Looking over Occult Mysteries and its AR entry, it seems like most of the content from this book is allowed...
Additional Resources wrote:
Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Occult Mysteries
Equipment: all equipment and magic items on page 55 are legal for play, Prestige Class: the pain taster prestige class is legal for play; Mystery: the occult mystery is legal for play; Spells: all spells on pages 50–51 and 54–55 are legal for play, except rapping spirit and possessive dead; Traits: all traits on page 37 are legal for play.
Of the character options and magic items in the book, this covers pretty much all of them, save for the feats (Arithmancy and Sacred Geometry, excluded for good reason) and a single spell on page 58.
However, it does not include the eastern and western star ioun stones, found on page 29 (with the description the Knights of the Ioun Star organization.
My question is, were these simply overlooked (as they're not with the other magic items in the book), or was this a conscious decision to not include them in the campaign (or at least, more than they currently are)?
Both appear in the Emerald Spire (although there they have CL 1 instead of the CL 12 of the Occult Mysteries versions, and the eastern star is priced at 6,000gp instead of 4,000gp), so they're already in the campaign, to an extent, but it'd be nice to have access to the western star, just so you don't look like you have a planetary system orbiting your head, without having to gain access to it via a specific high level (for PFS) module.
Neither provides a game-breaking benefit (eastern star gives a constant comprehend languages, western star gives an at-will disguise self that also renders your ioun stones invisible, both for 4,000gp), and their prices aren't noticeably off. The eastern star's price sits in the middle of other options for a constant comprehend languages, but those other options, both cheaper and more expensive, grant additional benefits, while the eastern star is limited to just that. The western star is priced at more than double that of a hat of disguise, placing it around the normal "double price for slotless" rule, with the extra cost accounting for the invisibility effect.
Basically, it seems odd to me that items that replicate first level spells that are priced in line with existing Core items would be considered unsuitable for access outside of level 9+ module chronicles.
So, TL;DR version: were the eastern and western star ioun stones intentionally not included in Occult Mysteries' AR entry, and if so, can we have that reconsidered?
