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For FAQing, not discussion. Please discuss here. The rules in the the Advanced Player's Guide for favored class bonuses contradict those found in Occult Adventures.
Advanced Player's Guide, Page 9, paragraph 3 [PRD Link]
For example, a dwarf with rogue as his favored class adds +1/2 to his trap sense ability regarding stone traps each time he selects the alternate rogue favored class benefit; though this means the net effect is +0 after selecting it once (because +1/2 rounds down to +0), after 20 levels this benefit gives the dwarf a +10 bonus to his trap sense (in addition to the base value from being a 20th-level rogue).
Occult Adventures, Page 84, paragraph 4, last two sentences. [PRD Link]
If an alternate favored class option modifies a class feature or ability, it can't be taken before the character has that class feature or ability. For example, if a class gains a class feature at 6th level, a character couldn't take a racial favored class option that applies to that class feature until 6th level, even if the benefit from that option wouldn't be high enough to add a bonus until a later level.
Which rule is supposed to be correct? Which is intended to take precedent?
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I'll mark it, but it's pretty clear the OA version is the currently intended rule. So this is more of a request for future errata than anything else. I could see this coming back into contention if the APG gets reprinted and still has that text.
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Jeez, let's start ten threads about it.
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Jeez, let's start ten threads about it.You should make an alias for each one.
I guess that's for the masses to decide. :-)
As I threw in on one of the other threads the ARG example for the orc gunslinger also would be incorrect since it assumes he took 20 levels for an ability he can't get till lvl 3.
Apparently there are other areas where the rules contradict Occult Adventures.
Jeez, let's start ten threads about it.
I've started two threads, one for discussion, and one for FAQing. That's hardly ten. *rolls eyes*
There's another in PFS, at least.
If you have a problem with my FAQing process, by all means complain to management. :-)
I had started the PFS one to make sure it got brought to light as sood as possible and people could get any needed rebuilds done quickly.
There was all the threads about it up at the same time, hence the joke.
Intent seems obvious, but clicked so it can be marked in the APG as needing errata. Not everyone has OA or has read that section, so the rules should be consistent across books.
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There are a lot better things to get FAQd then something that was already confirmed two years ago and just got reprinted. The OA rule is correct and has been for years.
I agree, but not all do.
So we have had to burn FAQ Friday's on Shield Spikes 3 times in the last 12 months (each time people would say "but that can't be right - what about this?"
In this case, I think people genuinely believe "it can't be right" and actually need the FAQ Friday slot burned to confirm.
Or they're simply trying to keep the neat stuff neat. No one wants wasted word count.
They posted last Friday that there will be no more FAQs until after Gencon.
