what's the over / under on errata for the APG or Bestiary 3 or Ultimate Combat or the CR?


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There's been a lot of...interesting things happening with errata lately, mostly having to do with, say, 'disoptimizations':

no more crazy Divine Protection, no more Slashing Grace/spell combat, no more magus/precise strike swashbuckler deed, no more useful Merciless Butchery, no more Constitution casting from half-orc witches, you get the picture.

However, one naughty little minx has escaped the banhammer thus far: prototype00's Conqueror Ooze. The ability (admittedly at 10th level) to punch as hard as a fireball, multiple times per round.

This build depends on the following things staying safe

the Cave Druid archetype keeping its wildshape intact, from the APG
the Carnivorous Crystal monster keeping its punch damage, from Bestiary 3
Feral Combat Training staying classy, from Ultimate Combat
the spell beast shape III not having a punch damage limit (it's got a 'size limit', which is safe when modeling real-life animals, not oozes), from the Core Rulebook (although other polymorph spells in later books would probably need to be altered as well)

Errata policy as we understand it: errata comes out when a hardcover gets reprinted. Right?

Now, each of these books (except the CR) has already been errata-ed once, so they're all on their second printings. In addition, the APG has the old summoner class in it, which might be difficult to reprint as-is. The Core Rulebook is probably an evergreen, but it's been printed 6 times, and the last time was two years ago.

I think the chances for a reprint/errata affecting the Conqueror Ooze are slight. But then again, in the current climate, that's like saying 'It's been raining so hard, it's got to lighten up sometime'.

What do you all think?


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Please for the love of gaming, don't give them cause to errata anything more!!!


aw, I hate to break it to you, but the writing is on the wall, yeah?

and don't claim they don't know about this particular shenanigan, there's a search feature tied to the Advice forum, for Nethys's sake!

hey! [i]strong jaw[i] is in the APG, let's talk about how there's no upper damage limit on what it can do.

The question is not: are there, let's call them 'ripe targets', in other books?

The question really is this: knowing what we know about how and when Paizo uses the errata-hammer, can they mess with the different parts of the Conqueror Ooze at all anytime in the next, let's say two years?

Or to put it another way, anyone got anything good left over in the APG that's worth flaunting?


you are asking an errata for...one unusual build that use multiple rules from different books.


I think everyone should just fill up the optimization threads with Wizards for a few months until we finally get a caster nerf to match all of the nerfs we get for martials by trying to optimize them to compete with casters.

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