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So this came up tonight where our party fighter suffered the Fleeing condition due to an Owlbear's Bloodcurdling Screech. As the GM I read this as fleeing at the fastest possible rate, meaning Stride actions. My player thought he should be able to use Step as well to avoid a possible AoO.

Was I in error here? Expediently as possible seems fairly plain to me as meaning as fast as possible, meaning no Step,

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For the Warlock Talents Empowered Blood and Quickened Blood what exactly does 'this is subject to the same caster level restrictions as the feat' mean? Spell-like abilities don't have any spell slots to expend of any level so I'm rather mystified by how this is supposed to work.

Thanks for the swift reply!

I see I had misread the HD cap as 1 per level instead of 2 per level. But I can hardly be faulted while trying to read Vampire, Aberrations, and Dopplegangers all in one go!

One more question: Are these vampires subject to non-lethal damage as normal?

Excellent pdf and one of the better treatments of vampire player characters for Pathfinder I've seen! I'm really looking forward to using this in my campaigns.

I do have a question. As far as the Create Spawn ability is concerned all vampiric spawn use the wight stats, meaning 4 Hit Dice. But later in Create Spawn's description its suggests that you can control 1 vampire spawn per two class levels. Shouldn't this be 1 spawn per 4 levels?

Secondly Create Greater Spawn gives a variety of bonuses for spawn. Are these to negate the penalties the ordinary spawn incurred from Create Spawn, or is it a bonus to the base stats of a wight/vampire spawn?

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I have a player with access to a 30' Tremorsense (because he can assume facets of an earth elemental). Tremorsense states that it senses through 'the ground'.

Just what is meant by the ground? Earth, stone, and soil? Wooden buildings? Up a tree? How would you run it?

I've had DMs tell me that critters up a tree aren't going to be sensed by it because of the ground definition and it makes sense.

I know Waves of Thought doesn't cover the latest Dreamscarred Press psionic releases but I have to ask...

What do you think is the bouyancy of Aegis armor suits? And do they continue to use the surface armors or do they convert to Cerulean Seas equivalents?