Boots of Friendly Terrain item + Lay of the Land feat

[HSalgo]

The Boots of Friendly Terrain item gives you a favored terrain bonus, but text is extremely specific in referring to rangers and favored terrain class ability specifically. However, the Lay of the Land feat gives you the favored terrain class ability, as long as you have the animal focus and wild empathy class abilities (so, pretty much hunters).

RAW, it seems like the item is specifically for rangers only, but do you think that RAI it could apply to hunters too? I think that the boots are pretty inexpensive, which is one of the reasons it might apply to rangers only.

Anyway, I was just looking for some thoughts! Has anyone else run into this sort of issue, where older items/rules restrict newer class abilities? One of our party members was recently a shaman, and all of the hex abilities almost always specifically refer to witches specifically.

[Blakmane]

Unfortunately, the text is quite restrictive. IIRC it was possible to get favored terrain without levels in ranger at the time of printing (horizon walker, for example) so this isn't a legacy issue.

So, barring houserules, there really isn't any precedent to allow any class but ranger to use the boots. If you are in a home game it would be a matter to take up with your GM.

[NikolaiJuno]

HSalgo wrote:

Anyway, I was just looking for some thoughts! Has anyone else run into this sort of issue, where older items/rules restrict newer class abilities? One of our party members was recently a shaman, and all of the hex abilities almost always specifically refer to witches specifically.

Crusader's Flurry can be used with Brawler's Flurry but it requires Flurry of Blows to use, Spell Mastery is a feat that can be used by any spell book using class but requires 1st level Wizard to get.

[Kysune]

HSalgo wrote:

The Boots of Friendly Terrain item gives you a favored terrain bonus, but text is extremely specific in referring to rangers and favored terrain class ability specifically. However, the Lay of the Land feat gives you the favored terrain class ability, as long as you have the animal focus and wild empathy class abilities (so, pretty much hunters).

RAW, it seems like the item is specifically for rangers only, but do you think that RAI it could apply to hunters too? I think that the boots are pretty inexpensive, which is one of the reasons it might apply to rangers only.

Anyway, I was just looking for some thoughts! Has anyone else run into this sort of issue, where older items/rules restrict newer class abilities? One of our party members was recently a shaman, and all of the hex abilities almost always specifically refer to witches specifically.

Outside of PFS, you'd have to bring it up with your GM.

Inside PFS, it specifically calls out Rangers. So this item would only work for Rangers and no one else unfortunately.

[HSalgo]

Great. Thanks for the examples, everyone! This is sort of what I thought, but I figured I'd bring it up in case it ever came up elsewhere--I couldn't find any mention, but I'm not on the forums too frequently.

Much appreciated, everyone!