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I was wondering if it has been backed up by any sort of writing, as it doesn't appear to be in the guide.
Sure. This question comes up often enough.
The last time this question came up, my response was "Day Job modifiers must apply to the entire skill to be useful".
Three comments later, John Compton confirmed I (and another poster who answered similarly) was correct.
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I was wondering if it has been backed up by any sort of writing, as it doesn't appear to be in the guide.Sure. This question comes up often enough.
The last time this question came up, my response was "Day Job modifiers must apply to the entire skill to be useful".
Three comments later, John Compton confirmed I (and another poster who answered similarly) was correct.
Scroll down a little farther for John's opinion on the alchemist bonus.
He thinks he remembers it applying. The answer now is the same as it was then. There's no official answer, but John seems to believe it does apply.
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I recognize people don't want Day Jobs to work that way.
It's not a matter of want.
If you have survival as a dayjob you may have to make money at it tracking people, finding rare plants and herbs, getting people along in the wild comfortably, giving them bonuses vs the elements etc. There's a dozen uses for it and any and all.. probably all, of them will be how you make your money. Bumping just one or two of them isn't bumping the entire skill.
For craft alchemy to make money you sit in your lab and turn match sticks and lighter fluid into me...perfectly usable more expensive products for the adventuring professional, like alchemists fire.
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I was wondering if it has been backed up by any sort of writing, as it doesn't appear to be in the guide.Sure. This question comes up often enough.
The last time this question came up, my response was "Day Job modifiers must apply to the entire skill to be useful".
Three comments later, John Compton confirmed I (and another poster who answered similarly) was correct.
Scroll down a little farther for John's opinion on the alchemist bonus.
He thinks he remembers it applying. The answer now is the same as it was then. There's no official answer, but John seems to believe it does apply.
I read everything in that comment to suggest that the Alchemist's class ability would not apply to Day Jobs.
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His example is Bluff, but really any Day Job skill could be substituted using his reasoning.
Is Craft always about making items? Clearly not. Should we apply a percentage of that bonus, instead? What would that be? It gets messy and deviates to table variation.
It's better to only apply modifiers when they apply to every use of the skill.
If Campaign Leadership wants to make this an exception, fine. But I feel it's pretty clear as is.
Venture-Captain, California—Sacramento
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There is one exception to the rule above.
If the class feature applies to "Using a skill to earn money" it applies to dayjob.
For example, street bard's glad handing, which doubles your dayjob earnings, or the stunt bard, who's name I am forgetting, who gets to use acrobatics in place of performance to earn money, get to use acrobatics for day jobs.
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Industrious Urbanite.
Ah, never even heard of that book before. Looks like this is one of those 1% times where the Archives of Nethys can't always be awesome.
Currently according to the additional resources, that is the only alternate racial trait from Heroes from the Streets that is Not PFS Legal.