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<blockquote data-quote="Persiflage" data-source="post: 5289895" data-attributes="member: 73597">It doesn't, you're quite right... but it does say that it only affects &quot;Special Attacks&quot;.&nbsp; This is a class feature, not a special attack, so Ability Focus won't apply by my reading of it.&nbsp; Hell, it's a class feature rather than any kind of &quot;ability&quot; entry, let alone a &quot;special attack&quot; line in a creature description...Basically, shulamyth is going to have to rely on DM pity.&nbsp; I'd try pushing Mindspy[1]: it doesn't improve the DC of your detect thoughts ability as written, but it's probably the best candidate to get that tacked on as an extra.&nbsp; If you can get them to synergise in this way, it'd be an awesome combination: being able to use those Thought Tricks against four creatures at once?&nbsp; As a standard+swift action?Pure gold&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[1]&nbsp; Note that there's a slight problem with Mindspy that will only be an issue if your DM is a total douche.&nbsp; Despite the fact that it's a class that explicitly lists Doppelgangers and other creatures with Detect Thoughts as a supernatural ability in its description, the actual prerequisites are &quot;able to cast Detect Thoughts as a spell or spell-like ability&quot;, which rules out - among other things - Doppelgangers.&nbsp; This is clearly an error of omission, but a sufficiently mean DM might throw the whole thing out on that basis.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Persiflage, post: 5289895, member: 73597"] It doesn't, you're quite right... but it [I]does[/I] say that it only affects "Special Attacks". This is a class feature, not a special attack, so Ability Focus won't apply by my reading of it. Hell, it's a class feature rather than any kind of "ability" entry, let alone a "special attack" line in a creature description... Basically, shulamyth is going to have to rely on DM pity. I'd try pushing Mindspy[1]: it doesn't improve the DC of your [I]detect thoughts[/I] ability as written, but it's probably the best candidate to get that tacked on as an extra. If you [I]can[/I] get them to synergise in this way, it'd be an awesome combination: being able to use those Thought Tricks against four creatures at once? As a standard+swift action? Pure gold :) [SIZE=1][1] Note that there's a slight problem with Mindspy that will only be an issue if your DM is a total douche. Despite the fact that it's a class that explicitly lists Doppelgangers and other creatures with Detect Thoughts as a supernatural ability in its [I]description[/I], the actual [I]prerequisites[/I] are "able to cast Detect Thoughts as a spell or spell-like ability", which rules out - among other things - Doppelgangers. This is clearly an error of omission, but a sufficiently mean DM might throw the whole thing out on that basis.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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