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so we know from the faq that if you have channel energy from two different sources that they dont stack and operate separately of each other.

so can you assign variant channeling to one and leave the other just as is?

for example: spirit caller oracle with the life mystery takes the channel revelation and chooses farming as a variant and then for their spirit chooses life and gets an unaltered channel energy from that.

so the immortal ichor's slam damage is 6d6 and d3 wisdom drain. With the application of strong jaw does this go to 12d6 and d10 wisdom drain? or does the wisdom drain remain at d3?

Assuming worse case scenario and your familiar dies, is it replaceable? The flavor would seem to say no,but there doesn't seem to be anything mechanically that prevents it.

subject pretty well spells it out, while it is a plant it also does have a humanoid form which would theoretically allow it to do so, or rather a druid via wild shape to polymorph and then gear up.

Do these two stack? Thus making a heavy shield do 2d6 damage.

a ninja's ki pool states it adds in levels of other classes that gives a ki pool to count your total amount of ki points.

now if you dip 2 levels of monk, do they add in since you havent yet received a ki pool?

our group is playing through rappan athuk, and one of our players is looking into going into the justicar prestige class included in the bonus material.

the question is this: you only need 3 lvls of paladin to go into the class which provides full spellcaster progression. since he doesnt currently have spells does he gain the benefit of this progression?

i say yes he should, others say that since he isnt currently a spellcaster there is nothing to gain.

there are a few examples out there where an archetype doesnt specify what lvl you would gain a certain ability. ive read some threads where people stated a dev weighed in and stated that unless it specifies a certain level you get it at 1st, but they never provided quotes our any citation as to where that statement came from.

anyone happen to know if and where an official statement was made and could point me in the right direction?

ok so i have relented to my DM and decided to not have my old pc raised, so ive decided to make a zen archer.

my question is about the ki pool ability.

do my bow shots bypass DR as per the ki pool ability?

if not, when i use the ki arrows ability will the DR breaking ability kick in then?

or, will it only matter when i decide to kick someone?

so tonight our alchemist died and got reincarnated. the question is what racial traits stay and what does he gain when he trades races?

in fact could he not also trade out racial traits form the new race for other traits as per the ultimate race guides alternate traits?

and as a follow up to that lets say there is an ability he wouldnt get from the new race but it can be traded for one that would qualify, could he make the trade?

lets say ive got a few levels in evangelist and then take a level dip into bard, how do the two sources of "bardic performance" interact?

the performance from evangelist isnt necessarily the bardic performance so do you end up with both abilities with separate pools of rounds per day? would this then allow you to have two performances going at once as they are technically different abilities?

or, would it simply stack together and count combined levels for the progression of the performances? and if this was the case would the evangelist then get the bardic performances that had been previously denied them?

i am currently a human inspiring commander 5/chronicler 1. the gm modified it a wee bit and removed the rapid tactician class ability (something about starting with a +11 initiative at first lvl didnt appeal to him)

my feats so far are:

lingering performance
combat reflexes
combat expertise
flag bearer
escape route (free teamwork)
precise strike (free teamwork)

i plan on picking up swift aid at 7, and of course the banner of ancient kings the moment i can find one.