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So a player asked me this interesting question. He currently has the Assurance feat for Medicine. He asked me how it would work with Risky Surgery. Basically the way it's written it would act as an auto-crit for treating wounds. In his own words:

"Specifically, I know I don't get the +2 to the check if I use assurance but does it still modify my success into an auto critical success. The basic thought process I have on this is that assurance only cares about the roll. Once I get the success assurance is done and risky surgery is free to modify the result of the roll; generally a success, into a critical success."

Honestly, the way the text is written it doesn't look like it clashes but as a GM that seems a bit broken. Thoughts?

I'm wondering about Advanced Alchemy. Do the formulas scale up as you level up?

Example:
You're a 1st Level Alchemist and you get Lesser Alchemist’s Fire formula. At level 3 does the formula automatically increase to the moderate version or do you have to take the Moderate Alchemist’s Fire formula as one of the two formulas you gain as you level.

I'm wondering about Advanced Alchemy. Do the formulas scale up as you level up?

Example:
You're 1st Level and you get Lesser Alchemist’s Fire formula. At level 3 does the formula automatically increase to the moderate version or do you have to take the Moderate Alchemist’s Fire formula as one of the two formulas you get as you level.