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We are a pretty new group of players and are currently level 3. I'm playing a Zen Archer and I'm wondering if I'm calculating my Flurry of blow hit bonus correctly. Not including my feats I believe it's monk level plus FOB bonus.

so my level 3 monk (feats excluded) is

+3 for level and +1 FOB bonus for a total of +4/+4?

So for my groups second attempt at Pathfinder (DM with 15 years of 2nd ed and the rest of us about 2 years) we had a magus and monk introduced to the party. The monk seemed way over powered for a level one encounter. One of the questions that came up was the use of vital strike with FOB. is this possible? The second question came about when handling touch based spells by the magus. I came across a really good guide on touch based spells using the magus and an orc in the example. I forgot to book mark and can't find it again. Last but not least, I think the group is confused on the actions. we had people moving then casting, we had people casting then moving, we had running then melee, I think someone along the lines we got the different actions all goofed up. Is there another resource for explaining it. We all have the core book but we are stilling messing it up.

So our 2nd ed group decided to give Pathfinder a try after playing together for several years and came across an interesting situation which got pretty heated. Our gnome bard was attacked by a human bandit who was standing in the very next square. 5 feet behind the bard was our elf mage. The mage wanted to cast color spray at the bandit over the head of gnome. Half the group said no way that will hit the gnome the other half said the mage can just lift his hand to keep it above the gnomes head. It became a 2d vs 3d ruling which the DM was not happy about having to decide upon since the group was torn between who is right and who is wrong.

Human Bandit|Gnome Bard|(empty sq)|Elf Mage

Any suggestions or rules that might apply to this scenario? Thanks!

Kapfel