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What ambiguity?

Blood Magic says you or the target.

The ambiguity is the lies in that some use different wording than others some say THE target other just simply say you or A target. This has lead to a whole reddit thread where people are throughly convinced that the ones that say A target are free choice. Their logic is that the only place it says it has the be the target of the spell is in the AoE description under reading the bloodlines.

Also Aberrant doesn't have an option that would allow you to share their effect with an ally as all of their abilities are offensive. Fey isn't much better either. So why even include or the target for those bloodlines. Whole thing wreaks or overlook similar to Alchemist and Wizard 1st level feat.

Kottin24 wrote:

Darn I was really hoping we'd get some clarification on blood magic effects and how some have options that are impossible to use.

Your post is not especially clear to me, but in regards to hardcoded alignment traits as exemplified by some Devil BL focus spells:

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Pages 631–632: In the definition of the evil trait and the good trait, remove the last sentence. Creatures can use abilities of an opposing alignment, but they might be anathema or change a creature’s alignment over time with repeated use.

With that fixed, it seems like Demon BL focus spells should also have Evil trait, as Devil and (Good) Angelic focus spells do.

Although how to resolve spells whose variable effect references Deity alignment may still be unclear.
(e.g. Divine Lance/Decree/Aura/Wrath "choose an alignment your deity has")
I believe the Divine Bloodlines (since this seems Divine specific issue) need a clause stating effective "Deity Alignment" to use when their spell effects depend on Deity alignment, i.e. Demon:Chaotic Evil, Devil:Lawful Evil, Angelic: just Good, and Undead:just Evil. Similar issue for things like Favored Weapon/Spiritual Weapon.

Oracle would have similar issue, although in their case would probably tend to use caster's own alignment, in contrast to Bloodlines whose Alignment may be in contrast to caster's own personal Alignment.

My concerns are more for Blood Magic effects on options like Aberrant and Fey. Where there are little to no options to use the effects on allies even though they're written as such. Also the wording has lead many to believe that the target of your spell doesn't need to be the same as blood effect,due to weird ambiguity in the wording.

Darn I was really hoping we'd get some clarification on blood magic effects and how some have options that are impossible to use.

it would really be nice if a dev weighed in. theres a whole reddit thread with people insisting that you can choose targets other than spell target or self. This really one of those situations where vague wording should have been avoided. how hard would it have been to write "target of triggering spell" or list as any target with a range. sure we can kind of piece together that it should be based on spell target, but then I just seems they didn't proof read the bloodlines to makes sure they can actually be used as written. If Fey was meant to be used on allies, they left the pc no way to do, therefore it should be written to only use on self.

If you read the entry for water skin. It holds a gallon which is the daily amount for small or medium creature.

I can't find anywhere in CRB where it states how much food and water, per size PC, is required in a day.