what book is daylight (oil) in?

[inhuman_candyman]

The subject pretty much covers it. I am getting ready to play a society game and i am trying to purchase daylight oil but the DM is asking me for the book. I need to know before 6 because i have a sneaking suspicion that i will be fighting demons in the scenario "day of demon". Just a hunch. No spoilers please just the book.

[Jeff Merola]

Core. Oils are just potions that you apply to something else instead of drinking it.

[Nefreet]

Core Rule Book, the spell Daylight, in oil form, rather than potion.

Same price, too (750gp, or 2pp).

[Jiggy]

Forgive me if it seems boastful, but if you're shopping for that sort of item I also suggest reading this.

[Majuba]

To add slightly to the above, an Oil is simply what you call a potion when it targets an object, instead of a creature. As the others have said, it's in the Core Rulebook, in the magic item chapter.

[nosig]

Majuba wrote:

To add slightly to the above, an Oil is simply what you call a potion when it targets an object, instead of a creature. As the others have said, it's in the Core Rulebook, in the magic item chapter.

I have seen Oil of mage armor - which I think is legal. So Oils can target creatures also...

[Joe M.]

Potions/Oils on the PRD. The difference is purely cosmetic.

[Ulfen Death Squad]

You can also target yourself with an oil.

[Nefreet]

Or an ally.

[Tony Lindman]

My cavalier gets most potions in oil form so he (or anyone else in the party) can apply them to his mount.

[Shfish]

How about a lotion form?..... ;)

[wjsilver]

Nefreet wrote:

Or an ally.

Remember, targeting an ally with an oil is still a full-round action.

[Nefreet]

Geoffrey Griffith wrote:

Nefreet wrote:

Or an ally.

Remember, targeting an ally with an oil is still a full-round action.

Only if they're unconscious.

[wjsilver]

Nefreet wrote:

Geoffrey Griffith wrote:

Nefreet wrote:

Or an ally.

Remember, targeting an ally with an oil is still a full-round action.

Only if they're unconscious.

Huh. That is an interesting distinction that I had not noticed before.

[nosig]

can an unseen servant apply an oil?

pessimistic prediction:

I am predicting that this will be very much YMMV, and that judges will brake into two main groups,
ones that think it is a cool non-standard use of a spell
and
ones that feel it is giving to much power to a first level spell

and within the first page someone will say "Not at my table!" or something like that...

[wjsilver]

Yes! No! Not at my table!

Just reading the spell, I do not see why it couldn't, although since it says it can't attack, I might not allow an oil of inflict to be rubbed on an enemy. Although, would that need an attack roll? Hmmm.

[nosig]

Geoffrey Griffith wrote:

Yes! No! Not at my table!

Just reading the spell, I do not see why it couldn't, although since it says it can't attack, I might not allow an oil of inflict to be rubbed on an enemy. Although, would that need an attack roll? Hmmm.

I have used it to apply oil of magic weapon to someones blade when he draws it.... after checking with the judge to be sure it would work. Two castings of the unseen servant to cover two weapons in fact...

[GreySector]

Tony Lindman wrote:

My cavalier gets most potions in oil form so he (or anyone else in the party) can apply them to his mount.

Why can't you just feed potions to your mount?

[BigNorseWolf]

nosig wrote:

can an unseen servant apply an oil?

** spoiler omitted **

Unless applying an oil requires a profession: tanning booth technician roll they should be good.

[Richard D Webb]

Depends on the mount, maybe doesn't like the aftertaste?

[Nefreet]

Michael Eshleman wrote:

Tony Lindman wrote:

My cavalier gets most potions in oil form so he (or anyone else in the party) can apply them to his mount.

Why can't you just feed potions to your mount?

And expose myself to horse breath?

No thank you =P

[zefig]

You can lead your horse to a potion, but you can't make him drink.

Unless you roll handle animal to Push, anyway.

[BigNorseWolf]

zefig wrote:

You can lead your horse to a potion, but you can't make him drink.

Unless you roll handle animal to Push, anyway.

Or put your potions in apple juice or Guinness

[Giamo Casanunda]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

zefig wrote:

You can lead your horse to a potion, but you can't make him drink.

Unless you roll handle animal to Push, anyway.

Or put your potions in apple juice or Guinness

wait, isn't Guinness a CLW potion itself?

[Tony Lindman]

Michael Eshleman wrote:

Tony Lindman wrote:

My cavalier gets most potions in oil form so he (or anyone else in the party) can apply them to his mount.

Why can't you just feed potions to your mount?

Action economy. Cavalier uses both actions to draw and apply the oil while the mount double moves, or moves and attacks, etc.