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Hey everyone.

In the deviant feats section, from the Dark Archive and reprinted in the Gatewalkers Players' Guide, the backlash entry for the Dragon classification is called Energetic Meltdown, and its moderate effect says this (emphasis mine):

Energy wracks your body. After taking the damage, you gain weakness to the energy type of your backlash until your next daily preparations. The weakness is equal to one-third of your level. You also lose immunity to the energy type if you had it, until your next daily preparations.

So, it says "After taking the damage", but doesn't say how much damage you take.

For reference, the Mild backlash says this:

You take damage equal to your level as energy scours your body

So it seems like when the Moderate one says "Energy wracks your body" it's intended that you take some damage, but it looks like the amount was omitted. It could be read as referring to the damage from the Mild backlash, but that might have been a long time ago, and it would make the Moderate backlash pretty weak compared to other examples.

What does everyone think, is this just a mistake? Would something like damage equal to twice your level seem fair?

The ranger feat Masterful Companion says this:

Your animal companion shares your incredible hunting skills, allowing it to take down your shared prey with ease. When you Hunt Prey, your animal companion gains the masterful hunter benefit associated with your hunter’s edge, rather than just your original hunter’s edge benefit.

But the flurry ranger's masterful hunter benefit is this:

You can blend your weapon mastery with skillful targeting to make a series of precise attacks. If you have master proficiency with your weapon, your multiple attack penalty for attacks against your hunted prey is –2 (–1 with an agile weapon) on your second attack of the turn, and –4 (–2 with an agile weapon) on your third and subsequent attacks of the turn.

The problem is, animal companions don't get master proficiency in their weapon, so does this do anything for them?

The deafened condition requires a DC5 flat check to perform an action with the auditory trait.

At first this sounds similar to the 20% spell failure chance from PF1e, but casting spells even with Verbal components doesn't seem to be auditory - Verbal components have just the Concentrate trait. The sidebar says specifically that Cast a Spell becomes auditory if a bard uses a musical instrument (but they could just cast it normally instead).

This seems to make applying deafened pretty useless in combat (so thunderstones, sound burst pretty weak). Am I missing something?

Hi everyone!

I have a question about the Wall of Ectoplasm spell.

The description says:

A section of the wall whose hit points drop to 0 is breached, but if a section is destroyed, the remaining ectoplasm in the wall immediately fills in any such hole created, reducing the wall’s overall size by one 10-foot square but remaining a contiguous barrier. The wall can also take the form of a sphere or hemisphere whose maximum radius is 1 foot per caster level, and that is as hard to break through as the ectoplasmic plane form.

My question is, what happens when a section of a spherical or hemispherical Wall of Ectoplasm is breached? Does the radius decrease to allow the wall to "remain a contiguous barrier"? Or does a hole form, say, from the top down? If the radius does decrease, what happens to things inside?