Legal Archetype Overlap

[pensworth]

Hello, I'm sorry for not checking to see if there are any other threads that handle this topic. To be honest I didn't quite know where to begin my search.

Lets get into the meat of it shall we, I am going to be playing a pathfinder game on roll 20 next week. I wanted to play a ranger that was unique and interesting, and my gm is allowing the use of third party materials. That is when I came across the archetype by rite publishing called the "pack hunter". I was pretty set on playing a shape shifter ranger but I saw this and was intrigued. However when I looked into it I realized it had a level 20 capstone ability, like many other archetypes that I wished to mix 'n' match. I was going to leave in disappointment when i noticed it had an asterisk next to the capstone ability. I scrolled down with a vengence to see what it meant and it said this,

"* = The ability this replaces counts as the unmodified original ability for the purpose of stacking with other archetypes"

Now I have to ask, does this mean that the pack hunter's capstone acts like the original ranger capstone for the purpose of trading it out for another ability that takes up that slot?

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/ranger

[Rynjin]

That seems to be what it says, but it's hard to be sure since, well...it's 3rd Party.

[pensworth]

Thank you for your swift answer rynjin. I've looked through the archetype many times and despite its origins it looks well balanced.

[ErrantPursuit]

pensworth wrote:

Thank you for your swift answer rynjin. I've looked through the archetype many times and despite its origins it looks well balanced.

Balance was not brought up. The point that was being made is that, because the product is 3rd Party, you will have to ask the 3rd Party if they intended it work with other Archetypes that also replace the ability in question.

Or, put more directly: You're asking the wrong people for a definitive answer. You can get a "best guess" and that's about it.