Venture-Gossip

Target one creature that shares a language you speak

Requirements You're not in combat

Effect Just batting your eyes and giving someone a familiar nudge can get them talking, ready to spill the beans about everything and everyone around them. You roll twice on all rolls to influence the target and use the better result.

Trigger You are the target of a physical melee attack.

You talk so much it can be distracting to your enemies and you're often quick to remind your enemies that you're just a little guy! You don't need to be targeted! You don't need to be the focus of their frustrations! Have they tried writing to their mom or talking to a local priest of Desna? Ow!

You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to your AC against the triggering attack.

Trigger An ally within 30 feet rolls a saving throw against an auditory effect.

Hey! Don't listen to that! That's bad sounds! Listen to me! Would you like to hear about how the high priest of the Abadaran church in Absalom's Petals District is having an affair with an Urgathoan cleric? Yeah, I'm thinking about calling the article "Boney Money!"

Your targeted ally treats the result of their saving throw as one degree of success better. Once an ally has been targeted by this effect, they're immune for 24 hours.

You transform into a small bird, such as a finch or a sparrow, allowing you to eavesdrop on others and gain information you wouldn't otherwise be able to acquire. You become Tiny, gain the animal trait, and you can't make Strikes. You can Dismiss the effect to return to your normal shape, and you resume your normal shape automatically if you're reduced to 0 Hit Points.

You gain the following statistics and abilities:

AC = 20 + your level. Ignore your armor's check penalty and Speed reduction.

Fly speed 25 feet.

Weakness 5 to physical damage.

Low-light vision and imprecise scent 30 feet.

Acrobatics and Stealth modifiers of +10, unless your own is higher; Athletics modifier –4.

Look, getting caught in a lie is a normal part of venture-gossip life. Sometimes you have to give a sheepish smile and apologize for what you've done. When you fail a Deception check, reroll with your Diplomacy modifier. On a success, there are no hard feelings and the other person's attitude condition doesn't worsen. On a critical success, you can attempt the Deception again with no consequences.

Trigger A creature within your reach uses a move action, or leaves a square during a move action it's using.

When you've decided to quash a story, no one can escape from you with any incriminating information. Make a melee Strike against the triggering creature. On a hit, the triggering creature is Grabbed, and on a critical hit, they're Slowed 1. This Strike doesn't count toward your multiple attack penalty, and your multiple attack penalty doesn't apply to this Strike.

It seems like your knowledge has come in handy after all and you have your enemy at your feet. Pulling out your fan mail, you read your fans' scathing remarks about your enemy to their face, letting them feel just how much everyone hates them and everything that they've done. They hate the way that they walk, they hate the way that they talk.

Your enemy takes 10d10 mental damage, with a Basic Will save. On a critical failure, they're Off Guard until the beginning of your next turn and lose all reactions, except to cry, loudly.