1e pathfinder corruptions

[zook1shoe]

any mechanical way to get a corruption from Horror Adventures?

[Nanashi]

Was going to suggest the Oracle curses from Horror Realms, but checking the wording is that those only mean a character "might, at the GM’s discretion, become more susceptible to gaining the corruption of the same name."

[zook1shoe]

thx to you, found what i was thinking of...

check out the Outer Rift Exploits

All of the following exploits can be learned by arcanists of any alignment, but these exploits come with a risk. If you use an Outer Rift exploit and in doing so reduce your arcane reservoir to 0, you immediately gain the stain of one manifestation from the accursed, demonic, hellbound, or possessed corruption. The GM chooses which corruption, manifestation, and stain you receive; this stain persists for 24 hours. Reducing your arcane reservoir to 0 in this way multiple times within a 24-hour period results in a new stain for each such instance, and each time you do so you reset the timer for all stains gained in this manner to 24 hours. At the GM’s option, multiple instances of abusing exploits in this manner could result in a permanent corruption, but otherwise these corruptions are temporary and do not progress. You can never gain a gift from a corruption in this way.

Unless otherwise noted, the saving throw DC for an arcanist’s exploit equals 10 + 1/2 the arcanist’s class level + the arcanist’s Charisma modifier.

[Power]

There are two ways, both of which require a corrupted target to gain their corruption: One is to cast Alleviate Corruption and intentionally fail the caster level check. Doing so will cause you to contract the corruption and gain a manifestation. Another is to cast Borrow Corruption, which will let you temporarily gain the stains and gifts of another person's corruption.

Other than that, all you can do is try to fulfill their catalyst or description's conditions. If you want to mechanically induce conditions for their catalyst, the following options should be available.

Accursed: Use Bestow Curse, or Greater variant. Bonus points for doing it as Changeling and/or Witch.
Diseased: Greater Contagion
Hellbound: Planar Ally/Binding and sign a contract with a Contract Devil
Psychometabolic: Contact Other Plane

Otherwise I reckon Limited Wish and Greater Bestow Curse could be used to obtain/inflict corruptions. There's no hard RAW to back that up, but they both let you invent your own wishes and curses.

[zook1shoe]

thx!

here's some of the others

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just spend 1 month in the Shadow Plane to get the shadowbound corruption

Shadowbound corruption occurs after a month or more of exposure to the Shadow Plane or shadow magic, or contact with cruel kytons, aberrations, undead, or shadowy fey. Corruption sets in only if it is used to torment or disillusion you at least six times in a month in a deeply personal manner.

get drained a bunch by a vampire quickly gets you the vampirism one

Being drained—but not killed—at least six times by a vampire within a month or less causes this corruption. Powerful vampires or curses can cause this corruption more rapidly.

lycanthropy needs a lycanthrope to maul you nearly to death.

Lycanthropy is contracted from being savagely wounded by the teeth or claws of a lycanthrope, typically when reduced to less than 10% of your maximum hit points in a single combat with one. (This can vary with the power of the creature.) When you contract this corruption, note the animal associated with the lycanthrope, as that is the kind if lycanthrope you will become.

promethean should happen significantly more than GMs realize.

Whenever you fail a Fortitude save against any effect or fall below 0 hit points, you must attempt a Fortitude save (DC = 15 + your manifestation level). If you fail that save, some of the living components of your body begin to fail. Within the next 3 days, you or someone you trust must spend 8 hours replacing more of your body with construct parts. If you don’t do so, you die, and even if you are brought back from the dead with resurrection or true resurrection (which are necessary since your body isn’t viable), you still must perform the operation or you die again in 3 days. After an operation, there is a 50% chance your corruption progresses to the next stage. If it doesn’t, the DC of the above Fortitude save increases by 2 until your corruption reaches the next stage. These increases stack.