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My understanding is this adds the spells directly to the spells known by the caster taking Spell Blending.

Benefit: When a magus selects this arcana, he must select one spell from the wizard spell list that is of a magus spell level he can cast. He adds this spell to his spellbook and list of magus spells known as a magus spell of its wizard spell level. He can instead select two spells to add in this way, but both must be at least one level lower than the highest-level magus spell he can cast.

Special: A magus can select this magus arcana more than once.

Is my understanding correct or is there a RAW reason why Spell Blending would not work for:

1. A spontaneous caster/caster that does not use a spellbook.
2. A caster that is not a magus.

I ask this because

Was curious to see what the consensus was before I filed a bug report. Hero Lab is not only not allowing the selection of spells higher level than cantrip, but is not adding selected spells to spells known.

Touch of Fatigue is kinda important since the spiritualist does not normally have any cantrips with a range of touch.

Question: Do monk armed strikes count as natural attacks/weapons for effects that modify natural weapon damage? If yes, are the monks unarmed strikes classified as primary or secondary weapons?

Question: Can a paralyzed, or otherwise immobile, character move out of the area of affect of Create Pit or similar spells on a successful reflex save?

Question is now appropriately phrased for a FAQ request.

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Question: does Dervish Dance work while using a buckler?

Slashing Grace does not allow most shields, but bucklers work because they don’t occupy the hand.

Emphasis mine.

You cannot use this feat if you are carrying a weapon or shield in your off hand.

Looking to verify rules interactions.

Weapon Finesse explicitly states natural weapons count as light weapons.

The Faq states you can use dexterity instead of strength on disarm, sunder and trip maneuvers while using a finesse weapon.

A creature with the Trip ability gains a free trip attempt when scoring a successful hit with the appropriate natural weapon.

With the above rules, I would assume trip attacks made as a result of a successful natural weapon attack would use dexterity instead of strength. Monster stat blocks that I have looked at (e.g. cheetah have weapon finesse but do not have a CMB listed for trip attacks using dexterity.

Fighter Training says magus counts as having fighter levels for feat acquisition. The question I have is, does the magus also count as having fighter levels for resolving how those feats function. This was an irrelevant question prior to the Armor Mastery guide, but becomes relevant with the introduction of feats that scale according to fighter level.

In the more general, with the purpose of clarifying how newly introduced rules mechanics interact with preexisting class features not specifically addressed in the newly introduced mechanics.

If a class ability states a character counts as another class of level X for purposes of meeting feat prerequisites, does the character also count as level X for purposes of determining the effects of those feats.

Bonuses and penalties granted by items, as well as spells and effects active before entering the mindscape, apply to these statistics, as such items and effects gain psychic equivalents when a creature enters a mindscape.

Items have psychic equivalents in the mindescape. All items that grant bonuses follow characters into the mindscape? I assume this includes weapons.

While engaged in a psychic duel, the combatants don't attack or cast spells normally. Instead, the combatants create psychic manifestations, abilities that can be used only within a binary mindscape; these represent changes to the mindscape's fabric (see Mindscapes).

Attacks are made using psychic manifestations, not normal weapons, however ...

Manifestations retain many of the manifestor's combat capabilities. The nature of the binary mindscape translates martial prowess into psychic parallels; after all, such prowess comes from training, muscle memory, and other subconscious components of the mind. This means that while martially inclined characters have fewer resources in a psychic duel, they can still make powerful attacks against their foes with great accuracy.

Very vague set of generic statements, and the source of much confusion in the game I am running. It is a given the martial retains his BAB, AC, etc. What is less well defined is class abilities and feats, and how they impact combat. A marital can make powerful attacks? How? If the fighter manifests his attack as swinging his sword, which does has a psychic equivalent, does power attack work? Weapon specialization? Improved Critical? Do the weapon properties, such as flaming, apply? How about strength/dexterity bonuses to damage?

Do feats granting extra attacks apply? Do feats and class abilities apply at all - or does the mindscape strip characters of all class abilities not specifically covered under psychic duels?