[Everyman Gaming / Rogue Genius Games] Ultimate Charisma: What does Power of One do?


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(Rephrasing this here from when I asked it in the Rules forum.)

So one of the Leadership perks in Ultimate Charisma is called Power of One, which states the following:

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Power of One (Army, Loner)

You are able to put your abilities to good use when facing off against numerous opponents alone.
Prerequisites: One-Man Army, character level 8th.
Benefit: While acting as a commander of a Fine army (an army consisting only of yourself), your army gains all army special abilities that share a name with any class features that you possess.
For example, if you are a paladin with the smite evil class feature, your Fine army gains the smite evil special ability.

The problem is, from what I can tell single characters who act as Fine-size armies already gain all army special abilities that share a name with class features they possess. Certainly, nothing in the mass combat rules seems to imply otherwise, unless I've overlooked something.

Is this ability in need of errata, or is there some rule that I've somehow missed?

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Helllo, Alzrius!

Typically, Pathfinder is a rules system of allowances—this means that you can only do whatever the rules say you can do. As you pointed out, Ultimate Campaign doesn’t tell you what happens when you act as a Fine army, so technically by the rules being a Fine army only gives you whatever the GM is kind enough to fiat for you. Power of One is designed to definitely give the PCs the means to act independently as a singleton unit. If your GM rules that you don’t need this perk to get those benefits, just ignore it.

Hope that helps!

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