As a player in Skull and Shackles, my party and I just got out of the Black Tower, with the Eye of Dagon.
My UMD is high enough to use it, so does it still fire randomly if you activate it, meaning it might hit fellow crew members, or can you limit its target selection choices?
This seems like a better question for your GM, as ymmv and whatnot. Also, if your character cannot determine how it will work asking on here is kinda cheating.
I was more asking to know if its possible. My character only thinks it fires randomly, I was just wondering if it was said anywhere else, or possible by a dev, if it only fires randomly or if that changes once you can activate it yourself rather than trigger it as a trap.
Just to know, not to use in character without finding it out.
From rereading it, it should not function if you remove it. However, as I said your mileage will vary and your GM may have other ideas. Again, asking for OOC information to use IC on the boards sounds a lot like cheating, so I hesitate just to tell you that much. I know if one of my players, who have yet to get to that point, was asking on these boards or others and I found out, he may not be welcomed back.
My GM knows I'm asking.
My DM informed me that the item actually says in the AP that a DC 30 UMD check allows one to activate it for use as a weapon. And then we were both confused as to how one uses a trap as a weapon. So I came on here to ask.
EDIT: He informed of this after my character got a rather high Spellcraft check to analyze the magical object once we got out of the tower.