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I recently leveled up as a Summoner with Summon Good Monster and have now gotten access to the Pixie as a summon. I was looking over their Special Arrow ability and was wondering if it was 'exactly as it says on the tin' or if I'm interpreting it wrong? It looks to be a magical effect that requires two saves on spells that have a close range, one against ac and one against a will save. I just thought it seemed odd and the likelihood of it even hitting drops a bit around the level I get it.
Special Arrows (Su) When a pixie fires an arrow from any bow, it can decide to change the arrow's properties by sprinkling it with magical pixie dust. Doing so is a free action as long as the pixie is the one who fires the arrow. A pixie can generate a number of uses of dust equal to its Charisma score each day (16 uses per day for most pixies)—the dust is useless to another creature unless the pixie gives the dust freely. In this case, the pixie chooses what effect the dust will have on an arrow when it is applied, and it takes a standard action to apply the dust to the arrow. Once pixie dust is applied to an arrow, the pixie's chosen effect persists on the arrow for only 1 round. As long as an arrow is altered in this way, it does not inflict damage when it hits—it only causes its new effect. A pixie can choose any one of the following three effects when dusting an arrow. Save DCs are Charisma-based.
Charm: The target must succeed on a DC 15 Will save or be affected as though by a charm monster spell for 10 minutes.
Memory Loss: The target must succeed on a DC 15 Will save or be affected by a modify memory spell (this effect can only eliminate the previous 5 minutes of memory—a pixie typically uses this ability to make the target forget it encountered the pixie so it won't chase the pixie when he flees).
Sleep: The target must succeed on a DC 15 Will save or fall asleep for 5 minutes.
Two saves?
I'm not sure if you're counting "going against AC" as a save but it sounds like you might have a correct understanding.
In order to use this a pixie would:
1) Sprinkle the dust as a free action
2) Fire the arrow at the target, where they would need to meet regular AC (but would possibly extend the range at which they can create the effect)
3) Assuming the pixie's attack roll meets the target's AC they target rolls a save against the specified ability (all DC 15 will saves).