Campaign Clarifications wrote:
Alchemy Manual
Pages 20 and 21—You may purchase other types of ammunition with the properties of any of the arrows listed on these pages. The ammunition costs the same as the arrow, unless the base cost of one unit of the ammunition costs 1 gp or more—in that case, add the cost of one unit of ammunition to the listed cost for the arrow.
I wanted to get some clarification on whether this is supposed to override the restriction Alchemy Manual itself places on alchemical ammunition.
Alchemy Manual, page 20 wrote:
Other Types of Ammunition: While Kyonin archers prefer alchemical arrows to other missile weapons, characters can infuse other ammunition and thrown weapons that deal piercing damage (such as crossbow bolts, darts, and shuriken) with alchemical effects. Aside from differing base statistics, these alternative types of alchemical ammunition have effects identical to the alchemical arrows listed here. However, firearm ammunition can’t be imbued with alchemical ingredients, nor can ammunition types that don’t deal piercing damage.
As written the Campaign Clarification entry doesn't place any restriction as to what types of ammo can be purchased as alchemical ammo, whereas the Alchemy Manual itself only allows piercing ammo (and no firearm ammo), meaning no durable blunt arrows, for example.
I'm pretty sure that the CC entry was just supposed to codify how to handle the Alchemy Manual text, and should still obey the restrictions of the source material, but I think this could probably using some clearing up.
