mute musician - dulled horror question


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the mute musician from horror adventures is legal for PFS! huzzah!

however, I have one question about a vaguely worded ability:

Dulled Horror: +4 vs. confusion, fear, insanity effects, and the supernatural abilities of aberrations. This class feature replaces versatile performance.

that's one hell of an oxford comma. given that it replaces a fairly useful versatile performance ability, I'm assuming that the +4 is for everything listed, in addition to the supernatural abilities of aberrations. however, I can see a way of reading that as to *only* apply to confusion, feat, etc from aberrations, and not those conditions in general.

the first interpretation seems reasonable to me, and I'm 98% sure that's how it was intended. but I can see someone getting overly rules-lawyery and saying it's the second version, which is so circumstantial to basically be useless.

thoughts?

Silver Crusade

I would have to review the archetype a bit, but yeah it should apply against all of those.

Of course, an archetype is a package deal, the ability your replace does not have to be of equal power than what you are getting.


Given the lovecraftian origin of it, as well as the description of it on another website, I would assume that the supernatural abilities of aberrations is separate. The site I am referring to describes it as: having seen the other side, they are numb to mental effects. (Not exact wording). From this we can imply that it means those effects in general, meaning they would also be numb to the effects of aberrations, from having seen much worse.

Based on the flavor of the class, we can assume that those annoying rules lawyery types would be incorrect.

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