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I'd like to get the last of the 1st edition Pathfinder stuff, but I want to cancel so I don't get any of the 2nd ed stuff.

As the AP subscription contains an overlap, this would imply a 'split' cancel.

Could you please set me up, just like you did for Joey Virtue, one thread below?

Thanks in advance, and have some nice holidays!

Good day; i hope you had a merry Christmas.

It seems that my order Order #4076772 was lost in transit.
I got a shipping notice on November 4; since then... no sign of life, not even a customs notice.

The subsequent order, #4150575, declared as shipping on December 1, has arrived on Christmas Eve... so I am starting to worry about #4076772.

Hello all,

If a character with multiple spontaneous casting classes obtains a Page of Spell Knowledge with a spell that is on more than one list from the classes he has...

can he freely cast this spell from slots of any of these classes, or does he have to decide which of his eligible classes will benefit from effectively having one more spell known?

Bonus question: What happens if the spell in question is rated at different levels in his class spell lists?

So, let's get this straight, please:

What exactly does the phrase "Special: This feat replaces the Two-Weapon Fighting feat for creatures with more than two arms." mean?

a) If four-armed, I cannot take TWF. I must take MWF instead. Since all the higher-up feats (ITWF, GTWF, Two-Weapon Rend, etc.) require TWF, I am abolutely unable to learn those, ever.

b) If four-armed, I must take MWF in place of IWF. MWF replaces TWF in all aspects, thus being a valid prerequisite for two-weapon rend (which would apply once per round if I hit with... what exactly? Main Hand plus one off hand? Any two different weapons?), ITWF (which would likely give me a single additional iterative from one off hand), drawing more than one weapon in a single move action (if so, how many?), and so on.

c) Actually, the design team never gave too much thought to this case, as multi-armed creatures who'd actually take these feats are pretty rare?

d) Something else altogether?

Mind, I am not asking for things like IMWF and the like, I'd just like a clarification how far the 'replacement' paragraph is intended to go... and so far, there have been about zero official responses... unless I missed something.

Let's assume Conina the Barbarienne is the proud owner of a +5 anarchic furious courageous evil outsider bane greataxe (which, unless my math fails me, is a +10 equivalent)

Now, Conina comes to face a devil and flies into a battle rage.

Prize question: What is the weapon going to do? Applying the increase to effective enhancement granted by bane and furious would take the total effective enhancement quite a bit above +10...

Hallo,

Currently my subscription page claims that both a shipping containing:

Pathfinder AP #79
Pathfinder AP #80
Pathfinder Module: Tears at Bitter Manor

should ship by April 25.

Given that AP #79 is announced to be available by March 26, why is my copy (and thus, my access to the pdf) detained until late April?

Could someone look into this issue, please?

Hello,

I just purchased a pair of PFS Modules. Howerver, the system didn't deduct the 15% discount I usually get for being a subscriber.

Have the PFS pdfs been lumped with 'third party pdfs' after the revamp of the site? Or, have I stumbled across an error?

Let's assume Ixiolander the Great (Level 11 wizard) gets his hands on a Staff of Swarming Insects.

What can he do with this staff, and how can he recharge it?

The summon swarm ability is pretty much straightforward. Drain one charge, and *bam* one summon swarm spell coming up.

However, the insect plague ability is a tad unclear, as said spell is not on Ixi's class spell list.
Will he have to UMD it?
If so, what CL does he use in this case?
What spellcasting stat modifier? His own, or the corresponding modifier for the class he emulated?

While we're at it, what is the effective Spell Level for the insect plague effect? 4, or 5? After all, this also determines the spell level necessary to recharge the whole thing.

(IIRC, insect plague is Cle/Ora 5, Drd 5, Sum 4)

So, let's assume the group found a wand of Restoration in a pre-writen adventure, with some measly remaining charges on it.

What amount of diamond dust is assumed to have been used in its creation?
5k (as per the base line of Restoration)?
50k (which would qualify for dispelling permanent negative levels)?
In the first case, can the wand wielder supply that additional 900 gold to 'upgrade' the restoration spell?

Situation 2: Same question, this time with a scroll or Restoration (which is spell completion, rather than spell trigger, unless my rules-fu fails me...)

Okay, so a spell usually taking a standard action becomes a full-round action to cast when cast spontaneously and augmented by a non-quicken metamagic feat.

A spell usually taking more than 1 standard action has its castim time extended by anouther full round action (so a spontaneous extended SNA would need 1 full turn, plus 1 full-round-action).

Prize question: What happens to spells that have s shorter casting time? What about a silent Feather Fall, or an empowered Cold Ice Strike?

Do these casting times remain what they were?

Hello, and cheers,

according to my mail, said order shipped on 2013-08-15.
Given the fact that all other Paizo orders have reached me after 2-6 weeks, I am beginning to worry...

One question: During my vacation (from which I returned just now), a package for me was deteined in customs - and promptly sent back for me not picking it up on time (which I couldn't, due being to vacation, duh).
All I know about this package is that, under 'sender' a "Jennifer Griffin" was stated.
Might this have been the very order I am missing?

In any case, do you have any suggestions how to proceed. I'd really like to have my APs complete...

In our group, several players have taken offense at the fact that TN spellcasters get all the ups of summoning, with none of the downs (getting to choose what template to place on their summons plus the ineffectiveness of Protection from $aligment, so I thought to throw a bit of a wrench into the gears of TN summoning.

Delete the following text in the Summon Monster spell:

Creatures on Table 10–1 marked with an “*” are summoned with the celestial template, if you are good, and the fiendish template, if you are evil. If you are neutral, you may choose which template to apply to the creature.

and replace it with:

Creatures on Table 10–1 marked with an “*” can be summoned with the celestial, entropic, fiendish, or resolute template if you have a good, chaotic, evil or lawful alignment, respectively. Only one of these templates may be applied in the same summoning, and it will affect all of the summoned creatures.

which, for example, gives a LG character the option of summoning a vanilla, celestial, or resolute creature; a CN character has the option of calling a vanilla or entropic creature... while a TN caster is stuck with standard critters (which, on the bright side, still cannot be hedged out by simple protection spells)

Comments? Ideas? Flames?

Well, I am aware that the familiar never 'levels up', and thus receives zero feats, or skill points for a new hit die.

However, as the master's level increases, so does the familiar's Int score, reaching 10 at Level 9, 12 at level 13, and 14 at level 17.
Which would, in theory, entitle a normal familiar (which is of the Magical Beast type, thus receiving 2 + Int Modifier skill points per HD) to an additional skill point per HD at the stated levels.

Question is, should one grant these skill points, or not?

Well, let's have a look at our villige Elder, Old Irina, a 7th level Commoner.

As her title implies, Old Irina is very old. Venerable, to be precise, reducing her constitution score from the 11 she had when she was spry to a measly 5. The fact she did not use her favored class bonus to improve her toughness does not make things better.

Prize question: How many hp does Old Irina have when uninjured?

a) 7d6-21 means an average of 3.5 per d6, for a 0.5 per d6-3, thus she has 0.5 x 7 = 3.5 hp, rounding down to 3.
b) 7, as you cannot have less max hp than hd.
c) Every single hd yields at least 1 hp. Thus, 1d6-3 will result in 1,1,1,1,2 or 3 hp, for an average of 1.5 (9 divided by 6). Irina has 10 hp.

Now, to complicate things, Irina has fallen ill, and is suffering a -2 constitution penalty. How to adjust her maximum hp?

a) Just deduct 7 from her max hp?
b) as per a), but she cannot drop lower than 7, as this is the number of ger hd?
c) re-calculate the average hp per hd (for a new average of 1 1/6), granting her a whopping 8 hp?

Bonus question: If Old Irina spent her 'favored class' bonus on hp instead of skills, would this 1hp per hd taken into consideration before the 'no less than 1' rule, or after?

So, let's assume I have a pouncy Cat-of-Death Eidolon (Pounce for Claw, Claw, Bite, Rake, Rake), and I assign the Reach evolution to its bite attack.

Now, since a Pounce requires a Charge, given the special rules for Charging, what will happen if Kitty leaps on a foe?

A) Due to the charge rules, I have to stop 10" away from the opponent, as this is the nearest square I can reach and attack from. After delivering my bite attack, I am out of range for my claw and rake attacks. So much for pouncing.

B) In analogy of the spear wielding guy who charges to deliver a blow with his armor spikes, I can charge next to my opponent, delivering my full set of attacks with a 5" reach via Pounce (e.g. Claw, Claw, Rake, Rake)

C) As per B), but after charging up to Claw distance, I can deliver a full set of attacks that are able to connect from my current position. Which is, all of them.

The 1 point evolution Improved Damage makes a natural attack of the Eidolon inflict damage as if one category larger.

Now, the Eidolon can easily take the Feat Improved Natural Attack... which will cause one of its attacks to inflict additional damage, as posted in a list which is slightly different to the usual size increase table.

Prize question: An Eidolon possessing both Improved Damage and Improved Natural Attack on the same natural weapon will get... what exactly?

Let's say I have a bite attack, with the Grab quality attached, plus constrict.

If I only make a single attack action (e.g. a bite) on my turn, I can multiply my damage dice via Vital Strike.
When I start doing automatic damage via the grappling rules... do I inflict single bite damage only, or is it multiplied as well?
Same question for constrict damage.

Hello!

I just wanted to ask, since this order number has been pending for the last week-and-a-half... has there been any problem with anything?

Fun with international CC processing? Some obscure law that interferes with exporting edible stuff?

Or am I just yet another victim of the 'massive Kickstarter rewards meet short week' effect?

Cheers, and keep up the great work!

According to ToH (or PFSRD, which has a faithful copy of the creature), a vanilla Alu-Demon sports:

CR 5 (800 XP), Str 17, Dex 15, Con 15, Int 15, Wis 15, Cha 16.

Umm... unless my memory fails me, CR 5 equals 1600 XP, so lil' demoness will either need to be worth 1600 XP, or be dialed back to CR 3. (I assume CR 5 is correct, but it cannot hurt to ask)

Second, I remember Neil Spicer stating in one of his wall-of-text comments about Superstar monsters entries that a baseline monster should have 'three odd, and three even stats'. Umm... what I see are five odd stats, so huh?

So, let's attempt to do the math taking Alu-demons from canonical (i.e. Paizo) Adventures...

Could anyone please shed some light on the matter?

I just checked in for voting, and feel the urgent need for adding a possibility to declare 'None of these items should advance'.

Out of the first 10 items I saw, precisely zero adhered to the template. I am not talking a wrongly placed semicolon, but all caps instead of bold text, the ubiquious 'wonderous item' and the like.
Most of the entried have other flaws that make them appear unsuitable to me, including but not limited to, pricing higher than half a million, a hefty increase in bookkeeping, DC values above anything even remotely in line with price and caster level, a set of abilities that is almost a carbon copy of an existing item in a Paizo publication (in a massively different flavor, though), and the like.

Is it just me? Am I too harsh, or elitist? Did I get off with a bad start?
Or is the average quality of the entries actually that low?

Let's compare the effects of Endless Power between say, a Sorcerer and a Wizard.
By the time I qualify for Endless Power (being able to cast spells of 5th level), I have reached my apex of slots if I'm a Wiz (4 +1 for Specialist), as well as spells known as a Sorc (5).
If I'm a wizard, I'll add my Int Bonus to my number of slots; I don't think it's going to be less than +2.

Which means that, as a spontaneous caster, I can spam all of my 5 known level 1 spells all day. If I took the human alternate ability, I can even spam all (probably) 7 of my known level 1 spells.

As a wizard, however, I can spam a selection of 7 (or 8, as a specialist) level 1 spells, determined anew every day from the complete list of first level spells in my book.
Plus, unlike my Sorcerer buddy, I won't pay the casting time markup if channeling these through a Metamagic Rod.

Umm... is it just me, or is the whole affair another blow to the groins of spontaneous casters?

(Yes, I am aware that if I take this ability several times, I might get the advantage of adding meta'ed versions of all my low-level spells to my repertoire of spammable spells...)

Now, I admit that not every choice has to be of equal benefit for everyone... but I have yet to find mythic abilities that are of greater benefit to spontaneous casters than they are to prepared casters, instead of preferring prepared casters yet again.

At the time, I am crafting a dragon encounter for my group; APL is going to be 11, so the target CR for a Dragon Fight I aim for is 14.

Based on the environment, a Red would be most fitting. However, I am not a fan of solo encounters (action economy can be a royal PITA), so I am shying away fom a single Adult Red (which would be CR14).

An idea that crossed my mind was to toss a trio of (CR 11) Juvenile Red siblings at them, instead (IIRC this is the maximum age before any clutches break up). Of course, all three sisters are going to have a different set of spells, are equipped differently, have the advantage of terrain and employ group tactics...

Is such a multi-dragon fight viable? Too brutal? Or do you think an APL 11 group is going to pretty much LOLstomp a trio of level-appropriate dragons?

The weapon takes the shape of a weapon favored by your deity or a weapon with some spiritual significance or symbolism to you (see below) and has the same threat range and critical multipliers as a real weapon of its form.

So far, so good.

A spiritual weapon's AC against touch attacks is 12 (10 + size bonus for Tiny object).

Which, of course, is true for yout typical one-handed weapon for medium sized users.

However, (let's assume the weapon appears in the correct size for medium clerics) things like a two-handed sword (say hello to Gorum) or a dagger (Naderi) aren't exactly tiny objects.

What'd you do? Give the thingies different size AC bonuses (Spiritual weapons of different clerics are already different, after all, just look at the crit numbers), or disregard the effect?

Bonus question: Does anything change if the favored weapon of your deity happens to be a ranged weapon? Since 'it always strikes from your direction', suddenly applying rules for cover or shooting into melee would pretty much nix the value of this spell...

Please correct me if I am doing something wrong, and help me where I am not sure.

So, what auras could be detected on...

1) a level 3 LE human warrior (none)

2) a level 6 CE human adept (faint chaos, faint evil)

3) a level 6 LN human cleric of Asmodeus (strong law, strong evil)

4) a level 7 CG human cleric of Groetus (strong chaos, faint good)

5) a level 11 LG human paladin of Shelyn (moderate law, overwhelming good [11 HD])

6) a level 8 CE ogre (4HD) cleric of Gorum (moderate evil, strong chaos)

7) a level 6 NG tiefling rogue (faint good? strong good? Does 'aligned outsider' mean 'outsider with [aligned] subtype? Outsider with [alignment]? Both?)

8) a level 9 CE elven vampire wizard (moderate evil... faint or moderate chaos? Is the 'undead' line only for 'evilness'?)

9) a CE (fallen) Monadic Deva (14HD)? (Overwhelming good [14 HD], plus moderate chaos and moderate evil? Or Overwhelming good, chaos and evil (all at 14 HD)?)

10) a LG level 12 (ascended) Succubus (8HD) Paladin of Sarenrae (see the 3.5 succubus paladin)?

11) a level 13 CG human ghost sorceress?

What exactly does Augment Summoning work on?

a) all spells with 'Summon' in their name?
b) all conjuration (summoning) spells?
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i.e. are Vomit Swarm, Insect Plague, Creeping Doom, Mount, Rain of Frogs and the like affected by this feat, or do I have to stick to Summon Monster, Summon Nature's Ally, Summon Eidolon, Summon Swarm and their brethren?

The stat block of lantern archons sports a +2 deflection bonus to AC vs. evil, along with a +2 resistance bonus to saves vs. evil. Which pretty much looks like a Protection from Evil effect.

However, unlike other archons, their Aura lacks the Magic Circle agains Evil entry... and their spellikes are lacking an always-on Protection from Evil, as well...

Umm... has there been some omission somewhere during the transition to PF? Am I suposed to take the 'vs evil' bonuses as intrinsic effects? Is the critter supposed to be under the effects of a Protection from evil (thus gaining its additional protection)?
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Round 2: Nine (or more) Lantern Archons can combine into a more powerful Gestalt. The interesting thing is, the DR of the resulting being is considerably lower than the one a single archon has.

Umm... is this intentional?

So, when I charge an opponent I must move to the closest square from which I can attack it.
Question is, what if I have the Lunge Feat and want to charge a foe?

Can I choose to employ Lunge on my charge, thus being able to stop one square farther away from my target?
Am I forced to employ Lunge on my charge, as not doing so will result in a target square that is farther away from my starting position... which would be illegal?

Is the Eidolon just an extension of the Summoner's will, doing whatever he commands (barring failed saves)?
Or, do you play it as a creature who has a deep link with the summoner, but retains a personality of its own, possibly to the point of arguing with its master, or refusing to do certain things?
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I do not ask this because I want to screw the Summoner's player, I'd just like to know whether the Eidolon should meriily follow through
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- suicidal commands (we had the discussion about the Summoner saving an action by commanding his Eidolon to suicide rather than dismissing it
- obvious stupidity (Sure, most Eidolons aren't the brightest bulbs; but sometimes players take just plain bad decisions - should I throw a lifeline here?
- commands that are in massive to the Eidolon's Alignment
- commands a dominated Summoner gives (e.g. turning on the group)
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Options? Ideas? Comments?

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Maybe I'm just plain dumb, or blind, but...

Human Zombie

Str 17, Dex 10, Con —, Int —, Wis 10, Cha 10
Base Atk +1; CMB +4; CMD 14

Attacks

It also gains a slam attack that deals damage based on the zombie's size, but as if it were one size category larger than its actual size (see Natural Attacks).

Looks like a +4 attack to me (1 BAB, 3 by Str); for 1d6+3 (1d4 upgraded to 1d6, +3 from Str).

However,

Melee slam +4 (1d6+4)

Umm... where does this additional point of dmage come from? Did I miss something?

According to the table that comes with the Reincarnate spell, the character can come back as a Goblin.
The racial modifiers (on physical scores) for Goblins, according to the table, are Str-2, Dex+2.
According to Golarion's bestiary, the modifiers are Str-2, Dex+4.

So, which Dex modifier am I supposed to use?

Next question: With the advent of the ARG, the table is pretty much outdated, anyway. Unfortunately, none was included in the ARG (where it would have fit quite nicely, IMHO).
Am I supposed to whip up a table of my own if reincarnating, say, a Tengu?
Should I merrily keep using the standard chart (You might reincarnate as a Bugbear, but Tengu are out of the question)?

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So, an adept gains a familiar once she hits level 2. What are the familiar's abilities based on?
Her full level (as she has a class that grants a familiar)?
Her level-1 (as she doen't gain the familiar right away)?
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Next question, let's assume she likes to obtain a shiny new quasit familiar. No problem, the feat Improved familiar can do just that... umm... the prerequisites for an Improved Familiar, any Improved Familiar read 'Arcane Caster Level'. Unfortunately, our Adept is regarded a divine caster.
So, would one count her as 'arcane' for purposes of acquiring a familiar... or is she pretty much royally screwed?

Last but not least (this one is not a rules question)... why are so very few Adepts in the existing adventures? Most low level adventures sport experts galore, warriors up the wazoo... but I cannot recall a single adept in all the APs I know.

Smite Evil (Su): 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.

In addition, while smite evil is in effect, the paladin gains a deflection bonus equal to her Charisma modifier (if any) to her AC against attacks made by the target of the smite. If the paladin targets a creature that is not evil, the smite is wasted with no effect.

Let's assume our Paladin encounters a ghost, who tries to ask him for help. Before she can say a thing, however, he brandishes his sword, exclaiming 'Begone, foul creature!' and declaring a Smite Evil.

What will the effects of this smite be?

Nothing, as per If the paladin targets a creature that is not evil, the smite is wasted with no effect.?
Full effect, with double bonus oomph on the first hit, as the target of the smite is a member of the undead?
Double bonus oomph on the first hit, as the target of the smite is a member of the undead, then... nothing?
Something else altogether?
And what (if anything) happens about the deflection bonus to AC?

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Sorry if this topic has been answered before, but I couldn't find an authotitative answer:

Assume I take a Quasit Familiar (available via Improved Familiar, at Level 7).

Now, with an Int of 11, a standard quasit isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the socket... but what Int will my Quasit familiar have?

Will it be dumbed down to 9 (as the Familiar by Level Table states)?
Will it retain its 11 forever (the special entry overwriting the Table entry)?
Will it retain its 11, until the Familiar Table indicates a higher number (going up to 12 at Level 13)?
Will it start at 11 (rather than the usual 9 at level 7), going up by 1 for every odd level I take?
Will it be hyper-intelligent, treating the table entries minus two (to compensate for the usual 2 Int of animals becoming familiars) as a bonus to Int, thus starting with 18?

Officially, I need a statistic high enough to cast the spell scribed on a scroll. Int or Charisma for Sor/Wiz spells, Wis for divine spells.

Has this been modified or rescinded any time? If not, an Oracle would have a very hard time being able to employ a scroll she has written herself, being a Charisma based spellcaster.

Second, if I stumble across an arcane scroll of, say, CLW... do I get to choose whether I need Int or Cha for using it? (Last time I checked, there was only an arcane/divine distinction; nobody cares whether said scroll has been written by a witch or bard)...

Hello,

could you please put this order into my sidecart, to ship together with my AP subscription volume? Thanks in advance!

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Bleeding Critical (Combat, Critical)

Your critical hits cause opponents to bleed profusely.

Prerequisites: Critical Focus, base attack bonus +11.

Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a slashing or piercing weapon, your opponent takes 2d6 points of bleed damage (see Conditions) each round on his turn, in addition to the damage dealt by the critical hit. Bleed damage can be stopped by a DC 15 Heal skill check or through any magical healing. The effects of this feat stack.

appears to be in contradiction to

Bleed: A creature that is taking bleed damage takes the listed amount of damage at the beginning of its turn. Bleeding can be stopped by a DC 15 Heal check or through the application of any spell that cures hit point damage (even if the bleed is ability damage). Some bleed effects cause ability damage or even ability drain. Bleed effects do not stack with each other unless they deal different kinds of damage. When two or more bleed effects deal the same kind of damage, take the worse effect. In this case, ability drain is worse than ability damage.

So, do multiple Bleeding Critical hits ramp up the bleed damage, to multiples of 2d6?

Hmm... I cannot seem to find where the rules regarding mount sizes are.

Does my mount have to be exactly one size category larger than myself, or was that at least one size category?

During each round, I have a move and a standard action (barring special circumstances).

Do I have to take these at the same Initiative count, or can I do one of them, and delay for the second (e.g. move to a chokepoint and declare I will strike at the first enemy to move within range?

I am perfectly aware tht this would move my Initiative down to whenever I take the second of my actions.

In the 'protean' subtype section, the Bestiary II claims

Change Shape (Su) A protean's form is not fixed. Once per day as a standard action, a protean may change shape into any Small, Medium, or Large animal, elemental, giant, humanoid, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, ooze, plant, or vermin. A protean can resume its true form as a free action, and when it does so, it gains the effects of a heal spell (CL equal to the protean's HD).

Still, each and every protean has a 'change shape' entry under SQ, for example:

SQ change shape (2 forms, both of which must be Tiny animals; beast shape II)

Consider me confused (even if I am not experiancing the effect of voidworm poison right now).

Are these abilities in addition to one another (allowing the example voidworm to toggle between its own shape and two tiny animals at will, plus a once-per-day shapeshift into a 'Small, Medium, or Large animal, elemental, giant, humanoid, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, ooze, plant, or vermin')?

Does the voidworm's change shape entry effectively overwrite the racial entry? (well, it does looks more power adequate for a CR3 creature)? Is it still 1/day, then?

If the latter is the case, why even bother with the racial entry? After all, each and every protean in the Bestiary gets a specific change shape line in its data block.

Just stumbled across something in the PRD...

Charm person

School enchantment (charm) [mind-affecting]; Level bard 1, sorcerer/wizard 1
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target one humanoid creature
Duration 1 hour/level

Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance yes

This charm makes a humanoid creature regard you as its trusted friend and ally (treat the target's attitude as friendly). If the creature is currently being threatened or attacked by you or your allies, however, it receives a +5 bonus on its saving throw.

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Charm Monster

School enchantment (charm) [mind-affecting]; Level bard 3, sorcerer/wizard 4
Target one living creature
Duration 1 day/level

This spell functions like charm person, except that the effect is not restricted by creature type or size.

Hmm... either Charm Monster is lacking a statement like "except for the increased duration, and that the effect is not restricted by creature type or size.", or one of the two duration entries is in error.

Now, what is the case?

Let me get things 100% straight...

Let's assume Larry the Luckless is attacked by a crocodile.

Round 1
Croc bites and hits (doing 1d8+4 bite damage).
Croc immediately gets a free Grapple check to establish a grapple. Success!
Question: Does the Death Roll kick in right now, allowing the croc another immediate Grapple check (for another 1d8+4 damage plus Knockdown)?

Round 2
Croc succeeds its grapple check.
Does it get to do automatic damage (as per the grappling damage rules), plus another check for Death Roll, or must it choose between grappling for damage and Death Rolling?

Wearing an armor is limiting the maximum Dex Bonus I can employ to my AC, not effecting other Dex-related abilities.

Prize question: Do I get my full Dex bonus to CMD (as CMD != AC), or was it the Dex bonus to AC that was part of the CMD calculation, rather than the Dex Bonus?

Versatile Dance (Ex): At 2nd level, a dervish dancer gains a bonus equal to half his level on Perform (dance) checks. He can use his bonus for his Perform (dance) skill in place of his bonus for Acrobatics. This ability replaces versatile performance.

Umm... does this replace all instances of versatile performance, or just the one given at second level?

In other words: Does a Level 10 Dervish Dancer have access to two types of Versatile performance (rather than the three of a vanilla bard), or to none?

Fiendish Sorcery: Tiefling sorcerers with the Abyssal or Infernal bloodlines treat their Charisma scores as 2 points higher for all sorcerer class abilities.

There is no indication in the book that this effect only applies to 'mongrel' tieflings, or those who stem from the 'appropriate' fiend type.

By rules, neither a Rakshasa-spawn nor a Daemon-spawn have any problems in getting this bonus when claiming an Infernal Bloodline... while, for retaining the effect for their own bloodline, the Rakshasa-spawn has to take the Improved Fiendish Sorcery Feat, while the Daemon-spawn is out of luck altogether.

Umm... huh? Can anyone help me with this type of logic? Am I the only one who thinks that for those 'pure-blooded' Tieflings, their heritage Bloodline would be the one they are most closely tied to?

So, what do you think would be in-style, sensible (and effective) classes for, say, an Erinyes?

Inquisitor? (appears effective, and has precedence, after all...)
Hellknight? (if so, which order would come to mind?)
Cleric? (possibly going Unholy Vindicator?)

What would a child of a Night Hag and an (unfortunate) human(oid) father be?

Changeling, as per the definition 'Child of Hag and Human'? (Problem is, Traits are only given for Annis, Green, and Sea Hag changelings)?

Or Tiefling, as the Night Hag is an evil Outsider native to the Plane of Shadow (making the child being the offspring of an evil Outsider)?

According to the 'Improved Familiar' rules, you can take an Improved Familiar if you have sufficient levels in familiar-granting classes, and are not more than one step away from the Familiar's alignment.

Which allows, for example, Imp familiars for a LN wizard.

For convenience, the Familiar Table has even been updated in UM, stating all applicable alignments of Improved Familiars.

So far, so good.

Now, starting with Bestiary 2, some of the familiar choices (say hello to Azata and Qlippoth, among others) state sentences like 'a chaotic good spellcaster can take a Lyrakien as a familiar...'; well, so much for 'one step away'.

Which way do the rules decide: can a NG spellcaster get himself a Lyrakien familiar, like a NE one can get an imp, or quasit, following the wording of the Improved Familiar Feat and the Improved Familiar Table, or should this conflict of rules should be resolved by 'special
familiar entry taking precedence over general improved familiar rule'?

Is this contradiction even intentional, or do we have a simple case of 'didn't synchronize the rules' at our hands?

Short simple question:

If I have an improved familiar, but my alignment changes, becoming incompatible, what happens?
Does my familiar leave me?
Is it actually capable of severing our soul bond on its own accord?

Quite some time ago, it was ruled that the lame curse of an oracle should not be easily circumvented by a mere revelation like Cinder Dance.
In fact, this was incorporated into the later editions of the APG, barring lame Oracles of Flame from learning it entirely.

With UM, new shiny mysteries came out, including Metal.
Which includes the revelation Dance of the Blades.
Which does the exact same thing as the (banned for lame oracles) Cinder Dance in regards of movement.
Which is not flagged as a no-no for lame Oracles of Metal.

Umm... is it just me, or is the logic behind this design a tad... obscure?