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Hi all, I'm currently running a party though the Kingmaker adventure path, and, without trying to spoil it for anyone there's a particular NPC who's become a party favourite who was a 'fallen from grace' type character.

As part of a story event that revolved around this NPC and a party member he was subject to the effects of an Atonement spell upon restoring his alignment to that required by his class and his god chose to forgive his previous transgressions in light of current acts and service.

However, during the course of his fall (all pre-campaign) he picked up a few levels of a class which is now similarly barred to him due to alignment restrictions and thus are effectively 'dead levels'. A PC wishes to acquire this character as a cohort now and I'm curious if there's any rules legal way of retraining those dead levels, or if he will, unfortunately, be stuck with them for the rest of his career.

I've seen a few threads about these spells but none of them really seem to cover quite what I'm looking for in terms of question.

I'm running a campaign at the moment with two clerics, one of whom has already made mention in passing regarding the Lesser Planar Ally spell which he's just gotten access to upon reaching 7th level. Having read the spell description, I've already ruled that the outsider that is called by the spell will be determined by me, as it's the choice of his deity rather than himself.

My issue, however, is choosing an appropriate ally both for his deity and for his situation. I could quite easily find outsiders specific to one of these two situations (Lyrakien, as he worships Desna; or fire elemental as he wants its aid against a band of marauding trolls) but each has their downsides. Deity-specific may lead to a situation where his summoned ally is of no use for the task he wishes of it, but a situation-specific one may seem to be a little like I'm giving him exactly what he needs. Not to mention that a fire elemental seems uncharacteristic for a servant of Desna.

Does anyone have any advice on how to handle the above situation to try and get as close to the best of both as I can? Also, are there any sources that have more generic lists of potential Planar Allies (creature types, rather than specific examples as presented in the AP articles) for Golarion's various deities to offer inspiration?

I was just perusing through my recently acquired copy of Skull & Shackles Part 5 and noticed the rules for Fleet Battles in one of the alter sections. While I'm not running S&S at the moment (though I am intending to at some point down the line) I am in the middle of running a Kingmaker campaign, and while I like the Mass Combat rules, I feel as though they're a little lacking in certain areas.

Myself and my players are miniatures gamers to a man, and while I don't think anyone wants to break out a gaming board and units of models, I feel as though a slightly less abstract system might better suit our purposes, as my players and I are both interested in playing around with armies and warfare more than the adventure path initially includes.

My question, and thoughts, are how easy it would be to modify the Fleet Battle rules for use with land troops, taking elements from the Mass Battle rules of Kingmaker as well. Obviously an Admiral is easily replaced by a General, and Commodore's can be represented by Lieutenants or Captains or whichever rank you want. My real thought is how easily one could slot 'armies' as presented in Kingmaker into the role of squadrons, allowing each PC to control a company of men consisting of a variety of troops, say, a block of halberdiers, backed up by pikes and crossbowmen to represent a Pike & Shotte style regiment.

I need to look into this further before deciding how easy it will be, but I would welcome any initial thoughts that people have on the subject.

Given the additional feats and combat styles that were added to the Ranger with the Advanced Player's Guide I've been looking into various feats and seeing an occasional addendum in feats such as Point Blank Master that read as follows:

Point Blank Master (Combat)

You are adept at firing ranged weapons in close quarters.

Prerequisite: Weapon Specialization with selected ranged weapon.

Benefit: Choose one type of ranged weapon. You do not provoke attacks of opportunity when firing the selected weapon while threatened.

Normal:: Using a ranged weapon while you are threatened provokes attacks of opportunity.

Special: Starting at 6th level, a ranger with the archery combat style may select Point Blank Master as a combat style feat, but he must have Weapon Focus instead of Weapon Specialization in the selected weapon.

Emphasis upon the Special entry. I am wondering if there's a published list, be it online or in a supplement, that lists all such feats of this nature and which combat styles and levels they can be applied to.