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I'm in the planning stages of a campaign right now, and one thing I'd like to do is to tweak the Paladin's Holy Bond ability, as it applies to improving weapons.

As it stands, it feels too generic to me; any paladin can improve any weapon with any ability. I would like each deity to have its own flavour, that their paladins fight with a specific weapon that has a specific set of powers (not necessarily ones that are in the rule book). But I'm not sure how to make sure that this stays balanced. Does anyone have any advice?

I recently got the ARG, and I'm interested in creating a four-armed race for an up-coming game, but I'm unclear exactly how this would work mechanically.

Assuming the character has TWF (MWF?) would they get three off-hand attacks? Would all three off-hand weapons need to be light? Could they fight with a two-handed weapon and two light weapons? If they don't have TWF, what benefits would they gain from the extra arms?

This costs 8 race points, meaning it's going to be pretty much their only advantage, so I'd expect it to be fairly significant, but I can't work out exactly how it works.

I'm sure this is addressed somewhere obvious, but I've not been able to find it. Thanks for your help.

A 4th level monk has a BAB of +3, which means that Power Attack will give him a -1 to hit and a +2 to damage. However, when using Flurry of Blows, "for the purpose of these attacks" he has a BAB of +4. Does this mean that if Power Attack is used with a FoB it gives a -2 to hit and a +4 to damage?

It does say that "for all other purposes, such as qualifying for a feat", the monk uses their listed BAB, but this isn't a case of qualifying for a feat, but adjudicating its effect.

I realise that there are very few circumstances in which this would come up, and I think that either interpretation would be valid, but what do you guys think? Are there any good arguments either way?