#oracle class

[sunbeargames]

As I'm writing the Oracle class, I'm anticipating that lots of players will want to play a blind character. The trope of the blind oracle or blind seer is fairly popular in folklore and pop culture, and I want to accommodate players making the characters that appeal to them.

To save DMs the headache of trying to figure out how to make a blind character mechanically balanced, I'm including this optional feature in the Oracle class. If a player chooses to make their character blind, they gain 30 feet of blindsight and can spend class resources to extend that range for a short time.

For flavor, I also included the table of possible eye appearances, for players who want the nature of the blindness to be a bit more mystical.

That said, I am currently a sighted person. I'm considering hiring a sensitivity reader further down the line, but for now I figure I might as well run it by others to see what people think.

Worth noting that the blindsight offered here does not negate the mechanical effects of being blind. Characters that take this feature will still be unable to do certain things such as see distant objects or observe writing/images on surfaces.

[image description: Sightless Seer, a 1st-level optional Oracle feature. If you choose, you can sacrifice your sight. If you do so, you are permanently blinded and gain blindsight out to a range of 30 feet. This blindness cannot be cured in any way, even by a wish spell. Starting when you reach 2nd level in this class, you can use a prediction to expend 1 fate point and increase the range of your blindsight to 60 feet for 1 minute. This range increases to 90 feet at 5th level, to 120 feet at 11th level, and to 300 feet at 17th level. If you choose to be blind this way, determine the appearance of your eyes manually or by rolling on the Eyes of the Sightless Seer table below.

Eyes of the Sightless Seer, a table with 6 rows of entries under the header "Eyes".

Pools of stars, deep as the night sky, twinkling with infinite lights.

You wear a blindfold that grows stained and drips with blood as you use your powers.

A small ball of solid gold sits in each socket, perhaps etched with symbols or writing.

Your eyelids are permanently closed. Others see strange shapes moving against them.

Both eyes are of a single solid color, such as onyx black, icy white, or deep sea blue.

Your corneas are clouded and opaque, but the swirling pattern seems to slowly move.

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#dnd5e #dnd #d&d #d&d 5th edition #dnd homebrew #ttrpg #d&d homebrew #homebrew #sunbear games #oracle class #oracle #disability #blindness #visually impaired #sensory disability #disabilities #low vision #image described #image id

[jester-step]

trying to get over the anxiety of having to do a job interview tomorrow by telling myself it’s JUST like when adaine got a job at oodles of strudel

#i’ll just tell them i’m the elven oracle it’s FINE #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #telling myself if i pass the interview adaine gets extra credit on her divination classes #can you tell 100% of my coping mechanisms are currently d&d related

[jenn0wow]

Actually Barbara Gordon being a librarian and then eventually Oracle makes so much more sense if she was a reference services librarian lmaooo

#yeah I wrote this while in my reference and information services class DUH #but really it would make so much sense #STOP HAVING HER STOCK BOOKS AND HAVE HER SIT AT A LITTLE DESK AND HELP PEOPLE FIND STUFF #Barbara Gordon #batgirl #Oracle #Batfam #batfamily #dc comics

[oracles-art-icles]

Made some fan HTTYD tablet wallpapers for a friend!

OTHER CLASSES WILL BE ON A REBLOG OF THIS POST AND IN THE HTTYD TAG ON THIS BLOG

Dimensions are 1600x2560 px

#tidal class killed some of my braincells so it only gets one. #oracle's art! #fan art #httyd #how to train your dragon #dreamworks #custom wallpapers #httyd wallpapers #tablet wallpapers #book of dragons #httyd dragon classes

[oonaluna-art]

My secret santa gift for my friend @classofthetitansproject ! This is her oracle OC Emily, pondering the orb.

#gift art #friend art #class of the titans #class of the titans oc #cott #cott oc #oracle #mythology inspired #pondering the orb #ponder the orb #emily #naru

[papaiyatree]

tried to go back 2 the swing of school doods yesterday in class :>>

drawing this in class made me feel like i've committed 300 sins this is the hottest poison ivy i've ever drawn wtf

#no bc like. it's so. #drawing ivy i wasn't even thinking i was just drawing and then THAT'S what i ended up eith? the hottest ivy i've ever drawn? #lord almighty give me strength to never draw smth like this again in class of all places i was tired of covering it up #dc #dc comics #barbara gordon #oracle #batgirl #batgirls #birds of prey #dinah lance #black canary #helena bertinelli #huntress #zinda blake #lady blackhawk #my art >:DD

[halichor]

New son just dropped, say hi to Veneth ✨ He has a different outfit now tbh but designing takes forever soooo behold

#novus dei #veneth zauvrin #class outfits #oc profile #oc lore #oc art #original character #character concept #character design #halichor draws #the new outfit is all thanks to elian #why did i have to make oracles match styles with their gods

[sunbeargames]

Everything is going wrong.

Your allies are falling. Your plan is failing. Your enemies are prevailing. All seems lost.

You awake in a cold sweat, bolting upright from your bedroll, looking around to see your companions, alive and well, preparing for the day ahead. They look to you, concerned, and you begin to tell them what you saw.

All A Dream is probably going to be one of the more controversial Oracle features, but I think it's interesting enough to at least go into the first rounds of playtesting.

Basically, this is your emergency escape when shit has hit the fan. The narrative of this feature is that the day has been a dream, and your Oracle character wakes up with the memory of this one potential future where things went wrong. Armed with that knowledge, you can inform your allies of what happened and adjust your course accordingly.

It has an increasing chance of not working each time you use it. This is very much subject to change, but I think some version of this caveat is necessary to keep the feature being fun. If it's too reliable, risks start to lose meaning, and if it comes up too often then it could just become a hassle. It should be a powerful option for emergencies, and you should have to carefully consider when to use it.

Image ID below the cut.

[Image ID: All A Dream, 11th-level Oracle feature

As an action, you can cause everything to revert to the state and location it was in at the moment you finished your last long rest. You retain your memories of everything you experienced. Each time you use this feature after the first, roll a d20. If the number rolled is equal to or lower than the number of times you have already used this feature, to a maximum of 10, this feature does not function. Instead, you gain one level of exhaustion and fall unconscious for 1 minute, or until you take damage or a creature uses its action to shake you awake. Once you take this action, you cannot do so again until you finish your next long rest.

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[wordsgood]

thinkin about an aromantic bg3 run with doli lin!tav. he’s so tired. what’s one more monstrous cursèd gift in his head, there might as well be a literal physical creature creaching around up there, this might as well happen. surrounded by horny children who need hugs and protection. unfortunately because amatonormativity he gets no special cutscenes but he could go to avernus with karlach (who is also aromantic you can’t convince me otherwise im SORRY [not].). the last time he lost a soulmate he couldn’t follow them into the dark but oh boy THIS time he’s fucking prepared! he may have terrible hips and the soul of a trophy husband and just the worst empathetic magic gift there’s ever been but he will kick demon ass for his new bestie. he might also bang halsin, who’s to say, he might feel sexy one night when the city’s making him attractively homesick instead of his usual drunken soggy-paper-bag kind of homesick. he can do what he wants. he’s surrounded by children with either too few or too many memories that constantly send him into empathy-triggered fugue states and dissociations and migraine nightmares. daddy needs a self-care night kids

#doli lin meeting the ~dream visitor~ like. ah. this shit again. #he is not particularly horrified by anything in particular because he has literally seen it all and he is just. very very Over It #what class though :0 i know wizards get an oracle specialization or something #he famously does not have magic other than his empathy gift #it might work but also……….bard………….. #thoughts!!!! i love him i love thinking about him #char: doli lin #story: prophecy trilogy

[pramanixx]

i have a disease called "need to make builds for my favs in whatever ttrpg i can". thankfully with prior favs this was extremely easy due to 5e being piss easy to build in and them having fairly basic skillsets. thank god i have found other ttrpgs to love (please for the love of christ talk to me about lancer its so fucking good) and now the buildcrafting process more fun but more challenging as well. as if this wasnt enough, uh. axl 1. can cast magic at will 2. but is primarily a melee* combatant 3. (not really) 4. has time travel magic.

due to my insanities i am still attempting to build this out. i have accepted i cant just take the fast and easy route via 5e because even WITHOUT the time magic this build is a fucking multiclass monstrosity + his weapon is two-handed and 5e doesnt like it when casters wield those.

but i HAVE discovered its very possible to build him in lancer ;)

#ok fine there are some things in 5th that could work. main thing that comes to mind is paladin smite #however real axl low fans know he has a total of 7 hp to his name so i dont want him having paladin levels #id say four elements monk could work if that subclass didnt suck #wild magic sorceror is proooobably the closest flavorwise you can get in 5e but as far as actual melee fighting goes #id either say swashbuckler rogue (agility tank built for 1v1s) or like...fuck idk. battlemaster fighter is great for cc but does it fit? #eh #dont ask me about pathfinder either holy fucking shit i barely have any idea how to make one class work #much less if i needed to multiclass god forbid. #gun to my head id just pick magus or a weird swashbuckler/oracle multiclass

[lionbearfox]

inktober 8: witness my pathfinder party! i've had only these weirdos for a monthish but if anything happened to them i would. be really excited about it actually. anyways, love them! my new favorite group of guys :)

#my art #oc #lbf.pf #my character is the middle one! her name is maiya she is my shitty teenaged daughter and i love her #shes so sad and soggy #she's a cosmos oracle bc pathfinder has the COOLEST CLASS EVER in oracle in terms of fun story possibilities #and the boys are the bestest ever too :) i love them #half elf on the left is SOOOOO funny he's a college dropout his father is very very rich and loves him very much [so he says at least] #and he would thrive in a sorority #goblin on the right is a bomber alchemist who builds pyres for the funeral guild. NO idea what his deal his but he's quite sweet #i forgot to do yesterday but eh c'est la vie i decided i wouldnt beat myself up if i missed a day #maiya ribach #yaboi klungo #leopold arsenault von gallen

[kenobihater]

bought a wholeass cabinet for my tarot decks and books :^)

#gonna restain it and add finish sometime soon bc the stain is ugly and it's unfinished but i can finally get rid of that uglyass plastic #tote i filled. also gotta add some wood to one of the tracks & maybe add another shelf to the left 4 more deck space but it works for now! #i have SO much i need to do to my room this year. painting getting rid of some furniture buying curtains getting a new comforter finishing #the drywall on the part that needed removed and more. my bank acct is fine but i need to save for classes so i'm gonna have to live with #the paint color that i absolutely despise for a while now :^( i can at least buy some nice faux poppies for that vase on the cabinet in the #meantime ig #len's cardslinging adventures #not technically deck related but this gives you an idea of my collection size. i'm hopefully never gonna go over ~40 decks bc i do NOT #wanna figure out more storage space for my tarot oracle and playing cards. i also can't imagine using that many decks ever lmao #len speaks

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

what if we were both followers of gods and we both took to our oaths with such dedication that we're rejected even by our fellow followers but then we found each other and saw ourselves reflected back in our wanting and needing . and what if we were both morally grey . a ha

#the cryptid speaks #this is the blurb i wrote earlier in class on my CF draft #while attempting to produce a description for their relationship . im so good at writing /silly #listen it's just . what IF we put our oaths above everything . and now no one wants us . and we're ok with it . but THEN #THEN there is someone who understands . do you see . do you see how suddenly there is a Want . want me want me please #dont walk away now there's no one else please . please stay #also your unrivaled dedication to your deity is So . do you want to kill people for the sake of justice and protection together #i cant stop being insane about my writings im really in my hot writer era (i am possessed by the madness and should become an oracle)

[soylent-crocodile]

Master Seer (Prestige Class)

(Art by Selvagemqt on deviantart)

(There is probably a reason Pathfinder doesn't really have any prestige classes that sort of generically boost spellcasting without some very specific flavor and abilities other than the core Loremaster, but this was an attempt to make one anyway. It's heavily inspired by the Oracle at Delphi, Pythia, and you'd be surprised how hard it is to find a magical-looking greek woman with a snake buddy.

Balancing this class is... interesting. As mentioned, it has a lot of abilities that help spellcasters in most any situation, so it's also a prestige class with an explicit downside- madness. The feat tax is also there.)

Diving the future is, for some, the ultimate goal of magic- the ability to see what will happen and take advantage of this knowledge for your own gain, or simply seeing the understanding of reality and the future as an end unto itself.

Master seers are those who have achieved that goal, regularly throwing their minds into the ever-splitting river of time and reeling them back; damaged, but with unparalleled foresight.

Role: Master seers see into the future to add flexibility and power to their magical arsenal, but at the cost of damage to their mental wellbeing. They are casters who are as versatile and powerful as they are fragile. Alignment: Master seers can be any alignment HD: d6

Prerequisites

Skills: Knowledge (arcana) 5 Feats: Spell Focus (Divination) Ability Scores: Int 15 Other: Ability to cast second level arcane or psychic spells, ability to cast Clairvoyance-Clairaudience

Skills A master seer gains 2+ Int mod skill ranks per level A master seer’s class skills are Knowledge (all) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int)

Weapon and Armor Proficiencies

A master seer gains no weapon or armor proficiencies

Spellcasting

Upon taking her first level in master seer, a master seer chooses one arcane or psychic class to advance. At the indicated levels, a master seer gains new spells per day as though she had advanced in the chosen class. She does not gain other benefits a character of that class would have gained, except for additional spells per day, spells known (if she is a spontaneous caster), and an increased effective level of spellcasting.

Foresight (Su)

A master seer gains a pool of foresight points gained from seeing a small fraction of the infinite timelines reality takes; she can use those abilities to manipulate fate to her advantage, but at the cost of her own sanity. 

At the start of each day, a master seer heals all wisdom drain she has, then takes 1d4+1 wisdom drain. Upon being dealt this drain, she fills her pool of foresight points, which is equal to her intelligence modifier. If this drain is in any way healed, she loses her foresight points for the day.

Once per round, a foresight point can be spent as an immediate action to force a single creature within 60ft to reroll a save on a spell cast by a master seer, or to allow a master seer to reroll an attack roll and take the second result.

Augury (Sp)

A master seer can cast Augury as a spell like ability 3/day.

Diviner’s Anticipation (Su)

At level 2, a master seer adds her intelligence modifier to her reflex save.

Nevercast (Su)

At level 4, a master seer can use her foresight to have prepared a counterspell for a waiting opponent. She may expend one foresight point to counter a spell without having prepared an action to do so, although she must still expend a spell to do so as normal, such as the same spell, Dispel Magic, or a spell that specifically counters the one cast.

Twist Timeline (Su)

At level 6, if a master seer prepares spells, she may expend a foresight point as a move action to exchange one spell she has prepared for another spell on the same spell list the original spell was drawn from. She takes the usual restrictions she would when casting such a spell. 

Sudden Metamagic (Su)

At level 6, if a master seer casts spontaneously, she may expend a foresight point as a standard action to cast a spell with a casting time of a standard action with one metamagic feat that she has that does not increase casting time other than the natural increase that comes from casting spontaneously.

Extra Prepared (Su)

At level 8, during her first round of combat, a master seer may manipulate the timeline to prepare herself- or rather, to always have been prepared. She expends a foresight point as a swift action to cast a spell with a target of self and a casting time of a standard action on herself.

Dip Into Infinity (Su)

At level 10, a master seer can spend a minute basking in the infinite possibilities of time and future; once she enters this state she cannot perceive, speak, or take action until the minute is up. Upon completion of this trance, she takes an additional 1d4+1 wisdom drain and regains all foresight points spent. If she has had wisdom drain healed at all this day then she may not use this ability.

#classes subclasses and archetypes #any setting #soylent original #pathfinder #d&d #greek mythology #oracle #yes the fact that the character heals wisdom drain from other sources for free is intended #she's glimpsing the fabric of the universe and time itself #whatever other poisons or mental attacks she's suffered are probably insignificant compared to that

[paulgadzikowski]

[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link below. In a split screen, on the left is Barbara (ORACLE) Gordon of DC Comics, sitting in a wheelchair in a control center surrounded by touchscreens on mechanical arms. One screen has a display of status lights where all but one is green and the other is yellow; another displays a scene of the Doctor, Charlie, and Miss Quill from the premier episode of the Doctor Who spinoff series Class. On the right is Alfred Pennyworth dusting a bust of Shakespeare. Oracle is wearing a headset with a microphone and Alfred is wearing a bluetooth. Oracle is saying, “One last thing for the night, Alfred. I have the aired episodes of Class and I can get them to you at my FTP server or on a flashdrive.” Alfred is saying, “No thank you, Miss Barbara.“ Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.] 

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[medouse]

twirling my hair kicking my feet hiiii babygirl love of my life my darling evil cunty wife the legend the blueprint the poor bastard that keeps getting whitewashed and disgraced in the polls in favor of that little vampiric twink hi baby i missed youuuuu

#knight commander medouse #<- pwotr tag #idk how often i will say things about pwotr but here we are #i'm normal about daeran. btw. just btw. so normal about him. #if i do post about pwotr more... dont get attached to any of the knight commanders. idk if they'll even get that far yet. #trying rn to make a guy i Vibe With #you'd think oracle bc thats my favorite class to play irl but apparently not. alas! #not oracle or witch or ranger. this is skald. maybe This Time...