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Maybe I'm letting my PF1 experience inform this too much, but when creating a scroll or wand of a spell that offers a choice of effects, do you have to make that choice at the time of creating the item or can the character using the item later make that choice?

For instance, if making a scroll of Resist Energy do you have to specifically make a scroll of Resist Energy (fire) when crafting the item or are you just making a scroll of Resist Energy and when a character casts it, they make the choice of what type of energy to resist?

Though the answer is probably right in my face somewhere in the CRB, is there still a rule in PF2 where if an attack's damage is reduced to 0 by penalties it still does some kind of minimum damage?
For instance if you strike with a dagger but have a strength penalty (this came up with gremlins). 1d4-2 damage...but you roll a 1 or 2. Does this just do no damage now? In PF1 this did 1 nonlethal, but separate nonlethal damage is no longer a thing.

Maybe someone can help me parse this. I'm making a villain with the Voice of the Void archetype for the Medium (Villain's Codex). However, the Surge of the Void ability has a bit of text that I find confusing.

Surge of the Void (Su): The voice of the void can use spirit surge additional times per day without incurring influence, but each time he does, he is confused for 1 round. If this confusion would cause him to babble, he can instead act normally, but his emissary gains 1 point of influence over him. The voice of the void can’t use this ability if he is immune to confusion, but he can remove the confused condition when he is affected by it. This temporary confusion clearly indicates the voice of the void isn’t fully in control, so if he uses this power on a Diplomacy check in a negotiation, for example, it might prejudice the other party against him regardless of his check result.

Emphasis mine. I can understand that a creature immune to confusion would be unable to use this ability, but why the part about removing confusion? If the character is immune to confusion, when would he ever be affected by it? Does anyone else have any insight into how this bit of the ability is supposed to work if a character is immune to confusion?

Maybe someone can help me out here, or at least tell me I'm not remembering things correctly.

At one point I recalled reading that not all tieflings are the result of breeding with fiendish entities. Sometimes they are born simply by parents/ancestors making a pact with such fiends, or they are born in an environment tainted by evil etc. However, I can't find this premise anymore. I thought it might be in Inner Sea Races or Blood of Fiends but didn't find mention of it in those. Does anyone else recall this being a thing, and if so can you direct me to where it was stated? Or is my memory just faltering?

I found the Dead Inside story feat in Agents of Evil and was curious if anyone else had clarification on the completion benefit.

You master your emotions. You can ignore any morale bonuses or penalties applied to you by outside forces, though other emotion-based effects (such as the shaken condition or an elixir of love) still affect you if you fail a saving throw against them

So you can avoid morale penalties, but can anyone cite anything that actually gives you morale penalties? Most penalties I've run across are untyped. Since you can still be affected by other emotion effects and I can't really think of any obvious situations where you would choose to ignore a bonus, this doesn't seem like much of a benefit. Input on this would be appreciated.

I know there have been several threads about the barbarian's Hurling rage powers and how they can be used in conjunction with certain feats but most of the threads seem to focus around Hurling Charge and Charging Hurler etc. My question is: Is it possible for the barbarian to use Lesser Hurling (or its further advanced versions) more than once per round via feats? Can he basically make a full attack action and toss a flurry of objects that all target touch AC and deal falling damage according to size? One of my players has the Lesser Hurling rage power and has taken several throwing feats as well under the assumption that their benefits would work with the Hurling power to make several ranged touch attacks per round. Upon looking at the power and feats myself, to me it seems like the Hurling power is its own mechanic while the feats are more to modify making normal thrown weapon attacks. There's a lot of information to parse for me in this so I wanted to the opinions of others. Here are the powers/feats that I am most concerned with

With just the feats, a barbarian with a +11 BAB could make a full attack to throw three longswords (if he has three within reach) that target the opponent's AC and add 1.5 STR to damage. These attacks do not have any improvised weapon penalty. All that correct?
Do these feats carry over into the use of the Lesser Hurling power and allow the barbarian to make three touch attacks with longswords used as improvised thrown weapons vs the opponent's touch AC (Lesser Hurling being a full round action normally)?

I'm laying out a few traps in a dungeon my group is heading into and I haven't really be able to come to a conclusion on how to handle the interaction with them. Specifically, are there mundane methods to hide a trap that make it harder to detect? For instance, I've heard of objects having Symbol of ------ inscribed on them and then covered with a cloth of some type. If someone removes the cloth, they can see the symbol and thus it activates. So since the trap itself is not actually visible when the cloth is over it, does it increase the DC of the Perception check to find it when searching for traps? This assumes the character can detect magical traps but does not have an automatic ability to just be alerted of traps like the Trap Spotter rogue talent.
My initial thoughts would be that it would affect the DC to detect the trap using just Perception, not unlike if you lacked darkvision and were searching for traps in the dark. It's not impossible, just harder.
How does everyone else handle magical traps that are hidden behind mundane objects? Or is this already covered in the rules somewhere that I've overlooked?

So I'm at a part in an AP where the party comes to a room with Kytons (the original chain-devil evangelist types) and the ceiling is covered with chains. The Kyton's Dancing Chains supernatural ability allows it to control up to 4 chains within 20 feet so basically every square in the room is one they can attack into. The Dancing Chains ability states:

A kyton can control up to four chains within 20 feet as a standard action, making the chains dance or move as it wishes. In addition, a kyton can increase these chains' length by up to 15 feet and cause them to sprout razor-edged barbs. These chains attack as effectively as the kyton itself. If a chain is in another creature's possession, the creature can attempt a DC 15 Will save to break the kyton's power over that chain. If the save is successful, the kyton cannot attempt to control that particular chain again for 24 hours or until the chain leaves the creature's possession. A kyton can climb chains it controls at its normal speed without making Climb checks. The save DC is Charisma-based.

So my question is does that mean the kytons threaten every square within 20 feet if the ceiling within 20 feet is covered in chains? Can they make AoOs with controlled chains?

Secondly, when they control chains, is it feasible they can perform combat maneuvers (grapple, trip etc) with those chains and be out of range to even trigger an AoO from the target? Granted I suppose the chain itself may be subject to an AoO.

I've been toying around with creating some weapons to drop for my players and just came to the conclusion that creating new items was FAAAR more art than science. I've tried comparing them to other weapons that already appear in Ultimate Equipment and several APs, but figured I'd get some feedback before they actually get the chance to get their hands on any of these things.
Keep in mind these are items for a lv. 9 (on average) party and we're not really worried about optimization. Mainly I want to make sure nothing seems completely broken and that the item costs would be considered roughly correct. Of course if anyone knows of magic items that have already been created and have similar effects, please point me in their direction as well.