Racially Intolerant Settlement

A racially intolerant settlement openly discriminates against one or more fantasy peoples or ancestries. The prejudice affects prices, hospitality, law enforcement and personal safety rather than existing only as background flavour.

Legacy Settlement Rule

Under the legacy Pathfinder settlement quality, members of the unwelcome group pay 150% of normal prices for goods and services and may face insults, exclusion or violence.

What Adventurers Notice

  • Inns and merchants may refuse service or demand inflated prices.
  • Officials may treat complaints and testimony unequally.
  • Local customs can restrict where visitors may live, trade or travel.
  • Sympathetic residents may quietly help outsiders despite the prevailing prejudice.

Using It in Play

The quality works best when it creates choices and conflicts rather than presenting every resident as identical. Guilds, rulers, neighbourhoods and families can disagree about the discrimination, giving adventurers potential allies as well as enemies.

A party may need to expose an abuse, protect travellers, negotiate safe passage, work through a trusted intermediary or decide whether completing a lucrative job is worth supporting an unjust local authority.

Sources & Licensing

Section 15: Copyright Notice — Pathfinder RPG GameMastery Guide. Pathfinder RPG GameMastery Guide © 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC.

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