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How many of you people complaining about the issues with their servers have done anything through the Humble Bundle ever before??? Anything that is popular WRECKS the serves of the providers.

As it is, you should be happy for 2 major points: 1) Paizo is basically giving away their digital books for practically nothing, 2) Extra Life is a Children's Miracle Network partner and the money they raise go to the local children's hospitals.

So grow up and stop feeling that everything needs to be handed to you on a platter...

What about all the non-Humble Bundle customers, who paid full price for their digital media and are now stuck unable to acquire it due to Paizo's obvious lack of preparation for the level of traffic the Bundle would generate? Do they need to grow up, too, or would you care to admit that they just might have a legitimate complaint?

Reposting this here after not getting any bites as a lone thread....

Elemental Spell feat: Choose one energy type: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. You may replace a spell’s normal damage with that energy type or split the spell’s damage, so that half is of that energy type and half is of its normal type.

Draconic Reservoir spell:

Draconic reservoir functions as protection from energy, absorbing 6 points of one type of energy damage per caster level (acid, cold, electricity, or fire, maximum 60 points). Each round, as a swift action, the subject can release 1d6 points of the absorbed energy and apply it to any melee attack, as if using an acidic, flaming, frost, or shock weapon.

Can Elemental Spell be applied to Draconic reservoir to essentially convert the absorbed energy into the type selected for the feat? Or, is the energy damage from Draconic reservoir "locked" because the energy is absorbed rather than created by the spell itself?

Another question: the Gnome Trickster feat adds 1 use/day of mage hand and prestidigitation to a gnome's spell-like abilities. If a gnome already has 1 use/day of prestidigitation, through the base Gnome Magic trait or the Pyromaniac alternate trait, does he get a second use/day, or is that part of the feat basically meaningless?

Pennyforth wrote:

The Gnome Trickster feat (page 161) states:

"Benefit: In addition to your normal gnome spell-like
abilities, you also gain the following spell-like abilities:
1/day—mage hand and prestidigitation."

As per the Core Rulebook, gnomes already have prestidigitation 1/day as one of their normal spell-like abilities. So I guess the question is, what is the actual second spell-like ability granted by this feat?

They either get a second use per day of prestidigitation, or get a 1/day use of it if they gave it up as part of an alternate racial feature.

It would have to be a second use, since a gnome magic trait is a prerequisite for Gnome Trickster, and of the other two gnome traits that grant spell-like abilities, one also has prestidigitation on the list.

-Page 76: The Knockdown barbarian rage power is useable once per rage, and allows the bbn to make a trip attack in place of a melee attack. Compare that to the almost-identical knockback barbarian rage power from the Core Rulebook: it is useable once per round, and allows the bbn to make a bull rush attack in place of a melee attack. Why the disparity?

Why not? This doesn't really seem like errata--more like your personal perception that because they're similar, they should have the same number of uses.

-Page 202: The Aqueous Orb spell notes in its description that a "Medium or smaller creature must make a second save or be engulfed by the aqueous orb." Later though, it says that "The orb may hold one Large, 4 Medium, or 16 Small or smaller creatures within in." So which is it? Medium or Large?

You forgot the rest of the sentence in that first part--"a Medium or smaller creature that fails its save must make a second save or be engulfed by the aqueous orb and carried along with it." The description further notes that those engulfed are "entangled by its churning currents". As I read it, the intent is that the orb, which is listed as 10 feet in diameter, is just big enough to fit a single Large creature (which averages at 10 ft., according to the Core Rulebook), but that its size and the "strength" of its currents is not enough to pull a Large creature along with it.

So why does it even bother stating that one Large creature will fit within the orb? The description also notes that creatures engulfed within the orb receive cover (though at the expense of taking more damage from the orb, not to mention problems if the creature can't breath underwater). Presumably, a Large creature could enter a stationary orb and gain cover, or even move with the orb if the creature's movement is high enough.

Some points certainly need to be clarified, but it's not hard to intuit the intent from the text.

The Gnome Trickster feat (page 161) states:

"Benefit: In addition to your normal gnome spell-like
abilities, you also gain the following spell-like abilities:
1/day—mage hand and prestidigitation."

As per the Core Rulebook, gnomes already have prestidigitation 1/day as one of their normal spell-like abilities. So I guess the question is, what is the actual second spell-like ability granted by this feat?

Elemental Spell feat:

Choose one energy type: acid, cold, electricity, or fire. You may replace a spell’s normal damage with that energy type or split the spell’s damage, so that half is of that energy type and half is of its normal type.

Draconic Reservoir spell:

Draconic reservoir functions as protection from energy, absorbing 6 points of one type of energy damage per caster level (acid, cold, electricity, or fire, maximum 60 points). Each round, as a swift action, the subject can release 1d6 points of the absorbed energy and apply it to any melee attack, as if using an acidic, flaming, frost, or shock weapon.

Can Elemental Spell be applied to Draconic reservoir to essentially convert the absorbed energy into the type selected for the feat? Or, is the energy damage from Draconic reservoir "locked" because the energy is absorbed rather than created by the spell itself?

Much obliged for the clarification.

Take a character that has progressed far enough in a single class to achieve a +6/+1 base attack bonus. Now add a single level in another class that grants another +1 to that bonus; does that +1 apply to both "sides" of the previous bonus, or just to the higher number? In other words, is the now-multiclassed character's base attack bonus +7/+2, or +7/+1?

The dual-wielding rogue would also need the Double Slice feat to add its full Strength bonus to the off-hand attack--normally, a character can only add half its Strength bonus to attack made with the off-hand.