Gray GardenerLegacy Content
Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 64The following contains SPOILERS for the Night of the Gray Death adventure! The Gray Gardeners are the remorseless executioners of Galt. Prior to the events of the adventure, the Gray Gardeners are at best sinister (when not actively pursuing evil) as a malevolent monster controls their organization. After the events of Night of the Gray Death, the organization is broken—leadership is in disarray while the rank-and-file members labor to enforce laws and recapture escaped criminals. The Gray Gardeners still command the respect of Galt's people, however, as their brutal reputation is indelibly etched in the public consciousness over the last fifty years.
The following is suitable for heroes to take after the events of
Night of the Gray Death. You might be a member of the old organization who tried to uphold order despite vindictive directives from above, or you might be someone who recently donned a mask to enforce the law in Galt's new age. Either way, as a Gray Gardener you draw power and authority from being masked and have a reputation for dispassionate justice.
Your vigilante identity is that of a Gray Gardener, and you must be wearing a mask to use any of your vigilante feats or you risk exposing your social identity, as described in the
vigilante archetype.
Vigilante Archetype
The Gray Gardener is accessed using the
Vigilante Dedication feat, along with membership in the Gray Gardeners. Due to this unique membership, the Archives of Nethys is displaying the Gray Gardener specific feats on its own page.
Additional Feats
Source Player Core pg. 215 2.0Some 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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Uncommon Archetype Dedication Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 196 2.0Archetypes Gray Gardener,
VigilantePrerequisites trained in
Deception
You have two identities, each with its own name, alignment, and abilities. Your social identity is an upstanding member of society, while your vigilante identity is a skilled and cunning warrior. Neither of these identities is a false front; you really are both of these people, and as such, your two identities can be at most one alignment step from each other (for instance, you could be neutral in one identity and neutral evil in the other, but not chaotic evil in the other). If someone attempts to discern your other identity, they must use a
Seek action to attempt a Perception check against your
Deception DC, as if you were using the
Impersonate action. Your Deception DC against such attempts is 20 + your proficiency modifier instead of the normal DC. Unlike with Impersonate, you don't have to attempt a Deception check to interact with someone to conceal your other identity—a check happens only if someone else specifically tries to uncover your other identity.
Changing from one identity to the other takes 1 minute and must be done out of sight from other creatures. As this process involves both physical changes such as clothing and makeup along with an altered state of mind, other effects that change your appearance don't reduce the time required to change identities.
Your two identities are completely distinct. You have your current identity's alignment for effects that rely on alignment, though you are eligible for abilities that require a certain alignment (such as a cleric's deity) only if both of your identities qualify. Checks to
Recall Knowledge about one of your identities don't reveal information about the other unless the person attempting the check knows both identities are the same person. Effects that detect you based on your identity, such as the
detect alignment spell, work only if you are currently in the identity the effect is trying to detect; otherwise, the effect fails as if the target didn't exist.
To maintain the separation between your identities, some of your abilities have one of two traits:
social or
vigilante. You can use social feats only while in your social identity. Your class feats and vigilante feats are associated with your vigilante identity, and using them while in your social identity risks exposing you as a vigilante. This means that if you were particularly meek or inconspicuous before you took this feat, your identity could be at greater risk of exposure. If your identity is exposed to the public, you lose the benefits of Vigilante Dedication to disguising yourself, but you can otherwise use both social and vigilante abilities in either identity unless they rely on your identity being a secret. You can use feats that don't have either trait regardless of your current identity.
Special You can't select another dedication feat until you have gained two other feats from the vigilante archetype.
Legacy Content
Archetype Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 64Archetype Gray GardenerPrerequisites Vigilante Dedication; member of the Gray Gardeners
Your Gray Gardener training has made you deeply skilled with the weapons that execute with a swift chop to the neck. You become trained with the following weapons:
battle axe,
falchion,
greataxe, and
scimitar. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency with a given weapon or weapons, you also gain that proficiency for these weapons.
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Archetype Vigilante Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 64Archetype Gray GardenerPrerequisites Vigilante Dedication; member of the Gray Gardeners
Choose one creature you can see, and loudly declare the creature's life forfeit by your judgment. That creature becomes your condemned foe until they are defeated, you use Harsh Judgment on a different creature, or the encounter ends. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to
Seek your condemned foe and on Intimidation checks to
Demoralize them. You have a –1 circumstance penalty to Perception checks to
Seek creatures other than your condemned foe and on Intimidation checks to
Demoralize anyone other than your condemned foe. You typically can use Harsh Judgment only during an encounter, and if you try to use it to declare someone's life forfeit during exploration or downtime, you are likely to start an encounter.
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Archetype Auditory Vigilante Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 64Archetype Gray GardenerPrerequisites expert in
Intimidation;
Vigilante Dedication; member of the Gray Gardeners
You easily command the attention of others, and when the time comes to turn threats into action, your authoritative voice causes foes to falter.
Your voice can be heard easily by any creatures within 300 feet if you wish, regardless of the level of ambient noise, although your voice can't penetrate silence or similar efect. If you roll
Intimidation for initiative, on the frst round of combat, creatures that haven't acted yet are
flat-footed to you.
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Archetype Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 65Archetype Gray GardenerPrerequisites Vigilante Dedication; member of the Gray Gardeners
You have a sense for when people are lying. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus on your secret Perception checks to
Sense Motive.
If you use
Sense Motive on a creature you have currently condemned with
Harsh Judgment, your GM rolls the Perception check twice and takes the higher result (this is a fortune effect).
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Archetype Emotion Fear Mental Vigilante Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 65Archetype Gray GardenerPrerequisites Harsh Judgment;
Vigilante Dedication; member of the Gray Gardeners
Trigger You hit your condemned foe with a melee Strike in the same turn during which you condemned it with
Harsh Judgment.Requirements You have condemned a foe to death with
Harsh Judgment.
Your willingness to follow through on your pitiless judgment is frightful to the person you have condemned, and they begin to dread what you will do to them next. Your condemned foe is
frightened 1, or
frightened 2 if the triggering Strike was a critical hit.
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Archetype Vigilante Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 65Archetype Gray GardenerPrerequisites Vigilante Dedication;
Harsh Judgment; member of the Gray Gardeners
You strike cleanly with wide, sweeping attacks to inflict maximum damage, taking advantage of your judged foe's fear to land a felling blow. If you Strike a creature you condemned with Harsh Judgment that has the
frightened condition with a
sweep melee weapon or a
sweep unarmed attack, you gain a circumstance bonus to the Strike's damage equal to the number of weapon damage dice your weapon deals.
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Archetype Vigilante Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 65Archetype Gray GardenerFrequency once per day
Prerequisites Vigilante Dedication; member of the Gray Gardeners
Trigger You roll a failure (but not a critical failure) on a Will save against a
fear effect
The Gray Gardeners are known for having nerves of steel and an unbreakable resolve. When you would be overwhelmed by terror, you can draw upon this resolve to keep your composure and remain undaunted. You take mental damage equal to twice your level, and the saving throw is a success.
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Archetype Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 65Archetype Gray GardenerPrerequisites master in
Intimidation;
Vigilante Dedication;
Voice of Authority; member of the Gray Gardeners
The common folk heed your demands, and though your true foes rarely bend to your commands, when they do the hesitation can cost them the battle. You can cast
command once every 10 minutes as a 1st-level occult innate spell.
If you're in your vigilante identity, you can command the target only to approach you, drop prone, or stand in place. If you're in your social identity, you can command the target only to run away or release what the target is holding.
Execution [two-actions] Feat 14
Legacy Content
Archetype Vigilante Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 65Archetype Gray GardenerPrerequisites Harsh Judgment;
Vigilante Dedication; member of the Gray Gardeners
Requirements You have condemned a foe with
Harsh Judgment.
You swing wide, attempting to behead your condemned foe. Make a melee Strike against your condemned foe. If you hit, your condemned foe takes 8d6 extra precision damage with a basic Fortitude save against your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. If the condemned foe is reduced to 0 Hit Points by the execution and requires a head to live, they die. For creatures with multiple heads, this usually kills the creature only if you sever its last head. The creature then becomes temporarily immune to your Execution for 1 day.
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Archetype Vigilante Source Night of the Gray Death pg. 65Archetype Gray GardenerPrerequisites Vigilante Dedication; member of the Gray Gardeners
You can erect a magical cowl that terrorizes your enemies. Once per day, you can cast
mask of terror as an innate occult spell, targeting yourself. If you critically hit a creature that's temporarily immune to the spell, the creature's temporary immunity ends.