Planar Focus is a feat for Hunters (or those with the Animal Focus class feature) that expands out your Animal Focus to include Planar Options (such as Air, Fire, Lawful, Evil, etc).
The text is as follows:
By studying other planes, you've learned to take on aspects of outsiders as well as animals.Prerequisite(s): Knowledge (planes) 5 ranks, animal focus class feature.
Benefit(s): When you use your animal focus class feature, you can choose any of the following new aspects unless they conflict with your alignment.
Pretty straightforward, you can choose any of the following as long as it doesn't conflict. A good person cannot choose evil and a lawful person cannot choose chaotic.
However the Lawful, Chaotic, Evil and Good Planar Focus abilities all have this clause:
Only evil characters can use this Planar Focus.
Only good characters can use this Planar Focus.
Only lawful characters can use this Planar Focus.
Only chaotic characters can use this Planar Focus.
This is straightforward as well... Though it doesn't match up with the first part of the Feat which states that you can use them as long as you do not conflict.
Seeing as the Hunter must be Neutral (it can never be LG, LE, CG, or CE) you can only ever get 1 of the 4 Planar abilities, and 0 if you are True Neutral in the latter reading. This got me thinking...
Is the first part of the text correct (as long as you don't conflict) or is the latter part of the text correct (in which case you must be of the alignment exactly)?
Bump.
I'm not sure if I'm reading too far into this or the answer is that simple.
As a follow up, when you Animal Focus your companion do you use its alignment or your own? (mainly as most AnCs are neutral by default)
Seeing as the Hunter must be Neutral (it can never be LG, LE, CG, or CE)
The Divine Hunter Archetype allows any alignment as long as it's one step within the chosen deity
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It means the NN character can only access the elemental powers of the feat. They are restricted due to alignment from using any thing listed as only.
choose any of the following new aspects unless they conflict with your alignment.
Later it says what is conflicting with your alignment. In this case the feat wants you to be an alignment to use some of it's powers.
Alright thanks a lot!
(Also didn't see that archetype)