Master Herbalist Boon + Wilderness Medic Ranger = Extra herbs?


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Does the Master Herbalist Boon from Gen Con 2017 stack with the Herbalist Training ability of a Wilderness Medic Ranger?

Master Herbalist Boon:
:You may use your Downtime between adventures to collect herbs, using either Knowledge (nature) or Profession (herbalist). When you do so, instead of gaining gp as you would for a Day Job check, you gain herbs with a total value equal to 1.5 times the amount you would have earned from a Day Job check with the same result. Select the herbs from the lists on Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the Wild page 10 and Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Wilderness 152-155, choosing from among herbs whose listed DC to collect is not greater than your skill check result. If the herb requires a second check to process, such as Craft (alchemy) check, roll this check for each herb you collect as well-on a failed check, the herb is destroyed. If you have unspent value left over, record it on your Chronicle sheet; you can save up over the course of multiple adventures.

Herbalist Training:
:At 1st level, a wilderness medic can attempt Profession (herbalism) checks untrained and the wilderness medic gains a bonus equal to 1/2 his ranger level (minimum +1) on Heal checks and Profession (herbalism) checks. When he successfully forages for herbs (Pathfinder Player Companion: Heroes of the Wild 10), he finds twice as many doses of any herb he would normally.

A reasonable interpretation would then be Day-Job X 1.5 X 2 = 3(Day-Job) worth of herbs. Is that correct?

The herbs in "Heroes of the Wild" are nothing to get too excited over, but maybe better ones will be coming in Ultimate Wilderness.

(I was honestly considering the archetype for my grippli before I received the boon, so please forgive me for asking a cheesy question.)

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Pathfinder multiplication would get you 2 and 1/2 as times as many herbs.

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Would it then stack with the retail incentive for another 50% boost?

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BigNorseWolf wrote:
Pathfinder multiplication would get you 2 and 1/2 as times as many herbs.

To cite a source for that:

PRD wrote:
Multiplying: When you are asked to apply more than one multiplier to a roll, the multipliers are not multiplied by one another. Instead, you combine them into a single multiplier, with each extra multiple adding 1 less than its value to the first multiple. For example, if you are asked to apply a ×2 multiplier twice, the result would be ×3, not ×4.

The Exchange 4/5

After 9 years, I am still learning.

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Thanks for the input. Reading it again I suppose another more cumbersome but literal interpretation would be to:
1) roll day job
2) select herb of up to 1.5 time value of day job selected from the herbs whose DC is below the roll; record remaining value on sheet
3) get two doses of the herb selected instead of one

I'm not sure which way would be better, the first is certainly easier to implement.

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