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Drow Priest
The +4 mwk flail should be -1 due to the 5ACP from the mwk full plate.
Clerics don't have Heavy Armour Proficiency from class, nor does this particular one have it listed on the feats taken.
P. 164
Horn Harness
This simple harness, basically just a leather lash, straps a
combatant’s arm to the tusk or horn of a Huge or larger animal
such as a gorthek.
Huh... the gorthek is presented as a Large animal...
Was it supposed to be a Huge one though?
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Pg. 153 - Vestigial Head
This feat is worded a little strangely. As written, the ogre doesn't get a choice to have this feat activate or instead just try to make the Will save, no matter how easy the Will save may be.
For example, say a typical bread-and-butter Bestiary 1 ogre with this feat gets targeted with a bard's daze cantrip. The bard has a 16 Charisma, and so his daze spell has a save DC of 13. With a Will save bonus of +3, the typical ogre would have a 50/50 shot of resisting its effects or being left action-less for 1 round. However, by the wording of this feat, the ogre wouldn't get ANY chance to make a save. Instead he ends up with a 25% chance to avoid its effects, and a 75% chance to end up sickened for 1d4 rounds, which is arguably MUCH worse.
It probably meant to say something like this (bolded part is my change):
"Benefit: Anytime you attempt a Will save against a hostile effect and fail the save, there is a 25% chance [sic] that the effect targets your vestigial head instead. If this occurs, you are treated as if you had succeeded at your saving throw, and instead are sickened for 1d4 rounds or the duration of the effect (whichever is longer)."
Still not great that the ogre goes from action-less for 1 round to instead sickened for 1d4 rounds, but at least it's not automatic and bypasses the ability to make a Will save at all.
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Pg. 160 - Troggle raider stat block
This creature has an amulet of mighty fists +1 that hasn't been factored into their melee attacks. Change their melee line to read as follows:
"Melee +1 bite +12 (1d6+8 plus trip), 2 +1 claws +13 (1d4+8)"
EDIT: Also, in gear, change "composite shortbow" to "composite shortbow [+7 Str]".
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Pg. 165 - Gorthek masks
Gorthek masks come in pairs, one for the orc rider, the other for the gorthek itself. The item has an item slot of "none" but masks take up the head slot. The slot field should probably be changed to "head (see text)".
The reason for the "see text" part above is because the gorthek is a quadruped with feet (like the rhino its body is described as being like). According to Animal Archive which defined animal magic item slots, quadrupeds do not have access to the head slot. Therefore, there should be a sentence in the description similar to this:
"When worn by a gorthek, this item is essentially a slotless item."
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Pg. 153 - Vestigial Head
This feat is worded a little strangely. As written, the ogre doesn't get a choice to have this feat activate or instead just try to make the Will save, no matter how easy the Will save may be.
For example, say a typical bread-and-butter Bestiary 1 ogre with this feat gets targeted with a bard's daze cantrip. The bard has a 16 Charisma, and so his daze spell has a save DC of 13. With a Will save bonus of +3, the typical ogre would have a 50/50 shot of resisting its effects or being left action-less for 1 round. However, by the wording of this feat, the ogre wouldn't get ANY chance to make a save. Instead he ends up with a 25% chance to avoid its effects, and a 75% chance to end up sickened for 1d4 rounds, which is arguably MUCH worse.
It probably meant to say something like this (bolded part is my change):
"Benefit: Anytime you attempt a Will save against a hostile effect and fail the save, there is a 25% chance [sic] that the effect targets your vestigial head instead. If this occurs, you are treated as if you had succeeded at your saving throw, and instead are sickened for 1d4 rounds or the duration of the effect (whichever is longer)."
Still not great that the ogre goes from action-less for 1 round to instead sickened for 1d4 rounds, but at least it's not automatic and bypasses the ability to make a Will save at all.
My example above got a little muddled. What I should have said was "Instead he ends up with a 25% chance to avoid its effects but become sickened for 1d4 rounds, or else just gets his 50/50 shot at resisting it all together."
Basically I was trying to drive the point across that it's probably better to have an ogre attempt his Will save first, then if he fails, have it so that there's a 25% chance it still doesn't effect them but they become sickened instead.
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Pg. 177 - Riding rat
{MAY NOT BE AN ERROR} Riding rats are just dire rats with the giant simple template, meaning they also carry filth fever. The animal companion version of them doesn't receive this, while the dire rat animal companion gets it at its 4th-level advancement.
This may not be an error, as the dire rat animal companion is a little out-classed by its riding-brethren, and maybe the disease was omitted from the riding rat's stats to keep it competitive.
EDIT: This is more speculative than anything, but I imagine the riding rat to be comparable in size to a riding dog. Therefore, should it also have gotten the bit in its description about a rider not suffering falling damage if they get unseated?
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hire this man/woman/scarecrow, paizo
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hire this man/woman/scarecrow, paizo
Hehe, I do work tech support at a major video game company, but it's seasonal work that ends in March...sooo coughJustSayin'cough
Pg. 177 - Riding rat (again)
{CLARIFICATION REQUESTED} Right before the Riding Rat Companions stats, the preceding paragraph ends with this sentence:
A ratfolk with the animal companion, mount, or similar class feature can select a riding rat as her mount.
Was the bit about the animal companion meant to include rangers, who have a specifically limited list? Pony's on the list, so I could see this. It's not like the Yzobu on page 124 that specifically calls out rangers.
EDIT: and while we're on the subject, does "or similar class features" include a paladin's divine bond class feature?
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Pg. 189 - Air breathing spell
{NOT AN ERROR} I don't normally call these out, but I just wanted to point out how odd it is that this isn't a witch spell. It fits the theme well with the idea of a "sea witch" (not to mention the actual sea witch archetype from Ultimate Magic). Hopefully this was an oversight, and the decision to leave out the witch wasn't because it would have caused a line break and taken up space.
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Pg. 213 - Amplify stench spell
Minor, but there's no reason to call this spell out as an oracle spell. Being a cleric spell covers that.
EDIT: Also, this spell should probably have gotten the poison descriptor, as stench is considered a poison effect. The ghoul touch spell from the Core Rulebook, for example, had the poison descriptor added to it specifically for the stench effect. I know this descriptor is usually applied to spells that directly deal poison damage in some way through their effects, but accelerate poison from Advanced Player's Guide also gets this descriptor and it is similar to this spell in that it "buffs" poisons.
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Pg. 225 - Gauntlets of rending
{POSSIBLY NOT AN ERROR} This item requires Craft Magic Arms and Armor to construct. While gauntlets do indeed appear on the list of simple weapons, almost every single magical gauntlet requires Craft Wondrous Item, the only exception being the gauntlets of skill at arms from Advanced Race Guide, which actually required both feats until the errata for that book removed Craft Wondrous Item.
The reason this is important to note is because of how item sizes are handled. If these things are to be considered weapons, then fine, they can be Large gauntlets. If they're instead supposed to be wondrous items, however, then size doesn't matter as wondrous items resize to the wearer.
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All druid alignments should be Neutral Evil.
I think you just mean Neutral in some aspect. The lizardfolk clutch mother for example is fine as is being just Neutral.
EDIT: To elaborate on this, the following stat blocks need their alignment changed:
* Pg. 215 - Troglodyte Beast-Speaker: Change to NE.
* Pg. 217 - Troglodyte Chieftain: Change to CN. Since this creature is both a barbarian AND a druid, this is literally the only alignment he can be.
* Pg. 229 - Troll Fury: Change to NE
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Pg. 248 - Druid creature template
Going off from the post above (which I see now has been addressed by several people already in this thread, sorry about that), this description needs something similar to what the barbarian creature, monk creature, and paladin creature templates got regarding alignment restrictions.
Basically, just add the following sentence to the end of the first paragraph, before the Quick Rules paragraph:
"A druid creature must be neutral in some regard, either lawful neutral, chaotic neutral, neutral, neutral good, or neutral evil."
* Pg. 217 - Troglodyte Chieftain: Change to CN. Since this creature is both a barbarian AND a druid, this is literally the only alignment he can be.That's another point of contention. Why should a Babarian creature be always chaotic? There can be neutral Barbs.
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Pg. 25 - Bugbear shadow sneak stat block
This creature has too high a natural armor bonus at +5. Should be:
+3 (base) + 1 (amulet of natural armor +1) = +4 natural bonus
Therefore, change the AC line to read as follows:
"AC 24, touch 16, flat-footed 19 (+4 armor, +1 deflection, +4 Dex, +1 dodge, +4 natural)"
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TROLL RIPPER p. 228
Str 25, Dex 16, Con 27, Int 4, Wis 11, Cha 6
Skill Points Unused :3
ACP -2 = +1 armor training -3 hide (not relevant for the listed skills)
Skills Ranks: 9 = 3 class skills +6 race skills (+3 Favored class are used for hp)
Total Ranks Used 6
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Intimidate +5 = +4 ranks, -2 Cha, +3 class skill (for fighter class and giant subtype)
Perception +5 = +2 ranks, +0 Wis, +3 class skill (for giant subtype)
If this is true other trolls of the book presents skill points unused.
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Pg. 237 - Vampiric Companion feat
This feat is a reprint from Player Companion: Blood of the Night. In that book, a 4th vampire type is mentioned in the Benefits section, but was cut here. You can add the following after the Nosferatu paragraph:
"Vetala: The creature may use malevolence and possession as if it were a vetala, but by touch and only affecting creatures or corpses that are the same type of creature as the animal companion or familiar (such as bear, horse, or snake). If reduced to 0 hit points in combat, the creature is helpless and its fast healing ceases to function for 1 hour (additional damage or desecration has no effect); after 1 hour it regains 1 hit point and is no longer helpless, and its fast healing resumes. It can be permanently destroyed as if it were a vetala."
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Pg. 10 - Boggard Brute
Likewise with the brute, change his bonus to Acrobatics checks made to jump from +20 to +16. While it's true that Boggards get a +16 racial bonus to Acrobatics checks made to jump, they also take a -4 penalty for having a speed of 20 feet. The Boggard stat block in the first Bestiary confirms this.