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Archives of Nethys

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PFS LimitedPoacher

Some forests are protected by kings, others only by wild things. Laws against hunting may protect the private reserves of nobles or guard the viability of animal populations of shared forests during specific seasons. Poachers violate those laws—sometimes out of greed, sometimes out of desperation, and sometimes for sport. Although penalties against poaching often include public shaming (see Penalties for Poaching), in lean times a successful poacher is a local hero.

Recall Knowledge - Humanoid (Society): DC 16
Unspecific Lore: DC 14
Specific Lore: DC 11

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PoacherCreature 2

Legacy Content

NE Medium Human Humanoid 
Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 218
Perception +7
Languages Common
Skills Crafting +2, Deception +2, Nature +5, Stealth +6, Survival +5
Str +2, Dex +4, Con +1, Int +0, Wis +3, Cha +0
Forager While using Survival to Subsist, if the hunter rolls a failure or a critical failure, they get a success instead. If the hunter rolls a success, they can provide food for 4 additional creatures that eat about as much as a human, or 8 creatures on a critical success.
Snare Crafting The poacher can use the Crafting skill to create the following snares: alarm snare, hampering snare, marking snare, and signaling snare. The poacher can create four snares each day without paying for the materials, using 3 Interact actions to set up each snare.
Items club, composite shortbow (20 arrows), padded armor, snare kit
AC 17; Fort +5, Ref +8, Will +5
HP 30
Speed 25 feet
Melee [one-action] club +6 [+1/-4], Damage 1d6+5 bludgeoningRanged [one-action] composite shortbow +8 [+3/-2] (deadly 1d10, propulsive, range increment 60 feet, reload 0), Damage 1d6+3 piercingHunt Prey [one-action] (concentrate) The poacher designates a single creature they can see and hear, or one they're Tracking, as their prey. The poacher gains a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to Seek the prey and to Survival checks to Track the prey. The first time the poacher hits the designated prey in a round, they deal an additional 1d8 precision damage. The poacher also ignores the penalty for making ranged attacks within their second range increment. These effects last until the poacher uses Hunt Prey again.

Sidebar - Additional Lore Penalties For Poaching

Punishment for poaching on noble land can be vicious. Maiming poachers by removing fingers is a common practice. Crueler punishments include snaring poachers in their own traps and leaving them helpless, or binding them in the bloody skins of their catch and setting dogs to chase them through the woods.

All Monsters in "Foresters"

NameLevel
Hunter7
Poacher2
Tracker3

Foresters

Source Gamemastery Guide pg. 218
From the managed and cultivated forests that support villages to the tree-covered crown lands where only nobles and their servants are permitted to hunt, forests provide. To communities, forests provide fuel, food, medicine, and raw materials, while royally protected forests provide food for the nobles' table and a source of entertainment in the form of organized hunts. Even the ancient woods untouched by mortal hand or blade provide bards with settings where legends happened and could happen again. Many find the forest depths unsettling, but others live their lives among the trees and alongside the creatures that make their homes there.

Sidebar - Locations Famed Forests

The Verduran Forest is the largest woodland on the continent of Avistan; the druids and rangers of the Wildwood Lodge earned the forest great autonomy through a thousand-year treaty. The Forest of Spirits stretches over a thousand miles of Tian Xia and is the primeval birthplace of the nature spirits known as kami. The Fangwood in Nirmathas and the Gravelands is home to a secret village of druids, named Crystalhurst, and to one of the most powerful green dragons in the world. The terrible Darkblight devastated the 7,000-year-old fey court that once guarded the wood. The Fierani Forest covers the majority of the elven nation of Kyonin and borders Tanglebriar, home to the Fierani rangers' great nemesis, the demon Treerazer.