes watch over crumbling temples and the inevitable reclamation of lost civilizations by the beating heart of nature untamed.

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Druid

Some druids study the paths of nature's power through the nodes and ley lines that connect standing stones and megalithic circles, learning to tap into their energies.

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Druid

A mooncaller is bound to the subtle influences of the ever-changing moon and its endless cycles from light to dark and back again.

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Druid

As more and more of the soft, easy lands become cultivated and civilized, many druids look for refuge and solitude among the eternal peaks of the highest mountains.

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Druid

Some druids bond with many animal companions rather than just one, achieving a level of communion rare even in druidic circles and leading their pack brothers and pack sisters with total authority.

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Druid

Out upon the wide and rolling prairies and savannahs, plains druids stand guard over the grasslands.

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Druid

Spun off into the endless circle of life, an incarnate druid is an embodiment of nature's eternal renewal.

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Druid

A shaman with this focus calls upon the primeval dinosaur, the archaic terror that lingers as a hungering, atavistic stranger at the fringes of the ecosystem, a destroyer and despoiler whose coming other animals dread.

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