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I think a more pressing problem with the Bolt Ace is that archetype does not change or alter the Gunsmith class feature of the Gunslinger.

As a result, Bolt Aces receive a gun at their first level, they have proficiency with guns, and they have Gunsmithing as their bonus class feat. None of these things match the flavor or concept of the Bolt Ace. They can't even use their grit with guns.

It's unfortunate because it is an interesting class option in a lot of ways. This mistake essentially does away with any benefit of the Gunsmith class feature, while taking up class feature space.

If I were running a non-PFS home game, I would make the bonus feat a choice between proficiency with an exotic crossbow or rapid reload with a type of simple crossbow, a free 'broken' crossbow reflecting their choice (that the Bolt Ace can use as normal). In exchange they get no firearms proficiency, no firearm, and no gunsmithing feat.

I am eagerly awaiting an errata for the Advance Class Guide eBook I bought direct from Paizo.

Miss chance works both ways unless one of the subjects is able to ignore the obscuring condition. Obscuring Mist does not grant that ability. The obscurement effects anyone in the cloud, no matter whether they are in the middle or the edge.

It is a first level spell, the intent of it is evasion and protection. Therefore, you can't stand on the edge of it, benefit from concealment, but attack an opponent that is outside of the cloud without suffering a miss chance. To threaten them you would need to reveal yourself and counter any advantage you had. The only way around this is to have an ability to see through mist without issue.

It is still a perfectly useful spell. You cast obscuring mist because you have abilities or spells or actions that don't require line of sight to subjects, such as channeling energy or other area effects, or personal actions like using items. It can dramatically reduce how many opponents are able to attack you, nullifying most ranged combatants altogether.

That is both the spirit and the letter of the rules.

Personally when I Kickstarted this I was hoping for something very faithful to the Pathfinder RPG rules. That's what attracts me to Pathfinder and D&D in general, not the setting, but the deeper, more interesting systems that diverge greatly from what you typically see in an MMO.

Even DDO has vast differences from the tabletop game, and that's where a lot of the really egregious imbalances come from (not to say the tabletop RPG is perfectly balanced, but DDO was even less careful about power levels).

So as not to have my hopes dashed, I'm pretty much expecting Pathfinder Online to be another WoW-clone, or to resemble the Neverwinter MMORPG that came out recently (and again had zero in common with its tabletop ancestor, despite D&D 4e already borrowing so much from MMORPGs).

I can understand why they're diverging from the tabletop game, they must think that it's safer to make a system specific to the MMO in order to give it longevity and balance in that space.. but I very much doubt it's going to have the complexity and depth of an extensively played tabletop game with a long history.

So I'm prepared for the worst and hoping for 'okay'. The 'best' is off the table.

I just download any pdfs I want to read directly onto my Ipad1. Not sure why you need all those extra steps. Even using iBooks.

It works fine with a lot of the big PDFs (up to a certain size), but some just won't give the option to save to iBooks.

I'll give Goodreader a shot and see if it fixes the issue. Thanks all.

(Edit) Yeah it's working well for me. Now I can buy scenarios from the store without worrying that I'll be limited on how to access them (though I'll most certainly print them out before running them anyway).

So, currently my method is that I download the pdfs from Paizo.com onto my main computer, then email it to myself via my gmail account. Following that I open up that email account on my iPad 1, open the PDF, and hope that the PDF in Safari gives me option to 'open it in iBooks' which then saves a local copy to my iPad and means I can access my books on the go.

The problem arises when this doesn't work. A given PDF under a certain size (or for no apparent reason) tends not to give me the option to save it to iBooks or download it in any way. Any PDF over 100 megs has a tendency to crash Safari the instant it opens it.

Right now I'm unable to get the Pathfinder Society Guide to Organized Play to save onto the iPad, nor can I get any version of The Inner Sea World Guide to save onto it. For the latter, the 'Lite' version is still 240 megs and I know from experience it can't open that without crashing, and the 'One File Per Chapter' version won't save because they're too small, or something.

I am a total noob when it comes to apple products, so that's why I'm asking. I'm asking here because I figure someone out there has already cracked this exact conundrum. I'm hoping there is some solution, as I can get things like my Pathfinder Core Lite and Ultimate Equipment Lite saved and read perfectly fine on my tablet.