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I do not know the rules nearly as well as I thought I did. But I did learn a lot while researching my wondrous item. And even more when working on archetypes.

Areas improved on:
1) environment rules
2) universal monster rules
3) conditions

Thanks to Paizo for the competition motivating me to delve deeper into the rules!

We all thought we were awesome or we wouldn't have submitted items.

Just put on your favorite "getting work done" music and have a montage man. We'll come back at it next year and see what work we can get this year.

Personally, I am just thinking about how, when things gain momentum, how many strong entries are going to be submitted as this thing continues to snowball. Makes me wish I would have jumped on this thing when nobody knew about it. :)

That's the thing with your mention of rules too. There are a lot and, to quote from Farscape, "Baby's gonna get bigger." It's only going to grow from here as more releases like Ultimate Magic come out to give us new feats, spells, mechanics, and so on to chew on. Then it's Ultimate Combat or one of the companion products. Then its new Bestiaries... and so on. It can be a bit much as you imagine the snowball at the bottom of the hill, but that's also cool too in that there will be a wealth of material to draw our inspiration from.

I have to get sappy for a second... this hobby is outstanding. I am so thankful that such a great team took up the torch of a game I have enjoyed since I was a kid and not only ran with it but are starting to outpace the original torch bearer! Thank you to the folks at Paizo and all contributors (among who's ranks I aspire to join) for your excellent work!

Necromancy School

Specialist Bonus: You can control 8 HD worth of undead creatures per caster level. If you prepare spells of your opposition schools, excess undead immediately become free willed and do not return to your control when you regain this bonus. You choose which undead are released.

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Granted, control does not imply that you can summon/create that many but, in theory, you could have a 4th level necromancer specialist that has acquired 32 HD of whatever undead they can find running around with his own personal zerg?

Would it be "Control" in the sense of the Control Undead spell (i.e. Undead don’t attack you while under your command.) in that Saving Throw would be Will negates and Spell Resistance applies for intelligent undead? Casting the 7th Level Control Undead spell only allows 2 HD/Level so the Specialist Bonus exceeds that - I can't imagine that is the intent.

Does it seem balanced and appropriate to have that scenario be possible in the rule set from a "letter of the law standpoint"? Granted, as DM, I can nip it if I want to.

Searched the forums for this but did not see any similar posts. I would value any thoughts on this. Thanks!

Eric