Blood Money Interaction with Extracts

[Prof. Löwenzahn]

Hello folks,

an alchemist can get access to blood money as a spell (not extract) through the spell knowledge discovery or by multiclassing.

Would he then be able to use blood money with an extract?

I'm seeing arguments for both sides here. Extracts behave as spells, have material components and so on, so mechanically there should be no problem. However they are no spells per definition.

Second issue: The rules state that material components are used when the extract is drunk (and thus cast), but there is an I believe unresolved discussion when the choices of an extract are made. In the case of potions it is at creation time. For spells like stoneskin it is no issue, because no choices are made, but I'm looking at the spell "Daggermark's Exchange" where the material component is variable and thus affects the blood money outcome as well. Same goes for Animate Dead, Fabricate and the like.

The whole Extracts ruling is quite a mess. They duplicate spells, but are no spells, they behave like potions, but are no potions. Is there any ruling I'm not aware of that clarifies how extracts should be treated in that regard?

Greetings

[Laegrim]

Blood money cares specifically about the next spell you cast, so extracts won't work - as you note, they technically aren't spells. If Blood Money is already on the table though, letting it work with extracts seems like reasonable DM call.

As for the second issue, there's an FAQ clarifying that choices are made for extracts when they are consumed, like casting a spell rather than creating a potion. I'd link to it, but I'm typing on my phone.