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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sollir Furryfoot" data-source="post: 1059566" data-attributes="member: 748">Well, with my class I made it as a Will save, though I'm not sure if I should change that or not.  Getting hit with it might be under observation, but so far I haven't planned on using it, really.  Observation is the standard way of doing it, it requires a standard action within a certain range of the monster (haven't decided yet, probably close range equivilant), and if the monster uses an Su ability, you make a Will save (DC=DC of used ability, or if no DC 10+1/2 monster HD+mosnter's cha mod)-if you're successful, you gain the ability on your abilities known list, although there's a maximum amount of abilitiesk nown you can have.The second way of doing it I took from FFX, and entitled an ability named Lancelet.  Lancelet can only be used a certain # of times per day, depending on your level, but what you can basically do is "mark" a monster by making a ranged touch attack against it.  If it uses any Su abilities for the next 1 round/Blue Mage level, you get a chance, as above, to learn it-or, if you're observing it at the same time it's marked, you get a +4 bonus on your Will save.Finally, at 10th level of the PrC version of the class, or 18th level of the core class version, you get Constant Observation (need to think of a better name, perhaps), which basically means you automatically observe all the monsters within a certain radius (I'm thinking 5 ft. per level), without taking an action, although you receive a -4 penalty to your Will save when doing this.Edit-In both ways, you get a +1 cumulative bonus to your Will save for observing/lanceletting each time the ability is used in an encounter, and you haven't learned it.Just some food for thought <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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