Astounding Ancestries
This long lived ancestry has appeared in every edition of Dungeons & Dragons and every edition of Pathfinder, as well as other systems. They are often given bonuses relating to longbows.
What are Elves?
This class is popular for their ability to disarm traps and locks.
What is the Rogue?
The baseline of martial weapons, this standard medieval blade does 1d8 slashing damage in D&D 3e, 4e, and 5e, as well as Pathfinder 1e and 2e, and is often paired with a shield.
What is a longsword?
This basic potion is in multiple editions and systems, and is basically Cure Light Wounds in a bottle.
What is Potion of Healing?
The current edition of the best selling roleplaying system in the United States, used in many actual play podcasts.
What is D&D 5th Edition?
This multi-tailed ancestry has been in both editions of Pathfinder but has only ever been homebrew or third party in D&D, which is proof that Paizo is more into anime than WOTC.
What are Kitsune?
This caster was the first class in D&D to be called by its modern name, as far back as the original release of D&D.
What is the Cleric?
This extremely long wooden item can be used as a weapon, but is most infamous as a tool for paranoid adventurers to check the squares in front of them for traps.
What is a ten foot pole?
This potion from 5e, also found in a variant form in Baldur's Gate 3, temporarily sets your strength to 21.
What is Elixir/Potion of Hill Giant Strength?
This roleplaying system created by Paizo was originally a response to the new licensing rules introduced with D&D 4th edition as well as the sweeping mechanical changes.
What is Pathfinder (1st edition)?
This ancestry spent years banned from Adventurer's League, the official sanctioned D&D circuit, due to being the first ancestry with permanent access to a level 1 fly speed.
What are Aarakocra?
This Pathfinder original class is a spontaneous divine caster who draws their power from a mysterious source rather than directly from a god.
What is the Oracle?
This fencing weapon is often used by bards and rogues, as it's one of the best dexterity based melee weapons available in multiple systems.
What is a rapier?
This common potion is a great choice for dexterity based characters, as it allows them to wear no armor and benefit from their full dexterity without compromising their armor bonus. It's also useful for characters without armor proficiencies.
What is Potion of Mage Armor?
This flexible system, or system base, uses a 2d6 system where 1-6 is a failure, 7-9 is a mixed success, and 10+ is an unqualified success. It uses "playbooks" instead of character sheets.
What is Powered by the Apocalypse?
This uncommon variant of gnomes, who live in the Underdark, have been available as a monster since D&D 1e, and are playable as a PC in D&D 3.x, 4e and 5e as well as Pathfinder 1e. The name is also very hard to say.
What are Svirfneblin?
This D&D prestige class requires the character to be a Paladin who has Fallen after making peaceful contact with an evil outsider.
What is the Blackguard?
These paired D&D artifacts require a player to remove the corresponding body part in order to replace them with the artifact in exchange for their magic effects.
What are the Hand of Vecna and the Eye of Vecna?
This real world legal imbibed stimulant is modelled as a drug in both Pathfinder 1e and 2e.
What is coffee?
This system is known for its complexity, its versatility, and its near miss with video game stardom, as it was almost the system used for a famous series of CRPGs before the deal fell through and the games used their own original system.
What is GURPS?
These small humanoids first originated in Dragonlance, and were infamous among the D&D community for being extremely annoying "wacky" characters, due in part to their canonical propensity for kleptomania combined with supposed in-universe lovability.
What are Kender?
This Pathfinder hybrid class is the combination of the Oracle and the Witch.
What is the Shaman?
This polearm is not a ranseur, a longspear, a shortspear, a lance, a javelin, a lucerne hammer, a halberd, a naginata, a bardiche, a billhook, a guan dao, or a guisarme, but it is a key part of some builds and present in multiple editions of both D&D and Pathfinder.
What is a glaive?
This potion cures a condition that would, among other things, prevent a player from uncorking and drinking a potion. How exactly one is intended to use it is a mystery best left to the DM or the miracle of teamwork.
What is Potion of Remove Paralysis?
This roleplaying system holds the dubious claim to being one of the only systems to spark an international politics issue after referencing real life modern day LGBT human rights violations in Chechnya, portrayed as a cover for a supernatural conspiracy.
What is Vampire the Masquerade?