Simple RAW for Pathfinder Thread VI: Return of the Red Die

[Kurald Galain]

A401 No, because antagonize doesn't demoralize, and hurtful triggers off demoralization.

A402 The 6th level, because Evangelist specifically advances class features of the base class, and not its BAB and saves.

[ciopo]

Q403

Sage counselor archetype gains combat expertise as a bonus feat. But can combat expertise be used with flurry of blows?

[Cieyrin]

A 403 Yes.

[ciopo]

Q404

An inquisitor uses his bane ability on a nonmagical weapon. Does his damage with that weapon now penetrate DR/magic? Separately for the bane target and everything else

[Rynjin]

A404: Yes. The weapon is now a +2 weapon, with all the benefits that entails. It has a +2 to attack rolls, damage rolls, and bypasses DR/Magic. The same goes for weapons which are already magic; a +1 weapon gets boosted to a +3, and now overcomes Cold Iron and Silver DR.

An Inquisitor can even boost a +4 or +5 weapon up to +6 or +7, and overcome DR/Epic that way.

[Aotrs Commander]

Q405

Is this correct, or has there been any ualfication or something I have missed as a general rule somewhere.

"A wild talent always has the elemental descriptor or descriptors (aether, air, earth, fire, or water) matching its Element entry. A wild talent that can be used with any of several elements gains the appropriate elemental descriptor when used with an element. For example, the wall wild talent gains the earth descriptor when used by a geokineticist."

Cold Blast
Element water; Type simple blast (Sp); Level —; Burn 0
Blast Type energy; Damage cold
You emit a beam of utter cold to freeze a single foe.

The kineticist's Cold Blast is Water. This means it does NOT get the Cold descriptor, but it does get the Water descriptor. (The same would apply to Electric Blast; Air, not Electricity.)

This appears to be correct by the RAW above.

Having checked through my spells dpcument (which has a lot of spells from 3.5 ad Pathfinder), the vast majority (not not ALL) spells that deal Cold damage have the cold descriptor, so it would not in this specific case appear to be a total oversight, but I'm not sure this was the explict intention or if I'm missing something.

[Rynjin]

A405: It's correct, but I wouldn't worry about it too much. I can only think of a single corner case where the Descriptor actually matters for a Kineticist (aligned planes where effects using a certain descriptor get a boost).

[Aotrs Commander]

A405: It's correct, but I wouldn't worry about it too much. I can only think of a single corner case where the Descriptor actually matters for a Kineticist (aligned planes where effects using a certain descriptor get a boost).

The counterspelling feature is I think the potential issue, in that could could use Cold Blast to counter a water spell, but not a Cold spell; Electric Blast can counter Gust of Wind, but not Lightning Bolt (to pick two spells off the top of my head with the descriptor), whereas Fire Blast can counter Fireball, which seems counter-intutive. But counter-point, who even uses counter-spelling anyway? But beyond this and we're getting beyond the simple Y/N premise or this thread.

[ciopo]

Q406

Can a monk (unchained or otherwise) use medusa wrath with flurry of blows? It requires "the" full attack action, not "a" full attack action

[Kurald Galain]

A406 Yes. The distinction is meaningless.

[ciopo]

Q407

can the enforcer feat be used with monk unarmed strikes?

[Rynjin]

Q407

can the enforcer feat be used with monk unarmed strikes?

A407: Yes.

For a more general answer that might be helpful moving forward, Unarmed Strikes are "melee weapons", so don't worry about them being excluded from any effects that use the general "melee weapon" terminology.

Unless you are a Monk (or someone with a similar class feature), however, unarmed strikes are not treated as "manufactured weapons" or "natural weapons". The Unarmed Strike feature is why Monks can benefit from both Magic Weapon and Magic Fang on their unarmed strikes but eg. a Fighter with the Improved Unarmed Strike Feat cannot.

[ciopo]

Q408

Can the unravel animation of the final rest inquisition be used with weapons that aren't bludgeoning? it's effect is granting distruption, that can usually only be put on bludgeoning weapons

[DrMartin]

A408: No, you need to respect the caveats of the effect you are granting. Compare with a Magus trying to add Vorpal with his Arcane Pool - needs to be a slashing weapon.

[Sloanzilla]

Q409: Reference to the Feat "Command Undead"-
A level three cleric uses this ability with two 3HD undead within 30 feat. Undead A makes the will save. Does Undead B also have to make a will save, or was the 3HD of controlling potential "used up" in the attempt against Undead A?

[DrMartin]

A409: The limit is on the undead under your control, not on the amount of undead you can try controlling. So Undead B needs to make the save.

[Aotrs Commander]

Q410

A kineticist uses Blade Rush to move 30 feet straight up. Assuming they do not inherently have any ability to fly (and Blade Rush doesn't say either way), what happens at the end of their action? I assume they would just fall, yes?

[Rynjin]

A410: Yes, you fall at the end of the the action.

[ciopo]

Q411

are there any feat or class feature or item or else that let us multiply vital strike damage on critical hits?

[Rynjin]

A411: No.

Vital Strike was made intentionally incompatible with basically everything.

[ciopo]

Q412

does mortal usher reaping strike trigger on AoO?

[Cieyrin]

A 411 contention Mythic Vital Strike does that. But you have to be mythic. Good luck with that.

A 412 No, it's tightly bound to the conditions that trigger it. If you could cast a single target spell as an AoO, that'd be the only way in the wording I see for it to happen, as the other two options specify specific actions to trigger a Reaping Strike.

[Rynjin]

A 411 contention Mythic Vital Strike does that. But you have to be mythic. Good luck with that.

Mythic Vital Strike does not, actually, do that.

It multiplies anything that would NORMALLY be multiplied on a crit by the number of your Vital Strike die, but does not make said die multiply on a crit.

[Arkhios]

Q 413 — Pathfinder (1st edition)

Does a druid with the Wild Shape class feature qualify for taking Monster Feats (obviously being able to use them only while in Wild Shape)?

[Kurald Galain]

A413 - Generally speaking, no. Most monster feats have prerequisites for which Wild Shape doesn't help (e.g. "must be Babau" or "must be Hobgoblin"), and all monster feats require explicit GM approval even if you do happen to meet the prereqs.

(edit) If your question is, can you use a temporary ability (from e.g. a spell or from wild shape) to qualify for a feat, then by RAW you cannot (although at least one of the designers feels that this should have been allowed). For example, you cannot take Flyby Attack unless you permanently have a fly speed.

[Draconi Redfir]

Q - 414: (PF1e)

Rumour i heard.

Is it true that Lead (the metal) can't be affected by Magic in the Pathfinder setting? If so, is direction towards some hard-written rules on this possible?

Got a fighter who doesn't trust magic, so thinking about potential mundane materials that can nullify or protect against it.

[Kurald Galain]

A414: - No. This is the list of special materials and lead doesn't do that.

[Rynjin]

A414 Addendum: Certain types of Divination Magic cannot penetrate lead, which is what you may be thinking of. This is always denoted in the specific spell, such as this clause in Detect Magic:

The spell can penetrate barriers, but 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt blocks it.

[ciopo]

Q415

I am an archeologist bard, I want to cast silence on myself before moving to engage some hostile spellcaster.

can I activate archeologist luck while under a silence effect?

[Rynjin]

A415: Yes. Archaeologist's Luck does not have any audible components; it doesn't even have any visual components.