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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 2808447" data-attributes="member: 19130">A furnace kindler allows a Reflex save to half the damage it deals - the DC of that Reflex save is affected by the range to the target.  Essentially, the device projects a 50-foot cone of fire (5 range increments; an unusually large area of effect, for what it's worth) and deals its damage in that area.  Within 10 feet of the technologist, the save is at the normal DC, within 20 feet it's the normal DC minus 2, within 30 feet the normal DC minus 4, and so forth.  The activation cost is and should be 5 points for a set-duration lesser gadget, so that's right.  A 1st-level technologist can only use it once/day (without some bonus stabilization points from a high ability score) because he's first level (much the same reason a 1st-level wizard can only memorize a single magic missile spell).  A technologist's free use of low-level devices doesn't kick in for a few more levels - compared to the psion (for instance) they have to pay for their higher BAB, HD, craft points, and vastly improved skill access somehow.  They pay for those things by having very limited use of their best devices, and at first level, well, a furnace kindler is your best device.  It doesn't nerf the technologist too badly, believe me, especially since you can also start with a backpack full of alchemist's fire by spending your craft points.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> The antimagic field either has no effect at all on FS, or it blocks it (I recommend the latter, generally speaking).  It definitely doesn't allow free use of devices within its area.  The key is realizing that the antimagic part is in reference to its function, not its nature.  The field is actually a sort of scrambling field - it makes working magic by spellcasting impossible, but it hardly gets rid of it.  This was the tact I took for the technologist's equivalent of the antimagic field, the inviolate shield, and it's suggested by the ability of Mordenkainen's disjunction to negate an antimagic field (which wouldn't make sense if there isn't actually a spell in the area to disjon, after all).Anyway, the upshot of all this is that there's still plenty of magic in an antimagic field, it's just that it's all too scrambled to function properly.  I would say that makes it even harder (read: practically impossible) to activate a device, but it certainly shouldn't make life easier for the technologist.   <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Does that clear everything up?  I feel like I should have had a sidebar on the matter next to the inviolate shield against magic entry.  Oh well, not like it's anything new for antimagic field to cause wonky conceptual problems.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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