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One other suggestion:

Allow each of the company groups to be hidden/shown (as well as a hide all/show all option).

Also, when you click on sort by name, I don't see an option to sort A-Z...it only sorts Z-A. Was that intentional or am I missing something?

Your first few sentences confirm my dilemma of wanting clarity on the usage of 'YOU', 'YOUR' and 'MY'. If 'YOUR' is meant, in the section inside the oracle text, as the player themselves including spells from any class, then so be it. It'd still be OP in my opinion, but it wouldn't be 'illegal'. I have read, however, places where those pronouns are ambiguous and could be taken one way or the other. That is, to the detriment or benefit to the player character.

My point is not to be an arse of a DM here. It's game balance in the Serpent's Skull AP. If it were a home-grown adventure then I could cater it to such min-maxed players...no biggie. But, I would rather not have to modify the AP just to keep game balance. I mean, what DM wants to get to a climactic part of an adventure just to have it last one round? (sleep > coup de grace > loot the room, etc...) Surely not I nor any other DM I would think. We DM's want to have fun too ;-)

-m

Venom's DM here:

Our disagreement stems from the text's usage of the words 'YOU', 'YOUR', 'MY'. When the text says one of those words, is it referring to the class in which the text is written or the character as a whole? For example: '....your illusion (pattern) spells...' could get confusing. YOUR could mean the character as a whole including any other spell casting class or YOUR as in your character as an oracle.

Venom and I talked a bit about a Barbarian/Rogue combo related to the discussion. Could such a character rage and sneak attack at the same time? Sure. BUT, a 12th level Barbarian / 1st level Rogue can't sneak attack as a 13th level rogue. It's a class specific ability that doesn't stack with other class levels. The abilities 'power' is based on that specific class.

Another consideration I had was 'divine' vs. 'arcane' classes. IMHO, Oracle is 'divine' and Sorcerer is 'arcane' regardless of class powers. I see the Oracle gaining his 'Awesome Display' power from divine magic...not arcane. I see the sorcerer's bloodline powers affecting the 'arcane' part of him. That is, the arcane magic is the 'conduit', if you will, that allows those powers to manifest. I just don't see how a divine supernatural ability could work on anything arcane or vice-versa.

I'll write more later...at work and should get back to it lol

-m