Starting focus points for a remaster witch?


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How many focus points does a 1st-level resentment witch start with?

I thought maybe it was just one, but I have a character generator telling me it's two. I took the Cackle feat, if that matters.


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1 per focus spell (until you max out at 3). That's 1 for your choice of Patron's Puppet or Phase Familiar, and then a second one when you took Cackle.


What Hammerjack said. To simplify some feats explicitly giving you focus points and others not, they made a general rule.


Captain Morgan wrote:
What Hammerjack said. To simplify some feats explicitly giving you focus points and others not, they made a general rule.

Which means as a result that none of the feats in Player Core that give a focus spell (such as Cackle) are going to explicitly list that they also give a focus point. That is instead covered by the general rule.


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Thank you. Do you guys have page number for that general rule?

Please and thank you.


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Focus Spells pg 298 wrote:

Casting any of your focus spells costs you 1 Focus

Point. You automatically gain a focus pool the first time
you gain an ability that gives you a focus spell. The
maximum number of points in your pool is equal to
the number of focus spells you know or 3, whichever is
lower. This counts only spells that require Focus Points
to cast. For example, a bard’s composition cantrips don’t
count toward the size of the pool.

Horizon Hunters

cackle adds sustain to any witch spell caster has casted even if it doesnt have sustain to begin with ...

Liberty's Edge

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ShaiHulud wrote:
cackle adds sustain to any witch spell caster has casted even if it doesnt have sustain to begin with ...

Not at all. Sustain is an action you can only use on spells that mention sustained in their duration or list a special benefit when you Sustain it.


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The Raven Black wrote:
ShaiHulud wrote:
cackle adds sustain to any witch spell caster has casted even if it doesnt have sustain to begin with ...
Not at all. Sustain is an action you can only use on spells that mention sustained in their duration or list a special benefit when you Sustain it.

Or you could say you can use it, but Sustaining a spell which does not have sustained duration or a special benefit literally does nothing by Sustain action text.


Errenor wrote:
The Raven Black wrote:
ShaiHulud wrote:
cackle adds sustain to any witch spell caster has casted even if it doesnt have sustain to begin with ...
Not at all. Sustain is an action you can only use on spells that mention sustained in their duration or list a special benefit when you Sustain it.
Or you could say you can use it, but Sustaining a spell which does not have sustained duration or a special benefit literally does nothing by Sustain action text.

Yea the sustain action have no requirement so you can definitely waste your action sustaining nothing if you want.


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