Investigator

You seek to uncover the truth, doggedly pursuing leads to reveal the plots of devious villains, discover ancient secrets, or unravel other mysteries. Your analytical mind quickly formulates solutions to complicated problems and your honed senses identify even the most obscure clues. Wielding knowledge as a weapon, you study the creatures and dangers you encounter to exploit their weaknesses.

Hit Points 8 plus your Constitution modifier

You increase your maximum number of HP by this number at 1st level and every level thereafter.

Key Ability Intelligence. At 1st level, your class gives you an ability boost to Intelligence.

During Combat Encounters…

Your keen insights regarding your foes make you more dangerous than your physical strength would suggest. After spending a moment to study your enemies, your perceptiveness allows you to act quickly, striking them where it hurts most.

You often assist tougher members of your party, wisely protecting yourself while providing vital aid.

During Social Encounters…

Few can stand up against your scrutiny. You might not be the most charming, but you see things for what they really are and develop an understanding of a social situation rapidly. Every conversation is an investigation, after all, and you never know what you might uncover!

While Exploring…

You look for clues in your environment. You often prove yourself to be a valuable ally by serving as a party scout, analyzing the intricacies of puzzles or mysterious phenomena, and pursuing leads that could reveal beneficial information.

In Downtime…

You study up on subjects new and old, make new allies you can share information with, and pursue hobbies that keep your active mind satisfied. You might make a bit of coin on the side working as a private detective or consulting with the local constabulary.

You might…

• Start asking questions—including several that are quite involved—immediately after you’re presented with a conundrum.
• Strive to uncover the deeper meanings behind anything you encounter and to identify the social machinations that truly drive events behind the scenes.
• Get so involved in a case that you ignore other matters, deeming them trivial.

Others Probably…

• Find the cascades of information you spout forth extremely helpful, if difficult to fully comprehend.
• Get a bit annoyed that you’re such a know-it-all.
• Rely on you to solve mysteries, puzzles, or other challenges requiring intellectual curiosity and reasoning.

Initial Proficiencies

At 1st level, you gain the listed proficiency ranks in the following statistics. You are untrained in anything not listed unless you gain a better proficiency rank in some other way.

Perception

Expert in Perception

Saving Throws

Trained in Fortitude Expert in Reflex

Expert in Will Skills

Trained in Society Trained in one or more skills determined by your methodology Trained in a number of additional skills equal to 4 plus your Intelligence modifier

Attacks

Trained in simple and martial weapons Trained in unarmed attacks Defenses

Trained in light armor Trained in unarmored defense Class DC Trained in investigator class DC

Table 2–1: Investigator Advancement

Your Level	Class Features
1	Ancestry and background, initial proficiencies, on the case, Devise a Stratagem, methodology, investigator feat, strategic strike 1d6
2	Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase
3	General feat, keen recollection, skill increase, skillful lesson
4	Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase
5	Ability boosts, ancestry feat, skill increase, skillful lesson, strategic strike 2d6, weapon expertise
6	Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase
7	General feat, skill increase, skillful lesson, vigilant senses, weapon specialization
8	Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase
9	Ancestry feat, great fortitude, investigator expertise, skill increase, skillful lesson, strategic strike 3d6
10	Ability boosts, investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase
11	Deductive improvisation, general feat, resolve, skill increase, skillful lesson
12	Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase
13	Ancestry feat, incredible senses, light armor expertise, skill increase, skillful lesson, strategic strike 4d6, weapon mastery
14	Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase
15	Ability boosts, evasion, general feat, greater weapon specialization, skill increase, skillful lesson
16	Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase
17	Ancestry feat, greater resolve, skill increase, skillful lesson, strategic strike 5d6
18	Investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase
19	General feat, light armor mastery, master detective, skill increase, skillful lesson
20	Ability boosts, investigator feat, skill feat, skill increase

Class Features

You gain these abilities as an investigator. Abilities gained at higher levels list the level at which you gain them next to the features’ names.

Ancestry and Background

In addition to what you get from your class at 1st level, you have the benefits of your selected ancestry and background.

Initial Proficiencies

At 1st level, you gain a number of proficiencies that represent your basic training. These proficiencies are noted at the start of this class.

On the Case

As an investigator, you think of your adventures as cases waiting to be solved. You gain one activity and one reaction you can use to investigate cases: Pursue a Lead and Clue In.

Pursue a Lead

Concentrate Exploration Investigator

Frequency once per 10 minutes

You spend 1 minute examining the details of one potential clue, designating the subject related to that clue as the target of your active investigation. This subject is typically a single creature, item, or small location (such as a room or corridor), but the GM might allow a different scope for your investigation. You don’t need to know the identity, purpose, or nature of the subject, but you do need to be aware of its existence. For instance, finding a footprint is enough to investigate the creature that left it, and seeing a hasty sketch of an item or location can be enough to start your investigation of that subject. Whenever you attempt a Perception or skill check to investigate a designated subject, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to the check. The exact checks this applies to depend on the actions you use to investigate and are determined by the GM, but checks to investigate are typically Perception checks or skill checks that use Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. You can maintain two active investigations at a time. If you Pursue another Lead after that, the subject must be different from any of your current investigations (or rather, they must be different as far as you know), and you give up on a current subject of your choice. Once you’ve given up pursuit of a subject, you can’t Pursue that Lead again until after the next time you make your daily preparations.

Clue in [reaction]

Concentrate Investigator

Frequency once per 10 minutes

Trigger Another creature attempts a check to investigate a lead you’re pursuing.

You share information with the triggering creature. They gain a circumstance bonus to their check equal to your circumstance bonus to checks investigating your subject from Pursue a Lead. The GM can add any relevant traits to this reaction depending on the situation, such as auditory and linguistic if you’re conveying information verbally.

Devise a Strategem

You can play out a battle in your head, using brains rather than brawn to execute an attack.

Devise a Strategem [one-action]

Concentrate Fortune Investigator

Frequency once per round

You assess a foe’s weaknesses in combat and use them to formulate a plan of attack against your enemy. Choose a creature you can see and roll a d20. If you Strike the chosen creature later this round, you must use the result of the roll you made to Devise a Stratagem for your Strike’s attack roll instead of rolling. You make this substitution only for the 56 first Strike you make against the creature this round, not any subsequent attacks. When you make this substitution, you can also add your Intelligence modifier to your attack roll instead of your Strength or Dexterity modifier, provided your Strike uses an agile or finesse melee weapon, an agile or finesse unarmed attack, a ranged weapon (which must be agile or finesse if it’s a melee weapon with the thrown trait), or a sap.

If you’re aware that the creature you choose is the subject of a lead you’re pursuing, you can use this ability as a free action.

Methodology

Your studies have made you savvy in many areas, but one in particular drew your intense interest.

Choose a methodology. The methodologies available follow below.

Alchemical Sciences

Your methodology emphasizes chemical and alchemical analysis, collecting information from unusual particles and fluids found on the scene. You possess enough alchemical know-how to whip up a few tinctures to help you with your cases.

You’re trained in Crafting and gain the Alchemical Crafting skill feat. In addition, you gain a standard formula book for free and learn the formulas for two additional common 1st?level alchemical items, which must be elixirs or tools. Each time you gain a level, you learn the formula for one common alchemical elixir or alchemical tool of any level of item you can create.

During your daily preparations, you can create a number of versatile vials—alchemical concoctions that can quickly be turned into elixirs and tools— equal to your Intelligence modifier. You can use the Quick Tincture action to turn one of these vials into an elixir or alchemical tool for which you know the formula.

Quick Tincture [one-action]

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Investigator Manipulate

Cost 1 versatile vial

Requirements You know the formula for the alchemical item you’re creating, you are holding or wearing alchemist’s tools, and you have a free hand.

You quickly brew up a short-lived tincture. You create a single alchemical elixir or tool of your level or lower without having to spend the normal monetary cost in alchemical reagents or needing to attempt a Crafting check. This item has the infused trait, but it remains potent only until the end of the current turn.

Empiricism

Everything comes down to data. Calculating statistics, running numbers, and using inductive reasoning allows you to determine the most likely outcome of any scenario, and anything out of place draws your keen attention.

You are trained in one Intelligence-based skill of your choice. You gain the That’s Odd investigator feat, and you gain the Expeditious Inspection free action.

Expeditious Inspection [free-action]

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Investigator

Frequency once per 10 minutes

You observe and assess your surroundings with great speed.

You Recall Knowledge, Seek, or Sense Motive.

Forensic Medicine

You’ve learned that in most cases, especially murders, criminals tend to leave more evidence of the crime on the body than they’d like to believe. Information from bruising, bone fractures, blood spatters, and even the life cycle of carrion insects can provide valuable clues that help reconstruct the scene.

You’re trained in Medicine and gain the Forensic Acumen and Battle Medicine skill feats. When you use Battle Medicine, on a success the target recovers additional Hit Points equal to your level, and the target becomes temporarily immune for only 1 hour, not 1 day.

Interrogation

People can’t help but trust you, whether through your inherent likableness or your firm insistence on sticking to the truth. You have a way about you that gets others talking, and you’ve developed interrogative techniques to help you get to the truth of your investigations.

You are trained in Diplomacy. You gain the No Cause for Alarm skill feat. You can also Pursue a Lead over the course of a conversation rather than spending dedicated time looking into the lead, provided the conversation lasts 1 minute or longer. For example, while trying to Make an Impression, you could pursue the creature you’re conversing with as a lead, and you could Pursue a Lead about an object while someone is telling you information about that object. You also gain the Pointed Question action.

Pointed Question [one-action]

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Auditory Concentrate Investigator Linguistic Mental

You ask a question that charms or needles someone in just the right way. Ask a question of a non-allied creature that you can see and have been conversing with. Attempt a Diplomacy check against the creature’s Will DC. The creature is then temporarily immune for 1 hour.

Critical Success The target must directly answer your question. It doesn’t have to answer truthfully, but you gain a +4 circumstance bonus to your Perception DC if the creature attempts to Lie to you.

Success As critical success, but the circumstance bonus is +2.

Failure The target can refuse to answer you as normal.

Critical Failure The target can refuse to answer you as normal, and its attitude toward you decreases by one step due to your aggravating attention.

Investigator Feats

At 1st level and every even-numbered level, you gain an investigator class feat.

Strategic Strike

When you strike carefully and with forethought, you deal a telling blow. When making a Strike that adds your Intelligence modifier on your attack roll due to Devising a Stratagem, you deal an additional 1d6 precision damage.

As your investigator level increases, so too does the deadliness of your strategic strike. Increase the number of dice by one at 5th, 9th, 13th, and 17th levels.

Skill Feats 2nd

At 2nd level and every 2 levels thereafter, you gain a skill feat. You must be trained or better in the corresponding skill to select a skill feat.

Skill Increases 2nd

You gain more skill increases than members of other classes. At 2nd level and every level thereafter, you gain a skill increase. You can use this increase to either become trained in one skill you’re untrained in or to become an expert in one skill in which you’re already trained.

At 7th level, you can use skill increases to become a master in a skill in which you’re already an expert, and at 15th level, you can use them to become legendary in a skill in which you’re already a master.

General Feats 3rd

At 3rd level and every 4 levels thereafter, you gain a general feat.

Keen Recollection 3rd

You can recall pertinent facts on topics that aren’t your specialty. Your proficiency bonus to untrained skill checks to Recall Knowledge is equal to your level instead of +0.

Skillful Lessons 3rd

At 3rd level and every odd-numbered level thereafter, you gain a skill feat. This feat must be for an Intelligence-, Wisdom-, or Charisma-based skill, or for the skill you gained from your methodology.

Ability Boosts 5th

At 5th level and every 5 levels thereafter, you boost four different ability scores. You can use these ability boosts to increase your ability scores above 18. Boosting an ability score increases it by 1 if it’s already 18 or above, or by 2 if it starts out below 18.

Ancestry Feats 5th

In addition to the ancestry feat you started with, you gain an ancestry feat at 5th level and every 4 levels thereafter.

Weapon Expertise 5th

You’ve dedicated yourself to learning the intricacies of your weapons. Your proficiency ranks for simple weapons, martial weapons, and unarmed attacks increase to expert.

Vigilant Senses 7th

Through your adventures, you’ve developed keen awareness and attention to detail. Your proficiency rank in Perception increases to master.

Weapon Specialization 7th

You can inflict greater injuries with the weapons you know best. You deal 2 additional damage with weapons and unarmed attacks in which you are an expert. This damage increases to 3 if you’re a master and 4 if you’re legendary.

Great Fortitude 9th

Your physique is incredibly hardy. Your proficiency rank for Fortitude saves increases to expert.

Investigator Expertise 9th

You’ve refined your investigative techniques to an exceptional degree. Your circumstance bonus from Pursue a Lead increases to +2. Your proficiency rank for your investigator class DC increases to expert.

Deductive Improvisation 11th

You use your skills at deduction to perform whatever task is necessary to solve the case. You can attempt any check that requires you to be trained in a skill, even if you’re untrained in it; you can attempt any check that requires you to have expert proficiency in a skill so long as you’re trained in it; and you can attempt any check that requires you to have master proficiency in a skill as long as you have expert proficiency in it.

Resolve 11th

You’ve steeled your mind with resolve. Your proficiency rank for Will saves increases to master. When you roll a success on a Will save, you get a critical success instead.

Incredible Senses 13th

You notice things that are almost impossible for an ordinary person to detect. Your proficiency rank for Perception increases to legendary.

Light Armor Expertise 13th

You’ve learned how to dodge while wearing light or no armor. Your proficiency ranks for light armor and unarmored defense increase to expert.

Weapon Mastery 13th

You fully understand your weapons. Your proficiency ranks for simple weapons, martial weapons, and unarmed attacks increase to master.

Evasion 15th

You’ve learned to move quickly to avoid explosions, a dragon’s breath, and worse. Your proficiency rank for Reflex saves increases to master. When you roll a success on a Reflex save, you get a critical success instead.

Greater Weapon Specialization 15th

Your damage from weapon specialization increases to 4 with weapons and unarmed attacks in which you’re an expert, 6 if you’re a master, and 8 if you’re legendary.

Greater Resolve 17th

Your unbelievable training grants you mental resiliency.

Your proficiency rank for Will saves increases to legendary. When you roll a success on a Will save, you get a critical success. When you roll a critical failure on a Will save, you get a failure instead. When you fail a Will save against a damaging effect, you take half damage.

Light Armor Mastery 19th

Your skill with light armor improves, increasing your ability to dodge blows. Your proficiency ranks for light armor and unarmored defense increase to master.

Master Detective 19th

As a master detective, you can solve any case and find all the clues available. If you’re pursuing the subject of a lead and you enter a new location that includes another clue toward solving the mystery, the GM informs you of the existence of the clue and its type: an object, person, spell effect, or the like. When you find the clue, the GM informs you that you’ve done so. If there is more than one clue in the location, the GM chooses one to inform you about. When you find any of the clues in that location, the GM informs you that you’ve done so, even if it wasn’t the clue they’d chosen or there are other clues you haven’t found. Your proficiency rank for your investigator class DC increases to master.

Investigator Feats

At every level that you gain an investigator feat, you can select one of the following feats. You must satisfy any prerequisites before selecting the feat.

If you need to look up an investigator feat by name instead of by level, use this table.

Feat	Level
Alchemical Discoveries	4
Athletic Strategist	2
Blind-Fight	8
Clue Them All In	8
Connect the Dots	6
Detective’s Readiness	4
Didactic Strike	16
Everyone’s a Suspect	20
Flexible Studies	1
Foresee Danger	12
Implausible Purchase	16
Just One More Thing	10
Just the Facts	20
Known Weaknesses	1
Lead Investigator	18
Lie Detector	4
Ongoing Investigation	4
Ongoing Strategy	10
Plot the Future	14
Predictive Purchase	6
Reason Rapidly	12
Reconstruct the Scene	16
Red Herring	2
Scalpel’s Point	4
Sense the Unseen	14
Shared Stratagem	2
Solid Lead	2
Strategic Assessment	4
Strategic Bypass	14
Suspect of Opportunity	10
Takedown Expert	1
That’s Odd	1
Thorough Research	6
Trap Finder	1
Trickster’s Ace	18
Underworld Investigator	1
Whodunnit?	8

1st Level

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Flexible Studies Feat 1

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

You’ve collected a cross-section of information on various disciplines you can refer to when preparing for various tasks.

During your daily preparations, you can cram on a certain subject to become temporarily trained in one skill of your choice. This proficiency lasts until you prepare again. As this proficiency is temporary, you can’t use it as a prerequisite for a skill increase or a permanent character option like a feat.

Known Weaknesses Feat 1

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Whenever you Devise a Stratagem, you can also attempt a check to Recall Knowledge as part of that action. If you critically succeed at the Recall Knowledge check, you notice a weakness and gain a +1 circumstance bonus to your attack roll from Devise a Stratagem. If you immediately convey this information to your allies as part of the check, each ally gains a +1 circumstance bonus to their next attack roll against the subject, as long as their attack is made before the beginning of your next turn.

Takedown Expert Feat 1

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

You’ve mastered combat practices that let you get up close and bring down perpetrators alive. You can use your Intelligence modifier on attack rolls when you Devise a Stratagem if you’re using a weapon of the club group in one hand (like a club, staff, or sap), in addition to the usual weapons, and those Strikes qualify for your strategic strike. Additionally, you can make any of your Strikes nonlethal without taking the normal –2 penalty.

That’s Odd Feat 1

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

When you enter a new location, such as a room or corridor, you immediately notice one thing out of the ordinary. The GM determines what it is, or whether there’s nothing reasonable to pick up, skipping obvious clues that can be easily noticed without a check or specifically looking for them. You learn only that an area or object is suspicious, but not why it’s suspicious.

For example, if you entered a study with a large bloodstain on the ground, the bloodstain is so obviously suspicious it’s evident to you already, so the GM might note that there’s something suspicious about the desk drawer instead. You would then need to investigate the drawer further to find out what specifically is out of the ordinary. That’s Odd doesn’t reveal whether creatures are suspicious.

You don’t typically get any benefit when you leave and come back to a place, though if a major change has happened there and time has passed, the GM might determine that you do.

Trap Finder Feat 1

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

You have an intuitive sense that alerts you to the dangers and presence of traps. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to find traps, to AC against attacks made by traps, and to saves against traps. Even if you aren’t Searching, you get a check to find traps that normally require you to be Searching. You still need to meet any other requirements to find the trap. You can disable traps that require a proficiency rank of master in Thievery. If you have master proficiency in Thievery, you can disable traps that require a proficiency rank of legendary instead, and your circumstance bonuses against traps increase to +2.

Underworld Investigator Feat 1

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Your work as an investigator makes you familiar with the criminal element. You might be a criminal yourself, or you might have gained an understanding of how they operate from the outside. You become trained in Underworld Lore, and you gain your Pursue a Lead circumstance bonus to Thievery checks to investigate the subject of your lead (such as checks to Steal a clue from a suspect or Pick a Lock to open a safe with damning documents).

2nd Level

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Athletic Strategist Feat 2

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Prerequisite(s) trained in Athletics

You know how to calculatedly manipulate joints and body weight. In addition to using Devise a Stratagem to modify a Strike, you can use it to modify a Disarm, Grapple, Shove, or Trip attempt, substituting your Devise a Stratagem roll for the Athletics check. You must apply the substitution to the first eligible attack you make, whether it’s a Strike or one of the Athletics actions. You can also use your Intelligence modifier instead of Strength for the Athletics check when you substitute your Devise a Stratagem roll, unless you’re using a weapon for the maneuver and the weapon doesn’t fit the restrictions for using Intelligence with a stratagem.

Red Herring Feat 2

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

You have a keen sense for avoiding spurious lines of inquiry. When you Pursue a Lead, the GM tells you if the lead you chose is inconsequential. For example, if you found a splatter of gray mud on the wall, thought it was suspicious, and Pursued it as a Lead, the GM would tell you if there was no greater mystery related to it. When the GM tells you a lead is inconsequential, you can decline to Pursue the Lead, keeping any leads you were already pursuing. You still can’t use Pursue a Lead again for 10 minutes, as normal.

Shared Strategem Feat 2

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

The plans you make include your allies as well as yourself. When you hit a creature with an attack on which you substituted your attack roll due to Devising a Stratagem, designate one ally. The creature you hit is flat-footed to that ally on the next attack the designated ally makes against that creature before the start of your next turn.

Solid Lead Feat 2

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Sometimes your case splinters into smaller mysteries, but you never lose sight of the big picture. Once per day when you give up on the subject of a lead due to using Pursue a Lead again, you can designate the lead you stopped pursuing as your solid lead for the day. Even though you stopped following the solid lead, you can change back to your solid lead any number of times by using a single action, which has the concentrate trait.

Doing so ends one of your current leads as normal.

During your next daily preparations, you can maintain your solid lead or you can remove it; removing it allows you to designate a new solid lead later that day.

4th Level

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Alchemical Discoveries Feat 4

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Prerequisite(s) alchemical sciences methodology

You’ve devoted extra time in the lab to improve your knowledge of alchemy. You learn the formulas for two alchemical items each time you level up instead of one; these must still be elixirs or tools. The number of versatile vials you can create each day increases by 1 if you’re an expert in Crafting, 2 if you’re a master, or 3 if you’re legendary.

Detective’s Readiness Feat 4

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

When you’re on a case, you stay watchful and resolute to avoid tricks your suspect might pull. You gain your circumstance bonus from Pursue a Lead on saving throws (and their DCs, as normal) against the subject of a lead, and you can use Clue In to assist an ally’s saving throw against that subject.

Lie Detector Feat 4

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Prerequisite(s) empiricism or interrogation methodology

You’re adept at noticing the tells of a liar—sweat, flushing, a quavering voice, a quickening pulse. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to Sense Motive and to Perception DCs against attempts to Lie to you. When you determine someone is lying to you, you can use their deceit to your advantage to gain a +1 circumstance bonus to the next Deception, Diplomacy, Intimidation, or Performance check you attempt against that creature within the next minute.

Ongoing Investigation Feat 4

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

You’re always investigating what’s around you, even as you perform other activities. You can move at full Speed while using the Investigate exploration activity, and you can use another exploration activity while Investigating.

Scalpel’s Point Feat 4

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Prerequisite(s) forensic medicine methodology

Your stratagems benefit from your precise knowledge of anatomy. When you critically hit with an attack on which you substituted your attack roll due to Devising a Stratagem, if your attack dealt piercing or slashing damage, you also deal 1d6 persistent bleed damage to your target.

Strategic Assessment Feat 4

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

You learn your foes’ strengths and weaknesses by watching them move. When you critically hit a creature with a Strike on which you substituted your attack roll due to Devising a Stratagem, the GM chooses one of the following pieces of information about the enemy to tell you.

• Which of the enemy’s weaknesses is highest
• Which of the enemy’s resistances is highest
• Which of the enemy’s saving throws is lowest
• One immunity the enemy has

The GM can choose deliberately or at random, but they can’t choose information that doesn’t apply (such as choosing an immunity for an enemy that has no immunities). This applies only the first time you critically hit a given creature.

6th Level

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Connect the Dots Feat 6

Uncommon Concentrate Investigator Secret

Requirements You must be pursuing at least two leads.

Ephemeral connections between people, places, and concepts are invisible to most, but seeing them is your stock and trade. You spend 10 minutes considering two different leads you’re pursuing. You then attempt a check to investigate how connected the two are. Unless the GM determines otherwise, this is a Crafting check if they’re both items or a Society check for other combinations 62 of leads. If any subjects are creatures, this check usually uses the highest DC among their Deception and Will DCs.

If no subjects are creatures, but at least one is an item, the DC is usually a hard DC for the level of the highest-level item. If neither case applies, the DC is usually a hard expert or hard master DC (22 or 32). Once you try to Connect the Dots between two particular leads, you can never try to Connect the Dots between those same leads again unless the GM allows it after you’ve learned a substantial amount of new information.

Critical Success The GM tells you how connected the two leads are to one another: highly connected, somewhat connected, tangentially connected, or not connected. The GM also tells you one specific way in which they’re connected, if they are.

Success As critical success, but the GM doesn’t tell you a specific connection.

Failure Your results are inconclusive.

Critical Failure You misconstrue the information. As success, but the GM provides an incorrect degree of connection.

Predictive Purchase Feat 6

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

You have just the thing for the situation. You gain the Prescient Planner and Prescient Consumable feats. When using Prescient Planner, you can pull out the item as a 2-action activity to remove your backpack (or a similar container) and draw the item, rather than taking 1 minute.

Thorough Research Feat 6

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

When you succeed at a Recall Knowledge check, you learn an additional fact about the subject. When you critically succeed at a Recall Knowledge check, you can gain even more additional information or context than normal, at the GM’s discretion.

8th Level

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Blind-Fight Feat 8

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Prerequisite(s) master in Perception

Your battle insights make you more aware of concealed and invisible opponents. You don’t need to succeed at a flat check to target concealed creatures. You’re not flat-footed to creatures that are hidden from you (unless you’re flat-footed to them for reasons other than the hidden condition), and you need only a successful DC 5 flat check to target a hidden creature.

While you’re adjacent to an undetected creature of your level or lower, it is instead only hidden from you.

Clue Them All In Feat 8

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

You can clue in all your allies at once. When you use the Clue In reaction, any of your allies who are attempting the same check to investigate a lead receive the circumstance bonus from Clue In. If you use this ability during an encounter, they must attempt their check within 1 round of when you Clued them In.

Whodunnit? Feat 8

Uncommon Investigator

Frequency once per day

You carefully consider your case and narrow down some of the details. When you Pursue a Lead, you can spend 10 minutes instead of 1 minute to ask two questions of the GM as you complete the activity. The GM must answer truthfully with “yes” or “no,” though if the answer would be misleading or have no practical application to your investigation the GM can answer “immaterial.” You can’t use Whodunnit? more than once for the same lead, even across different days.

Your questions must come from the following list, applying to either the creature or the clue you found:

• Was the clue left by a [creature trait]? (Choose a creature trait such as humanoid, undead, or dwarf; this trait must be accurate as of the time the clue was left.)
• Was this clue left within the last hour?
• Was this clue left within the last day?
• Was the creature that left the clue in a heightened emotional state when it left the clue?
• Did the creature attempt to conceal this clue?

10th Level

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Just One More Thing [one-action] Feat 10

Source PRG2:APG

Fortune Investigator

Requirements Your most recent action was to Feint, Request, or Demoralize, and you failed but didn’t critically fail.

After your attempt to influence someone goes poorly, you add another bit of information or ask a pointed question, possibly salvaging your previous attempt. Reroll the failed check and use the new result. If the target of the failed check is the subject of a lead you’re pursuing, double your bonus from Pursue a Lead on the rerolled check. That creature is temporarily immune to Just One More Thing for 1 day. You can also use this action if you failed, but didn’t critically fail, at a check to Lie, Gather Information, Make an Impression, or Coerce. In this case, rather than spending 1 action, adding Just One More Thing takes you half the amount of time you initially spent on the check, to a minimum of 1 more round.

Ongoing Strategy Feat 10

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Prerequisite(s) strategic strike

You’re constantly studying small aspects of everyone’s movements, even if you don’t have a stratagem in place ahead of time. On any Strike for which you didn’t Devise a Stratagem, you still deal precision damage equal to your number of strategic strike damage dice so long as the weapon or unarmed attack you used is one that would have let you use your Intelligence modifier had you Devised a Stratagem.

Suspect of Opportunity [reaction] Feat 10

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Frequency once per hour

Trigger a foe takes a hostile action against you in combat.

Sometimes something intrudes upon your case unexpectedly, such as an ambush sent to bring your investigation to a close. You’ve learned how to compartmentalize your main lead and pursue a new one for your current predicament.

You Pursue a Lead against the triggering foe, setting aside but not ending one of your currently active leads, if you have two leads. At the end of the combat encounter, you stop Pursuing the Lead against the triggering foe and return to the original lead, if you have one.

12th Level

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Foresee Danger [reaction] Feat 12

Source PRG2:APG

Concentrate Investigator

Trigger a creature targets you with an attack and you can see the attacker.

You perceive every possible way your foe’s attack could land and attempt to avoid them all. The triggering attack roll targets your Perception DC instead of your AC. Though this allows you to avoid taking penalties to your AC, it doesn’t remove any conditions or other effects causing such penalties. For example, an enemy with sneak attack would still deal extra damage to you for being flat-footed, even though you wouldn’t take the –2 circumstance penalty when defending against the attack.

Reason Rapidly [one-action] Feat 12

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Your mind works through clues at an unbelievable speed. You instantly use up to five Recall Knowledge actions. If you have any special abilities or free actions that would normally be triggered when you Recall Knowledge, you can’t use them for these actions.

14th Level

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Plot the Future Feat 14

Uncommon Concentrate Investigator Prediction

You spend 10 minutes in contemplation to uncannily predict how events will play out. Choose a particular goal or activity you plan to engage in within 1 week, or an event you expect might happen within 1 week. You analyze whether it’s likely to come to pass, learning whether it’s highly likely, somewhat likely, somewhat unlikely, or highly unlikely. You also gain a piece of advice suggesting a course of action you or your allies could take that might make the chosen event more or less likely, whichever you prefer. The GM determines the likeliness of the event and the piece of advice you learn.

Sense the Unseen [reaction] Feat 14

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Trigger You fail a check to Seek. When you look for foes, you notice the slightest of cues. Even though you failed at the triggering check, you automatically sense any undetected creatures in the area where you’re Seeking, making them merely hidden to you.

Strategic Bypass Feat 14

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Your plans account for your foes’ resistances, enabling you to strike a telling blow. When you hit with a Strike on which you substituted your attack roll due to Devising a Stratagem, you ignore an amount of resistance equal to your Intelligence modifier for each resistance that applies against your attack.

16th Level

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Didactic Strike Feat 16

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Prerequisite(s) Shared Stratagem

When you find a glaring weakness, you can set your allies up to annihilate your foe. When you use Shared Stratagem, you can designate up to 10 allies instead of just one. The foe is flat?footed against the first attack from each designated ally before your next turn, and each ally’s first attack deals an extra 2d6 precision damage to the target if it hits.

Implausible Purchase Feat 16

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Prerequisite(s) Predictive Purchase It seems impossible, but you’ve analyzed every angle and are able to just keep pulling out exactly the item you need, even in far-flung locations. You can use Prescient Planner even if you have already used it after purchasing goods, and you can use it as a single action instead of a 2-action activity, during which you Interact to draw the item. In addition, five times per day, you can use Prescient Planner to pull out a common consumable item up to 6 levels lower than your level.

Reconstruct the Scene Feat 16

Source PRG2:APG

Concentrate Investigator

You spend 1 minute surveying a small location (such as a single room) to get an impression of events that occurred there in the last day. This involves moving about the area and studying footprints, the placement of objects, spilled drinks or blood, and so forth. You get an indistinct mental impression of significant events that happened there. This gives you clues and details of the past, including the overall events and their time frame, but it’s not a perfect record. This also isn’t enough to identify who was involved in these events if you weren’t already aware the person was there. As determined by the GM, you also pick out various seemingly small details that could serve as important clues, like a memorable weapon someone used for a murder or the type of cloak someone wore when passing through.

18th Level

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Lead Investigator Feat 18

Source PRG2:APG

Exploration Investigator

Prerequisite(s) Clue Them All In

You spend 1 minute briefing up to four allies about one lead you’re pursuing. Those allies gain the same circumstance bonus you do from Pursue a Lead to checks to investigate that lead. This bonus lasts until you cease pursing that lead or for 1 day, whichever comes first. This doesn’t confer any other benefits of pursuing a lead, such as adding the circumstance bonus to your saves with Detective’s Readiness.

Trickster’s Ace [reaction] Feat 18

Source PRG2:APG

Concentrate Investigator

Trigger You specify the trigger when you make your daily preparations (see

Requirements below).

Requirements When you make your daily preparations, you must specify a trigger for this reaction using the same restrictions as the triggers for the Ready action. You also choose a single spell from the arcane, divine, occult, or primal list of 4th level or lower. The spell can’t have a cost, nor can its casting time be more than 10 minutes. The spell must be able to target a single creature, and you must be a valid target for it.

Whether from jury-rigged magic items, deduction from the study of magical interactions, or other means, you have a contingency in your back pocket for desperate situations.

When the trigger occurs, you cause the spell to come into effect. The spell targets only you, no matter how many creatures it would affect normally. If you define particularly complicated conditions, as determined by the GM, the trigger might fail. Once the contingency is triggered, the spell is expended until your next daily preparations.

20th Level

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Everyone’s a Suspect Feat 20

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

You are so suspicious of everyone you meet that you keep mental notes on how to defeat them all—even your own allies.

After interacting with a creature for at least 1 minute, you automatically Pursue a Lead with that creature as the subject. You can have any number of such leads at any given time, and when you Pursue a Lead again, you don’t give up any of these automatic subjects.

Just the Facts Feat 20

Source PRG2:APG

Investigator

Prerequisite(s) Thorough Research

You fundamentally understand everything to the point where your research can’t possibly be wrong. You are permanently quickened and can use the extra action to Recall Knowledge.

Your checks to Recall Knowledge are no longer secret. When you Recall Knowledge, you use the outcome for one degree of success better than the result of your check, and if an effect (such as Dubious Knowledge) would give you inaccurate information from your Recall Knowledge check, you know which information is inaccurate. When one of your allies Recalls Knowledge and gains false information, you also know that information is inaccurate if they share it with you.