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So I just finished going line by line through the item crafting and spell learning rules, and I noticed that there is no way to research spells on your own. The only way currently listed to learn new spells is to level up or to copy from someone else.

Is there an official rule for this?

My current thoughts for home rules are to require the inventor and magic crafting feats and use the formula system as is. The formula level for a spell would be double the spell level. Uncommon spells get +1 to the formula level, and Rare spells get +2.

So I just received the book of the damned in the mail (well worth it), and I realized that there is no listed duration for the untyped bonuses granted by angazhan's final sentinel boon. The feat in the book says that this means it has an unlimited duration unless uses per day have been specified. The ability is three uses per day.
Can someone please let me know what I am missing? Does the ability stack with itself as an untyped bonus? How long does it last? Very confused on this one.

So I have been reading through the posts on desire for mithral tower shields and I decided to do the math to amuse myself. I plugged the three shields listed that are either wood or metal into a graphing calculator and ran a best fit line. .2x^2 - 1.2x + 7 if you care. Using this, I got a weight of about 358 pounds for the steel shield. This would be a steel shield 4 feet tall by 2.5 feet wide by 1 inch thick, based on the density of steel. Value for density taken from aqua-calc .com. Mithral is listed as half the weight of steel. Thus a mithral tower shield should weigh 179 pounds.

Or you could get the unique +1 ghost touch arrow deflecting mithral tower shield that somehow only weighs 22 pounds in Ultimate Equipment.

Of course, that being a custom item, it cannot be augmented further, but it is a heck of a lot lighter!

The things I am willing to do for a +2 permissable Dex bonus to AC.