Recent content by Joshua029

I guess I have my answer. All rules questions regarding if two rules work together will be answered with a resounding "NO". Now that this point has been driven home I can stop pestering the internet with my questions.

I don't think it's as simple as "that rule uses the word 'prepared' so you can't use it, even though everything else lines up". Take this example from the FAQ. Sorcerer: Does a sorcerer with the sage bloodline (page 72) use her Int or Cha to determine uses per day of arcane bolt? The...

I understand that a DM can't say yes to everything, but that's not what I was proposing, and it's not what I'm seeing here.My point was that at character creation, if a player wants to tweak a character's flavor with an archetype which does have some rules precedence, and it doesn't break the...

Isn't a trait of a "good" DM finding ways to say "yes" to the players? Taking an exclusive interpretation of every rule instead of an inclusive one seems to be the oposite of that. In Pathfinder the Arcanist is a mostly spontaneous caster drawing spells from the Sorcerer/Wizard spell list...

Using my example of the Oracle archetype borrowing from the Shaman, how would my interpretation "break the rules" or cause balancing problems?

For nearly every rules question I post here on a topic I view to be at least somewhat ambiguous, the instant response is to take the narrowest, most exclusive interpretation of the rules. Why is that? This occurs mostly when one class' archetype borrows a feature from another class, and the...

My apologies, but what bearing does the distinction between “race trait” and “racial trait” have on the question I asked? Both the FAQ and the passage in the book use the term “racial trait” so your distinction doesn’t apply to my question. (Additionally, I don’t see your distinction between...

But the rules state that "Half-elves count as both elves and humans for any effect related to race." (ARG pg 40) And the FAQ on Paizo.com states, "Half-Elf or Half-Orc: Can a character of either of these races select human racial archetypes (such as from Advanced Race Guide...

Can Half-Elves take Human alternate racial traits which replace the "bonus feat trait"? Half-Elves have "Adaptability" which grants them a specific bonus feat, but several alternate racial traits for humans replace the "bonus feat trait". Can Half-Elves take these alternate racial traits by...

From what I've read, an Oracle can learn the Tongues spell in a variety of ways, but it looks like for each the spell level for Tongues is different. If someone could clear this up I'd be quite appreciative? Learning the spell as normal is clearly a L4 spell on the Cleric/Oracle spell list...

Question withdrawn.

I have the Advanced Race Guide, which does include some races, but there are others such as Satyrs which are not included. My question was in regards to the possibility of an easy system for distilling races in the bestiaries to what would be racial stats, without having to build them from...

Question Withdrawn

Are the effects each round sequential or additive? Sequential would be like the storm is flipping through a deck of cards, trying to find an effect it likes. Averaging the damage, the Lighting victims will have taken less than 40pts of damage, and anyone else in the storm will have taken less...

I'm withdrawing the question about Paizo-official resistances to Death Effects.