Ignorance is bliss

[Cheeseweasel]

Rynjin wrote:

Because it is. There is no mechanical difference between spells and extracts except that they do not use verbal/somatic components (replacing somatic components with drinking the extract). Other than that they function exactly like spells, unless someone knows some other way they don't...?

You keep harping on the lack of "mechanical difference" and dismissing everything as fluff. That "fluff" consistently states that Alchemists are not spellcasters. It is a defining characteristic of the class that it isn't a caster, and calling it fluff doesn't change that that is not what Alchemists do.

I give up, you win. You're completely WRONG, but you win teh Interwebz (with an Honorary Mention for your totally irrelevant Monk reference). You have successfully defeated both RAW and RAI, go on and build whatever build it is that you so love that must have extracts=spells. I promise not to kick in your door over your badwrongfun.

[Rynjin]

Just calling me wrong doesn't prove anything. Other people have brought up some things I overlooked, which leads me to believe I could be wrong, but you have done nothing but say I'm wrong with no evidence whatsoever to back it up in every post you've made so far. I asked for mechanical differences between spells and extracts, and you come back with "but it says they're not spellcasters". I already touched on that part, when I asked you to now show me how they WORK differently from spells instead of the flavor text of the class that runs contrary to how it actually works.