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Once you get to spell perfection any bonuses like spell penetration or piercing spell are doubled. This should make SR a minor issue at that point.

Piercing Spell is actually not affected by Spell Perfection, because it reduces the targets SR by 5, whereas Spell Perfection requires that the relevant feat "apply a set numerical bonus to any aspect of this spell." The target's SR is an aspect of the target, not the spell. There is a similar issue with Ambuscading Spell, which reduces the targets saves rather than increasing the DC. Mechanically they are the same, but the way it is framed makes Spell Perfection inapplicable.

I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:

Rules Police wrote:

Read the feat. Unarmed Strike, Rays, and Grappling are special things that you can take Weapon Focus for.

So as a rule, you indeed can't take Weapon Focus in combat maneuvers, but grappling is an exception? Kinda weird.

Where is the general rule that you cannot take weapon focus in combat manoeuvres? It is not an exhaustive list, and the presence of grapple means it would be kind of hard to argue against that you can actually take e.g. weapon focus:trip without an explicit rule saying you can't

Read the feat, citizen. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Choose one type of weapon. You can also choose unarmed strike or grapple (or ray, if you are a spellcaster) as your weapon for the purposes of this feat.

You can take WF for any weapon. This includes natural weapons, which, as the name indicates, are weapons.

You can take WF grapple. You cannot take trip, or bull rush, or dirty trick, or any other maneuver.

You can also take WF ray. You cannot take it for ranged touch attacks that are not rays.

You can also take it for unarmed strikes.

You cannot take it for anything else not listed in the quote above.

"Grappling" is not a weapon. You can't get Weapon Focus (grappling).

Read the feat. Unarmed Strike, Rays, and Grappling are special things that you can take Weapon Focus for.

Maybe a wall of force on your side of the stone shaped cap for structural integrity.

A wall of force has to be vertical, doesn't work.

Fair enough, citizen, I'm going to let you off with a warning this time.

(Love the AP!)

Error on page 34.

The axiomites work in unison. On the first round of combat, one of the axiomites casts haste on all four of them, while another blasts the PCs with lightning bolt. The third casts true strike on the fourth, while the fourth outsider closes with the PCs in melee combat.

True Strike is a personal spell, it can't be cast on others.

Alter Self requires a piece of the creature whose form you plan to assume.

Not as a spell like ability, which this is.

the spell only lasts a minute per level.

Not the Rakshasa bloodline SLA, it lasts as long as you want.