Caster level from SLA counts as prerequisite for crafting feats

[MacGurcules]

This was discussed a bit in the SLA casting thread, but I think it deserves its own separate mention.

From the FAQ today:

Pathfinder Design Team wrote:

Item Creation Feats: Does having a caster level from a spell-like ability meet the caster level prerequisite for selecting an item creation feat?

Yes.

This seems kind of huge to me. Basically any race or class that gives a SLA grants access to crafting feats. This opens up the trade to a lot more characters.

[Cheapy]

Also arcane strike.

[Ximen Bao]

May I kindly suggest you point your lenses of detection away from the new gift axebeak.

j/k

[Bigdaddyjug]

Great, now any aasimar or tiefling can take crafting feats. It's still going to be more difficult for non-casting classes to actually craft items, though, because they are going to meet less pre-requisites and have to add 5 to the DC at least once, for missing the required spell.

[Quandary]

Somehow I don't think going into all these spin-off implications would have helped me convince anybody of the issue when I was earlier debating the SLA/Spell issue :-) (although I didn't really see the SLA Caster Level counting as a general Caster Level thing coming either)