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The lack of Favored Class Bonuses for ARG is rather disappointing.
They easily could have used a different format in ACG where they listed them for core races only saved a ton of space and added them in the original book, but they had a second book coming so I just assumed it would be in ACO. Well ya it's not there either.
Are there any plans at all to add these at some point?
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The lack of Favored Class Bonuses for ARG is rather disappointing.
But perhaps not unexpected, considering that this book is in the Campaign line, while ARG is in the Core line?
I'd like to see FCBs for the ARG races, myself, but somewhere more suitably neutral.
(That said, I'd also like to see FBCs for androids and ghorams, both of which are in the Golarion campaign setting and not the Core as yet.)
Hows that mad magic feat go?
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Now that I have the book in hand I confirmed something I was worried about, the Scarab Stalker archetype for hunters replaces the core animal foci except bull, falcon and snake. The replacements are interesting, but I was disappointed that bull was kept and not tiger. Since it seems that those to foci are a good wealth saver for archery/melee builds. Or perhaps I'm mistaken, would those ones usually get eschewed in favour of belts of that stat. So my gut reaction is that this archetype favours melee builds over archery, or am i just wrong?
This may have been answered earlier, but I don't know. On the Bekyar Demon Dancer archetype for Skald, what does Demonic Conquest replace if anything? The book seems to indicate that this ability is completely free, which doesn't make much sense. It seems to be either a loss of a Versatile Performance or a use of Lore Master.
This may have been answered earlier, but I don't know. On the Bekyar Demon Dancer archetype for Skald, what does Demonic Conquest replace if anything? The book seems to indicate that this ability is completely free, which doesn't make much sense. It seems to be either a loss of a Versatile Performance or a use of Lore Master.
It looks to me like there's nothing this ability replaces.
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This may have been answered earlier, but I don't know. On the Bekyar Demon Dancer archetype for Skald, what does Demonic Conquest replace if anything? The book seems to indicate that this ability is completely free, which doesn't make much sense. It seems to be either a loss of a Versatile Performance or a use of Lore Master.It looks to me like there's nothing this ability replaces.
Sometimes an archetype has an ability replaced by multiple but they don't each specifically say what it is sort of a net balance kind of thing.
This book lists arcanist as a class which qualifies for the prestige class Magaambyan Arcanist. But Magaambyan Arcanist has Spell Mastery as a prerequisite and only wizards qualify for Spell Mastery. In the Advanced Class Guide Playtest arcanists had a bonus feats class feature which explicitly stated that they could take Spell Mastery, but I can't find any mention of this in the final version. So can arcanists take Spell Mastery or not?
Or is this another case like the shaman supposedly qualifying for Winter Witch?
I hadn't noticed that. A winter witch shaman. Very interesting.
... on reading this, my biggest question has to be -- why are white mage arcanists associated with the City of Brass?
I've noticed the Sczarni Executioner loses Survival as a class skill, but retains the Track class ability.
is this deliberate?
I have considered Companion books for optional books for players, full of fluff and some additional mechanical choices. I have bought close to dozen before.
This time tho, I feel trapped to buy this book to get my Swashbuckler to work as intended. Kinda sad development!
EDIT - Hmm, and I guess I need to throw some extra bucks to get the material to HeroLab aswell. Ggrrr!
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I don't know if I was the only one that noticed (unlikely but possible) but it lists the warpriest being able to take levels in hellknight signifer, despite the fact the class cannot take a required feat warrior priest and it just seems werid for a warpriest to take arcane armor training (though technically the feat only requires a caster level and light armor training).
Yeah it seems like Warrior Priest should have been updated to include Blessings in this book or the ACG or there should have been an overarching rule that says that if a feat or other option mentions having to have the Domain class feature that Blessings would meet those requirements as Domains.
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