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I tried searching the forums for an answer to this but couldn't find anything so my apologies if this has been asked before.

The feat reads: "Once per day, when you cast summon monster, you may summon a skeletal version of one of the creatures on that spell’s summoning list (apply the skeleton template to that creature to create this monster)."

Here's my question: say you use, for example, the summon monster II option to summon 1d3 monsters off the summon monster I list. Does Skeleton Summoner only change one of those to the skeletal template? Or does it change all 1d3 of them? The technical wording would seem to imply the former, but that seems broken to me.

The choices for the Animal Ally feat are identical to the list for the Hunter's Bond ranger class feature; frankly I don't know why the feat doesn't just say "from that list".

The problem is, it *doesn't* say that, and now there's a whole slew of new animal companions for rangers in Ultimate Wilderness.

Those should be allowed with Animal Ally, right? That's entirely reasonable, right?

I'm considering multiclassing my alchemist and I've been thinking about how item creation feats work across classes.

For example, if I take a level dip in bard, I now have a caster level (alchemist, RAW, does not) and could then take for example Scribe Scroll. However, since my caster level is a part of my bard abilities, does that mean I could only make scrolls of my bard spells? Or could I also make scrolls out of alchemist formulae? I can see the arguments for both interpretations but I am curious what the community thinks.

Is there a reason goblins and hobgoblins are playable races, but not bugbears? Seems odd to have only two of the three goblinoid races available.

I'm considering taking the Material Mastery discovery for purposes of magic item crafting with my alchemist (ftr I'm getting around the whole 'caster level' problem by also taking Spell Knowledge, which is well-debated elsewhere on the forum so no need to address that). Text reads:

"By expending an extract of the same school and level as a spell prerequisite when crafting a magic item, you take only a –2 penalty for ignoring that requirement, instead of –5."

My question is: what if the spell requirement school is 'universal' (such as in the case of Permanency)? Does this allow me to use literally any extract from any school? Or do I have to find an extract that itself is listed as universal (which upon cursory look, there don't appear to be any of)?

This is probably a very bizarre question, but I could not find anything in the rules, so here we are.

Suppose you genuinely wanted to fail a check -- that is to say a lower roll would be a more beneficial option to you, even though practically speaking it would still be considered a failure by all other means.

Is there any way you can choose to "take 1" for an automatic failure, in the same vein as take 10 or take 20? Or are you forced to actually roll the dice?

New player / poster, be gentle.

I've been considering making a character I'm about to play in an upcoming campaign a construct crafter (specifically, an alchemist taking the Promethean Disciple route). I get that due to not having an Intelligence score, constructs don't get skill points/ranks, but I can't seem to find any rules as to whether or not they still make skill checks.

For example:

A Medium Animated Object has a Charisma of 1, which is a -5 ability modifier. Handle Animal, being a trained only CHA skill, would obviously be unavailable. But what about Bluff, or Disguise, or Intimidate? Could they roll a check with the -5 penalty? Or for WIS skills, a Heal or Survival check?

My inclination is yes for RAW, but from a roleplay aspect that seems kind of wonky. I think that physical based skills would not be an issue generally -- obviously a construct should be able to make Swim checks or Acrobatic checks, for example. The weirdness comes from the non-physical ones. INT isn't a problem, since no INT means no INT skills. But does it make sense for a mindless automaton to be able to do a Sense Motive check? Or Diplomacy? What would that even entail?

Thanks in advance for any replies / advice.