Cooperative Crafting and Aid Another

[ras dna]

Hello Paizo / Pathfinder community!

We are having a slight dispute in our gaming group regarding how the Feat Cooperative Crafting (CC) and the Aid Another action inter-operate

It is my opinion that these rules were meant to work together as such:

Cooperative Crafting adds a +2 circumstance bonus in addition to the +2 unnamed Aid Another bonus

Any (reasonable) number of crafters may cooperate on a single project.
Those without CC may Aid Another for +2
Those with the CC feat Aid Another for +2, CC for another +2, and add +1N to the lead crafters output

My friend is interpreting & petitioning our gm thusly:

You may not Aid Another while using CC, so still only a +2 bonus.

CC uses the word "Both" so he thinks only 1 character can assist in this manner.

I'd love to get an "official" interpretation to submit for my GM's analysis.

Thanks!!

[_Ozy_]

Not sure about the aid another, but there is nothing in the cooperative casting feat that limits it to only one person helping out.

The 'both' refers to the fact that the person with the feat is helping the original crafter, and both of them must have cooperative crafting. This applies to each person that wants to assist. Note, it wouldn't double each time: x2, x4, x8, etc...it would go linearly for each additional person: x2, x3, x4 ...

You likely won't get anything 'official', so you're going to have to assess other people's arguments.

[Fuzzy-Wuzzy]

Nothing in the feat rules out Aid Another, so it should still work. That people will want to AA at the same time is obvious enough that they would have called it out if they couldn't, whereas they wouldn't bother saying "you can still AA as usual" explicitly.

I agree with _Ozy_ about the effects of multiple assistants.

On a side note, I find it amusing that your friend is apparently relying on a common-sense argument to forbid AA (can't do two things at once) while ignoring common sense to forbid multiple helpers....