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Consume Magic Items: Item to be held, touched, or what?
Grand Lodge
1 person marked this as FAQ candidate.

The Consume Magic Items exploit for the Arcanist does not mention how one is to interact with the item to be drained. Do you have to hold, touch, or do something else to the item to use the ability on it?

I did a quick search of the message boards and got back nothing from the Rules section and the Class Discussion section gave me too much to sift through.

Consume Magic Items:
Consume Magic Items (Su): The arcanist can consume the power of potions, scrolls, staves, and wands, using them to fill her arcane reservoir. Using this ability is a move action that provokes an attack of opportunity. When using this exploit, the arcanist adds a number of points to her arcane reservoir equal to 1/2 the level of the spell contained in the item (0-level and 1st-level spells do not recharge the arcanist's arcane reservoir). If used on a wand, the wand loses 5 charges; if if has fewer than 5 charges, the wand is destroyed and the arcanist gains no benefit. If used on a staff, it loses 1 charge and the arcanist gains a number of points to his arcane reservoir equal to the highest-level spell the staff can cast using only 1 charge; if the staff has no spells that require only 1 charge, the arcanist cannot consume that staff's magic. No more than 1 charge can be drawn from a staff each day in this way. Points gained in excess of the arcanist's reservoir's maximum are lost. This exploit has no effect on magic armor, weapons, rings, rods, wonderous items, or other magic items besides those noted above.
What checks and actions are required to perform a Mounted Charge?
Grand Lodge
60 people marked this as FAQ candidate. 6 people marked this as a favorite.

You can get an idea of what brought this question about from this recent thread here

Here are some reference links:
Mounted Combat PRD
ride skill PRD
handle animal skill PRD
Mounted Combat FAQ
Designer clarification on FAQ
Lance FAQ (just to have on hand in case it gets brought up)

The current way the rules read has a bit of confusion and ambiguity so I am going just put how I think it should work.

The rider should only have to make a check if they will actually be rolling an attack for their mount. They should not have to make any check to have the mount carry them to their target. (This does not include non combat trained mounts) If you do plan on rolling for your mount then it would require the appropriate handle animal check(with the attack trick) and action(free/move) to perform.

If there is any related FAQ or Dev response you feel should be added please feel free to post it.

Edit to add Ssalarn's questions:
Does the Ride skill replace or work in concert with the Handle Animal skill while mounted?

If so, can we get a FAQ or further clarification stating such?

Can the Rider use the Ride skill to command a mount to attack, or does that require the Handle Animal skill?

Is a charge an attack?

If both the rider and mount are charging, is it possible for both the rider and mount to make an attack if the rider is using a lance? Why or why not?
Able Assistant , is it a dead ability in PFS?
Grand Lodge 1/5

The Able Assistant ability of the Valet familiar archetype (Animal Archive pg.21) reads as follows:

Able Assistant (Ex): A valet's master treats the valet as if it possessed the Cooperative Crafting feat and shared all Craft skills and item creation feats he possesses. This ability replaces Alertness.

Cooperative Crafting taken from the PRD says:

The PostMonster General wrote:

Cooperative Crafting

Your assistance makes item crafting far more efficient.

Prerequisites: 1 rank in any Craft skill, any item creation feat.

Benefit: You can assist another character in crafting mundane and magical items. You must both possess the relevant Craft skill or item creation feat, but either one of you can fulfill any other prerequisites for crafting the item. You provide a +2 circumstance bonus on any Craft or Spellcraft checks related to making an item, and your assistance doubles the gp value of items that can be crafted each day.

Now since crafting is not allowed (except with a few limited exceptions) in PFS, is this ability dead or should there be a clarification/errata for it? I have searched for a possible answer but could not find one. Any help would be appreciated.