Deviant Feats
Source Dark Archive pg. 98
Though Golarion contains classically trained spellcasters, descendants of magical creatures, and entire species who can invoke ancestral patrons for supernatural aid, there are always some who gain unique and unstable powers in strange or unorthodox ways. GMs can use the rules here to grant these so-called deviant abilities to their players and incorporate them into their games. A deviant ability can be the result of exposure to exotic energies, a boon from a powerful entity, cutting-edge scientific experimentation, or any other process that makes sense for your story.
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Universal Feats
These feats are useful for any deviant ability user. If you're using the background approach, you can select these feats regardless of your classification.This Feat may contain spoilers from the Gatewalkers Adventure Path
Legacy Content
Rare Deviant
Source Gatewalkers Player's Guide pg. 9, Dark Archive pg. 100
Your power spontaneously evolves or reconfigures itself. You gain one awakening benefit for a deviant feat of 4th level or lower.
Special You can take this feat multiple times. Each time you do, choose a different deviant feat of 4th level or lower, and gain one of its awakening benefits.This Feat may contain spoilers from the Gatewalkers Adventure Path
Legacy Content
Rare Deviant
Source Gatewalkers Player's Guide pg. 9, Dark Archive pg. 100
Your power undergoes yet another awakening. You gain one awakening benefit for a deviant feat of 10th level or lower.
Special You can take this feat multiple times. Each time you do, choose a different deviant feat of 10th level or lower, and gain one of its awakening benefits.
DragonSource Dark Archive pg. 100Deviant abilities often trace their origin to massive concentrations of energy, such as being at ground zero of a detonating magical artifact. These energies can linger within an individual to grant them deviations falling under the dragon classification—gouts of flame, electrical breath, and the like—projecting and absorbing it to great effect.
When you gain a dragon-type deviation, choose a type of damage, from cold, electricity, fire, or sonic. All abilities you gain from this deviation deal this type of damage and add the corresponding trait to the ability. You also use this damage type for the damage and weakness from your backlash.
Related Feats
Blasting Beams (2),
Consume Energy (2),
Storming Breath (6),
Propulsive Leap (10)
Backlash: Energetic Meltdown
As you channel energy through your deviant abilities, some of it turns back on you, spiking your body temperature or dancing across your skin.
Mild Backlash You take damage equal to your level as energy scours your body.
Moderate Backlash Energy wracks your body. After taking the damage, you gain weakness to the energy type of your backlash until your next daily preparations. The weakness is equal to one-third of your level. You also lose immunity to the energy type if you had it, until your next daily preparations.
Severe Backlash Whatever furnace or well within you that provides the energy for your deviation overloads completely, cascading out of you in an uncontrolled burst. You deal 1d6 damage per level to all creatures in a 30-foot emanation with a
basic Fortitude save. You automatically take full damage without attempting a save.
Source Dark Archive pg. 101Especially common when a deviant ability is born of scientific experimentation, the troll classification connotes improved physical abilities. While often thought of as biological mutation, clockwork implants and personal magical enhancements are equally likely mechanisms.
Related Feats
Bone Spikes (2),
Titan Swing (2),
High-Speed Regeneration (6),
Tectonic Stomp (10)
Backlash: Strained Metabolism
Your body's overclocked physiology requires larger-than- usual amounts of nourishment, leaving you weakened when it kicks in mid-combat.
Mild Backlash Your metabolism immediately burns through your body's energy stores, making you
enfeebled 1 and
clumsy 1 until you take a bite of food (which usually requires 2 Interact actions: one to retrieve the food and another to consume it).
Moderate Backlash Ravenous hunger wracks your body. You are enfeebled 1, clumsy 1, and
fatigued until you can eat a full meal, which requires at least 10 minutes.
Severe Backlash The strain on your body is truly incapacitating. You become
sickened 2 as nausea wracks you, and you are also enfeebled 1 and clumsy 1 until you can eat a full meal (which requires you to no longer be sickened). You are fatigued until you can get a full night's rest.
Source Dark Archive pg. 102Wraith-type deviations often result from contact with otherworldly presences or artifacts, comprising a strange assortment of abilities that involve realms beyond our own.
Related Feats
Eerie Flicker (2),
Ghostly Grasp (Deviant) (2),
Enervating Wail (6),
Distant Wandering (10)
Backlash: Encroaching Presence
Seeing and touching the beyond leaves you open to its alien influence, warping your perceptions and thoughts.
Mild Backlash Something inexplicable touches your mind, leaving you with lingering horror. You become
frightened 3.
Moderate Backlash Disorienting visions and figments cover your vision, as if you're seeing through another set of alien senses. For 10 minutes, all creatures become
concealed to you as they are covered in visual distortions only you can see.
Severe Backlash Your life force is siphoned away as the presence tugs your soul to wherever it resides. You become
doomed 1 and
drained 2 until your next daily preparations.
Source Pathfinder #202: Severed at the Root pg. 74Whether through planar exploration or unintended catastrophe, you’ve come into close contact with Ayrzul’s Blight and have been forever changed. As the Blight is a realm of invasive rot, pernicious decay, and deadly radiation, so too are you capable of wielding the powers of decay.
Related Feats
Release Spores (2),
Rotten Slurry (2),
Irradiate (6),
Unleash The Blight (10)
Backlash: Fungal Rot
As you use your powers, radioactive molds and fungi consume your flesh, making you look (and feel) like a rotting, walking corpse.
Mild Backlash You take damage equal to your level as your body decays.
Moderate Backlash You take damage equal to your level and become
sickened 2.
Severe Backlash You take damage equal to twice your level and become sickened 4. You can’t reduce the value of your sickened condition below 1 for 1 hour.
Source Pathfinder #202: Severed at the Root pg. 75The Verdant Core deviation represents an abundance of vitality and plant life, likely caused by being implanted with supernatural seeds, contact with the
Plane of Wood or the
First World, or powerful
primal rituals. Regardless of the source, you’re a walking garden with grass, flowers, and other small plants sprouting from your flesh. You have powers over plants, wood, and growth.
Related Feats
Sprout Fruit (2),
Vine Lash (2),
Defensive Growth (6),
Disperse Into Petals (10)
Backlash: Life-Draining
The flourishing plant life that covers your body is a part of you, but it draws nutrients from your blood, making you weaker the more the flowers grow. As the plants grow, you need to spend more and more time recuperating. Recuperating in the sunshine lowers this duration, as it feeds the flowers, speeding your recovery.
Mild Backlash You become
drained 1 as the plants feed off your life force. This condition lasts until you spend 3 consecutive actions to rest and do nothing.
Moderate Backlash You become drained 2 and
fatigued until you spend 20 minutes recuperating by resting and doing nothing. If you spend this time basking in sunshine, it instead takes 10 minutes.
Severe Backlash You become drained 3 until you spend 2 hours napping. While napping, you’re
unconscious and can’t take actions or engage in exploration activities, but a creature can wake you with a single action with the
manipulate trait. If you spend this time napping in natural sunlight, it instead takes 1 hour. You’re fatigued until you can get a full night’s rest.