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On the Qlippoth page (Bestiary 2, http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/additionalMonsters/qlippoth.html ), everything that should come "before" the Chernobue (including the stats for the Augnagar and the entire introductory text about qlippoth) is missing. The bestiary II index ( http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/additionalMonsters/additionalMonsterInde x.html#<Q-monsters ) still "links to" the Augnagar, but as it is not there, it takes you to the top of the qlippoth page instead since there is no anchor for it.

NOTE: I think this has been like that since the bestiary II stuff was first posted, so isn't new, but if you are fixing stuff anyway, that should probably get fixed....


Several minor issue's that I have noticed on the site:

On the Eagle page (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/monsters/eagle.html), the Giant Eagle stats are listed under eagle (and the eagle anchor, http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/monsters/eagle.html#eagle), then the eagle entry, and the header for Giant Eagle is all the way at the bottom. The Giant Eagle listing needs to be moved way down on the page (or the anchors/titles corrected)

Also, on the Equipment page (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/equipment.html), the link to Splash Weapons under the description of Alchemist's fire links instead to vision and light (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/additionalRules.html#vision-and-light)

On the Druid page (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/classes/druid.html), in the list of abilities for level 1, there should be a space before "orisons" (right now, it is "nature sense,orisons" with no space), and later on, in the description of animal companion feats, there are still two subsequent commas (where Weapon Finesse is missing (see http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderR PG/general/archives/druidAnimalCompanionFeatList&page=1#3)

This last one is more of a rule wording issue, but the wording of True Resurrection (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/spells/trueResurrection.html#true-resur rection) says that you are revived with no constitution points (rather than no LOSS of constitution points): "Upon completion of the spell, the creature is immediately restored to full hit points, vigor, and health, with no negative levels (or Constitution points)".


I am new to these forums, so I am unsure if there is a better place to list any typos found in the rules that should be errata'd. So, forgive me if this is not a good place to get such things noticed, and please point me to a better place to post this.

Anyway, the wording of True Resurrection says (emphasis my own):

Quote:
Upon completion of the spell, the creature is immediately restored to full hit points, vigor, and health, with no negative levels (or Constitution points) and all of the prepared spells possessed by the creature when it died.

That should say "... (or loss of Constitution points) ..." as currently the spell says that True Res brings you back with 0 Con (so you immediately die again and then have 0 Con so cannot be brought back by anything but a lucky Reincarnate that grants a con bonus). Obvious that this was just edited from 3.5 and the re-wording never got applied to the parenthetical, but that should be fixed in the next round of Errata.


Looking over the Druid Animal Companion table, I noticed an oddity. The table lists the number of feats and skill points the animal should have, along with pointing out Ability Score Increases at every 4 HD. However, the Ability Score increase is listed as an Ex ability. Does this mean it is a SECOND Ability Score increase every 4th HD (every creature gets a uncategorized ability score increase every 4 HD, after all)? Or is it meant as a reminder that they get the normal increase? If this is the case, why is it listed as an Ex ability, whereas the feats and skill points are not given any classification?

Given the massive amounts of Str and Dex animal companions already get, I suspect that this is meant to be just a reminder about the normal increase, but the fact that it is explicitly called out as an Ex ability strikes me as very strange. Consider, for example, if a party sorcerer cast a Polymorph spell (like, say, Plant Shape or Elemental Body) on a Druid's animal companion. Arguably, these Ex ability score increases are "Extraordinary abilities that depend on form" (since they apply only to animals since Druids can only have animals as their companions) and thus would go away under any polymorph spell, whereas the uncategorized ability score boosts everyone gets would not.

So, the options seem to either be to not call those Ex and say that they are just a reminder about the one all creatures get at every 4 HD, OR leave them Ex and say "Yes, you really get two" and be ready to deal with any oddities that having them as Ex abilities might cause. Or are all the ability score increases Ex abilities? There are basically no rules for how they work in Pathfinder (it just sorta says you get them, look at the table), and I don't want to look it up under 3.5 just to see how they should work here.