History Classes / Pathfinder

* KiAttacks: The Qinggong Monk can learn them. Arguably crosses over with KungFuWizard, since many of the archetype's KiAttacks are actual arcane or divine spells that the Monk can replicate via their ki.

* SupernaturalMartialArts: The Monk's more spectacular superhuman feats are fuelled by ki energy. One archetype from ''Ultimate Magic'', the Qinggong Monk, emphasizes the supernatural aspect of their training with enhanced abilities and even spell-mimicking KiAttacks.

** Subverted in Ultimate Intrigue, with the Tyrant archetype, which forces the Antipaladin to be LawfulEvil instead. Depending on how you view alignments, this may be WORSE, since the Antipaladin now has [[ParanoiaFuel the capacity to both work with good-aligned individuals (so they can be corrupted or manipulated) and make long term plans to enforce their deity's game plan.]]

* {{Expy}}: The class enables you to be an expy of a number of famous superheroes from real-life fiction. The Stalker combat option is inspired by stealth-based superheroes such as {{Batman}}. It gets even more blatant with the archetypes; the Brute is [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]], while the Magical Child is Franchise/SailorMoon (complete with magical animal guide). The Wildsoul allows you to pick an animal from which you derive your powers from, one of which is notably [[SpiderMan an arachnid that allows you to create webs]], another which is a falconine that [[ComicBook/HawkMan gives you wings]]. The Gunmaster archetype is for any SuperheroPackingHeat. The Warlock is ComicBook/DoctorStrange. Additionally, through minor editing/combining of the Magical Child and Mounted Fury archetypes, you can be a Franchise/KamenRider.

** The mutagen's effects, and the Master Chymist PrestigeClass, are ones to ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDoctorJekyllAndMrHyde''.

Perhaps you will try to do something [[OverusedCopycatCharacter less overdone than a Drizzt Do'urden clone]], or perhaps you will choose a simple [[HumanShield meat shield]] fighter to give your wizard less to complain about. Either way, here is a compiled list of almost all archetypes of classes. Good luck.

* Soul Power: Most of the Shaman's abilities are derived from their patron spirit, and from a wandering spirit they select each day.

* MagicAIsMagicA: Averted by the Hexcrafter archetype, which is able to learn some of the Hexes possessed by the Witch class by giving up its own Magus arcana in trade.

* MagicAIsMagicA: As with the Witch or Oracle, a Shaman's spell list is determined in large part by their Patron Spirit.

* {{Expy}}: The class enables you to be an expy of a number of famous superheroes from real-life fiction. The Stalker combat option is inspired by stealth-based superheroes such as {{Batman}}. It gets even more blatant with the archetypes; the Brute is [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]], while the Magic Child is Franchise/SailorMoon (complete with magical animal guide). The Wildsoul allows you to pick an animal from which you derive your powers from, one of which is notably [[SpiderMan an arachnid that allows you to create webs]], another which is a falconine that [[ComicBook/HawkMan gives you wings]].

* {{Swashbuckler}}: Well, what did you think?

* ClassyCatBurglar[=/=]GentlemanThief: A Cat Burglar that focuses on stealing things with skill and finesse, making them excel at picking locks and disarming traps, is one of the archetypes for the class. In an IncrediblyLamePun, it's most associated with the CatFolk race.

* SummonMagic: The class's specialty. The Master Summoner archetype trades a weaker Eidolon for increased aptitude with summoning spells.

* MagicMusic: Quite literally.

* MasterOfDisguise: The Chameleon archetype from ''Ultimate Combat'' is based on this.

* TheEveryman: If your social talents don't focus on becoming a {{Socialite}} or RichIdiotWithNoDayJob, then it's likely going to be one that allow you to feign this, allowing you to be low-key with your social exploits and/or have a crafting profession that doesn't hamper with your vigilante activities.

* TheEveryman: If your social talents don't focus on becoming a {{Socialite}} or RichIdiotWithNoDayJob, then it's likely going to be a ones that allow you to feign this, allowing you to be low-key with your social exploits and/or have a crafting profession that doesn't hamper with your vigilante activities.

* TheSocialite: The more outgoing social talents allow you to become this.

* StockSuperheroDayJobs: Not as many as you would think, but they're there; the two key social builds are either TheSocialite with HundredPercentAdorationRating, or a MasterOfDisguise who blends in as an [[TheEveryman an ordinary citizen with a mundane day job]].

* TheBusCameBack: One of the social talents a vigilante can choose from is called ''Triumphant Return'', which enables them to gain renown from a community they've lost renown from due to being absent and focusing on building their reputation in other regions.

* MetaphoricallyTrue: How the ''feign innocence'' Social Talent is justified; essentially a vigilante is telling the truth from the perspective of their social identity.

* BondCreature: The phantom, much like an eidolon is to a summoner.

** A second archetype, the lotus geisha from the Dragon Empires Gazetteer, has the ability to enrapture onlookers with their performance.

* AnimalEyeSpy: Spiritualists can see the world through their phantoms senses.

OutOfFocus since the debut of the Magus, the Eldritch Knight was the original MagicKnight.

* CharacterAlignment: As in [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the world’s oldest role-playing game]], Golarion's barbarians cannot be Lawful in alignment, as the rage inside of them is incompatible with it.

* CharacterAlignment: As in [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the world’s oldest role-playing game]], Druids must be NeutralGood, LawfulNeutral, TrueNeutral, ChaoticNeutral or NeutralEvil in alignment.

* CharacterAlignment: As in [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the world’s oldest role-playing game]], Monks must be LawfulGood, LawfulNeutral or LawfulEvil.

* CharacterAlignment: As in [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the world’s oldest role-playing game]], Paladins must be LawfulGood. They received an EvilCounterpart class, the Antipaladin, which must be ChaoticEvil, in the Advanced Player's Guide.

* CharacterAlignment: Because the Antipaladin is the EvilCounterpart to the Paladin, it must have a ChaoticEvil alignment.

* CharacterAlignment: Averted. Unlike in [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the world’s oldest role-playing game]], where both the Knight class and the Cavalier PrestigeClass required a Lawful alignment, Pathfinder Cavaliers have no alignment restrictions.

* CharacterAlignment: Averted. Though the Samurai of [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the world’s oldest role-playing game]] were required to be Lawful in alignment and lost their abilities if they ceased to be Lawful, the Pathfinder Samurai has no such restriction. Even the "anti-Samurai", or {{ronin}}, is a class archetype rather than a "state of fallen grace" or "EvilCounterpart" PrestigeClass, in contrast to the fallen and anti-paladins.

* CharacterAlignment: The biggest difference between a Brawler and a Monk is that Brawlers don't have alignment restrictions.

* CharacterAlignment: Must be NeutralGood, LawfulNeutral, TrueNeutral, ChaoticNeutral, or NeutralEvil, just like the Druid.

* CharacterAlignment: As per the Cleric, the Warpriest has to stay within one step on the grid as their patron deity. For example, a Warpriest of Erastil, who is LawfulGood, ''must'' be either LawfulGood, NeutralGood or LawfulNeutral.

* CharacterAlignment: Any non-lawful.

* CharacterAlignment: Must always be Evil in some form.