Investigator, Craft (Alchemy) and Potion Identification


Rules Questions

Grand Lodge

An investigator adds her level to Craft (Alchemy) checks when making an alchemical substance (which I can't do anyway in PFS). An investigator can also use Craft (Alchemy) to identify potions, but the bonus does not apply, if I read the rule correctly. Have I the misfortune to be correct?

Grand Lodge

It also appears that I can copy formulas from a wizard's spellbook, but not from scrolls.


Babacilla wrote:
An investigator adds her level to Craft (Alchemy) checks when making an alchemical substance (which I can't do anyway in PFS). An investigator can also use Craft (Alchemy) to identify potions, but the bonus does not apply, if I read the rule correctly. Have I the misfortune to be correct?

you are indeed correct. The bonus only applies to creating alchemical items.

Babacilla wrote:
It also appears that I can copy formulas from a wizard's spellbook, but not from scrolls.
investigator wrote:
An investigator can also add formulae to his book just like a wizard adds spells to his spellbook, <...>. An investigator can study a wizard's spellbook to learn any formula that is equivalent to a spell the spellbook contains. A wizard, however, cannot learn spells from a formula book.

As a wizard can add spells to his spellbook using scrolls, I'd argue an investigator can do the same. While I can see how someone could argue that as the later sentence only mentions spellbooks that's a limiting factor, but I read that later sentence as clarifying that it's a one way street with spellbooks rather than one excluding scrolls.


Babacilla wrote:
An investigator adds her level to Craft (Alchemy) checks when making an alchemical substance (which I can't do anyway in PFS).

Are you saying an investigator can't craft alchemical items in PFS?

They can.

Grand Lodge

Ah, well.
At least I can get a bonus on my Day Job roll. Hurrah. Yippee.
I cannot cast Read Magic, but it seems that I do not need to do so, since the class description says I do not need to decipher magical writings. I assume that text applies both to spellbooks and to scrolls.

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