Tomes

[Undone]

Do these function to permanently add +x to your character in pathfinder society? I ask because I have a character I just retired and want to play eyes and possibly tomb of the iron medusa with and want a +1 wisdom tome for him.

[CRobledo]

Yes, you may purchase tomes after your fame allows it.

[Sniggevert]

Yes, if you purchase and use a tome, it would grant a permanent +1 inherent bonus to a stat. Just mark the purchase, and expenditure of the resource, on an ITS and next chronicle for your GM to sign off on.

[Nefreet]

It's a +X Inherent bonus (which won't stack with any other Inherent bonuses you may have), but that's about the only restriction.

Oh, and the price, and you have to meet any Fame requirements.

[Undone]

Nefreet wrote:

It's a +X Inherent bonus (which won't stack with any other Inherent bonuses you may have), but that's about the only restriction.

Oh, and the price, and you have to meet any Fame requirements.

Thanks I have 30k and wasn't sure what to buy then I thought +1 wis (and 12th level bump) would be good for eyes of the ten. I've got 61 Fame so no problem there (I could buy a +2 if I could afford it!) I had considered increasing my +2 belt of str to a +4 belt of physical STR+Con but I'd guess that the bonus 4th level spell (+8 wisdom) increased save DC's and +1 will saves probably trumps that since I'm always flying as a celestial thrush.

[FLite]

I thought Inhenrent Bonuses stacked, which is why tomes stack, which is why their price is linear, not exponential.

[SCPRedMage]

The only bonuses that stack are dodge and circumstance; tomes also do not stack, so if you use a +1 tome followed by a +2 tome, you only have a +2 inherent bonus.

[Vrog Skyreaver]

SCPRedMage has the right of it. If you (say, an example from my wizard character) purchase a +1 tome around level 10 (I think) or whenever you can buy a 27,500 gp item, and then you purchase a +5 tome around level 16, you only have +5.

[Acedio]

prd wrote:

Bonus Types: Usually, a bonus has a type that indicates how the spell grants the bonus. The important aspect of bonus types is that two bonuses of the same type don't generally stack. With the exception of dodge bonuses, most circumstance bonuses, and racial bonuses, only the better bonus of a given type works (see Combining Magical Effects). The same principle applies to penalties—a character taking two or more penalties of the same type applies only the worst one, although most penalties have no type and thus always stack. Bonuses without a type always stack, unless they are from the same source.[/quote[

[FLite]

Ah... I think I got confused by Wish.

The inherent bonus from wish explicitly call out that they don't stack, but they also call out that you can stack multiple wishes together, and then use the stacked wish to get an increased bonus, as long as you do them all back to back. (Hence where I got mixed up, because I "knew" that you could use multiple Wish (+1 stat) to get +X stat but forgot the limitations)

[CRobledo]

Undone wrote:

Thanks I have 30k and wasn't sure what to buy then I thought +1 wis (and 12th level bump) would be good for eyes of the ten. I've got 61 Fame so no problem there (I could buy a +2 if I could afford it!) I had considered increasing my +2 belt of str to a +4 belt of physical STR+Con but I'd guess that the bonus 4th level spell (+8 wisdom) increased save DC's and +1 will saves probably trumps that since I'm always flying as a celestial thrush.

I snagged a Luckblade with 0 wishes in it. I love un-slotted bonuses.

[Violetta the Enchantress]

Really, you want to hold out until you can buy a +4 tome (or a +5 if you think you can get to level 20); you can probably afford it at 17 (after Moonscar, for example).

Lesser tomes are just going to be throwing money away in the long term, since they don't stack.

[Viskous]

+3 is good enough, depending on if your level 16 stat bump will make the stat odd or even. If even then the +4 is good. Since you will not be able to play the character after level 20, there's not much point in maximizing with the level 20 stat increase and really when we start talking stat bumps, +1 more bonus to a stat is not really going to make a huge difference.