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The text of Wild Arcana reads:
"Wild Arcana (Su): You can expend one use of mythic power to cast any one arcane spell. This spell must be on one of your arcane spell lists and must be of a level that you can cast using that arcane spellcasting class. You don’t need to have the spell prepared or on your list of spells known. When casting a spell in this way, you treat your caster level as two levels higher for the purpose of any effect dependent on level. You can apply any metamagic feats you know to this spell, but its total adjusted level can’t be greater than the highest-level arcane spell you can cast using that spell’s spellcasting class."

I have two rules lawyers ready to draw blood over this. My question is, when the Archmage Arcana power is taken, does the caster select _any one_ arcane spell, which they can then cast whenever they want by expending a point of Mythic power, OR do they select the spell tied to the ability when they select the Arcana power?

I tend to think that the intent of the power is to turn an arcane spellcaster (memorized or instantaneous) into a lexicon of magical possibility, and am inclined to rule that the power is not locked down at the time of selection of the power. However, the rules lawyer is stating that the "any one" is restrictive, rather than encompassing, and means that the archmage basically gets a "signature spell", as opposed to a "cast anything" power.

Anyone else dealing with this?

A question I am woolgathering on for a game I am running featuring not one, but eight separate types of lycanthrope enemies:

An afflicted lycantrhope gains a template, after failing several saves. The curative steps to prevent template addition appear to treat it somewhere halfway between a magical disease and a curse (hence my use of the word affliction).

Since the template gained as a result of infection is specific to the infecting lycanthrope, is it reasonable within the rules as they are written that a character could gain multiple lycanthropic afflictions from different sources?

As an example: an elf (with a horrible fort save) that gains afflicted lycanthropy from a wererat. Later, she is bitten by a wereboar, failing those saves again...

I'm looking at this ambiguity as a unique story/roleplaying situation. My players, most likely, are going to claim "Lycanthropy" is a specific "slot" affliction/template, and therefore cannot be gained multiple times. My counter to that is that you can apply multiple templates of similar types to other creatures (mostly undead, but other examples exist), and ultimately, I know it is my table, but I am curious what opinions the community (who may have esoteric lore I lack) have on the matter.

I just got my subscription fulfillment for Ultimate Magic - there is some amazing stuff in this book... Except, I play an oracle.

There are some nice new Oracle mystery paths, but no spell lists (the index seems to suggest that there is supposed to be an Oracle spell list on p 197, which is the first page of spell lists)! There is no actual spell list in the PDF, and there are no entries within the spell descriptors to suggest if Oracles have access to spells or not.

To say this hurts is an understatement in the extreme! Every other class that has some sort of magic attached to it is getting new wonderful things - any class with a spell list has an updated listing. Why no love for oracles?