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We seem to either split hairs ad infinitum, or generalize to the point being flavorless.

It doesn't make sense to me that an alchemist would create a catalyst vial ahead of time, wear it on his person, go adventuring, run into a bandito, pull out the catalyst vial, (Su)pernaturally infuse it with his arcane energy while dropping in some bat guano, shake it up, let it become volatile...

And then whip out his recurved long bow and shoot a flaming arrow!

Then again... it is TOTALLY written that way. It makes me question why you'd take the discovery to create explosive ammunition... but that's just fine-tuning the mechanics of your character and flavor.

I hope something definitive comes out of Design Team.

I can totally see both sides of this argument, now... yikes. I was on the side of verbatim compliance, in which the rules state that your last eight hours worth of casting prevents you from preparing the equivalent slots.

Then I put it into the following, real situation context:

I'm in a dungeon with my party and we just spent the last four hours of game time (counted in rounds, or arbitrary)fighting monsters. We find a safe haven in the form of a room that is hidden and secure. I'm a caster, but I have cast every last spell I had prepared, a fireball being the most recent, one minute ago.

To complicate things, there's a tough monster in the area, looking for us. There's a chance we won't be found. There's also a chance we will, and in our depleted state, not all of us will survive the encounter.

We could rest for eight hours, regain some resources, and head out. If we do, we run the risk of having our rest interrupted by the monster looking for us.

By using one Mythic Point, we can recuperate very quickly. This takes one hour, but in that time, our mythical power-fed bodies are healing and regenerating energies so quickly that we are restored as if we had rested for 8 hours! In just one hour my mind will be clear and fresh and my body will once again be filled with arcane energy and I will be ready to prepare new spells.

Of course, it will take me one full hour after this mythical recuperation to go through my spell book and prepare my full arsenal of spells...

That's about when I realized why there could be an argument.

It does not say "you recover spells".

It says "You recover spells in one hour as if you had rested for 8 hours".

VERY DIFFERENT.

The rules explain that "the drain on his resources reduces his capacity to prepare new spells." If you are recuperated as if having rested for 8 full hours, then you have effectively recuperated from this drain of resources.

Maybe I'm coming in too late on this. Is this where we are with the debate? In a universal/global sense, only one hour has passed; but the characters have rejuvenated 8 hours worth of time, in which case they should be able to rinse and repeat.

Edit for misspelling.

With Mythic Recuperation: He must rest 1 hour, he does not need to study for 1 hour because the ability states: In addition, by expending one use of mythic power and resting for 1 hour, you regain a number of hit points equal to half your full hit points (up to a maximum of your full hit points) and regain the use of any class features that are limited to a certain number of uses per day (such as barbarian rage, bardic performance, spells per day, and so on).

From PRD: Spell Preparation Time: After resting, a wizard must study his spellbook to prepare any spells that day. If he wants to prepare all his spells, the process takes 1 hour. Preparing some smaller portion of his daily capacity takes a proportionally smaller amount of time, but always at least 15 minutes, the minimum time required to achieve the proper mental state.

Natural weapons are light weapons. See: this.

Thanks, Rikkan. I knew I was on the right track, but I couldn't make the connection. I appreciate the help!

If a Small creature's natural weapon was considered Light, it would not get the 1-1/2 times Strength modifier to the damage roll.

I can't make a connection between these two rules, however. In the Combat section, there is reference to each of these rules, but nothing to connect them.

However, I think it is a perfectly viable interpretation of the rule to say that no matter how strong a small creature is, there's only so much damage its small weapon can do.

Make a House decision, maybe.