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So in this thread a little digging uncovered that the rules for Inquisitions located in Ultimate Combat completely contradict the rules for Inquisitions located in Ultimate Magic. Namely, UC says Inquisitions can only be taken by Inquisitors, while UM says they can be taken by any class that grants a domain, they're just not really intended for them. Has there been any clarification made on which of these is correct?
well, there is the reading that the UC inquisitions are specifically limited to inquisitors, while UM ones are not.
sure, there is wording in UM that seems to talk about inquisitions 'in general' being off-limit to non-inquisitors,
but i don't think that's enough to over-rule another rule-book, there's no reason you need to be using UM in the first place,
and that language can be explained by simply being badly written/bad grammar, not intent to apply to other rule-books.
paizo's made clear that anybody can use inquisitions if they have a domain, probably some writer for UM went overboard and wasn't caught by the editing process, but until it's errata'd i would (at least for PFS where RAW must be adhered to) apply the inquisitor-only limitation to the UC inquisitions (black powder/spellkiller), even though I don't see any balance issue for those vs. the UM inquisitions.
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FAQ Ultimate Combat
Good catch! I must have looked right over that. I'm a little surprised they haven't corrected that in the PRD.
they are supposedly only issuing corrections to the PRD as part of the errata process for new book printings, so until a new printing is issued, the FAQ is the only process for updating the rules. as you can see with the FAQ, sometimes they are not just 'answering questions', but are issuing 'provisional' errata in the FAQ itself (in some cases i've seen them give a 'functional' ruling, without specific errata text like they did in this case, but 'promising' to errata it in the future).