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Class Feature Friday: Bell Implement (Pathfinder Second Edition Thaumaturge Implement)
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A marvelous property of pure metals is their ability to generate such clear notes of sound when struck or vibrated. So beloved is this aspect of them that we’ve devised all manner of ways to shape metal for that exact purpose, be it complex instruments, wind chimes, or indeed bells.
A bell can be a simple instrument, or it can be a powerful tool of communication, often both at once. Bells can inspire fear and alertness when used as an alarm, or comfort when used to signal times of day or even times of worship.
Indeed, bells are strongly associated with various religions for their ability to signal when certain religiously significant times were approaching over a large area.
Its no small wonder that bells are often considered sacred instruments, and that there is a lot of folklore that paints the sound of bells as able to drive away evil spirits.
It is that significance that thaumaturges capitalize on with their occult arts, and many of them do adopt bells as one of their implements. These are often handbells, though handchimes, windchimes, and even larger bells such as those used by guards in some cultures. Anything that is notable for it’s ability to signal with sound might be appropriate. Such chiming instruments are associated with the cosmic caravan astrological signs of the daughter and the blossom.
Such implements, empowered by the belief and knowledge of a thaumaturge, become especially useful in driving away and disrupting the actions of monsters.
When their chosen foe casts magic or attacks, these thaumaturges can ring their bell to disrupt their concentration. Why they can’t lose the spell because of this, it can still reduce the intensity of the effect or throw off aim enough to help allies avoid the attack or magic.
Later on, their bell continues to resonate afterwards, causing the effects of the chiming to last longer.
They also learn to link their own strikes to the resonance of their bell, causing foes they exploit the weakness of to be more vulnerable to the bell’s disrupting chime.
Finally, those who master the bell learn to intensify it’s effects, as well as use it against all foes, not just the one they are currently targeting with their expertise.
Beyond that, a decent handful of feats are useful and/or thematic for those specializing in using the bell implement, such as Divine Disharmony, Haunt Ingenuity, Root to Life, Esoteric Warden, Turn Away Misfortune, Shared Warding, Thaumaturge’s Demesne, Esoteric Reflexes, Sever Magic, Unlimited Demesne, or Wonder Worker, though obviously your build will differ.
The bell implement is there to give you a way to help protect your allies by debuffing your foe as they attack, potentially protecting allies as they make saves and avoid attacks. That alone makes your thaumaturge a bit more of a support character, so you might consider building in that direction or diversifying to provide a more even approach of attack and defense.
Though thaumaturges aren’t quite the same as their predecessor class, the occultist, they share some of the same bones, so thinking about what sort of significance the instruments that thaumaturges might use as bells is interesting. One might be the bell of a town crier whose alert saved a village, or perhaps a bell from the parade raiment of a priest meant to frighten evil away, and so on.
A child of a magically-assisted union, Vokuss the Horn is a dromaar, or half-orc, but his other half is one of the stout kashrishi, those crystal-horned psychic beings. Though his appearance is unusual, he has a special knack for psychic resonance, particularly with his set of crystal chimes. As such, he has long worked a monster hunter, able to understand their weaknesses by listening to the notes of the chime.
Acclaimed monster hunter and thaumaturge Poculus has gone missing, and whats more, his signature brass bell has turned up, half-melted in the a forge downtown. The owner claims no knowledge, but his fire mephit assistant, Scorchfingers, is being evasive, as if he witnessed something, but it too afraid to reveal it.
The Nomoon community is a collection of various “monstrous” creatures living in the undercity far from the street level of Moonsilver. Though distrustful of outsiders, they are a surprisingly good-hearted band of misfits. They are a bit superstitious though, and refuse to move the bell left behind by a would-be monster hunter they drove out some years ago.
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Germany to implement unprecedented measures to save energy amid gas crisis
Germany to implement unprecedented measures to save energy amid gas crisis
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In autumn and winter, public buildings will not be heated more than 19 degrees Celsius and shops will turn off lights at night.
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Freedom of Action, Washington DC, 2019.
Freedom of Action, Washington DC, 2019. Environmental friendly car factory making environmental friendly electric vehicles.
Freedom of Action, Washington DC, 2019.
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Insurers fail to implement 'public-facing' code obligations on time - Local - Insurance News
Insurers fail to implement ‘public-facing’ code obligations on time – Local – Insurance News
A review of public-facing obligations included in the latest version of the General Insurance Code of Practice found only 29% of insurers surveyed complied with all five requirements by the deadline.
The code demands subscribers have a range of information publicly available, usually on the subscriber’s website.
This includes information on making sure products are aimed at appropriate target…
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Is This The End of TDE? Breaking Down Why Kendrick Lamar Left The Label
Is This The End of TDE? Breaking Down Why Kendrick Lamar Left The Label
We’re well into 2022 and If you haven’t heard yet, the so called saviour of hip hop, Kendrick Lamar, has made his long awaited return with his 5th studio album titled Mr. Moral & The Big Steppers.
While an artist of this magnitude is sure to put the whole world on notice when they step out, it’s clear that this release has had some different energy surrounding it compared to prior releases from…
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High school sports implement Coaching Girls Beyond the Game program | Local News
High school sports implement Coaching Girls Beyond the Game program | Local News
For female athletes at three local high schools, sports is more than a game.
Domestic Violence Services of Southwestern Pennsylvania is one of three domestic violence programs in the state selected by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV) to implement Coaching Girls Beyond the Game, an initiative focused on teaching young women about healthy relationships.
Southeastern…
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سونیا نے ’ادے پور نوسنکلپ‘ کے نفاذ کیلئے ٹاسک فورس کی تشکیل دے دی
سونیا نے ’ادے پور نوسنکلپ‘ کے نفاذ کیلئے ٹاسک فورس کی تشکیل دے دی
سونیا نے ’ادے پور نوسنکلپ‘ کے نفاذ کیلئے ٹاسک فورس کی تشکیل دے دی
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کانگریس نے منگل کو ادے پور چنتن شیویر میں لئے گئے فیصلوں کو نافذ کرنے کے لئے پارٹی جنرل سکریٹری پرینکا گاندھی واڈرا سمیت سینئر لیڈروں پر مشتمل آٹھ رکنی ’ٹاسک فورس -2024‘ تشکیل دی ہے۔ اس کے ساتھ ہی آٹھ رکنی سیاسی امور کا گروپ تشکیل دیا گیا جس کی سربراہی کانگریس صدر سونیا گاندھی کریں گی۔ 2…
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tumblr developers cranking it into overdrive to make sure one of the few unique and usable social media sites remaining becomes a half-formed failed homunculus clone of tiktok like every other fucking website
#yes i know developers do not create the stupid bullshit ideas and only implement them because its their job#lets not be pedantic#also yes ok 'usable' is pushing it but compared to Twitter....i mean.
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Class Feature Friday: Amulet Implement (Pathfinder Second Edition Thaumaturge Implement)
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A sort of fusion of the concepts of the 1st edition Occultist class and the Inquisitor, the Thaumaturge class is all about learning every bit of lore about the supernatural as possible, regardless of it’s veracity, in hopes that something will work. What’s more, much like the occultist of yore, their own psychic power empowers the tools and trinkets they utilize, either giving truth to the folklore surrounding them, or pushing them beyond even that.
A key part of the thaumaturge class is their choice of implements, which come in a myriad of forms, but cover some core concepts. The thaumaturge can gain up to three classifications of implements, but naturally their first gains all the associated abilities, while the second and third never achieve full mastery.
In any case, our first subject today is the amulet. Whether this is an actual occult symbol of protection worn around the neck, a more mundane necklace, or some symbol of luck or protection such as a rabbit’s foot, amulets as a general rule represent protection and good luck, warding away misfortune from the wearer. In occult symbolism in the Pathfinder setting, they are associated with the Harrow suit of Shields, the cosmic caravan sign of the Bridge, and the Tian zodiac sign of the Ogre.
True to their nature as wards of protection, the thaumaturge can invoke the amulet to ward themselves or others nearby against the violence of the target of their focus, and with a reflexive action, they can dampen the incoming damage of an attack.
Later on, the amulet provides lingering protection after the initial surge, warding them from further similar attacks.
By presenting the amulet to the foe they are focusing on exploiting the vulnerabilities of, they can also improve their own protections so that attacks are harder to land on them for a brief moment.
Thaumaturges that choose the amulet as their primary implement can even ward entire groups, protecting them from even area effect attacks, if need be, and providing them with lingering protection even if the initial warding would have blocked all damage.
Additionally, the following feats suit the thaumaturge quite well: Root to Life, Esoteric Warden, Turn Away Misfortune, Shared Warding, Esoteric Reflexes, and Seven-Part Link. Others may be useful as well depending on your build.
With the focus on reducing and warding against damage, this implement is a major boon for any thaumaturge that is concerned with keeping themselves and others alive in addition to defeating the monsters in the night. Even if it’s not your first implement, it can prove quite useful for keeping allies in the fight.
While this is true of almost every implement, amulets are often jewelry, and jewelry often has a lot of emotional history attached to them. Does the amulet truly belong to the thaumaturge? Who owned it originally? What sort of emotions are tied to it? These questions are quite useful to answer from a lore and backstory perspective, not just for amulets, but any implement, really.
The Moon Sliver is a well-known silver amulet fitted with moonstones and what is supposedly a tear of the moon itself, and has a long history of being used by those who face werewolves and other lycanthropes. Curiously, however, the amulet always seems to find itself in human hands across it’s long history, almost as if it prefers bearers of that ancestry. Finding out exactly why means digging into the forgotten lore of the amulet’s origins.
Wearing the wedding rings of her mother and father, a janni and a mortal respectively, Shavi can feel their love wherever she goes, and her belief in that love protects her as she wanders the land, seeking rumor of divs, ghuls, and other monstrous beings to destroy.
In the hands of a charlatain like the original owner, a tangled necklace of holy symbols subverts the very idea of protection one associates with such things… but even if he was a liar and apostate preying upon the desperate, the faith of those he robbed was very real, making it very valuable to those versed in the occult.
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Germany to implement unprecedented measures to save energy amid gas crisis
Germany to implement unprecedented measures to save energy amid gas crisis
Fast News
In autumn and winter, public buildings will not be heated more than 19 degrees Celsius and shops will turn off lights at night.
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Most organizations fear AI failure, but those that implement AI do report benefits
When generative artificial intelligence first burst upon the scene, the technology showed potential for making . . .
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