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Rushley son of Halum wrote:

burkoJames wrote:

Ascalaphus wrote:

Smite Evil (where applicable due to alignment)

Smite Evil bypasses DR regardless of alignment.

Smite evil only works if the target is evil...

NO.

PRD wrote:

Once per day, a paladin can call out to the powers of good to aid her in her struggle against evil. As a swift action, the paladin chooses one target within sight to smite. If this target is evil, the paladin adds her Charisma bonus (if any) to her attack rolls and adds her paladin level to all damage rolls made against the target of her smite. If the target of smite evil is an outsider with the evil subtype, an evil-aligned dragon, or an undead creature, the bonus to damage on the first successful attack increases to 2 points of damage per level the paladin possesses. Regardless of the target, smite evil attacks automatically bypass any DR the creature might possess.

What the target is doesn't matter for the DR purposes of smite evil.

Read the italic first, THEN read the bold. Regardless of the target being an evil outsider, evil-aligned dragon or an undead or no, it ignores DR. But it still has to be evil in any case. Is clumsily written, but there it is. It only works on evil creatures. If the ability is used on a non-evil creature, the use is lost, like fizzled spell. That's why Paladins have Detect Evil at will so to not waste their precious smites.

"This cost reduction applies only to the first constructed building of the types listed in this line."

Does that mean I get to choose only one building on the list that will have it's cost halved.

First Example:
1st turn I build a University (78 BP): Discount list -> Academy, Bardic College, Museum, Library, Magical Academy, Military Academy

2nd turn I build a Library (3 BP)

3rd turn my discount is spent and I have to pay full price for Academy or any other building on University discount list.

Or does it mean I get the discount for each of the buildings on the list but only once (or until another building gives me that discount again)

Second Example:
1st turn I build a University (78 BP): Discount list -> Academy, Bardic College, Museum, Library, Magical Academy, Military Academy

2nd turn I build a Library (3 BP)

3rd turn I build an Academy (26 BP)

4th turn I build an another Academy (52 BP)

It's the second option. Under building descriptions on page 214 under Building Name it states: "The type of buildings contained in this lot. In most cases, each lot represents numerous buildings of that type, rather than a single edifice."

The keyword is "type". You get a discount for the first building of it's type from the discount list, meaning Library is one type, Museum is another and so on.

I'm playing this character in PF Society, please take that into consideration.

I'm up for optimizing, but I'm also making this character for role-playing purposes (= fun), but I'd rather avoid taking an useless feat along the way.

I'm currently a level 1 Half-orc Barbarian (Invulnerable Rager) (so I can still change everything if I want) with Str 16/Dex 15/Con 16/Int 10/Wis 7/Cha 12.

Equipped with a Lucerne Hammer I plan to go a reach/Combat Reflexes direction and from level 2, cast Enlarge Person on myself to increase my reach.

This would give me a Str of 26 at level 9 (barb 4/sorc 1/DD 4) while raging (without magical items and stat raise from level 4 and 8), a high amount of HP, DR/- 2, but a rather low AC, because I will depend on light/medium armor in order to cast spells reliably. But hopefully I will be able to keep enemies at bay with my large reach.

I'm in doubt whether or not to choose Arcane Armor Training at level 3, or on damage over AC.

My two level 1 spells for my sorc level would be Shield and Enlarge Person.

Thoughts? Comments?

Thanks in advance