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I agree with this logic. My DM allows a small character saddle on a medium mount to be half that of a medium character's saddle on a large mount, I feel it should be in the rules.

I'm playing an Alchemist that is taking the Vestigial Arm (Ex) Discovery:

Benefit: The alchemist gains a new arm (left or right) on his torso. The arm is fully under his control and cannot be concealed except with magic or bulky clothing. The arm does not give the alchemist any extra attacks or actions per round, though the arm can wield a weapon and make attacks as part of the alchemist’s attack routine (using two-weapon fighting). The arm can manipulate or hold items as well as the alchemist’s original arms (for example, allowing the alchemist to use one hand to wield a weapon, another hand to hold a potion, and the third hand to throw a bomb). The arm has its own “hand” and “ring” magic item slots (though the alchemist can still only wear two rings and two hand magic items at a time).
Special: An alchemist may take this discovery up to two times.

My question is: would the arms grant a bonus to grapple? The rules for grapple state "Humanoid creatures without two free hands attempting to grapple a foe take a –4 penalty on the combat maneuver roll.". One obvious benefit of the arms means you can leave two hands free to grapple without penalty and use a light weapon in an extra hand. But if you have all four arms free logically I would think you'd be better at grappling. There's no rules I've found dealing with extra limbs, at least not in regards to grapple. If not having two arms free is -4, would it be reasonable to say two extra arms grant a +4?

Against one target if you have multiple limbs with the grab ability used in the same grapple attempt it is still one grapple check, thus you/it must wait til next turn to make a pin.

Some creatures/class features with the the grab ability grant a +2 on the grapple, this would be the only advantage to using multiple grab limbs. If CMB is +10, and it has 3 limbs with grab (each +2) on a single target that would be a total of 16, or 14 on one target and 12 on another within reach. Since in the grab description the grapple check is a free action on hit, you would grapple the two hit targets, each with different CMB rolls.

The only way (unless listed differently in the specific monster's entry) to make a second grapple action in one round is the Greater Grapple feat, that lets you grapple as a move action, while also allowing the normal standard action grapple. There is also later a Rapid Grappler feat, that allows a grapple action as a swift action.

Here is a handy flow chart for grappling: http://paizo.com/forums/dmtz4vd3?Grapple-Rules-Flow-Chart#6

Nope, you just kind of make it. You're over thinking the fluff :)

Thank you

This is the discovery entry: "The alchemist has learned how to preserve a sample of oozes in a sealed bottle, which he can prepare for use as an extract. When the alchemist activates the extract, he actually throws the bottle at a square within 30 feet, releasing the ooze, which reconstitutes and attacks the closest creature. The ooze is not under the alchemist’s control, but is otherwise treated as a summoned creature. The ooze remains for 1 round per caster level, and decays into powder when the duration expires. If the alchemist has the infusion discovery, another character can use the infused specimen. Creating a bottled ooze requires an extract with a level equal to the ooze’s CR (so a CR 4 gray ooze requires a 4th-level extract)."

What is unclear to me if I need an actual sample of an ooze or if I am creating it from nebulous scratch. The entry starts with "preserve samples", so do I need to kill an ooze to get it? Alive or dead? How many samples does that get me? How long do they each last? How many oozes can I make out of a sample? Or am I over thinking this and the wording is largely fluff, as the entry ends with "creating a bottled ooze requires and extract..."?

I'm playing an alchemist with the vivisectionist archetype, that replaces the bomb class feature with sneak attack identical to the rouge. The sneak attack goes up in level and equals the bomb damage. The Master Chymist prestige class has the Bomb Thrower class feature; "Bomb-Thrower (Ex): The destructive power of bombs appeals to the violent urges of a master chymist. Add the character’s alchemist and master chymist levels together to determine the damage done by her bombs.".

I know normal archetype rules state that replacing a class feature means you do not have it for qualifying purposes, but with this prestige class specific to the alchemist should/could this be made an exception? One could argue that sneak attack would "appeal to the violent urges of a master chymist", and that it levels in damage at the same rate as bombs. Is this something at GM discretion or can I get an official ruling?

A gunsmith could easily craft a firearm that fires the same powder load
as a human sized rifle in a smaller package for a Halfling that deals the same damage.

That is a different issue than weapon sizes, and that is more to your DM and house rules as to what weapons can be bought/made in the campaign/world.

Also handling the recoil of a large caliber fire are is a matter of training which a gunslinger would have as they are proficent with all firearms and gain weapons training with each type of fire arm as they progress in levels opposed to an untraind shulb.

"Training", so if halflings get the training to handle the recoil of human weapons, since a human of the same class gets the same training they can handle the recoil of large weapons?

I agree that if a Halfling wants to break the class mold and opt for this additional "Training" to use larger weapons they should take a feat such as Deadly Aim to represent that. This is why there are such feats, so just like everyone else they have to take up feats to compensate for race drawbacks.

The argument here isn't that Halflings shouldn't be able to use larger weapons, it's that they should take the same feats and penalties any other size race would to use larger weapons.