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Honest question. I keep seeing people saying how good a Summoner is, and I think I'm missing all the reasons. So, how is a summoner better than a conjuration wizard? Here's what I can find

Wizard:
More spells and more variety of spells
Access to conjuration school abilities
Access to Arcane discoveries
Greater access to metamagic feats

Summoner
Eidolon (seems to be the thing everyone talks about, but is it really that good?)
Quicker access to certain spells
Spontaneous summoning (but can't be combined with Eidolon... can regular summoning be combined with Eidolon?)
And that's where my list ends.
Summoner Addendum: Summoner or Unchained Summoner?

In an effort to see Combat Maneuver mechanics (not necessarily combat maneuvers themselves) see more use I started thinking up of ways to make them take effect as a part of other actions. So I started with Sunder.

You start by splitting your AC into 3 parts
Full AC
AC Without Shield
AC Without Armor.

Compare attack roll to your AC table and see where it lands.
If the hit lands on you regardless of AC, you take normal damage
If the hit was prevented from landing by the difference between Full and Shieldless AC, it means you managed to block the blow, and the shield takes damage (apply hardness and shield HP)
If the hit was prevented from landing by difference between Shield and Armor AC, that means your armor took the blow and takes damage (again apply hardness and armor HP)
And if the roll was so low that your AC without shield or armor prevented it, you merely sidestepped the attack.

This would lead to seeing more wear and tear on gear (useful if you're planning some sort of survival mode campaign) and also allow the DM and players for a more accurate description of attacks and hits.

Will regular Sunder still be useful? Yes! If you declare a Sunder attack and deal more damage than the item you are targeting has, the excess damage overflows onto the target creature carrying/wearing it.

Last thread I found on this subject is now 7 years old so I didn't want to necro it.

My question is how to calculate the time it takes to build a room because I have encountered two methods.

Lets set up the scenario:
We're in a Large Town (25 Capital/day limit) and want to build a small tavern (Bar + Common Room + Lodging)
Bar: 6 Goods, 1 Influence, 5 Labor, 16 Days to build
Common Room: 7 Goods, 8 Labor, 16 Days to build
Lodging: 10 Goods, 1 Influence, 7 labor, 16 Days to build.

Method 1:
Spend all the required Capital, wait 48 days (16x3), voila building done

Method 2:
Add up all Capital (45), divide by amount of capital available to spend per day.
1.8, or 2 days to spend all required capital. But buildings don't go up magically and require time to put work into, hence the time cost (duh).
So you spread the required capital throughout building time:
Bar: .75 Capital cost/day
Common Room: .94 Capital cost/day
Lodging: 1.13 Capital cost/day
This means that you can build the entire structure within 16 days (instead of 48) and still have 22 untapped Capital expenditure per day to build more rooms simultaneously if you so choose. After 18 days the tavern is open for business.

Now I think the method 2 is the correct one as it addresses the problem Method 2 doesn't: If I'm building a tavern with Method 1, it will take 48 days... if I'm building two taverns that are across the street from one another, it will still take 48 days and I end up with two taverns... but if I double the amount of rooms in the first tavern it will now take 96 days to build... which makes absolutely no sense.

What exactly falls under "defenses and powers" granted by the Summoner's Robe? The description isn't exactly crystal clear.

It is pretty clear what it *doesn't* grant. It doesn't change your size, appearance, movement, natural attacks, ability score modifiers.

But what *does* it grant? Lets take the elemental for example (since they're probably the least varied).

I absorb a... Water Elemental. Do I get the Natural Armor? Darkvision? Immunity to bleed/crits/sneaks? Vortex ability? Should I assume that unless it's listed among the things I *don't* get, then I *do* get it?