(SPOILERS for Against the Aeon Throne boon) Assuming Caster Stat for Ally Boons?


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Second Seekers (Jadnura) 1/5 5/55/5

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This is pretty small potatoes, but I'm curious now. The Cedona Ally boon you get for Escape the Prison Moon allows you to use your very own pocket-Cedona to cast Mystic Cure @ lvl 2 (amongst other spells) once per scenario. Lvl 2 Mystic Cure heals for 3d8 + Wis Mod. Do we have any assumptions for what Cedona's Wis mod is, for this boon application? (I realize she has stats printed in AP 9, but I'm asking more as an academic question for similar situations.)

This sent me down a rabbit hole for rules about assuming things like Caster Stat for magical items and so forth. I know back in the Pathfinder days you assumed that, unless otherwise stated, their Caster Stat was minimum required to cast the spell. But since the magic items were re-done and spell completion vs spell trigger vs whatever else was simplified, the assumptions rules also seem to have disappeared. Even the Spell Amp rules tell how to determine Caster Level, but not caster stats, for stat-dependent effects (of which there are, admittedly, very few.)

Left to my own devices as GM, I'd just say "she has min Wis required to cast the spell = Wis 12 = 3d8 + 1 healing." But if there's an official ruling hidden in Alien Archives 2 or something, or an assumption like in the Pathfinder days, it'd be good to know in case this kind of thing comes up again?

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Given that she is statted, I would say that she heals according to her statblock. She's not a random NPC crafter, she's a known quantity.

Hmm

Second Seekers (Jadnura) 1/5 5/55/5

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Definitely - it is for sure not an issue for folks who happen to have AP9! It's the GM at a convention who has never met a Star Azlanti before and has someone roll up to their table with a swanky Cedona boon that I'm wondering about.

For that matter, can you even make a Spell Amp of Mystic Cure? Does the user add the creator's Wis mod, or their own, to the healing used? Or, judging by the existence of Serums of Healing which very pointedly have no static +s attached, is that just not a thing that happens?

It's a small, mostly academic, point. I just fell down a rule hole and wondered, is all.

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