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The section on the Wizard's spelbooks reads:

You start with a spellbook [...] The spellbookcontains your choice of 10 arcane cantrips and eight 1st-level arcane spells. [...]

Each time you gain a level, you automatically add two more arcane spells to your spellbook.

This means that when my wizard gets to 2nd level, their spellbook will have 10 cantrips and 10 1st level spells. So far so good.

But a couple paragraphs below, the same section reads:

If you’re creating a higher-level character, it’s usually easiest to assume you always picked new spells of the highest level possible. At an odd-numbered level, this means that in addition to your total of 10 cantrips, your spellbook holds two spells of your highest level and four spells of all lower levels. At an even-numbered level, it means you’d have 10 cantrips and four spells of every level.

...according to this wording, if I create a 2nd level wizard, their spellbook will have 10 cantrips and just 4 1st level spells, which doesn't make a lot of sense as it's less spells than a 1st level wizard.

I guess that the later paragraph could use a bit of copyediting, something like mentioning 10 1st level spells in the spellbook.

On a similar topic, the number of cantrips that a wizard can prepare each day is somewhat hard to find in the current edition of the text. It's mentioned only once at the "Arcane spellcasting" section, but I would really really really appreciate if that information would be repeated at the "Cantrips" section, and at the "wizard spells per day table".

Double question:

a) Can an alchemist take the Arcane Strike feat? (assume a non-multiclassed alchemist). The prerequisite for this feat is the "ability to cast arcane spells", and I'm not sure if that wording applies to his ability to prepare extracts.

b) Assuming the answer to (a) is yes, or assuming a multiclassed sorcerer-alchemist: Does the damage bonus provided by this feat apply to the alchemist's bombs? (they are supposed to be ranged weapons, right?) Does the damage bonus apply to the bombs' splash damage? What about the splash damage of a honest-to-the-gods flask of alchemist's fire?

Hi all,

Question, short version: Can the Sidestep feat (APG) be used more than once per round?

Long version: One of my players is consistently using the Sidestep feat with success, repositioning himself to flank enemies and get out of reach when fighting 3-4 enemies. In those cases, it's not clear if the feat can be used more than once per round. Allow me to quote the Sidestep feat on the PRD:

Note the wording on the trigger: whenever. Does this mean that a TWF missing twice allows for two immediate 5-foot movements? Shall I, as the GM, bastardly optimize the order of my attacking monsters as to impede the player's movement?

Because, if the feat can be used more than once per round, we can desing a stupidly efficient means of mass transit with this. I shall name this the Goblin Sidestepping Train:

* Get a few thousand goblins. Strip them of their dogslicers and chain then to the ground in two parallel rows, leaving room inside for the "carriage".
* Get a mount with the sidestep feat. Yeah, it takes three feat slots, so get a ranger companion animal or whatever. Somehow pump its AC up to 20 add DR 1/- to it, with adamantine barding maybe.
* Position the mount between the two rows of goblins and...
* ... let the mount be attacked by the first bare-handed goblin. 19 times out of 20 it will sidestep their attack, advancing 5 feet. The remaining 1 time out of 20, the goblin in the other row will make an attack.
* Rinse, lather, repeat. The sidestepping mount will keep sidestepping until all adjacent goblins miss their attacks. This can easily happen once every 20^6 times, or even once every 20^8 times.

In other words, one can expect the train to travel a billion feet per round until all adjacent goblins miss. That's 31 million kilometers (or 19 million miles) per round, folks. Which is one hundred times faster than the speed of light.

I don't have any problem allowing my PCs to sidestep more than once per round, but I do have a problem with feats that can be used to turn goblins into particle accelerators.

Your thoughts?

Hi all.

Background: my group killed a baddie, destroying a chest key in the process. The Disable Device DC for the lock is 30; the party rogue taking 20 ends up in a puny 27. They don't want to smash the chest open.

This is in Korvosa (big city), so there should be a few locksmiths able to open it.

(I could go the magic way and charge my PCs 60gp per casting of knock... which requires a caster level check at +13 vs DC 30)

Now, the question: How much gold should a locksmith charge for opening a DC 30 lock?

Hi all,

I haven't been able to locate a good map of Golarion with a proper scale bar, so I'm unable to estimate travel times (in order to keep track of time in an entirely boat-based adventure of mine)

So, how long does it take for a ship to travel from Korvosa to Absalom?

I'm not looking towards a complete accurate answer - I just want to know *roughly* how long is it. Days? Months? Years, even? Is it one thousand or ten thousand kilometres?

Dear rule munchkins: assume a small merchant sea-worthy sailing boat (no skyships) with human/halfling sailor crew (no golden dragons pulling the ship, no rowing), winds and currents that are neither favorable or unfavorable, no magic (no wind gusts, no water elementals pushing, no teleportation), and half the time of a round trip (as tidal currents might flow in a certain direction due to planet and moon rotation).

Thanks,
Iván