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Quick question. PFS related. Thanks in advance.

Would using an cracked opalescent white pyramid ioun stone to get proficiency with the aldori dueling sword be enough to qualify for the below feat.

Aldori Dueling Mastery

Prerequisites: Weapon Proficiency (dueling sword), Quick Draw, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus (dueling sword).

Benefit: You gain a +2 bonus on Initiative checks as long as you start combat with a dueling sword in your hand. As long as you wield only a single dueling sword in one hand, you gain a +2 shield bonus to your AC—if you wield the sword in two hands, this bonus drops to a +1 shield bonus to AC.

Although the dueling sword inflicts slashing damage, you treat it as if it were also a piercing weapon when determining the effects of weapons used by a duelist.

They do stack, under the Druid Animal Companion it clearly stats they stack.

"Class Level: This is the character's druid level. The druid's class levels stack with levels of any other classes that are entitled to an animal companion for the purpose of determining the companion's statistics."

Thanks for the response. I feel better now.

I have a character I have been playing and now I worry I may not have been doing so correctly. I am playing with a lot of people who are also relatively new to Pathfinder. So we're trying to learn the rules together.

I have a Oracle of Nature who then went into levels of Sylvan Sorcerer. If I have Bonded Mount then will it stack with the animal companion levels of Sylvan Sorcerer. I have been playing like they do, but now I am concerned I have been doing that wrong all along. Any help would be appreciated.

The Masked GM wrote:

Player showed up again, but this time with a master summoner. I handed over the additional resources and the character creation guide. There was some displeasure when I politely insisted we go over it before the game began.

So how far out of wack was the summoner? Do you think he's finally getting the point that he needs to follow the rules? Did he have fun in the game?

It was just a first level character. So it didn't have the levels to be crazy. Master Summoners are not allowed in society play. It didn't take all that much to make it a regular summoner. The problem is repeatedly bringing builds that are not legal.

I vote that you gouge out their eyes and drain their tear ducts.

I think I'll need to take some time to grow out my fingernails first.

Player showed up again, but this time with a master summoner. I handed over the additional resources and the character creation guide. There was some displeasure when I politely insisted we go over it before the game began. We'll see if the player comes back again. I am not so sure.

Thank you for the advice. I will definitely try that the next time that I Gm for this particular player.

I don't know if anyone else has dealt with this, but I am hoping to get some help. How do you deal with a player that you are 99.9% certain is avoiding learning about rules to get away with playing illegal options? For example in Pathfinder Society you don't get any of the penalty or bonuses for playing a character that is venerable. Yet they will come to a table with a character with those penalty or bonuses. I explain it to them and they begrudgingly change the character. Then the next week they are playing a synthesist and I have to explain the rules again. It goes on like this for several sessions.

I can't prove it of course, because I can't see what they have and have not read. It just happens to often that I feel they must be avoiding reading things that don't allow them to play what they want. This way they have plausible deniability when someone points it out to them. I admit it is becoming tiresome.