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The idea is to use independent in combination.

But it seems there is an official answer already making that idea basically useless.

Bummer, because I agree that it wouldn't be game breaking,it would just be a fun use for the familiar.

I also think it would be realistc to reload a crossbow while somebody else is holding it.

Great. Thanks a lot.

This is a question I asked a lot, but never got a convincing answer for.

Can a familiar with Manual Dexterity reload a crossbow? My gut feeling fears no, but I cannot really see why.
It is for example easy to imagine that my monkey familiar sits on my character's shoulder and reloads the weapon without having to take it out of my character's habd. I am not asking because I want to abuse anything here, it would just be a cool thing to do.

https://paizo.com/threads/rzs4380u?Musings-on-the-Beastmaster-and-support#8

Marked for errata in 2020.

If it benefits caster damage, just assume it's a mistake.

Edit: somebody should start up a Google doc or something with all the forum errata that's accumulated without reprints

Great! Thanks a lot for the clarification.

I am a little disappointed though that a mounted spellcaster just waists their support benefit then. Feels like saying: "Casters don't belong on a horse!"

It should also have to be melee attacks, not ranged attacks, since you moving faster does not add momentum to your projectile's velocity, even as a thrown weapon.

I heard that before but the link clearly says strike. I also think a ranged weapon should get that benefit, because a mounted archer is a pretty typical thing. And while they do not get momentum as said in the text you have better options to attack the enemy from a good angle if you are on a horse.

I just stumbled over something odd in the Horse companion's support benefit. It looks like the rules are not intended as written.

It says:
"Your horse adds momentum to your charge. Until the start of your next turn, if you moved at least 10 feet on the action before your attack, add a circumstance bonus to damage to that attack equal to twice the number of damage dice. If your weapon already has the jousting weapon trait, increase the trait’s damage bonus by 2 per die instead."

So first of all (as another player pointed out to me) it seems very likely that this should only apply if the character is actually mounted, because otherwise it makes no sense out of several reasons.

Secondly this benefit per RAW applies to all attacks including spell attacks. Is that really intended? Intuition says otherwise.

I thought about some pros and cons, although I am pretty sure that this is just a mistake.

Arguments against RAW interpretation:
1. Animal companions usually apply to weapon attacks. Also it makes no sense that riding on a horse adds momentum to a spell.
2. As written here spells would get one additional damage per damage die. This is both ridiculously powerful and also pretty random: Spells usually have more damage dice than weapon attacks and there are huge differences between spells. There are spells that get one additional damage die every two levels and there are those that add more than one damage die per level. Admonishing Ray for example deals 2d6 damage per level. The expected damage is 7 damage per level. With the benefit it's 9. That's 28%.
If someone attacks with a ranged attack like a shortbow (1d6) of course damage would also increase by 28%, but the additional damage in total is still lower because the spell still gets more damage dice per level. You can usually make more strikes than spells each round but the support benefit counts only for one of them.

Arguments pro RAW interpretation:
1. Horses are the only common mount companion and mounts do NOT only make sense to non spellcasters (or even only to melee characters). Additional mobility is also helpful for spellcasters or ranged attacks in general. It seems a little unfair that weapon fighters get a pretty strong support benefit and casters just don't get anything if they have a mount.
2. The rules clearly say "attacks". There are a lot of other companions whose support benefits are explicitly restricted to strikes. I wonder why it should have been forgotten only for this companion and if there is any reason why it says "attack" and not "strike" here. Possibly it was supposed to work for another attack ability which was not a spell?

Would be great to have some clarification on that.

Thank you, but that doesn't really answer my questions. I read that and I am also aware of the words in the disclaimer I have to add.

To be honest, I am quite sure from all I have read, that I am not allowed to use the icons and I guess that I just hoped that I oversaw something here. So nevermind about that, I will just use other ones as a replacement.

Also my question about the disclaimer might have been a little useless. I just wanted to be on the safe side here, but I am quite sure that I understood everything correctly here.

What is important to me though: Am I allowed to sum up the functionality of Pathfinder Society boons in my own words in the document?
The policy says the following:
You may descriptively reference trademarks, proper names (characters, deities, artifacts, places, etc.), locations and characters from products listed in Section 1 of our Community Use Approved Product List below, provided it is clear that these are our marks.
I would understand that as a "Yes" but like I said I am no native speaker and I just want to make sure I got that correctly to be on the safe side. I asked several other people about the policy rules but noone could give me reliable information here. So sorry if that is an obvious question, but I don't want to get any problems here.

Also: Are there any plans to add the 2nd edition faction icons as a package in the future?

Hi everyone,
I am really unsure about a document I created and if I am allowed to publish it.

The document basically is a summary of all boons that are available to buy based on reputation tiers like it can be found on http://www.organizedplayfoundation.org/encyclopedia/pathfinder-2-0-faction- boons/ and also can be filled by the player with additional information (like achieved boon, Pathfinder Training and so on.)

Now here are my questions:
* To have a better overview I created some icons based on the faction images you can find here: http://www.organizedplayfoundation.org/encyclopedia/pathfinder-2-0-factions / (I used the full images you can find if you click on the links)
All I did there, was to decrease the size of the images, add transparency and save it as a png (So the grey background is now transparent). I also cut the grey backgrounds so that the images are all squares now, but I didn't change the actual pictures in any way. Is that allowed? Or is the modification of the grey background a problem already? Or in general: Am I allowed to use the pictures at all?

* I just summed up all the boon information from the first link (and will also refer to it in the document). Is there a copyright problem here in any way to use this information??

* It's totally okay to use the Pathfinder Society logo as long as I add the official disclaimer correct?

* How obvious does the disclaimer has to be? If I have a document with multiple pages, it is okay to just put it on the first page right? (I don't see there is enough space to put it on every page)?

Sorry, I know some of the questions are quite obvious, but I am no native speaker and am afraid I could have understood anything wrong here.