PATHFINDER 2E HOUSE RULES
ALLOWED ANCESTRIES
 Human, Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, Kitsune, Leshy, and Tengu are
Common.
 Goblin, Grippli, and Orc are Uncommon.
 Azarketi, Iruxi (lizardfolk), and Kholo (gnoll) are Rare
BANNED CLASSES & ARCHETYPES
Classes Gunslinger, Inventor
Archetypes Artillerist, Bullet Dancer, Cathartic Magic,
Demolitionist, Fireworks Technician, Ghost, Ghoul, Gunslinger,
Inventor, Lich, Mummy, Oozemorph, Pistol Phenom, Psychic
Duelist, Sniping Duo, Spellshot, Sterling Dynamo, Soulforger,
Unexpected Sharpshooter?, Vampire, Vehicle Mechanic,
Zombie
SIMPLIFIED ANCESTRIES (GMG)
Characters never gain ancestry feats beyond 1st level.
ANCESTRAL WEAPON FAMILIARITY FEATS
If you choose the Weapon Familiarity ancestry feat, the effects
of the 13th level weapon feat are included in the 1st level feat.
Additionally, when you reach 5th level, you gain the effects of
the 5th level weapon feat.
BANNED FEATS
Any skill feat that requires Legendary proficiency and any
Pervasive Magic feats. You also ignore the legendary effects of
non-legendary skill feats
FREE ARCHETYPE FEATS
Every odd level, starting at 3rd, you get a feat you can use for
archetype feats.
PROFICIENCY BONUS
Your proficiency bonus for being Untrained is your level minus
2. All other proficiencies remain the same.
Feats that say you add your level to your untrained skills
instead removes the minus 2 penalty for being untrained.
ITEM DCS
If an item has an effect that has a static save DC, you can use
your class DC instead if it is higher.
EXPERT ASSURANCE
When you become an expert in a skill, you can forgo rolling a
skill check for that skill to instead receive a result of 10 + your
proficiency bonus (do not apply any other bonuses, penalties,
or modifiers).
DEVESTATING ATTACKS (GMG)
At 4th level, your weapon and unarmed Strikes deal two
damage dice instead of one. This increases to three at 12th
level and to four at 19th level. This replaces the Striking
fundamental runes.
SAVING THROW POTENCY (GMG)
At 8th level, you gain a +1 potency bonus to saves, increasing to
+2 at level 14 and +3 at level 20. This replaces the Resiliency
fundamental runes.
ALIGNMENT & ALIGNMENT DAMAGE (GMG)
There are two types of alignment damage: radiant and
entropic. Any spell, item, etc that deals good or lawful damage
instead deals radiant. Any spell, item, etc that deals evil or
chaotic damage instead deals entropic.
Creatures that are Lawful Neutral, Lawful Good, Neutral Good,
or Chaotic Good are unaffected by radiant damage and
creatures that are Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil, Chaotic Evil, or
Chaotic Neutral are unaffected by entropic damage.
Only Aberrations, Astrals, Celestials, Elementals, Ethereals, Fey,
Fiends, Monitors, and Undead have alignments. Anyone that
doesn’t have an alignment is affected by both alignment
damage types.
ALIGNMENT RUNES
The Good and Evil property runes become the Radiant and
Entropic runes respectively and their critical effects can be
triggered once a day as a Free Action instead of a Reaction.
You must be a Cleric or Champion of a god who’s alignment
matches the rune (see above) to be able to create the rune or
use a weapon with the rune without suffering the negative side
effects of the rune.
FALLING
Double falling damage.
STAMINA (GMG) If you have the Ride general feat, any willing mount you are
riding that is not your minion benefits from your skill and
Stamina Points are reduced by damage just like Hit Points, but protection. The mount’s saving throws are equal to the rider’s
a character always loses their Stamina Points first, and loses Hit minus 2 (assuming this is higher than the mount’s saving throw)
Points only if they’re out of Stamina Points. However, they lose and the mount gains a pool of Stamina Points equal to half the
any temporary Hit Points first. rider’s Stamina Points if the rider is a higher level than the
mount.
Magical healing restores Hit Points and any extra is halved and
then regained as Stamina Points. The actions described below
INITIATIVE
restore only Stamina Points. A character regains all their
Stamina Points after a full night’s rest. When initiative is rolled, each group involved (usually two) rolls
a d10. The highest roll goes first. If there is a tie, the tie goes to
Hit Points still determine whether a character remains the NPCs. If the initiative is between two PCs, the tie goes to
conscious—a character at 0 HP is unconscious, no matter how the instigator.
many Stamina Points they have.
TOOLS & KITS
In addition to their ancestry Hit Points, a PC gains the number
of Stamina Points and Hit Points indicated in the second and Disguise Kits, Writing Sets & Healer’s Tools have ten uses
third columns of the table below at 1st level and each level before they need to be replaced.
after first.
SHIELDS
Normal Class HP Class Stamina Class HP
Shields gain the Shove trait.
6 + Con mod 3 + Con mod 3
8 + Con mod 4 + Con mod 4 SHIELD BLOCK
10 + Con mod 5 + Con mod 5
All shields can take a certain number of Dents with no
12 + Con mod 6 + Con mod 6 repercussions.

 Bucklers can take one Dent

MASSIVE DAMAGE
When you take damage equal to twice your maximum Hit
Points and it brings you to zero Hit Points, you die immediately.
RESOLVE POINTS
Each PC also has a pool of Resolve Points, representing their
intrinsic grit and luck. A character’s maximum Resolve Points is
equal to their key ability modifier, and a character regains all
their Resolve Points with a full night’s rest.
 Shields can take two Dents
 Tower shields can take three Dents
An additional Dent beyond that number requires you to make a
DC 10 flat check. A success means the shield is broken while a
failure results in the shield being destroyed.
Adamantine, Arrow-Catching, and Reforging Shields add one
extra Dent to the shields normal amount. Sturdy Shields add
two extra Dents to a shield.

REPAIRING SHIELDS
STEEL YOUR RESOLVE
When you take the Repair action on a shield, you can repair
As an action, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to regain Stamina
one Dent if you are trained, two if expert, three if Master, and
Points equal to half your maximum.
four if Legendary in Crafting. A critical success repairs one
additional Dent while a Critical Failure results in causing a Dent
TAKE A BREATHER (this will destroy a shield that is already broken).
You rest for 10 minutes, spend 1 Resolve Point, and recover all
your Stamina. HIGHER QUALITY WEAPONS & ARMOR (GMG)

Smiths can craft higher quality weapons and armor if they have
MOUNTS
the right level of proficiency in the Craft skill (equal to the item
quality on the tables below) and be of the requisite level
 Weapon Item Property Item
Quality Bonus Rune Slots Level Price
Expert +1 1 2 35 gp
Master +2 2 10 935 gp
Legendary +3 3 16 8,935 gp

Armor Item Property Item

Quality Bonus Rune Slots Level Price
Expert +1 1 5 160 gp
Master +2 2 11 1,060 gp
Legendary +3 3 18 20,560 gp

Higher quality equipment also increases the durability of items

(not cumulative).

 Expert Quality increases the HP of the item by half.

 Master quality doubles the HP of the item.
 Legendary quality doubles the HP of the item and
increases the hardness by 1.
ABSTRACT WEALTH
Instead of coinage, you have a Wealth proficiency. At character
creation, you can start with pretty much any common,
mundane gear (within reason) as well as paying for bottom of
the barrel room and board.
STANDARD WEALTH LEVEL (YOUR “SALARY”)
Every character has a standard wealth level. This is the average
wealth level of your character keeps without working too hard,
either from picking up random bits of loot to sell or pursuing a
profession in your downtime. This starts at Untrained.
RAISING YOUR STANDARD WEALTH LEVEL
There are a few ways you can change your standard wealth
level. The “easiest” way is that when you become a Master in
your primary professional skill your standard wealth level
increases to Trained.
The other ways to increase your standard wealth level is to
invest in the world. If you own a business or become a tax
collecting noble your standard wealth level increases by one (or
more) steps.
GAINING TEMPORARY WEALTH
You can temporarily gain Wealth levels by getting rewards,
either from being paid a big reward or finding a pile of treasure.
The GM will tell you when a reward or treasure pile is worth
raising your Wealth level.
Petty cash and minor rewards/treasure aren’t worth raising
your Wealth level, but could give you an item bonus on any
Wealth check you may need to make. Once you use this item
bonus, you lose it.
PURCHASING ITEMS
When you want to purchase something, you need to look at
the level of the item you want and use the table to determine
the item’s “proficiency level”.
Consumables count as one proficiency class lower than their
level would indicate and you can buy them in batches of up to
4.
Item Level Item Proficiency Level
0 Untrained
1-2 Trained
3-6 Expert
7-14 Master
15+ Legendary
If the item’s proficiency level is lower than your current Wealth
level, you can just buy it (assuming it’s available). If it’s equal to
your Wealth level, you have to make a Wealth check (Wealth
proficiency plus your Charisma modifier) with a DC equal to the
standard DC based on the item’s level.
 Critical Success: You lower your Wealth level by one
step, but you gain a +1 Item bonus to your next
purchase.
 Success: You lower your Wealth level by one step.
 Failure: You can buy it, but you have to lower your
Wealth level by two steps.
 Critical Failure: You cannot buy the item this week.
If it’s higher than your Wealth level, you must make a Wealth
check with a DC equal to the item’s level.
A success lower’s your Wealth level by one, a failure lowers it
by two, and a critical failure means you cannot buy it that
week. If a Wealth check would lower your Wealth level below
Untrained, it count’s as a critical failure instead.
Note, if you buy enough items at once, the GM may treat the
entire purchase as a proficiency level (or more) higher than the
items are individually.
ITEM AVAILABILITY
Every settlement will have a level, items up to the settlements
level will be available in reasonable quantities. Items up to 50%
higher than the settlement’s level require a DC 11 check to see
if 1d6 of them are available (consumables are 1d6 batches of
4), while items up to double the settlement’s level require a DC
15 check to see if there is one available (or a single batch of 4
consumables). These checks cannot be done more than once a
month.
UNCOMMON AND RARE ITEMS
Uncommon items require a DC 15 flat check to see if they can
be found and rare items require a DC 18 flat check. Both of
these checks require 4 hours of time.
This check is reduced (DC 15 becomes DC 11 and DC 18
becomes DC 15) if the settlement’s level is twice the item’s
level that you are looking for.
Alternatively, if the uncommon item is a higher level than the
settlement’s level, you increase the DC by 5. You cannot find
rare items that are a higher level than the settlement’s level.

The Wealth check DC to purchase these items is increased by 2

for uncommon items and by 5 for rare items.