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PFS StandardPirate

Source Player Core 2 pg. 209
You live a life of freedom, taking by force and intimidation all that you could possibly desire. You may be a privateer, raiding and plundering on behalf of a particular nation or another authority, or you may answer to no one but your own capricious whims. Either way, you rely on intimidation, wits, and combat prowess to take what you want from those you deem less deserving.

Pirates have much in common with swashbucklers, and many pirates have the swashbuckler class or archetype. Much like a swashbuckler's daring deeds, classic pirate maneuvers are often showy feats intended to impress, intimidate, and gain panache. For example, if you have the panache class feature, Boarding Assault gains the bravado trait.

Additional Feats

Source Player Core pg. 215 2.0
Some archetypes include a list of “Additional Feats” that appear in other sources. The list includes each feat’s level, which might be different than normal when gained from the archetype. You can take the feat as an archetype feat of that level, meaning it counts toward the number of feats required by the archetype’s dedication feat. When selected this way, a feat that normally has a class’s trait (such as the fighter trait) doesn’t have that class trait.

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PFS StandardPirate Dedication Feat 2

Archetype Dedication 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 209
Archetype Pirate
Prerequisites trained in Intimidation

As a pirate, you sail the seas in search of enemy ships to plunder and great adventures to embark on. You gain the Additional Lore general feat for Sailing Lore or for a specific coastal city you have a connection to (such as Port Peril Lore). You ignore the effects of difficult terrain or uneven ground caused by unstable ground (such as the deck of a ship). Additionally, you gain the Boarding Assault action.

Boarding Assault [two-actions] (flourish) Either Stride twice or attempt an Acrobatics check (DC determined by the GM, but usually DC 20) to swing up to twice your Speed on a rope or similar object, then Strike. If you boarded or disembarked from a boat or similar vehicle during this movement, the Strike deals one additional weapon damage die.

PFS StandardAntagonize Feat 4*

Swashbuckler 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 165
Archetype Pirate
* This version of the Antagonize feat is intended for use with an Archetype and has a different level for access than the original feat.

Your taunts and threats earn your foes' ire. When you successfully Demoralize a creature, its frightened condition can't decrease to less than 1 at the end of its turn until it either uses a hostile action against you or can no longer observe or sense you for at least 1 round.

PFS StandardBroadside Buckos Feat 4

Legacy Content

Uncommon Archetype 
Source Firebrands pg. 78 2.0
Archetype Pirate
Prerequisites Pirate Dedication
Access Members of the Firebrands at the rank of second mark or higher have access to this feat.

Shimali Manux trains every Salt Breaker to fight in the cramped quarters below deck, and you've learned how to use these techniques with your crew. During your daily preparations, you can name up to five crewmates you will be working with that day. If an enemy is within reach of you and at least two of your crewmates, that enemy is flat-footed against you.

PFS StandardPirate Combat Training Feat 4

Archetype 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 209
Archetype Pirate
Prerequisites Pirate Dedication

You're particularly skilled at wielding the weapons used traditionally by pirates. You gain either the Combat Climber or Underwater Marauder skill feat, even if you do not meet its prerequisites. You have familiarity with the following weapons: hatchet, rapier, scimitar, and whip—for the purposes of proficiency, you treat any of these weapons as simple weapons. Your GM may add additional martial weapons to this list as appropriate for your world or region.

At 5th level, whenever you get a critical hit with one of these weapons, you get its critical specialization effect.

PFS StandardRope Runner Feat 4

Archetype Skill 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 209
Archetype Pirate
Prerequisites Pirate Dedication; trained in Acrobatics and Athletics

You run and climb across ropes and rigging almost as easily as on the ground. You gain a climb Speed of 15 feet, but only when climbing ropes and similar objects. Whenever you succeed at an Athletics check to Climb or an Acrobatics check to Balance, you get a critical success instead. You aren't off-guard while Climbing or Balancing on a rope or similar object.

PFS StandardYou're Next [reaction] Feat 4*

Emotion Fear Mental Rogue Swashbuckler Visual 
Source Player Core pg. 171 2.0, Player Core 2 pg. 165
Archetype Pirate
Prerequisites trained in Intimidation
Trigger You reduce an enemy to 0 Hit Points
* This version of the You're Next feat is intended for use with an Archetype and has a different level for access than the original feat.

After downing a foe, you menace another. Attempt to Demoralize a creature within 60 feet, with a +2 circumstance bonus. If you have legendary proficiency in Intimidation, you can use this as a free action with the same trigger.

PFS StandardWalk the Plank [two-actions] Feat 8

Archetype 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 209
Archetype Pirate
Prerequisites Pirate Dedication

You frighten a foe into moving where you want them, traditionally demanding they walk the plank. Attempt to Demoralize an opponent. On a success, in addition to the normal effects, you can also force the target to Stride up to its Speed immediately. You choose the path the target takes, but you can't force it to move into an obviously harmful space (such as into hazardous terrain or a space where it would fall) unless your check was a critical success. As normal for forced movement, this movement doesn't trigger reactions. The target then becomes temporarily immune to Walk the Plank for 10 minutes.

PFS StandardHook 'Em [two-actions] Feat 10

Legacy Content

Uncommon Archetype Flourish 
Source Firebrands pg. 80 2.0
Archetype Pirate
Prerequisites Pirate Dedication
Access Members of the Firebrands at the rank of second mark or higher have access to this feat.
Requirements A rope is within your reach, or you have a rope or grappling weapon in your hand.

The Salt Breakers learned to use whatever they could during the Vidric Revolution, and they quickly mastered the art of making a rope into a useful tool in combat. You take hold of a nearby rope, throw a rope from your hand, or fire a grappling weapon at a solid surface—and then swing up to twice your Speed. If you end your movement next to an enemy, attempt an Athletics check to Grapple that enemy, tying them up in your rope.