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Not a terribly inspired book on ideas for characters focused on Ranged weapons. There really isn't anything particularly new or interesting here, I'm afraid. It's particularly lacking on local flavor... nope, everyone uses bows. Apparently there aren't any places or ethnic groups with specific focus in specific ranged weapons beyond what we already knew (halflings like slings, Desna worshipers use the star knife).

If you're new to Pathfinder, you might find this useful. If you already have a large library of Pathfinder books, not so much.

This was my first foray into the world of collectible miniatures (other than occasionally purchasing a single I wanted), and sadly, was very disappointing. I bought a brick in the hopes that I could score the Efreet, which I have had no luck buying as a single. In that particular respect, this was a success... I got one in the last box of the brick.

However, has paint job was nowhere to the quality level of the product photograph. He was shiny and lacking in yellow just about anywhere... it was as if he missed a paint layer. In addition, they face was off as he has large, goggly white eyes.

Additionally, I have an Orc Archer with no head, and an Eagle Knight that broke off his base, leaving his feet behind. Almost to a figure, the kobolds look awful... they're almost entirely black and you can't really make out any details.

Based on this, I doubt I will buy any more Pathfinder Battles figures other than as single purchases... too many poor quality or otherwise useless figures for my taste.

Considering it's size and cost, I can't ding it too much for this but some of the material shows a lack of experience with the Pathfinder rules. For example, the primary ability for the Bookbonded Arcanist is rather flawed.

The granted ability gives you a special spell book with infinite pages (think a Blessed Book, but with no cost reduction). Okay, cool... however, the tradeoff is that you can only use your Universalist spell recall on spells that are scribed into this book, as opposed to some other spell book previously looted (their example, not mine).

Unfortunately, in Pathfinder you already have to cast spells from your own spell book. If you find another Wizard's spell book, you can only cast spells that you have already scribed (with a chance of failure).

On top of that, since your bonded book is your arcane bond, you have to keep it in hand to cast or chance losing the spell.

Finally, you lose Hand of the Apprentice.

In summary, great archetype for GM's that like to mess with spell caster's spell books. Bad archetype for PCs. A standard bonded object wizard is a better choice in almost all ways.

So, the tradeoff isn't really much of a tradeoff at all... it would prevent you from recalling spells from a traveling spell book perhaps.