Pathfinder Chronicles (7/?)

(This is part of a series of posts reviewing the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting.)

Chapter 5 of the PCCS is, appropriately enough, titled as is the final card of the Major Arcana: The World. (Insert your choice of .hack, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, or Escaflowne reference here.)

A ten-thousand-year-long timeline heands the chapter: it's been ten thousand and one years since Earthfall, when the Starstone's arrival kicked off a nuclear winter. (Well, ten thousand and two, now, since they intend to track Golarion time to real time.) The remainder of the chapter consists of short essays, tables of information, and random other things that didn't fit anywhere else, arranged (as always) alphabetically by section header.

Note that "random things that didn't fit anywhere else" includes very nearly all the rule-text in this book. The ten pages detailing the five prestige classes (found between Lost Kingdoms and Psionics) are probably the most rules-dense pages herein; throw in the two pages' worth of feats, and that's the lion's share of the actual OGL information. (Yes, all the non-rules are Product Identity, copyrighted and trademarked.)

There's a small smattering of random equipment; notably, the fuuma shuriken has been incarnated as the starknife, and given a completely non-Asian flavor. (No, there is no Buster Sword. Not even a fullblade.) There are also a few spells, but the spell section (Domain Spells) is padded out with preëxisting OGL spells (genesis and true creation, at least). The feats section is more creative — Veiled Vileness is one of those that you would think someone would have come up with before now, although it should probably have 'may only be taken at 1st level' attached.

Harrow cards (a vaguely Tarot-ish phenomenon) are also available in the equipment section; they have their own prestige class, the Harrower, who uses them to augment her existing spellcasting effects. (Insert your choice of Card Captor Sakura, Yu-Gi-Oh!, or Escaflowne reference here.)

(continued next post)