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A134 Crafters don't halve any price. When crafting an item, the crafter must pay one third of the total price. So to craft an adamantine longsword, you would pay 1005gp for raw materials and barring any failed checks, that's all. If you wanted to buy the weapon at a merchant, it would generally cost 3015gp.
A135 A summoned eidolon would register with an aura equal to the summoner's caster level. There is no spell level since it's not a spell nor a spell-like ability (although if you ever needed such a thing I'd say it would be equivalent to the highest level spell the summoner can cast, but that's not RAW, so...).
Can the DR only be beaten by the needed descriptor?
In most cases, yes. A +3 weapon can overcome cold iron and silver DR, a +4 adamantine and a +5 alignment-based DR.
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As in, a creature with DR/Cold Iron will receive reduced damage from all sources except for Cold Iron weapons?
That is correct, barring the aforementioned exception.
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What if it's DR/Good? Only Good attacks can bypass it? Not even magic?
Attacks from a weapon with the Good enhancement will bypass it. Spells and spell-like abilities ignore DR.
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And attacking a creature with DR/- with a +1 weapon? Full damage or only the +1 bypasses the DR?
DR X/- represents DR that is effective against all attacks that do not explicitly ignore DR. The +1 doesn't factor into it all, it just represents a slightly higher chance of dealing actual damage. If you attack something that has DR 3/- with a dagger and a +2 Str mod, but roll a 1 on damage, your total damage is 3 and is negated. If that were a +1 dagger instead, your damage would be 4. 3 would be negated, but 1 would successfully get through.
Similarly, if you had DR 5/- and were attacked by someone with a +1 dagger and a Srt mod of +0, you could stand there all day and not feel a thing, as the weapon's maximum damage in that case would be 5, and would be negated by your DR with each attack
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Attacks from a weapon with the Good enhancement will bypass it. Spells and spell-like abilities ignore DR.
A136+ It's also worth noting that any creature with the Good subtype counts as if its weapons were good-aligned (same with other subtypes) as well as that any energy attacks will bypass damage reduction (so a flaming sword still deals 1d6 fire damage).
A137 By RAW, no. But since the ability is close enough to dimension door, the DM might allow it anyway. It only takes a swift action though, so it might affect game balance.
Q138 When smiting, the first successful attack deals 2 points of damage per level (instead of 1). Is this the first successful attack since activating the ability or the first successful attack in an attack action?
A138: Since smite has effectively an unlimited duration and it doesn't say "each round" or "in a full attack", it seems that it applies to the very first hit the paladin makes after activating the Smite.
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Amateur Gunslinger mentions deeds gained through items. A quick (emphasis) check of the items section of the SRD fails to produce any. Are there items that grant deeds or is this a "just in case" provision?
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Does the old IF loophole of "anything is an improvised melee weapon" from 3.5 let a Magus use Spell Combat with a pistol (as it only requires a melee weapon, not melee attacks)?
Amateur Gunslinger mentions deeds gained through items. A quick (emphasis) check of the items section of the SRD fails to produce any. Are there items that grant deeds or is this a "just in case" provision?
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Does the old IF focus loophole of "anything is an improvised melee weapon" from 3.5 let a Magus use Spell Combat with a pistol (as it only requires a melee weapon, not melee attacks)?
A139 I'm no Gunslinger expert, but it seems like a "just in case" as well as friendly reminder for DMs making custom items.
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While I couldn't find anything that supports it, I couldn't find anything that goes against it either, so I'd say that there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to do it while spanking people with your gun.
Funny to notice that Magi can't do that while unarmed, even if they have IUA or claws.
Benefit: In most situations, a tower shield provides the indicated shield bonus to your Armor Class. As a standard action, however, you can use a tower shield to grant you total cover until the beginning of your next turn. When using a tower shield in this way, you must choose one edge of your space. That edge is treated as a solid wall for attacks targeting you only. You gain total cover for attacks that pass through this edge and no cover for attacks that do not pass through this edge (see Combat). The shield does not, however, provide cover against targeted spells; a spellcaster can cast a spell on you by targeting the shield you are holding. You cannot bash with a tower shield, nor can you use your shield hand for anything else.
Now - it's not specified what situations a tower shield does not grant its AC bonus. It is implied that when you use the 'Total Cover' function, you lose that AC bonus, but is that an incorrect reading?
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The Atlas is also goofy but it has that whole "Stay Puft Marshmallow Man" menacing smile thing going for it. The guy who drew that one up was obviously taken to the Nutcracker when he was a child... and he was screaming in terror the entire time.
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Glyphstone, out of all the playground I think you scare me the most...
The text strongly implies that you cannot receive a shield bonus to your AC on the same turn that you use the tower shield for full cover. To be clear, The Glyphstone's initial reading of the paragraph is not incorrect!
Think about it: once you have effectively converted your shield into a wall, you cannot move it about to deflect incoming attacks.
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A142: No, because spell-like abilities are not spells.
I've been looking for something that could be used as proof that this is indeed the case, but all I got right now is this line from a quite different context: "Spell-like abilities cannot be used to counterspell, nor can they be counterspelled."
But this should prove that spell-like abilities are not spells, but an entirely different type of ability that is not interchangeable with spells. There's probably a more direct line about that hidden somewhere in the rules. But the description for spell-like abilities is always explicit about creatures using "spell-like" abilities and never refering to the casting of them as "spells".
Edit: Here's a direct quote from the developers, why it's "No."
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While spell-like abilities do not have slots, they are still part of the same school of magic as the spell they are, well, like.
So the answer may not apply.
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Raven_Cry's comments often have the effects of a +5 Tome of Understanding
Originally Posted by PF SRD, Universal Monster Rules
Spell-Like Abilities (Sp) Spell-like abilities are magical and work just like spells (though they are not spells and so have no verbal, somatic, focus, or material components). They go away in an antimagic field and are subject to spell resistance if the spell the ability is based on would be subject to spell resistance.
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Spell Focus
Choose a school of magic. Any spells you cast of that school are more difficult to resist.
Benefit: Add +1 to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws against spells from the school of magic you select.
Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new school of magic.
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Spell Focus adds one to the saving throw against spells. Spell-like abilities, by their definition in the UMR, are not spells.
Q: 143 When my crafter is making wonderous items, what kind of raw materials do I need? My DM asked me, and I had no idea. I just assumed I turned gold into magic items, and I cannot find anywhere in the books that clarifies this process.
I keep my workshop in a portable hole, so I can craft anywhere, will I need to go back to town to get materials? Or is there anyway to convert my gold to supplies without going to town?
A143: To the absolute best of my knowledge (because I once scoured many 3.P books for this myself) The raw materials required aren't specified. What they actually are is just a matter of fluff and is up to you and the DM. They could include a bunch of witch-y, "eye of newt" type materials if you want but just remember, logic dictates that the raw materials should include the materials that make up the physical (not magical) structure of the item. So if you're creating a necklace, you'll want some metal, jewels, etc. Again, pure fluff. If you and your DM want to assume that you transmute money into magic items, good for you.
As for portability, generally, you buy unspecified raw materials equal to half the desired item's cost while you're in town and can carry them (within reason and at the DM's discretion) around while you work on the item. In your case, you could store them with the rest of your crafting stuff in your portable hole. So yes; if you buy the materials in town and/or find them, etc and keep them with you, you can craft on the go.
But as I said, I've never found a concrete source for this. So I could be wrong, and in that case I welcome being proved such.
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If a halfling Paladin of at least 3rd level with the feat lucky halfing made a save vs fear for an ally would, would he get the +2 racial bonus and the +4 moral bonus from Aura of courage on the saving throw?
Once per day, when one of your allies within 30 feet makes a saving throw, you may roll the same saving throw as if you were the one subject to the effect requiring it.
Emphasis is mine.
By wording, I believe that your paladin is now considered the target of the fear effect and, due to being immune to it, would not be required to make a roll.
A144 I cannot see any indication that you would be allowed to give your corpse companion any templates at all. Although I suppose that any acquired templates that affect undead could be applied to a corpse companion when/if the situation arises (up to your GM) and there's generally no limit to how many templates a creature can have.
A145 Your aura of courage gives you immunity to fear (no bonus to rolls). This situation is rather unique but I'd generally have to agree with Azazer that, since you're immune, you don't have to roll. There are 3 possible solutions to this however; with the suggested one, you would grant your ally immunity for that one save but your GM may also rule that you either a) can't use this ability for this purpose since it explicitly says "as if you were affected" and your immunity means you cannot be affected or b) even though you don't have to roll a save, you can still choose to if you wish to use the ability, in which case you only get a +2 bonus from racial.
I'm only just starting PF and I have what I think is a dumb question. I've looked through the PF Core Rulebook and the 3.5 to PF conversion guide and I didn't see my answer, though I might have missed it.
Q146: Does Pathfinder use level adjustment for powerful races?
Thanks in advance.
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Q144A: The reason I'm asking is because of this part...
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She can use this ability to create a variant skeleton such as a bloody or burning skeleton, but its Hit Dice cannot exceed half her cleric level.
A146: By RAW, it does not...(?)
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Level adjustments and ECLs are not a part of the Pathfinder game. Your GM has the say in what races are available for use as PCs; we presented two versions of the drow so that a GM could allow the less powerful one if he wanted. Appendix 4 of the Bestiary and Chapter 12 of the Pathfinder Core RPG give a few more guidelines on playing non-core races.
A146: No, it doesn't. The recommended procedure to play other races is to treat the creatures CR as a character of the same level. So an ogre without any levels would be a 3rd level character and an ogre with one level in a class would be a 4th level character. But since some abilities are a lot more or less useful in the hands of player characters, GMs should check if the level of the creature should be a bit higher or lower than the CR to make it comparable to the other characters in the group.
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