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I’m interested in the “called” property for weapons as it seems to have fun uses outside of combat. For instance, call your dagger directly into your hands after you have been captured and tied up. Sell the dagger and then call it back into possession. Set traps with the dagger as a release mechanism that you teleport away. Things you could not do with the quite similar “returning” property.

But what happens if the weapon is coated with poison? With returning, the dagger just flies back so any applied poison would remain. But a called weapon teleports so it’s not so clear. I’d like to think the coating stays and I assume that’s the norm and intent but I’m curious what you all think.

That’s all I really need to know but if you’re down to get into the weeds, if poison get’s carried, what else does and doesn’t? On a successful hit, does a dagger come back bloodied? Does a submerged dagger come back wet or dry? How about a little message on a string tied to the dagger? Do “wet” treatments travel but all “mechanical” attachments stay?

If the alchemist is level 10, and a large undead corpse in front of him has 19 HD, can the alchemist raise it? The raised zombie would have 21 HD, so more than double the caster lever. Here is the discovery text:

Benefit: The alchemist gains the ability to animate a relatively complete corpse as an alchemy-powered zombie. This process takes 1 hour and costs 100 gp in alchemical reagents per HD of the corpse being animated; the dead creature gains the zombie template. Zombies that are created in this manner count as undead created by animate dead for the purposes of determining how many undead the alchemist can control. The created zombie is a creature, not a supernatural effect.

From the text, the example lvl 10 alchemist clearly cannot CONTROL more than 40HD of undead, but sounds like the 20HD CREATE limit of Animate Dead does not apply. Right?

Here is the spell link
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/f/fire-trail

I’d like clarity on what is meant by “enter an area of flame”.

Do you trigger damage every 5 foot square a character walks through within the flame, or do you only trigger the damage when you enter a flaming square from a square that is not on fire?

I think it is the former but I’m not totally convinced. A character could take disproportionate damage from this spell if they wade through the fire. On the other hand, arguably the point of the spell is to deter being chased so then the excessive damage makes sense, as the enemy has to take the damage mostly volunteerly.

I have a gnome(small) alchemist and will be taking the boneshard bomb discovery next. Im hoping to use a row of the skeleton minions i'll be gaining as a sort of living meat (bone) shield, while I throw bombs from behind them, especially in narrow hallways.

I'd like to take advantage of the cover mechanic to gain +4 AC against enemy ranged attacks, without giving the same +4 AC to my bomb attack targets. My character is small, and the skeleton minions will likely generally be medium, so I don't think I can use the low obstacles approach. I believe my skeletons will provide "soft cover" both ways.

So, i'm thinking that since I can command my skeletons, they could have readied actions each turn to duck or split for a moment while I throw my bomb. Something to that effect. Curious if that's fair play. The skeletons effectively loose their turns, in exchange for me gaining something similar to low obstacle cover. It's just a fun thing to do some session and gain a bottle cap really.

Hmm not sure if this qualifies as a rules question, it may be purely at DM direction, but here goes. When using the bottled ooze discovery, the summons aren’t under your control. The oozes will, presumably, just act as oozes do.

How do multiple summoned oozes interact with each other? I’m guessing that if they are the same “specie” they’ll ignore each other. But if i summon say a tar jelly and a gelatinous cube, will they attack each other or ignore each other and attack other less ooze-like and more meat-like creatures nearby?

In less weird play, will my summoned ooze be any good in attacking a wild enemy ooze? In essence, do oozes see other oozes as prey?

The alchemist's bottled ooze discovery let's him make an ooze in a bottle instead of an extract. The ooze summons when the bottle is thrown and smashed. The action is very similar to throwing bombs, except it's arguably simpler in that the alchemist doesn't need to mix the components. Nor is there any drinking of the extract involved.

If the alchemist grabs the fast bombs discovery at level 8, he can throw multiple bombs in a full attack action, presumably because he is faster at drawing and mixing the bomb components.

So, if an alchemist has adequate base attack bonus, can he throw a bottled ooze as part of a full attack action? Could he throw, say a Jelly Tar ooze, and throw a regular fire bomb in the same full attack action, igniting the jelly tar ooze?

Is there any reason that would require the fast bomb discovery?

Conversely, could he instead throw an ooze and then another ooze?