Pathfinder FAQ

Page 131: In the penultimate sentence of the Deimatic Display druid feat, remove "and creatures are not affected if they can see you." A "not" was erroneously added after bringing this feat over from Advanced Players Guide, and the Demoralize attempt gaining the visual trait is the important part of that sentence.

Page 141: The fighter's Aggressive Block feat was erroneously changed to be a reaction. After the feat's name, replace the reaction symbol with the free action symbol.

Page 155: In the Key Terms sidebar, under Warden Spells, change the last paragraph to the following: "Focus spells are automatically heightened to half your level rounded up. Certain feats give you more focus spells. The maximum Focus Points your focus pool can hold is equal to the number of focus spells you have, but it can never be more than 3 points. The full rules for focus spells appear on page 298." This text is in line with the remastered Focus Point rules, and avoids confusion about how and where these rules have changed.

Page 215: In the first sentence under Expert Spellcasting Feat, replace “expert in spell attack rolls and DCs of the appropriate magical tradition” with “expert in spell attack modifiers and spell DCs”.

Also, in the first sentence under Master Spellcasting Feat, replace “master in spell attack rolls and DCs of the appropriate magical tradition” with “master in spell attack modifiers and spell DCs”.

Page 235: In the success entry for the Long Jump action, add "up to" between "Leap" and "a distance." This makes this result similar to the High Jump success and critical success entries. After all, we didn't intend to force you to jump all the way across the room and into a wall if you happen to roll high! 

Page 281: In the Ranged Weapons table, change the price of the arbalest from 12 gp to 8 gp.

Pages 304, 307, and 309: On all three pages, the daze spell description should read "Cloud a creature's mind and possibly stun it." 

Page 307: Remove grim tendrils from the list of divine 1st-rank spells. It was not intended to be added to the divine list.

Page 314: There are two typos in the acid grip spell. First, "Area 1 creature" should be "Targets 1 creature". Second, the spell doesn't have a set duration; delete "Duration 1 minute". The persistent damage dealt by the acidic hand determines how long the spell lasts.

Pages 316-317: Some battle forms listed in the avatar spell need more information for their Strikes' deadly trait. Use the following information for the listed weapon.

• Cayden Cailean rapier (deadly 3d8)
• Desna starknife (deadly 3d4)
• Erastil longbow (deadly 3d8)
• Shelyn glaive (deadly 3d8)
• Urgathoa scythe (deadly 3d10)

Pages 317 and 318: Both the bane and bless spells should have the aura trait.

Page 320: The cleanse affliction spell accidentally lists two casting times. Two actions is correct, so delete "Cast 1 minute".

Pages 320-321, 357-358, 361: The spells clear mind, sound body, and sure footing remove many different conditions, but none of them could get rid of slowed! Adding the slowed condition to the list of  conditions you can attempt to counteract with all of these spells gives your group the best chance possible to deal with that particular condition. Change the 4th-rank heightened version of each of these spells to the following

• Clear Mind (pages 320-321): Add confused, controlled, and slowed to the list of conditions.
• Sound Body (pages 357-358): Add drained and slowed to the list of conditions.
• Sure Footing (page 361): Add immobilized, slowed, and restrained to the list of conditions.

Page 321: The control water spell doesn't list a duration for how long its changes to the water level last. Since permanent alterations to an area's water level have wide-reaching implications, add "Duration 1 hour" after its Defense entry. Note that this won't affect how long a creature with the water trait might be slowed by this spell.

Page 329: The enfeeble spell doesn't rely on a spell attack roll, so it shouldn't have the attack trait.

Page 331: The figment cantrip is intended for all manner of sneaky shenanigans. It should have the subtle trait. The subtle trait is described in the sidebar on page 302.

Pages 332-333: The frostbite spell doesn't rely on a spell attack roll, so it shouldn't have the attack trait.

Page 358: The speak with plants spell was erroneously printed with too many action symbols! After the spell's name, remove one instance of the two-actions symbol.

Page 363: Reposition has been added to the list of standard Athletics skill actions, so the telekinetic maneuver spell should offer the same options. Add "Reposition" to the spell's second sentence, between "Disarm" and "Shove."

Page 382: The tempest surge druid focus spell does a bit too much when a target critically fails their Reflex save. Remove all references to persistent electricity damage from the spell description and its heightened entry.

Page 403: In the third paragraph under Spell Attack Rolls, remove the sentence "Like your attribute modifier, this proficiency rank may vary from one spell to another if you have spells from multiple sources." With a unified spell attack proficiency rank across traditions, this sentence no longer applies.

Pages 411: The text for the wounded condition was changed for consistency, but became consistent with the wrong piece of text. This would lead to much deadlier encounters! The following changes should ensure that death and dying works the way we intended.

• In the Recovery Checks degrees of success, remove all instances of "(plus your wounded condition, if any)"; that's both in the failure and critical failure entries.
• Under Taking Damage, remove the final sentence that reads, "If you have the wounded condition, remember to add the value of your wounded condition to your dying value." This reminder should only apply to when you gain the dying condition after getting knocked out.

Page 422: It may seem like a Tiny creature can move through your space, but you can't move through their space! This isn't what we intended. Add the following sentence to the second paragraph under Creatures of Different Sizes: "Similarly, other creatures can move through and end their movement in a Tiny creature's space."

Page 226: In the fortification rune description, replace "the Strength required to reduce its penalties by 2" with "the Strength modifier require to reduce its penalties by 1".

Page 230: The electric eelskin's activation entry lists a spell attack modifier, but the thunderstrike spell it unleashes isn't an attack spell and requires a saving throw. Replace "spell attack modifier of +19" with "DC of 29".

Pages 248-250: Throughout all poisons, replace all instances of "Interact" in the Activate line with "(manipulate)".

Pages 255-256: In penetrating ammunition's activate entry, replace "Interact" with "(manipulate)".

Page 262: The general magic scroll stat block erroneously includes a Frequency. We didn't intend for you to overcharge your scrolls! Replace "Frequency once per day, plus overcharge;" with "Effect".

Page 276: The skeleton key's activation entry mentions a spell that doesn't exist. Replace "The key casts breach" with "The key casts knock".

Page 314: The flare bolt gift activation requires a spell attack roll with your relic, so it should have the attack trait. Add "attack" before "concentrate" in the parentheses.

Page 317: The grappling vine gift activation requires an attack roll with your relic, so it should have the attack trait. Add "attack" before "manipulate" in the parentheses.

Page 30: Change the agile trait in the ironhoof centaur's hoof unarmed attack to the finesse trait.

Page 44: The minotaur's Stretching Reach was intended to work similarly to a stance, with the minotaur having to spend an action in combat to gain access to a benefit (rather than walking around town with their sword arms permanently stretched out). We've changed this to simply be a stance to get this across more simply. Add the stance trait to Stretching Reach. Remove the language about the Interact action and instead add the one-action icon to the feat.
The feat's description now reads:

You can leverage your size and muscle to extend your reach and attack more distant foes. While in this stance, when you wield a melee weapon that requires two hands and doesn’t have reach, the weapon gains a reach of 10 feet.

Page 49: The saving throw for the lantern surki’s Lantern Beam evolution is a Reflex saving throw.

Page 62: The murmuration cantrip is a saving throw spell, but its heighted entry matches that of an attack roll spell. Change the murmuration cantrip’s heightened entry to “The damage increases by 1d4, or by 2d4 on a critical failure (1d4 of which is sonic and 1d4 of which is piercing).”

Page 103: Increase the level of the trollhound pick to 5 and its Price to 140 gold.

Page 113: The supramarine chair, land-delver’s chair, and similar aquatic accessibility options are intended to allow aquatic creatures to operate on land. Add the last sentence to the item: “You increase your Speed to 20 feet or your swim Speed, whichever is lower.”

Page 22: A creature you summon with the Fearsome Familiar feat gains the summoned trait. We also slightly changed the description away from "elemental familiar" to make it clear you can still swap out whatever familiar you have, not just a familiar with the elemental trait.

As an additional clarification, the elemental can appear in a space it can't normally reach, such as an elemental that can't fly replacing a flying familiar. This doesn't give it any abilities it didn't have though, so an elemental with no fly Speed would still fall, one that can't breathe water would start drowining, and so on. (Ask your GM!) The same goes for a familiar returning to replace the elemental when the effect ends.  

Page 26: In Armor in Earth, change the Strength entry to +3. This text didn't get updated for the remaster change to remove ability scores and use only attribute modifiers.

Page 26: The Tremor impulse erroneously lists two different damage dice for the base damage and the damage increase at higher levels. Change the "Level (+2)" entry to 1d8.

Page 27: Cut the stance trait from Rebirth in Living Stone. It's meant to be a sustained ability that can be used in conjunction with Assume Earth's Mantle and other stances. 

Page 29: The wall of fire you create with Architect of Flame must be within 120 feet (the same range as the spell).

Page 30: Add the attack trait to Magnetic Pinions.

Page 30: In Metal Carapace, change the Strength entry to +2. This text didn't get updated for the remaster change to remove ability scores and use only attribute modifiers.

Page 30: The barricade you create with Scrap Barricade must be within 120 feet.

Page 31: Conductive Sphere's electricity damage was meant to scale up, but the entry went missing. Add it to the end of the feat: "Level (+3) The damage dealt by the sphere increases by 1d12."

Page 32: Winter Sleet was too strong for multiple reasons. It's been revised to act more like the grease spell, no longer makes creatures off-guard automatically, and now uses your impulse DC. Your DC has a penalty to avoid a long-lasting ability with a low action cost from being too powerful, as often seen in the DCs of monster auras. The first paragraph now reads as follows; the second paragraph is unchanged.

"Bone-chilling, swirling sleet surrounds you, cruel as deepest winter. Surfaces in your kinetic aura are coated in slippery ice. A creature that moves on the ice immediately falls unless it succeeds at an Acrobatics check or Reflex save against your impulse DC – 2. A creature that Steps or Crawls doesn’t have to attempt a check or save. You’re immune to this effect."

Page 34: In Hardwood Armor, change the Strength entry to +2. This text didn't get updated for the remaster change to remove ability scores and use only attribute modifiers.

Page 34: The palisade you create with Wooden Palisade must be within 120 feet.

Page 35: Hedge Maze had some confusing wording, and was a bit restrictive. We've updated it to allow more flexibility, give better cover, and just generally make it more useful in more situations. Please note that it now fills fewer maximum squares. It's also different enough from wall of shrubs that it no longer refers to the spell.

Change the first paragraph to the following.

"You sculpt a manicured maze of hedges. Up to 10 hedges spring from the ground where you choose in a 30-foot-square area within 120 feet. Each is 10 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 15 feet tall. The hedges grant standard cover, are difficult terrain, and have a Climb DC of 15. They last until the end of your next turn, and you can Sustain the impulse up to 1 minute."

Page 35: Turn the Wheel of Seasons should say "dazzled" instead of "dazed" in the effects for summer.

Page 36: Rain of Rust is missing its duration. Add "The cloud lasts 1 minute but ends if you use the impulse again.”

Page 36: Add the composite trait to Ash Strider.

Page 36: Add the attack trait to Elemental Artillery.

Page 37: The Lightning Rod impulse was very hard to use effectively and had some unclear wording. We're changing it to be a more powerful Elemental Blast, to work at range so it's easier to use at 3 actions, and removing the secondary saving throw. Change its text as follows.

"You smash a metal rod into your foe and call lightning to it. Attempt a 2-action melee or ranged Elemental Blast using the metal element. On a hit, the target takes an additional 1d12 electricity damage and is skewered with a metal rod, which gives it a –1 circumstance penalty to AC and saves against electricity; the penalty is –2 if the creature also has the metal trait, is made of metal, or is wearing metal armor. The creature can attempt to pull the rod free using an Interact action, but must succeed at a DC 10 Athletics check."

Page 37: Add the attack trait to Molten Wire.

Page 37: Roiling Mudslide is missing its area! It affects each creature in a 30-foot cone.

Page 37 (Clarification) For the Tree of Duality impulse, you don't choose just one effect—you get both each time you use the impulse. The different entries are separated with bullets so its effect on allies is clearly separated from its effect on enemies.

Pages 42–43: The crysmal's name wasn't updated during the remaster process. The familiars should be called cullitox shardlings.

Page 43: Elemental scamp familiars are described with old text that didn't get properly updated. Change their description to the following:

The elementals called scamps look similar to bats, but their bodies are made primarily of elemental matter. They have large, staring eyes and small, curved fangs. 

Page 53: Conductor's Redirection needed some adjustments. To make it play more smoothly, we've changed it to a basic saving throw and clarified that the damages uses the triggering damage. If you critically fail your save and take double damage or have a resistance that reduces the damage, the enemy you redirect the electricity to still uses the initial amount for their basic save.

The feat's description now reads as follows.

"You conduct the damage through your body, taking damage as normal (if applicable) and redirecting it at one target within 10 feet that you can see. That target takes an equal amount of damage with a basic Fortitude save against the higher of your class DC or spell DC. The damage they take is based on the triggering damage, not modified by your degree of success, resistances, and so forth."

Page 57: The Kineticist Dedication trait should give you training in Nature similar to how other multiclass dedication feats work. Add this sentence: "You become trained in Nature; if you were already trained in Nature, you instead become trained in another skill of your choice."

Page 60: Water Step is in the wrong place and at the wrong level. It should be level 8 and appear between Metabolize Element and Reverberating Spell.

Page 69: Ranginori has a spell that was added to the divine list as of Player Core. In his Cleric Spells entry, change "4th: fly" to "4th: aerial form".

Page 70: In the cleanse air spell has a couple confusing bits. First, the spell prevents the contaminants for the spell's full duration. The "further contamination" text refers to after the spell ends. Update the description to the following.

"You purify the air in the area, making it clean and breathable. The spell immediately removes inhaled poisons, pollution, and similar contaminants from the air. For the remaining duration, the spell prevents any further contamination from altering air in the area, including keeping toxic air bordering the area from coming inside. (This doesn’t prevent contaminants from coming in after the spell ends.) This spell doesn’t create air, so casting it underwater wouldn’t create breathable air, nor would it affect any toxins within air suspended in the water."

Second, the heightened versions do in fact increase the burst but not the range, meaning you still need to cast the center of the burst fairly close to you even if its radius is 1 mile.

Page 75: The jaathoom's scarf has an incorrect DC. In the Jaathoom's Rebuke activation, change DC 18 to DC 27.

Pages 76-77: Wisp chain's activation was missing its frequency and didn't scale its damage up for stronger types of the item. Slicing Links can be activated once per day, and its damage increases as follows:

Greater wisp chain (level 9): 9d6 damage

Major wisp chain (level 15): 12d6 damage

True wisp chain (level 19): 16d6 damage

Page 84: Change the jaathoom shuyookh's AC to 29.

Page 94: Glass shield received several changes. Damage was changed to not use your spellcasting ability modifier, bringing it in line with other remastered spells. We also removed the Hit Points from the shield and its scaling. This means the shield isn't any less likely to be shattered and deal damage as it heightens. We adjusted the text to include all the necessary parts of the shield spell for convenience. The new stat block reads as follows.

Glass Shield [one-action] Cantrip 1

Cantrip, Concentrate, Earth

Traditions arcane, primal

Duration until the start of your next turn

Defense basic Reflex

You summon a layer of clear glass to keep you from harm. This counts as using the Raise a Shield action, giving you a +1 cirumstance bonus to AC until the start of your next turn, but it doesn’t require a hand to use. You can Shield Block with the glass shield. It has Hardness 2. You can use the spell’s reaction to reduce damage from any spell or magical effect, even if it doesn’t deal physical damage. When you Shield Block, the shield explodes in a shower of glass. If creature that broke it is within 5 feet, the shards deal 1d4 piercing damage to that creature with a basic Reflex save. After you use Shield Block, the spell ends and you can’t cast it again for 10 minutes.

Heightened (3rd) The shield has Hardness 4, and the damage increases to 3d4.

Heightened (5th) The shield has Hardness 7, and the damage increases to 4d4.

Heightened (7th) The shield has Hardness 10, and the damage increases to 5d4.

Heightened (9th) The shield has Hardness 12, and the damage increases to 6d4.

Page 97: Add the subtle trait to tremor signs, making it match the message spell.

Page 98: There are two changes in the aeon stone stat block. In the olivine pendeloque, change the item bonus to +3. Since this has the same item level as a greater resilient rune, it's highly likely a +2 item bonus to saves would be obsolete when you get the item or soon thereafter.

In the polished pebble, change "item bonus to Fortitude saves and DCs" to just "+1 item bonus to saves and DCs." This ability is meant to work against all grappling and slowing abilities, not just ones that require Fortitude saves or DCs. (Notably, Swallow Whole typically uses a Reflex save, not Fortitude.)

Page 103: The crysmal's name wasn't updated during the remaster process. These creatures are now called cullitox.

Page 128: Add Athletics +22 to the solar crow's skills.

Page 132: Add Athletics +15 to the rakkatak's skills.

Page 140: Ferrumnestra's cleric spells accidentally include a spell that's already on the divine list. In the Cleric Spells entry, change "1st: detect metal (page 142)" to "1st: conductive weapon (page 142)". 

Page 141: Laudinmio's cleric spells accidentally include a spell that's already on the divine list. In the Cleric Spells entry, change "1st: detect metal (page 142)" to "1st: fold metal (page 143)". 

Page 147: The spellsap grenade doesn't specify what its item bonus applies to. Like other alchemical bombs, this bonus applies to the attack roll you make when you throw the bomb.

Page 156: The skymetal striker's temporal stutter ability referred to "quickened 1" and "quickened 2," but quickened doesn't have a condition value. Remove the Critical Success entry and change the Success entry to just "quickened" instead of "quickened 1."

Page 157: Add the swarm trait to the nanoshard swarm.

Page 170: Kelizandri's cleric spells included a spell that's already on the divine list. In the Cleric Spells entry, change "1st: fear" to "1st: hydraulic push". 

Pages 170–171: Both the water lords should let you breathe underwater when you take on their avatar forms. In both Kelizandri and Lysianassa's avatar spell abilities, add "can breathe underwater."

Page 172: Remove the attack trait from dive and breach.

Page 173: Grasp of the deep's damage was difficult to understand, and could be interpreted several ways. We've shifted it to be more of a standard damage expression that deals half on a success, full on a failure, and double on a critical failure rather than introducing a new set of damage on a failure. It now reads as follows.

"You grip one target with the phantasmal pressure of the deep sea, disorienting and crushing its lungs and joints. The target takes 6d6 bludgeoning damage and other effects, depending on its Will saving throw.

Critical Success The creature is unaffected.

Success The target takes half damage.

Failure The target takes full damage, and feels as though it’s being crushed. The target also becomes grabbed, but it can attempt to Escape with an Escape DC equal to your spell DC.

Critical Failure As failure, but the target takes double damage."

Page 182: In the faydhaan shuyookh's 7th-rank spells, change magnificent mansion to planar palace.

Page 199: Wall of shrubs has been adjusted to function a bit more like the hedge environmental feature and to clarify the 5th-rank version can still be cast as a line if you choose. Change the heightened entries to the following.

"Heightened (3rd) The shrubs are 10 feet tall and 5 feet thick, provide standard cover, are difficult terrain, and have a Climb DC of 15. The duration increases to 10 minutes.

"Heightened (5th) As 3rd rank, but the shrubs provide greater cover and the duration is 1 hour. You can choose to form a ring of shrubs with a diameter of up to 30 feet instead of a line."

Page 202: Splintering spear has an error in its major splintering spear entry. It should become a major striking spear, not a "superior" one.

Page 208: Add Athletics +15 to the carved beast's skills.

Page 208: Add Athletics +17 to the pine pangolin's skills.

Page 209: Add Athletics +14 to the snapdrake's skills.

Page 222: Elemental breath includes both a range and area entry. It should have an area of a 60-foot-cone and no Range entry. Additionally, the spell's bullets should be numbers. (1 is air, 2 is earth, 3 is fire, 4 is metal, 5 is water, and 6 is wood.)

Page 227: The jann shuyookh used the standard jann's save DC for commanding presence by accident. Change the DC to 26.

Page 238: The wood trait should say "wood trait" in the first sentence, not "metal trait."

Page 51: In the fourth paragraph, remove Yana Mashilene's micro stat block and replace it with "(see page 31)"

Page 75: The Thrill-Seeker background incorrectly lists Athletics as one of the two boosts. Replace "Athletics" with "Strength"

Page 76: It was a bit unclear as to when you could be using Rolling Landing. In the second sentence, after "If you fall" add "more than 5 feet"

Page 78: In the second sentence of the critical success line of the Devrin's Cunning Stance feat, add the word "successfully" before the word "Strike"

Page 81: Acknowledge Fan was a bit more powerful than desired. Add the incapacitation trait to the feat. Add the following sentence to the end of the feat description: "Regardless of the result, the target becomes temporarily immune to Acknowledge Fan for 1 minute." Finally, add the word "temporarily" before the word "immune' in both the critical success and success lines.

Page 81: Quick Spring's wording allowed for more movement than intended. Change the feat description to the following: "Ishii Bunji is a skilled tumbler, and learning his technique allows you to push yourself off a foe and propel yourself across the battlefield faster. If you succeed at an Acrobatics check to Tumble Through an enemy’s space, you can Stride again as a free action after you complete your current movement."

Page 85: The cape of grand entrances incorrectly grants a circumstance bonus. Change the circumstance bonus to an item bonus.

Page 89: Change the flashy disappearance spell from one-action to two-actions and add a somatic component. Change the second sentence to read "You become undetected to all creatures that rely on visual senses unless they can see invisible creatures."

Page 89: Change the instant parade spell to 3rd-level. Change the third sentence in the first paragraph to read "You and other creatures can Hide and Sneak inside the crowd, though creatures that disbelieve the illusion still see creatures within as normal." Remove the fourth and fifth sentences from the first paragraph. 

Page 90: The musical accompaniment spell became too easy to leave "on" at higher levels. Remove the Heightened (3rd) and Heightened (5th) lines from the spell.

Page 17: Under the Unstable trait, the DC for the flat check required when taking unstable actions is reduced from 17 to 15.

Page 17: Text for the hampering trait updated to “After you hit with the weapon, you can use an Interact action to give the target a –10-foot circumstance penalty to all Speeds. The penalty ends after the target takes a move action, at the start of your next turn, if you attack with the weapon, or if you move out of reach of the target, whichever comes first.”

Page 21: The integrated gauntlet breakthrough weapon modification now specifies that it cannot be used with weapons that have the two-hand or fatal aim traits.

Page 24: The text for the Deadly Strike modification has been updated to read as follows:

Deadly Strike: Through precise calculation, you’ve found the perfect way for your weapon to deal damage on a well-placed strike. Your innovation gains the deadly d8 trait. If your innovation was already deadly, increase the die by up to two die sizes (d6 to d10, d8 to d12), to a maximum of deadly d12.

Page 42: Rain of Bolts now allows a basic Reflex save against the higher of your class DC or spell DC.

Page 53: The third sentence of Beast Dynamo Howl now reads:

"Attempt Intimidation checks to Demoralize against each enemy within 30 feet; you don’t take a penalty when you attempt to Demoralize a creature that doesn’t understand your language."

Page 63: The backpack ballista, repeating crossbow, repeating hand crossbow, and repeating heavy crossbow have all been updated to the crossbow weapon group.

Pages 68-69, 71: The price for essence disruptors used permanent prices rather than consumable prices. They have been updated to the following:

• Lesser etheric essence disruptors and lesser material essence disruptors are now 12 gp
• Moderate etheric essence disruptors and moderate material essence disruptors are now 70 gp
• Greater etheric essence disruptors and greater material essence disruptors are now 300 gp
• Major etheric essence disruptors and major material essence disruptors are now 1,300 gp

Page 71: The bonuses and penalties from the magnetic suit are now status bonuses and penalties, rather than item bonuses and penalties. The duration of the granted emanation is now 10 minutes. The initial magnetic suit now has a 10-foot emanation, and the greater magnetic suit now has a 15-foot emanation. The emanation of the suit now provides an AC bonus for allies, rather than all creatures.

Page 107: There was an error in Gunslinging Legend that has been fixed so that proficiency rank for simple weapons, martial weapons, and unarmed attacks increases to master instead of expert a second time.

Page 110: Spinning Crush ability text updated to the following-

You go into a vicious spin, smashing your weapon into those nearby and increasing your momentum by firing. All creatures adjacent to you take 4d6 bludgeoning damage plus your Strength modifier; this increases to 6d6 if your firearm has a striking rune, 8d6 if it has a greater striking rune, and 10d6 if it has a major striking rune. This ability does not apply other effects that increase damage with your firearm Strikes such as weapon specialization. Creatures affected by this attack must attempt a basic Reflex save. A creature that fails its save is also pushed 10 feet directly away from you.

Page 111: Dual Weapon Reload no longer has an action symbol and reads as follows:

"You carry your ammunition in a way that allows you to reload while holding two weapons. While you’re wielding two one-handed weapons, each in a different hand, you don’t need a free hand to reload a one-handed ranged weapon you’re wielding.

Page 111: Crossbow Crackshot feat text updated to the following-

You’re exceptionally skilled with the crossbow. The first time each round that you Interact to reload a crossbow you are wielding, including Interact actions as part of your slinger’s reload and similar effects, you increase the range increment for your next Strike with that weapon by 10 feet and deal 1 additional precision damage per weapon damage die with that Strike. If your crossbow has the backstabber trait and you are attacking an off-guard target, backstabber deals 2 additional precision damage per weapon damage die instead of its normal effects.

Page 112: Alchemical Shot has been updated in the following ways-

• "in the other" has been removed from the requirements line
• The second sentence now reads "You Interact to retrieve the bomb (if it’s not already in your hand) and pour its contents onto your ammunition, consuming the bomb, then resume your grip on the required weapon."

Page 115: First paragraph of Rebounding Assault updated as follows-

"You hurl your melee weapon at an opponent, then fire a bullet into the weapon’s hilt, making it bounce back to your grasp. Make a thrown ranged Strike with the melee weapon, then a ranged Strike with your firearm. Both Strikes use your current multiple attack penalty and this counts as two attacks when calculating your multiple attack penalty. If the melee weapon doesn’t already have the thrown trait, it gains the thrown 10 feet trait during a Rebounding Assault.

Page 119: The Slinger’s Reflexes feat now grants an additional reaction “At the start of each creature’s turn” rather than "At the start of each enemy's turn".

Page 122: The Fireworks Performer background now gives Fireworks Lore instead of Engineering Lore.

Page 130: In Beast Gunner Dedication, the final sentence of the second paragraph now reads "Your key spellcasting ability for these spells is either Charisma or Intelligence, chosen when you take this feat."

Page 132: We have made several updates to the Bullet Dancer archetype-

• Remove Brawling Focus from the Bullet Dancer's additional feats and replace with Qi Spells.
• Second sentence of Bullet Dancer Dedication now reads: "You gain the Bullet Dancer Stance action and are trained in bayonets and reinforced stocks."
• Bullet Dancer Burn is now a 4th level feat instead of 6th
• Bullet Dancer Burn's additional fire damage is now an additional 1 fire damage and 1 persistent fire damage per weapon damage die of the attached firearm.
• Black Powder Blaze now reads “You learn to take advantage of every shot, flying across the battlefield with the help of your weapon’s recoil. Stride and use Black Powder Boost. Make a melee Strike with the required weapon at any point during the Black Powder Boost.
• Special If you have Bullet Dancer Burn, apply the additional fire damage to the granted Strike.”
• References to Attack of Opportunity now refer to Reactive Strike
• Bullet Dancer Reload is now a 10th level feat instead of 12th

Page 140: Spellshot has received the following updates-

• Spellshot now receives the following additional feats: 4th: Basic Arcana, Basic Wizard Spellcasting; 6th: Advanced Arcana; 8th Arcane Breadth; 12th: Expert Wizard Spellcasting
• Energy Shot now deals deal an additional 1 acid, cold, fire or electricity damage per weapon damage die on the first three Strikes of the encounter.
• The Spellshot Dedication now reads as follows: You cast arcane spells like a wizard, gaining a spellbook with four common arcane cantrips of your choice. You gain the Cast a Spell activity. You can prepare two cantrips each day from your spellbook. You’re trained in the spell attack modifier and spell DC statistics. Your key spellcasting attribute for spellshot archetype spells is Intelligence, and they are arcane spells. You become trained in Arcana; if you were already trained in Arcana, you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. This counts as the wizard archetype for the benefits of Basic Wizard Spellcasting. Special You can’t select another dedication feat other than Beast Gunner Dedication until you’ve gained two other feats from the spellshot or beast gunner archetypes.

Page 150: Reinforced stock two-hand value increased to d8.

Page 150: As of Treasure Vault, the capacity trait has been updated to read as follows-

”Capacity: Weapons that have the capacity trait typically have multiple barrels or chambers capable of containing a bolt or round of ammunition. Capacity is always accompanied by a number indicating the number of barrels or chambers. After a capacity weapon is fired, you can select the next loaded barrel or chamber as an Interact action that doesn’t require a free hand. You can use abilities that let or require you to Interact to reload to switch barrels or chambers of a capacity weapon instead. Each barrel or chamber can be reloaded after it is fired as a separate Interact action.”

Page 150: Bayonet weapon category corrected from "Blades" to "Knife".

Page 151: Long air repeater table entry updated to clarify that it is two-handed. It now has the kickback trait.

Pages 151-152: Repeating trait now specifies that the Interact actions to replace a magazine are the same as Interacting to reload.

Page 152: Scatter trait updated to match Treasure Vault and read as follows-

”This weapon fires a cluster of pellets in a wide spray. Scatter always has an area listed with it, indicating the radius of the spray. On a hit, the primary target of attacks with a scatter weapon takes the listed damage, and the target and all other creatures within the listed radius around it take 1 point of splash damage per weapon damage die, of the same type as the initial attack.”

Page 156: Spike Launcher's activated ability clarified to note that the wielder's multiple attack penalty does not increase until they've completed all granted Strikes

Page 157: Big boom gun updated to reference a 20 foot range increment rather than a 20 foot range.

Page 158: Combination weapons have been updated as follows-

• Increase the range of the firearm portion of the axe musket to 50 ft., and add the forceful trait to the axe portion. Fatal trait on the firearm version should show as “d10”, not 1d10.
• Add the monk trait to both portions of the black powder knuckle dusters
• Add the concealable trait to both portions of the cane pistol.
• Increase the range of the firearm portion of the gnome amalgam musket to 50 ft.; add backswing to the melee portion. Fatal trait on the firearm version should show as “d10”, not 1d10.
• Increase the damage die of the firearm portion of the gun sword to 1d10. Reduce the range entry to 30 feet.
• Increase the damage die for the melee portion of the hammer gun to 1d10. Fatal trait on the firearm version should show as “d10”, not 1d10.
• Add the finesse trait to the melee portion of the mace multipistol
• Remove the forceful trait from the melee version of the piercing wind and increase the damage die to 1d6
• Add the backstabber trait to the firearm portion of the rapier pistol
• Increase the damage die of the firearm portion of the three-peaked tree to 1d6 and the fatal die to d10.
• Add the fatal d10 trait to the firearm portion of the explosive dogslicer and the agile trait to the melee portion.

Page 158: The dagger pistol now has the versatile S trait instead of versatile P.

Page 159: The tethered trait has been updated to match the version in Treasure Vault.

Tethered: This weapon is attached to a tether that allows you to retrieve it after it has left your hand. If you have a free hand (including if you've just thrown a tethered weapon and have a hand holding nothing but the weapon's tether), you can use an Interact action to pull the weapon back into your grasp after you have thrown it as a ranged attack or after it has been disarmed (unless it’s being held by another creature).

Page 159: Critical Fusion trait has been updated to match the version in Treasure Vault.

"Critical Fusion: Critical fusion is a trait for combination weapons that grants you two additional options for the critical specialization effect when using the combination weapon's melee version to make a melee attack while the ranged weapon is loaded. If you choose to use one of them, they replace the melee usage's normal critical specialization effect.

First, if the ranged weapon is a firearm, you can discharge it to create a loud bang and concussion, using the critical specialization effect for firearms instead of the melee weapon group's critical specialization effect. Second, you can choose to discharge the ranged weapon to increase the critical hit's momentum or shoot the foe as you attack them in melee, dealing 2 additional damage per weapon damage die. Both of these options discharge the ranged weapon, which typically means you have to reload it before firing it again."

Page 159: The combination trait has been updated to match the version in Treasure Vault-

”Combination: Combination weapons combine the functionality of melee weapons and ranged weapons in unique or unusual ways. A combination weapon has a ranged form or usage and a melee weapon form or usage. The weapons table lists the ranged weapon statistics first and the melee weapon statistics indented beneath, just above the ammunition. You can Interact to swap between the melee weapon usage and the ranged weapon usage. However, if your last action was a successful melee Strike against a foe using a combination weapon, you can make a ranged Strike with the combination weapon against that foe without fully swapping to the ranged weapon usage, firing the ranged weapon just as you hit with the melee attack. In this case, the combination weapon returns to its melee usage after the ranged weapon Strike.

Since a combination weapon is one weapon with two usages, both usages share any fundamental runes. You can put a property rune on a combination weapon as long as it's appropriate for either of the two usages, but if only one of the usages meets the property rune's requirements, the effects of the property rune only apply for that usage. For instance, a vorpal axe musket only applies the vorpal property rune when you are using it as an axe. Due to their complexity, combination weapons can't have another weapon, such as a bayonet or reinforced stock, attached to them.”

Page 160: The immolation clan pistol incorrectly referred to itself as a hand cannon in several places; this has been corrected.

Page 170: The text for the fairy bullet now reads-

"These bullets glimmer with emerald green light that dances across the surface of the bullet like a mischievous sprite. On a successful Strike, a fairy bullet casts revealing light (DC 23) extending outward from a corner of the target's space. You choose which corner of the target's space you want the burst to extend out from at the time you declare the associated Strike. Since the fairy bullet is fired before revealing light can reveal the target, the effects don’t affect the flat check for the attack roll with the fairy bullet if the target is hidden from you."

Page 184: Large bore modifications incorrectly referred to the bonus damage from kickback as a circumstance bonus; the word "circumstance" has been removed.

Can nephilim characters take aasimar or tiefling feats from this book?

Yes. Aasimar and tiefling feats from this book and any other book are available to nephilims, subject to rarity and GM ruling as normal. As with any legacy material, players may need to work with their GM to determine appropriate rulings, such as swapping references to good or evil damage with spirit damage with holy or unholy sanctification.

Page 130: Evanescent Wings now requires one action and has a frequency of once per round. Change the description to the following: "You’ve manifested wings that can flutter for brief spurts. You Fly. If you don’t normally have a fly Speed, you gain a fly Speed of 15 feet for this movement. If you aren’t on solid ground at the end of this movement, you fall."

Page 131: Energize Wings is now a 5th-level feat. Update the feat to the following:
Energize Wings Feat 5
Sprite
Prerequisites Evanescent Wings
Your magic energizes your wings, allowing you to fly farther. The fly Speed you gain from Evanescent Wings increases to 25 feet."

Page 131: Hero's Wings is now a 9th-level feat. Update the feat to the following:
Hero’s Wings Feat 9
Sprite
Prerequisites Energize Wings
Your wings have grown to their full, majestic form, granting you the unlimited power of flight. You have a fly Speed of 25 feet at all times. Furthermore, sprites recognize you as a powerful hero (or villain) by your unique wings and are appropriately impressed. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus on all Diplomacy and Intimidation checks against sprites and gain the benefits of the Glad-Hand skill feat against other sprites, without taking a  –5 penalty to your Diplomacy check. 

Page 133: Add the following line to the strix's "Wings" entry in their rules sidebar:
"Additionally, you take no damage from falling, no matter what distance you fall."

Page 136: Remove the Nestling Fall feat.

Page 136: Fledgling Flight is now a 1st-level feat. Update the feat to the following:
Fledgling Flight [one-action] Feat 1
Strix
Frequency once per round
You can fly through the air in short bursts. You Fly. If you don’t normally have a fly Speed, you gain a fly Speed of 15 feet for this movement. If you aren’t on solid ground at the end of this movement, you fall. 

Page 137: Juvenile Flight is now a 5th-level feat. Update the feat to the following:
Juvenile Flight Feat 5
Strix
Prerequisites Fledgling Flight
Your wings become stronger, allowing you to fly farther.  The fly Speed you gain from Fledgling Flight increases to 25 feet.

Page 137: Fully Flighted is now a 9th-level feat. Update the feat to the following:
Fully Flighted Feat 9
Strix
Prerequisites Juvenile Flight
You can take to the skies at any time. You have a fly Speed of 25 feet at all times.
Special You can take this feat a second time. If you do, your fly Speed increases to 35 feet.

The removal of alignment necessitates some major changes for the champion class. You can use the following general fixes to play under the remastered rules until the revised class is released in Player Core 2. The tenets of evil and the related causes for evil champions appear in the Remaster compatibility errata for the Advanced Player's Guide. 

Pages 106-107: The champion's code class feature and deity and cause class feature require the most difficult fixes, as they rely the most on your character's alignment and your deity's follower alignments. The tenets of your champion's code become more important than your alignment, and add specific edicts and anathema that you must follow. You lose your focus pool and divine ally only when you violate any champion-related anathema. You can choose the tenets of good only if your deity allows you to be sanctified as holy (see below). You can choose the tenets of evil only if your deity allows you to be sanctified as unholy (see Remaster compatibility errata for the Advanced Player's Guide).

For the Deity and Cause class feature, use the sanctification options listed for the gods presented in Player Core. You can choose the related tenets if the option to be sanctified as holy or unholy is presented for your deity. If the god doesn't allow either sanctification, you can't be a champion of that god. As an exception, if you could follow a certain champion cause before the remaster, you can still choose that cause (along with the related tenets of course) for that specific deity. If your deity isn't presented in Player Core, work with your GM to make a judgment call based on that deity's follower alignments. If your chosen deity allows any good alignments, you can sanctify as holy; if your deity allows any evil alignments, you can sanctify as unholy; if your deity allows both good and evil alignments, you can choose either; and if your deity allows no good and no evil alignments, you can't be a champion of that deity.

Page 106: Replace the tenets of good with the following text:

The Tenets of Good
You gain the holy trait and add that trait to any Strikes you make. In addition to your other edicts and anathema, you gain the following:
Edicts do not knowingly harm innocents or fail to prevent harm to an innocent if your direct intervention could save them
Anathema commit murder, engage in torture

Pages 106-107: Use the following text for the three causes that must follow the tenets of good in the Core Rulebook. These are no longer as strictly proscribed by alignment.

Paladin
You’re honorable, forthright, and committed to pushing back the forces of cruelty. You gain the Retributive Strike champion’s reaction and the lay on hands devotion spell. Your code gains the follow edicts and anathema:
Edicts follow the law, respect legitimate authorities or leadership
Anathema take advantage of another, cheat

Redeemer
You’re full of kindness and forgiveness. You gain the Glimpse of Redemption champion’s reaction and the lay on hands devotion spell. Your code gains the follow edicts and anathema:
Edicts try to redeem those who commit wicked deeds, show compassion to others regardless of their authority or station
Anathema kill a sapient enemy without first offering a chance at redemption

Liberator
You defend the freedom of others. You gain the Liberating Step champion’s reaction and the lay on hands devotion spell. Your code gains the follow edicts and anathema:
Edicts oppose slavery and tyranny, fight for others’ freedom to make their own decisions, respect choices others make for their own lives
Anathema force or threaten someone to act a certain way, engage in slavery or tyranny

Pages 108-109: In the Divine Smite class feature, replace all instances of "persistent good damage" with "persistent spirit damage". This persistent damage is a holy effect.

Many of the champion class feats in the Core Rulebook need to be changed to be compatible with the Remaster.

Page 110: In the Dragonslayer Oath feat, replace the description with the following text:

You’ve sworn to slay wicked and nefarious dragons. You gain following edict: “You must slay dragons whose actions are in direct opposition to your deity’s edicts when you encounter them as long as you have a reasonable chance of success.”

Your Retributive Strike gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage against a dragon, or +6 if you have master proficiency with the weapon you used. Your Glimpse of Redemption’s resistance against damage from a dragon is 7 + your level. If you use Liberating Step triggered by a dragon, your ally gains a +4 circumstance bonus to checks granted by your Liberating Step, and the ally can Step twice afterward.

You don’t consider dragons whose actions are in direct opposition to your deity’s edicts to be legitimate authorities, even in nations they rule.

Page 110: In the Fiendsbane Oath feat, replace replace "Add the following tenet to your champion’s code after the other tenets:" with "You gain the following edict:". In addition, replace "good fiend" with "fiend that isn't unholy".

Page 110: In the Shining Oath feat, replace "Add the following tenet to your champion’s code after the other tenets:" with "You gain the following edict:". In addition, replace "good undead" with "undead that isn't unholy".

Page 111: In the Vengeful Oath feat, replace the text with the following:

You’ve sworn an oath to hunt down wicked evildoers and bring them to judgment. You gain the following edict: “You must hunt down and exterminate creatures that have committed heinous atrocities.”

You can use lay on hands to damage a creature you witness harming an innocent or a  ally as if it were undead; in this case, lay on hands deals spirit damage instead of vitality damage and gains the holy trait. This doesn’t prevent you from healing such a creature with lay on hands; you choose whether to heal or harm.

Page 112: In the Smite Evil feat, replace "good damage" with "spirit damage if the target is unholy".

Page 113: In the Sense Evil feat, replace the feat's description with the following text:

"You sense evil as a queasy or foreboding feeling. You detect unholy creatures as a vague sense, similar to humans’ sense of smell. An unholy creature using a disguise or otherwise trying to hide its presence attempts a Deception check against your Perception DC to hide its unholiness from you. If the creature succeeds at its Deception check, it is then temporarily immune to your Sense Evil for 1 day."

Page 113: In the Radiant Blade Spirit feat, replace "flaming and any aligned properties (anarchic, axiomatic, holy, or unholy) that match your cause’s alignment" with "flaming, holy if you are holy, and unholy if you are unholy".

Page 113: In the Aura of Faith feat, replace "Your Strikes deal an extra 1 good damage against evil creatures. Also, each good-aligned ally within 15 feet gains this benefit on their first Strike that hits an evil creature each round." with "Your Strikes deal and extra 1 spirit damage against unholy creatures. Also, each willing ally within 15 feet gains this benefit on their first Strike that hits an unholy creature each round."

Page 113: In the Blade of Justice feat, replace all instances of "evil" with "unholy" and all instances of "good damage" with "spirit damage".

Page 114: In the Aura of Righteousness feat, replace "gain evil resistance 5" with "gain resistance 5 to unholy"

Page 115: In the Celestial Mount feat, replace "weakness 10 to evil damage" with "weakness 10 to unholy".

Page 316: In the acid splash cantrip, replace the heightened entries with the following text: 

"Heightened (3rd) The initial damage increases to 2d6, and the persistent damage increases to 2.
Heightened (5th) The initial damage increases to 3d6, the persistent damage increases to 3, and the splash damage increases to 2.
Heightened (7th) The initial damage increases to 4d6, the persistent damage increases to 4, and the splash damage increases to 3.
Heightened (9th) The initial damage increases to 5d6, the persistent damage increases to 5, and the splash damage increases to 4."

Page 331: In the disrupt undead cantrip, replace "1d6 positive damage plus your spellcasting ability modifier" with "2d6 vitality damage".

Page 337: In the false life spell, replace "a number of temporary Hit Points equal to 6 plus your spellcasting ability modifier" with "10 temporary Hit Points".

Page 360: In the produce flame cantrip, replace "fire damage equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier" with "2d4 fire damage".

Page 362: In the ray of frost cantrip, replace "cold damage equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting ability modifier" with "2d4 cold damage".

Page 373: In the spiritual weapon spell, replace "force damage equal to 1d8 plus your spellcasting ability modifier" with "2d8 force damage".

Page 384: In the weapon of judgment spell, replace "force damage equal to 3d10 plus your spellcasting ability modifier" with "4d10 force damage".

Page 388: Change the following champion focus spells to account for the removal of alignment.

In litany against sloth, replace the Targets entry of "1 evil creature" with "1 creature that isn't holy".

In litany against wrath , replace the Targets entry of "1 evil creature" with "1 creature that isn't holy". In addition, replace all instances of "good creature" with "creature that isn't unholy" and all instances of "3d6 good damage" with "3d6 spirit damage".

In litany of righteousness, replace "weakness 7 to good" with "weakness 7 to holy".

Page 401: In the ki strike spell, replace "This damage can be any of the following types of your choice, chosen each time you Strike: force, lawful (only if you're lawful), negative, or positive." with "This damage can be any of the following types of your choice, chosen each time you Strike: force, spirit, vitality, or void."

The changing of several cantrips in the Remaster affects two of the psychic's conscious minds. You can continue to use the cantrips in the Core Rulebook, allowing the psychic to operate as currently written, though note the errata to bring those spells in line with other Remastered cantrips.

If you wish to use the Remastered cantrips instead of those from the Core Rulebook, there are some small tweaks to the related conscious minds.

Page 19: The Oscillating Wave conscious mind gains frostbite and ignition instead of ray of frost and produce flame as its standard psi cantrips. Replace the associated text with the following.

Frostbite

You can freeze people from even farther away. The range of your frostbite increases to 120 feet. Your frostbite also gains the following amp.

Amp You drain thermal energy at a distance, using what you plunder to replenish yourself. The orb deals 3d4 cold damage. You gain temporary Hit Points equal to half the damage the target takes (after applying resistances and the like). You lose any remaining temporary Hit Points after 1 minute.

Amp Heightened (+1) The initial damage increases by 2d4 instead of 1d4. The weakness on a critical failure increases by 1.

Ignition

You can drastically increase the heat against targets at a distance. When using ignition as a ranged attack, increase the range to 60 feet. When using ignition as a melee attack, your reach increases by 5 feet. Your ignition also gains the following amp.

Amp You project pure heat that causes a target to combust. The initial damage changes to 1d10 fire damage plus 1 fire splash damage. When using amped produce flame as a melee attack, increase the damage dice of the initial damage from d10s to d12s. You are not harmed by splash damage from amped ignition.

Amp Heightened (+1) Instead of using ignition’s normal heightened entry, the initial damage increases by 1d10 (1d12 for melee) and the splash damage increases by 1. The persistent fire damage on a critical hit increases by 1d4.

Page 21: The Tangible Dream conscious mind gains figment instead of dancing lights as one of its standard psi cantrips. Replace the associated text with the following. While there have been some minor changes to the shield cantrip, the way it is used by the psychic is unchanged.

Figment

Your minor illusions shift and dance. The range of figment increases to 60 feet. When you Sustain the spell, you can move the apparent sound or vision up to 15 feet. You can then attempt to Create a Diversion as usual. Those creatures who disbelieved the illusion aren’t affected by this diversion. Your figment also gains the following amp.

Amp When you amp the spell, you can create a particularly distracting illusion as part of its normal effects. Choose an unoccupied square within the spell’s range. The illusion in that square provides flanking for a single melee attack made before the beginning of your next turn. If you Sustain the spell, the details of the illusion change and shift to keep your enemies unsettled; the flanking illusion’s duration extends until the beginning of your next turn and you can move it to any unoccupied square in the spell’s range. The flanking illusion can’t provide its benefit against any creature who has disbelieved the figment.

To bring them in line with the Remaster's damaging cantrips, many of the psychic's unique psi cantrips have their damage adjusted.

Page 17: In the dancing blade cantrip, replace “damage equal to 2d6 plus your spellcasting ability modifier” with “3d6 damage”.

Page 21: In the forbidden thought cantrip, replace “1d6 mental damage plus your spellcasing ability modifier” with “2d6 mental damage”.

Page 21: In the shatter mind cantrip, change "mental damage equal to 2d4 plus your spellcasting ability modifier" to "3d4 mental damage".

Page 22: In the imaginary weapon cantrip, change “your choice of bludgeoning or slashing damage equal to 1d8 plus your spellcasting ability modifier” to "2d8 bludgeoning or slashing damage (your choice)".

Page 22: In the astral rain cantrip, replace “your choice of bludgeoning or piercing damage equal to 2d4 plus your spellcasting ability modifier” with “4d4 bludgeoning or piercing damage (your choice)”.

Page 106: In the phase bolt cantrip, replace "1d4 piercing damage plus your spellcasting ability modifier" with "3d4 piercing damage".

With the removal of spell schools in the Remaster, parts of the magus class require some tweaks to be usable. This errata also includes some corrections from the first printing of the book that are unrelated to the Remaster.

Page 38: Replace the Arcane Cascade action with the following text: 

Arcane Cascade [one-action]

Concentrate, Magus, Stance

Requirements You used your most recent action this turn to Cast a Spell or make a Spellstrike. You need to meet this requirement only to enter the stance, not to remain in it.

You divert a portion of the spell’s magical power and keep it cycling through your body and weapon using specialized forms, breathing, or footwork. While you’re in the stance, your melee Strikes deal 1 extra force damage. This damage increases to 2 if you have weapon specialization and 3 if you have greater weapon specialization. Any Strike that benefits from this damage gains the arcane trait, making it magical.

If your most recent spell before entering the stance was one that can deal damage, the damage from the stance is instead the same type that spell could deal (or one type of your choice if the spell could deal multiple types of damage).

Page 48: Replace the Arcane Shroud feat with the following text. Note that heroism was not on the arcane spell list and has been removed from this more flexible version of the action:

Arcane Shroud [one-action]      Feat 14

Concentrate, Magus

Prerequisites Arcade Cascade, Spellstrike

Frequency once per turn

Requirements Your most recent action was to Cast a Spell from a spell slot or make a Spellstrike with a spell from a spell slot.

Your magic has a powerful aftereffect, briefly granting you a certain spell. When you take this feat, choose three of false vitality, fire shield, fleet step, flicker, invisibility, mountain resilience, and see the unseen. You use Arcane Cascade and are subject to an additional aftereffect spell of your choice from the three you selected. This aftereffect spell’s duration lasts until the end of your next turn or its normal duration, whichever is shorter. Using Arcane Shroud again ends any existing spell you gained from Arcane Shroud.

With the removal of alignment damage, certain eidolons require some small tweaks to their strikes.

Page 59: For the angel eidolon's Hallowed Strikes, replace “Your eidolon’s unarmed Strikes deal an extra 1 good damage; as usual, this extra damage harms only evil creatures or those with a weakness to good damage." with “Your eidolon's unarmed Strikes gain the holy trait and deal 1 extra spirit damage to unholy creatures and creatures with weakness to holy.”

Page 62: For the demon eidolon's Demonic Strikes, replace “Your eidolon’s unarmed Strikes deal an extra 1 evil damage; as usual, this extra damage harms only good creatures or those with a weakness to evil damage." with "Your eidolon's unarmed Strikes gain the unholy trait and deal 1 extra spirit damage to holy creatures and creatures with weakness to unholy.”

Page 108: In the gale blast spell, replace “bludgeoning damage equal to your spellcasting ability modifier” with “1d6 bludgeoning damage”.

Page 109: In the haunting hymn spell, replace "sonic damage equal to your spellcasting ability modifier" with "1d8 sonic damage". Also, in the spell's heightened entry, replace "1d6" with "1d8".

Page 124: In the puff of poison spell, replace "poison damage equal to your spellcasting modifier and 2 persistent poison damage" with "1d8 poison damage and 2 persistent poison damage".

Page 127: In the scatter scree spell, replace "bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 plus your spellcasting ability modifier” with “2d4 bludgeoning damage".

Page 130: In the spout spell, replace “bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 plus your spellcasting ability modifier” to “2d4 bludgeoning damage”. In addition, to give the spell a little more oomph, add the following sentence to the end of the description: "A creature that critically fails its save is disoriented by the explosion of water, becoming off-guard until the end of your next turn.”

The removal of alignment necessitates some major changes for the champion class. Use the following general fixes until Player Core 2 is released. These build upon those in the Remaster compatibility errata for the Core Rulebook. 

Pages 116: Replace the tenets of evil with the following text:

The Tenets of Evil
You gain the unholy trait and add that trait to any Strikes you make. In addition to your other edicts and anathema, you gain the following. None of these prevents you from performing acts others might consider helpful, but these acts must be done with the expectation that they ultimately furthers your own goals or those of your deity.
Edict do not put another’s needs before your own or those of your deity
Anathema commit an entirely altruistic act, such as giving something away in charity

Pages 116: Use the following text for the three causes that must follow the tenets of evil . These are no longer as strictly proscribed by alignment.

Tyrant
Might makes right, and you subjugate the weak to keep them in their proper place. You gain the Iron Command champion's reaction and the touch of corruption devotion spell. You gain the follow edicts and anathema:
Edicts enforce proper hierarchies, topple illegitimate hierarchies, lead when you are the most suited to the task
Anathema let one who is lesser than you wield power over you or lead you

Desecrator
You always take what pleases you, no matter who it hurts, and you spread your evil influence across all you touch. You gain the Selfish Shield champion’s reaction and the touch of corruption devotion spell. You gain the follow edicts and anathema:
Edicts subvert or corrupt everything in your path that is pure or holy, sow doubt among those holding ideals of purity or holiness
Anathema none

Antipaladin
You're dishonorable, dishonest, and committed to breaking the false hopes of kindness. You gain the Destructive Vengeance champion's reaction and the touch of corruption devotion spell. You gain the follow edicts and anathema:
Edicts destroy that which offends you or stands in your way, take advantage of others, cheat, steal
Anathema bind yourself with a law other than what your deity requires

Page 117: In the Iron Command, Selfish Shield, and Destructive Vengeance reactions, the extra damage on Strikes is your choice of "spirit or void" instead of "evil or negative".

Pages 117-118: In the divine smite class feature, replace all instances of "persistent evil damage" with "persistent spirit damage". This persistent damage is an unholy effect.

Just like many of the champion class feats in the Core Rulebook needed to be changed to be compatible with the Remaster, the new champion class feats presented in the Advanced Player's Guide require some tweaks.

Page 118: In the Esoteric Oath feat, replace the description with the following text:

You've sworn an oath to slay the alien abominations that lurk in the remote corners of Golarion and prey on the weak. You gain following edict: “You must slay aberrations whose actions are in direct opposition to your deity’s edicts when you encounter them as long as you have a reasonable chance of success.”

Your Retributive Strike gains a +4 circumstance bonus to damage against an aberration, or +6 if you have master proficiency with the weapon you used. Your Glimpse of Redemption’s resistance against damage from an aberration is 7 + your level. If you use Liberating Step triggered by an aberration, your ally gains a +4 circumstance bonus to checks granted by your Liberating Step, and the ally can Step twice afterward.

You don’t consider aberrations whose actions are in direct opposition to your deity’s edicts to be legitimate authorities, even in nations they rule.  

Page 119: In the Corrupted Shield feat, replace the negative trait with the void trait. Replace "the attacker takes 1d6 evil or negative damage (your choice)" with "the attacker takes 1d6 void damage".

Page 119: In the Smite Good feat, replace "deal an extra 4 evil damage" to "deal an extra 4 spirit damage if the target is holy".

Page 120: Replace the entirety of the Sense Good feat's description with the following:
"The presence of goodness sickens you with its saccharine self-righteousness. You detect holy creatures as a vague sense, similar to humans’ sense of smell. A holy creature using a disguise or otherwise trying to hide its presence attempts a Deception check against your Perception DC to hide its holiness from you. If the creature succeeds at its Deception check, it is then temporarily immune to your Sense Good for 1 day."

Page 120: In the Amplifying Touch feat, replace "deals 1 additional good damage on all their Strikes" with "deals 1 additional spirit damage on all their Strikes". Add the following sentence at the end of the feat's description, "In addition, all their Strikes are holy until the end of their next turn."

Page 121: In the Fiendish Mount feat, replace "weakness 10 to good damage" with "weakness 10 to holy".

Page 121: In the Sacred Defender feat, replace "evil creatures" with "unholy creatures" and "good creatures" with "holy creatures".

Page 193: In the shadowdancer archetype's shadow illusion focus spell, replace "2d8 damage plus your spellcasting ability modifier" with "3d8 damage".

Page 227: In the wall of flesh spell, replace "piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your spellcasting ability modifier" with "2d6 piercing damage".

Page 228: In the litany of depravity focus spell, replace the Targets line "1 good creature" with "1 creature that isn't unholy" and replace "weakness 7 to evil" with "weakness 7 to unholy".

Page 236: In the establish ward focus spell, replace "deal bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage equal to 2d8 plus your spellcasting ability modifier" with "deal 3d8 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage".

Page 81: In the lashing rope spell, replace "2d6 slashing damage plus your spellcasting ability modifier" with "3d6 slashing damage".

Page 32: In the spirit object spell, replace "takes bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (as appropriate for the object) equal to 1d4 plus your spellcasting ability modifier" with "takes 3d4 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (as appropriate for the object)".

Page 23: The Rat Magic feat in ratfolk was missing the ratfolk trait. Add the trait.

Pages 38, 42, 44: A few ancestry feats with uncommon spells were erroneously not listed as uncommon. These are duskwalker's Boneyard' Call, dwarf's Stonegate, and gnome's Homeward Bound.

Page 45: The Kneecap feat doesn't list the duration of the penalty. It lasts for 1 round.

Page 74: The flame augur sample character had burning hands before level 4, when they would have been able to take Divine Access. Change it to fear.

Pages 80, 104, 105, 257: Several places mentioned "your highest level spell" when they should have mentioned "your highest level spell slot." This includes the witch feat Siphon Power, the Quickened Casting feat in both oracle and witch (which standardizes it with the same change in the Core Rulebook Quickened Casting feats) and candle of invocation.

Page 95: In witch initial proficiencies, the spell proficiencies say the tradition of magic is determined by the witch's first lesson, but that's a holdover from the playtest. It should say the tradition is determined by the witch's patron.

Page 101: Witch's Widen Spell accidentally had the concentrate trait instead of manipulate like everyone else. Change it to manipulate.

Page 111: In Sunder Spell, there's no guidance on what it takes to hit something like a wall that doesn't have a listed AC. Add "“If you're targeting something that doesn't have an AC listed, its AC is usually 10 against this Strike for targets that are very easy to hit, like a wall, or a different AC determined by the GM.”

Page 146: There's been some confusion over whether an independent familiar can use abilities that require a command, like valet, or whether the independent ability overrides the normal rules for mounted combat. To make clear that neither is the case, add "This doesn’t work with valet or similar abilities that require a command, if you’re capable of riding your familiar, or similar situations."

Page 161: Beastmaster's Call was missing its school. It should be conjuration.

Page 163: In bounty hunter's Keep Pace, in the first sentence, the word "escape" should not be capitalized. It's just talking about escaping in general, not the Escape action.

Pages 161 and 193: The archetype focus spells should be uncommon. This includes the beastmaster's beastmaster's trance spell and the shadowdancer's dance of darkness, shadow illusion, and shadow jump spells.

Page 168-169: Dragon disciple has a couple errors. First, the dedication feat should make you trained in arcane spell DCs and spell attack rolls, in case you need that training when picking up the later feats that give you arcane focus spells. Second, the armor bonus from Scales of the Dragon feat should change to match the errata to Animal Skin and Mountain Stance in the Core Rulebook. The final text of that section is as follows: "When you’re unarmored, the scales give you a +2 item bonus to AC with a Dexterity cap of +3. The item bonus to AC from Scales of the Dragon is cumulative with armor potency runes on your explorer's clothing, mage armor, and bracers of armor."

Page 172: Remove the paragraph from the first printing that begins, "If you already cast spells from spell slots, you gain one additional cantrip from that tradition." If you're already a spellcaster, you use your normal allotment of spells for eldritch archer abilities and don't gain more spells.

Page 191: Sentinel Archetype's Armor Specialist feat had a stray Skill trait due to an error. Remove it.

Page 208: The Contacts feat incorrectly refers to Underworld Connections, which is the old name of the feat Criminal Connections. Replace with the correct name.

Page 214, 222, 223, 228, 232, 237: Animated assault, mad monkeys, quench, hymn of healing, interstellar void, and steal shadow all need to say their effects occur "The first time each round you Sustain the Spell" due to clarifications in the Core Rulebook on Sustaining spells. Meanwhile, aqueous orb is in the opposite situation because it was meant to allow effects from multiple Sustains already. Remove "Unlike most spells"

Page 220-221: Ice storm and lightning storm had some issues, with potentially-intense effects limited to a way-too-small area. The big change was that they both updated the area from 5-foot radius to 20-foot radius, but there's a few adjustments to keep them on track with other similar spells with the new area. The full adjusted text is as follows:

Ice Storm Spell 4

Cold Evocation

Traditions arcane, primal

Cast [three-actions] material, somatic, verbal

Range 120 feet; Area 20-foot burst

Saving Throw basic Reflex; Duration sustained up to 1 minute

You create a gray storm cloud that pelts creatures with an icy deluge. When you Cast the Spell, a burst of magical hail deals 2d8 bludgeoning damage and 2d8 cold damage to each creature in the area below the cloud (basic Reflex save). Snow and sleet continue to rain down in the area for the remainder of the spell’s duration, making the area difficult terrain. Any creature that ends its turn in the storm takes 2 cold damage. If you Cast this Spell outdoors, you can create two non-overlapping clouds instead of one. As normal, if a big creature is in both clouds, it still only takes the initial damage once and the continuing damage once per turn.

Heightened (+2) The initial bludgeoning damage and cold damage increase by 1d8 each, and the cold damage creatures take at the end of their turns increases by 1.

Lightning Storm Spell 5

Electricity Evocation

Traditions primal

Cast [three-actions] material, somatic, verbal

Range 120 feet; Area 20-foot burst

Saving Throw basic Reflex; Duration sustained up to 1 minute

You create a black, rumbling storm cloud and call down one lightning bolt within the spell’s area. The bolt is a vertical line from the top of the storm cloud to the ground below, dealing 4d12 electricity damage to creatures in the line (basic Reflex save). On subsequent rounds, the first time you Sustain the Spell each round, you can call another lightning bolt within the area. If you Cast this Spell outdoors, you can create two non-overlapping clouds instead of one, though you can still call down only one bolt per turn. 

Heightened (+2) The damage of each bolt increases by 1d12.

Page 226: Threefold Aspect is missing its components. It should have material, somatic, and verbal components.

Page 230: Ancestral form says you can "Sustain a Spell" but should say you can "Sustain Spells" to make it clearer that you are not limited to Sustaining a single spell.

Page 233: Tempest form prevents you from using manipulate actions but then offers several you can do. Add "except those granted by this spell" to the restriction on manipulate actions.

Page 234: Heal companion's 2-action version was missing the somatic component. It should have both somatic and verbal components.

Page 248: The ranged weapons had slight errors in their table entries. The bola should be an uncommon weapon. Meanwhile, the daikyu should have reload 0 (not --) and should be propulsive.

Page 249: Detective's Kit, like the Core Rulebook kits, should need 1 hand if you're wearing it and 2 otherwise. Change to match Core Rulebook.

Page 250: The table erroneously lists the walking cauldron as a held item, but it isn't in its entry. It should be "Other." 

Page 255: Timeless salts mentions the non-existing spell speak with dead, but it should say talking corpse instead.

Page 265: Wand of hopeless night's 4th-level spell type should increase the DC to 27.

Page 266: Update the curse trait to match the newest version in the Core Rulebook. "curse (trait) A curse is an effect that places some long-term affliction on a creature. Curses are always magical and are typically the result of a spell or trap. Effects with this trait can be removed only by effects that specifically target curses. 457–458"

Page 268-270: As mentioned in the Bestiary 2 errata, there were some small changes to the minion and summoned traits to better handle situations where minions might get control of more creatures and create a cascade. In the minion trait, at the end add "A minion can’t control other creatures." In the summoned trait, remove the specification that the spell summoning them must be conjuration (as some necromancy spells summon creatures, for instance), and remove the sentence saying they can't control any spawn they create, since the minion trait now already includes that restriction and it's redundant to include it again in summoned.

Updated Terminology
Several ability names changed slightly between the Pathfinder Playtest and the final Pathfinder Core Rulebook, and while we tried to catch them all, we missed a few. Make the changes as noted below.
Page(s) and location, followed by change

41, Universal Longevity: Change “Elven Longevity” to “Ancestral Longevity”

57, Adaptive Adept: Change “Adapted Spell” to “Adapted Cantrip”

62, field medic background: Change “Battle Medic” to “Battle Medicine”

75, perpetual infusions (bomber option): Change “lesser liquid ice” to “lesser frost vial”

91, Thrash: Change “ferocious specialization” to “weapon specialization”

115, Instrument of Zeal: Change “Smite Evil” to “Blade of Justice”

139, Primal Wellspring: Change “Wild Focus” to “Primal Focus”

156, mystic strikes class feature: Change “handwraps of mighty fists” to “handwraps of mighty blows”

168, class features: Change “weapon expertise (ranger only)” to “ranger weapon expertise”

198 (undead bloodline), 405: Change “touch of undeath (sorcerer)” to “undeath’s blessing”

206 sidebar, 349 (magic aura): Change “study aura” to “read aura”

212, Clever Counterspell: Change “Quick Recognize” to “Quick Recognition”

397, splash of art: Change “sluggish” to “clumsy”

594, greater staff of necromancy (4th level): Change “enervation” to “vampiric touch”

Page 35: Add to sidebar: Clan Dagger You get one clan dagger of your clan for free, as it was given to you at birth. Selling this clan dagger is a terrible taboo and earns you the disdain of other dwarves.

Page 37: In Mountain’s Stoutness, change the third sentence to “When you have the dying condition, the DC of your recovery checks is equal to 9 + your dying value (instead of 10 + your dying value).” Change the second paragraph to “If you also have the Toughness feat, the Hit Points gained from it and this feat are cumulative, and the DC of your recovery checks is equal to 6 + your dying value.” 

Page 44: Gnome Weapon Familiarity grants access to kukris as well as all uncommon gnome weapons. Change the first sentence of the second paragraph to “In addition, you gain access to kukris and all uncommon gnome weapons.” 

Page 52 and 59: Halfling and Orc Weapon Familiarity has the wrong language for how to treat weapons with the halfling or orc trait; all ancestries with Weapon Familiarity should only treat the weapons as a different category for the purpose of determining proficiency. Change the final sentence to "For the purpose of determining your proficiency, martial halfling/orc weapons are simple weapons and advanced halfling/orc weapons are martial weapons."

Page 55: Humans are supposed to have one more language. Change the additional languages to "1 + your Intelligence modifier."

Changes to All Classes for Unarmed Attack Proficiency and Benefits

Many Core Rulebook classes were missing proficiency increases for unarmed attacks in the first printing. Add in proficiency increases and critical specialization effect access for unarmed attacks at the same rate that the classes gain their weapon proficiencies. In the case of fighters, the proficiency rank progression depends on the unarmed attack's weapon group just like for weapons.

Changes to the Greater Juggernaut, Greater Resolve, Improved Evasion, and Third Path to Perfection class features

All three of these abilities grant a two-tier benefit on a failed saving throw of the specified type, but (as always) no ability will ever change your degree of success by more than one step. To clarify, we’re making the following clarification to all three abilities. Change the beginning of the last sentence from “When you fail” a given saving throw to “When you roll a failure on” a giving saving throw. 

Page 73: In the alchemist's Chirurgeon section, change “lesser elixir of life” to “minor elixir of life.” The lesser elixir of life is a 3rd-level item that a 1st-level character can’t create.

In the Mutagenist section, remove the second paragraph, which provides an obsolete benefit. Replace it with the following free action.

Mutagenic Flashback [free-action]

Alchemist, Manipulate

Frequency once per day

You experience a brief resurgence of a mutagen. Choose one mutagen you’ve consumed since your last daily preparations. You gain the effects of that mutagen for 1 minute.

Pages 75, 79, and 81: Several alchemist class feats reference benefits for alchemical items “you created,” which isn’t relevant in the wider rule set. Remove “you created” from Feral Mutagen, Elastic Mutagen, Invincible Mutagen, Expanded Splash, Genius Mutagen, Persistent Mutagen, and Mindblank Mutagen.

Page 79: In the alchemist's Merciful Elixir class feat, add to the end of the last sentence “using the item’s level and a counteract modifier equal to your class DC – 10.” to define the counteract modifier.

Page 81: In the alchemist's Improbable Elixirs class feature, change the third and fourth sentences to read “You gain formulas to create these potions as alchemical items with the elixir trait. When making these alchemical elixirs, you can substitute alchemical reagents for an equal value of magical components, and you can use alchemist’s tools (for Quick Alchemy) or an alchemist’s lab (for the Craft activity) instead of any other required tool kits.”

Page 85: In the barbarian's greater juggernaut class feature, change the last sentence to read “When you roll a failure on a Fortitude save against an effect that deals damage, you halve the damage you take.” This removes confusion about how to handle critical failures on saves against damaging effects.

Page 86: In Table 3–3: Animal Instincts, change the deer’s Damage entry to 1d10 P and replace the “charge” trait with the “grapple” trait.

Page 87: In the barbarian's Titan Mauler (Instinct Ability), change “You gain access to a weapon one size larger than you” to “You gain access to this larger weapon” This accounts for Small creatures using a weapon built for a Large creature, as stated in the previous sentence.

Page 90: In the barbarian's Wounded Rage class feat, remove the Rage trait.

Page 91: In the barbarian's Terrifying Howl class feat, change “each creature” to “each enemy.”

Page 93: The barbarian's Dragon Transformation class feat uses your class DC for the breath weapon at 16th and at 18th levels, rather than the DC listed for 18th level.

Page 93: In the barbarian's Brutal Critical class feat, change the second sentence to read “On a critical hit with a melee Strike, add one extra damage die.” 

Pages 101–102: In the bard's Eclectic Skill class feat, change the second sentence to “Your proficiency bonus to untrained skill checks is equal to your level.” This matches the language of the Untrained Improvisation general feat and removes any ambiguity as to whether they combine.

Page 103: Remove the Requirement in the bard's Effortless Concentration to match all the other Effortless Concentration feats.

Page 108: In the champion's Deific Weapon class feature, change the second sentence to read “If it’s an unarmed attack with a d4 damage die or a simple weapon, increase the damage die by one step (d4 to d6, d6 to d8, d8 to d10, d10 to d12).

Page 108: In the champion's Divine Ally feat, change the first three sentences to read “A spirit of battle dwells within your armaments. Select one weapon or handwraps of mighty blows when you make your daily preparations. In your hands, the item gains the effect of a property rune.” This supports champions with a deity that has an unarmed attack as a favored weapon.

Page 112: Add tenets of good to the Prerequisites of Smite Evil. We accidentally omitted it.

Page 113: Blade of Justice should not be limited to paladins only. Replace the paladin prerequisite from Blade of Justice with tenets of good, and the last sentence becomes "Whether or not the target is evil, you can convert all the physical damage from the attack into good damage, and if you are a paladin, the Strike applies all effects that normally apply on a Retributive Strike (such as divine smite)."

Page 121: Deadly Simplicity had a benefit for unarmed attack favored weapons, but such clerics did not actually qualify. Change the prerequisites to add unarmed attacks.

Several classes were accidentally missing an important limitation for 10th level spells. In the following class features, add “You can’t use this spell slot for abilities that let you cast spells without expending spell slots or that give you more spell slots.”

Page 121: Miraculous Spell

Page 133: Primal Hierophant 

Page 207: Archwizard's Spellcraft

Page 125: Emblazon Antimagic has the wrong counteract level. Change it to "your counteract level is equal to half your level, rounded up"

Page 129: Druid mistakenly was trained in a class DC, when it shouldn't have a class DC. Remove it.

Page 132: In Table 3–11: Druid Spells per Day, change the Cantrips entry at each level from 4 to 5, just like other spellcasters.

Page 135: Remove the “one-action” glyph from the druid's Poison Resistance class feat. This benefit is perpetual.

Page 138: In Plant Shape, the level of the plant form spell if you don't have Wild Shape wasn't clear. It should say it's " heightened to the same level as your highest druid spell slot"

Page 139: Hierophant's Power wasn't supposed to have the prerequisite of legendary in Nature; it's a holdover from the playtest. Remove the prerequisite.

Page 145: The adjustment to the Aid reaction after the playtest caused Assisting Shot not to do anything. Replace it with this version. 

Assisting Shot [one-action] Feat 2

Fighter, Press

Requirements You are wielding a ranged weapon.

With a quick shot, you interfere with a foe in combat. Make a Strike with a ranged weapon. If the strike hits, the next creature other than you to attack the same target before the start of your next turn gains a +1 circumstance bonus on their roll, or a +2 circumstance bonus if your Strike was a critical hit.

Page 151: In the fighter's Incredible Ricochet class feat, the narrative of the feat involves using the first shot to help target the next shot. Change the second sentence to “Make a ranged weapon Strike against a creature you previously attacked this turn.”

Page 152: Determination has the wrong counteract level. Change it to "your counteract level is equal to half your level, rounded up"

Page 156: In the monk's Powerful Fist class feature, in the second sentence replace “changes” with “increases” to make it clear the normal rules on increases to die sizes apply.

Page 157: In the monk's Key Terms sidebar, under the Ki Spells entry, add “and your key spellcasting ability is Wisdom” to the end of the second paragraph.

Pages 159 and 163: In the monk's Mountain Stance and Tangled Forest Stance class feats, change the “Trigger” heading to “Requirements.” The content of each entry remains the same.

Page 163: Sleeper Hold shouldn't have the attack trait, meaning it doesn't apply or increase your multiple attack penalty.

Page 164: Change the action glyph for the monk's Stance Savant class feat to [free-action] instead of [reaction].

Page 165: Master of Many Styles lists "Your turn begins" as a requirement, but it should be a trigger. Change it to a trigger. 

Page 169: In the ranger's nature’s edge class feature, remove “on natural uneven ground” as it's redundant. 

Page 172: Change the action glyph for the ranger's Disrupt Prey class feat to [reaction] instead of [free-action].

Page 174: In the ranger's Terrain Master class feat, remove “wild stride” from the Prerequisites entry.

Page 175: In the ranger's Lightning Snares class feat, add “Quick Snares” to the Prerequisites entry.

Page 176: In the ranger's Stealthy Companion class feat, add “Animal Companion” to the Prerequisites entry.

Page 177: In order to make it completely clear how the Manifold Edge feat works, change the second sentence to read "When you use Hunt Prey, you can gain a hunter’s edge benefit other than the one you selected at 1st level." With the previous wording, a few people thought you gained both benefits, rather than a substitution.

Page 184: In the rogue's Minor Magic class feat, add the following sentence. “Your key spellcasting ability is Charisma, and you’re trained in spell attack rolls and DCs for the tradition of your chosen cantrips.”

Page 185: In the rogue's Poison Weapon class feat, if you're already holding the poison, you shouldn't need a free hand. Remove “and have a free hand” from the Requirements and remove “and have a free hand” from the Requirements entry and change the first sentence to read “You apply a poison to the required weapon; if you’re not holding a poison and have a free hand, you can Interact to draw a poison as part of this action.”

Page 188: Blank Slate, like a few other entries, was still erroneously running on a level 1 to 20 scale for counteract levels. Replace "counteract level of 20"  with "counteract level of 10."

189: Dispelling Slice should use the default counteract level of "half your level (rounded up)", in the final sentence. 

Page 194: Add the following sorcerer class feature at 17th level:

Resolve

You’ve steeled you mind with resolve. Your proficiency rank for Will saves increase to master. When you roll a success at a Will save, you get a critical success instead.

Page 197: In the sorcerer's Elemental Type section of the elemental bloodline, change the last sentence to read “Replace any existing elemental traits with the trait of the element you chose.”

Page 199: In the Sorcerer Feats sidebar, change the level of “Bespell Weapon” from 6 to 4 to match the feat itself.

Page 201: Remove the arcane trait from Greater Mental Evolution and the divine trait from Greater Vital Evolution, both sorcerer class feats.

Pages 204 and 206: Wizards gain their first class feat at 2nd level, like other spellcasters. On page 204, in Table 3-18: Wizard Advancement, remove “wizard feat” from the 1st-level entry. On page 206, in the Wizard Feats section, change the first sentence to “At 2nd level and every even-numbered level thereafter, you gain a wizard class feat.”

Page 205: In Drain Bonded Item, remove the unnecessary Requirement of "Your turn begins."

 Page 214: In the first paragraph, replace the first two sentences with the following to clarify the specific action required to command your animal companion, and that it doesn’t require a check. 

"An animal companion is a loyal comrade who follows your orders. Your animal companion has the minion trait, and it gains 2 actions during your turn if you use the Command an Animal action to command it; this is in place of the usual effects of Command an Animal, and you don’t need to attempt a Nature check."

Page 214: Under Young Animal Companions, add the sentence “An animal companion has the same level you do.” 

In the same paragraph, change the maximum item bonus to AC an animal companion can gain from +2 to +3. 

Page 217: In the ambusher section, remove “It gains a +2 circumstance bonus to initiative rolls using Stealth” since a companion acts on your initiative and therefore this clause provides no benefit.

Page 217: Familiars' level wasn't explicit. Add "A familiar has the same level you do." The description of familiars didn't define any Strikes but also wasn't explicit that they couldn't make them. Add "It can't make Strikes" to the beginning of the third sentence.

Page 219: Under Spellcasting Archetypes, in the Basic Spellcasting Feat, change the second sentence to “At 6th level, they grant you a 2nd‑level spell slot, and if you have a spell repertoire, you can select one spell from your repertoire as a signature spell.” In the Expert Spellcasting Feat, after the first sentence, add “If you have a spell repertoire, you can select a second spell from your repertoire as a signature spell.” In the Master Spellcasting Feat, after the first sentence, add “If you have a spell repertoire, you can select a third spell from your repertoire as a signature spell.” 

Spellcasting Dedication Feats (pages 222, 224, 225, and 230): In the spellcasting dedication feats, you can prepare or add to your repertoire common cantrips of your spellcasting tradition, whether from this book or other cantrips of that tradition you learn or discover. 

Page 230: In the Sorcerer Dedication feat, replace the second sentence of the second paragraph with “You gain a spell repertoire with two common cantrips from the spell list associated with your bloodline, from the spells granted by your bloodline, or any other cantrips of that tradition you learn or discover.” This grants access to the bloodline-granted cantrips as well as those on the associated spell list. 

Page 233: Clarifying the general rule on repeated skill training that gives you a replacement skill, add at the end of the second paragraph "though if the skill is a Lore skill, the new skill must also be a Lore skill"

Page 242: In Grapple, the restrained condition doesn't technically also make a creature grabbed, so to make it clear, in the requirements of the action and at the end of the first paragraph about not needing a hand if you're already grabbing someone, change "grabbed" to "grabbed or restrained"

Page 244: The Craft downtime activity requires an alchemist’s lab, not just alchemist’s tools. See the errata for page 287. 

248: To reflect the clarification on healer's tools allowing you to draw them as part of the action if you're wearing them, change the Requirements to "You are holding healer's tools, or you are wearing them and have a hand free"

Page 249: Add "Drop Prone" to the list of basic commands you can tell your animal friend to lie down.

Page 255: In Table 5–2: General Skill Feats, change the description of Automatic Knowledge from “once per day” to “once per round.” It was correct in the text but not the table.

Page 258: In Battle Medicine, change the Requirements entry to “You are holding or wearing healer's tools.” Change the second sentence of the effect to “Attempt a Medicine check with the same DC as for Treat Wounds, and restore a corresponding amount of Hit Points; this does not remove the wounded condition.” This means you need to use your healer's tools for Battle Medicine, but you can draw and replace worn tools as part of the action due to the errata on wearing tools on page 287. 

Update: We will be updating the tools revamp to indicate that worn healer's tools (along with other tool kits) take only one hand to use, as you don't have to hold the whole kit in your other hand, just pull out the things you need. What this means for Battle Medicine is that you only need one free hand to perform it with worn healer's tools, you don't need both hands.  

Page 259: Bonded Animal didn't explain the logistics of bonding the animal directly, leading a small number of people to be unsure that it was necessary to locate and interact with the animal to bond with it. To make it explicit, change the second sentence to "You can spend 7 days of downtime regularly interacting with a normal animal (…) that is friendly or helpful to you."

Page 260: The Cloud Jump feat referred to exceeding a "limit" without spelling out exactly which limit. It's supposed to be the limit of not being able to Leap farther than your Speed. To make it clear, change the second paragraph to read "You can jump a distance greater than your Speed by spending additional actions when you Long Jump or High Jump. For each additional action spent, add your Speed to the limit on how far you can Leap." As an example, supposing you had a Speed of 40 feet and 25 on your Athletics check, Cloud Jump triples the 25 feet to 75 feet, but the limit of 40 feet still applies so you would jump 40 feet. If you spent another action, the limit based on your Speed would raise from 40 feet to 80 feet, so you would jump 75 feet.

Page 260: The Connections feat requires a great deal of improvisation and adjudication on the part of a GM, more in line with an option that has uncommon rarity due to the narrative load. Because of this, change the feat's rarity to uncommon.

Page 260: Dubious Knowledge's effect should only happen on a failure, not a critical failure. Change the effect to explicitly state it doesn't occur on a critical failure.

Page 268: Because the word "action" could have broad or narrow scopes, it wasn't clear exactly when you could use the Unified Theory feat to substitute Arcana for the other magical skills. Change the beginning of the second sentence to "Whenever you use a skill action or a skill feat" to make it clear you can use it with skill actions (such as the ones in Chapter 4) and skill feat, but not for other actions, such as  when casting spells or rituals.

Page 268: In Toughness, change the last sentence to read “The DC of recovery checks is equal to 9 + your dying condition value (page 459).” 

Held, Worn, and Stowed Items

Page 271: We've simplified the way we're handling characters carrying their gear so that you can define all your carried items in one of three categories. Replace the carrying and using items section with this text: "A character carries items in three ways: held, worn, and stowed. Held items are in your hands; a character typically has two hands, allowing them to hold an item in each hand or a single two-handed item using both hands. Worn items are tucked into pockets, belt pouches, bandoliers, weapon sheaths, and so forth, and they can be retrieved and returned relatively quickly. Stowed items are in a backpack or a similar container, and they are more difficult to access. Drawing a worn item or changing how you’re carrying an item usually requires you to use an Interact action (though to drop an item, you use the Release action instead). Table 6–2: Changing Equipment on page 273 lists some ways that you might change the items you’re holding or carrying, and the number of hands you need to do so. Many ways of using items require you to spend multiple actions. For example, drinking a potion worn at your belt requires using an Interact action to draw it and then using a second action to drink it as described in its Activate entry (page 532)." 

This change also removes several sorts of "container" items from the tables on 286-292, as they are no longer tracked separately from the items they store. These are: bandolier, belt pouch, satchel, scroll case, sheath, vial 

Page 287 adds a paragraph on Wearing Tools: "You can make a set of tools (such as alchemist’s tools or healer’s tools) easier to use by wearing it. This allows you to draw and replace the tools as part of the action that uses them. You can wear up to 2 Bulk of tools in this manner; tools beyond this limit must be stowed or drawn with an Interact action to use." Fine clothing reduces that limit to light Bulk worth of tools.

Update: Worn tools should only take 1 hand to use, as you only draw the things you need from the kit and not the entire kit. This has been marked for future errata.

Page 275: Under the Armor Traits heading, change the entry for Noisy to “Noisy: This armor is loud and likely to alert others to your presence. The armor’s check penalty applies to Stealth checks even if you meet the required Strength score.” 

Page 278: Under Improvised Weapons, add the sentence “Improvised weapons are simple weapons.” This dictates the proficiency modifier you use. 

Page 278: In critical hits, "When you make an attack and roll a natural 20...or if the result of your attack exceeds the target's AC by 10" was too broad a brush and thus slightly inaccurate for how to determine a critical hit, in an attempt to state the conditions succinctly. Replace the first section with "When you make an attack and succeed with a natural 20" so that's it's clear the natural 20 must succeed based on the total result in order to get a critical success.

Page 280: Under the Ammunition heading, add the sentence “Using ammunition destroys it.” 

Page 283: Weapon traits.

In the definition of the Parry weapon trait, change "spend an Interact action" to "spend a single action" to make it so setting up a parry doesn't trigger Attacks of Opportunity or similar reactions.

In the definition for the thrown weapon trait, change the first sentence to “You can throw this weapon as a ranged attack, and it is a ranged weapon when thrown.” 

In the definition for the unarmed weapon trait, the sentence "a fist or other grasping appendage follows the same rules as a free-hand weapon" was worded in such a way it confused a few people, who thought that meant those unarmed attacks were weapons, despite statements to the contrary on page 278. To make it clear, change that section to read "a fist or other grasping appendage generally works like a free-hand weapon"

Page 283: In Critical Specialization Effects, it uses the generic term attack but should specifically refer to Strikes. In the first sentence, change "when you make an attack with certain weapons" to "when you make a Strike with certain weapons"

Page 288: Change the price of the the adventurer's pack to 15 sp and the bedroll to 2 cp.

Page 289: Due to other changes (particularly the adventurer's pack, which was in all of the kits), the Bulk and cost of all of the class kits have changed. All kits are included in full in this entry so you don't have to cross-reference two places to use them.

Alchemist Class Kit:
Price 8 gp, 4 sp, 2 cp; Bulk 3 Bulk, 7 light;
Money Left Over 6 gp, 5 sp, 8 cp
Armor studded leather armor
Weapons dagger, sling with 20 sling bullets
Gear adventurer’s pack, alchemist’s tools, basic
crafter’s book, 2 sets of caltrops
Options repair kit (2 gp)

Barbarian Class Kit
Price 4 gp; Bulk 3 Bulk, 5 light;
Money Left Over 11 gp
Armor hide armor
Weapons 4 javelins
Gear adventurer’s pack, grappling hook
Options greataxe (2 gp), greatclub (1 gp), greatsword
(2 gp), or battle axe and steel shield (3 gp)

Bard Class Kit
Price 7 gp, 5 sp, 2 cp; Bulk 4 Bulk, 4 light;
Money Left Over 7 gp, 4 sp, 8 cp
Armor studded leather armor
Weapons dagger, rapier, sling with 20 sling bullets
Gear adventurer’s pack, handheld
instrument

Champion Class Kit
Price 4 gp, 7 sp; Bulk 3 Bulk, 7 light;
Money Left Over 10 gp, 3 sp
Armor hide armor
Weapons dagger, 4 javelins
Gear adventurer’s pack, crowbar, grappling hook
Options steel shield (2 gp), your deity’s favored weapon (see the deity entries on pages 437–441; use the Price listed in this chapter)

Cleric Class Kit
Price 2 gp 2 sp; Bulk 1 Bulk, 3 light;
Money Left Over 12 gp, 8 sp
Gear adventurer’s pack, 2 sets of caltrops, religious symbol (wooden)
Options your deity’s favored weapon (see the deity entries on pages 437–441; use the Price listed in this chapter), hide armor (2 gp)

Druid Class Kit
Price 4 gp, 4 sp; Bulk 4 Bulk, 4 light;
Money Left Over 10 gp, 6 sp
Armor leather armor
Weapons 4 javelins, longspear
Gear adventurer’s pack, holly and mistletoe
Options healer’s tools (5 gp)

Fighter Class Kit
Price 3 gp, 8 sp; Bulk 3 Bulk, 2 light;
Money Left Over 11 gp, 2 sp
Armor hide armor
Weapons dagger
Gear adventurer’s pack, grappling hook
Options greatsword (2 gp), longbow with 20 arrows
(6 gp, 2 sp), or longsword and steel shield (3 gp)

Monk Class Kit
Price 5 gp, 3 sp; Bulk 3 Bulk, 2 light;
Money Left Over 9 gp, 7 sp
Weapons 10 darts
Gear adventurer’s pack, climbing kit,
grappling hook, lesser smokestick
Options staff (0 sp), longspear (5 sp)

Ranger Class Kit

Price 3 gp, 7 sp; Bulk 2 Bulk, 1 light;

Money Left Over 11 gp, 3 sp

Armor leather armor

Weapons dagger

Gear adventurer’s pack

Options longbow and 20 arrows (6 gp, 2 sp), longsword and steel shield (3 gp), 2 shortswords (1gp, 8 sp), snare kit (5 gp)

Rogue Class Kit
Price 6 gp, 2 sp; Bulk 4 Bulk, 1 light;
Money Left Over 8 gp, 8 sp
Armor leather armor
Weapons dagger, rapier
Gear adventurer’s pack, climbing kit
Options thieves' tools (3 gp)

Sorcerer Class Kit
Price 2 gp, 3 sp, 2 cp; Bulk 1 Bulk, 6 light;
Money Left Over 12 gp, 6 sp, 8 cp
Weapons dagger, sling with 20 sling bullets
Gear adventurer’s pack, 2 sets of caltrops

Wizard Class Kit

Price 3 gp; Bulk 2 Bulk, 2 light;

Money Left Over 12 gp

Weapons staff

Gear adventurer’s pack, material component pouch, writing set

Options crossbow with 20 bolts (3 gp, 2 sp)

Page 292: On Table 6–11: Alchemical Gear and under the Elixirs heading, change “lesser elixir of life” to “minor elixir of life.” The other statistics for this item remain unchanged. 

Page 293: In Table 6–12: Magical Gear, change the Price of the minor healing potion from 3 gp to 4 gp. It was correct in the main entry on page 563.

Page 293: Under Consumable Magic Items, change holy water to deal “1d6 good damage and 1 good splash damage.” Change unholy water to deal “1d6 evil damage and 1 evil splash damage” instead of “1d6 good damage.” 

Changes to Make Bulk Less Restrictive 

The following changes make Bulk limits less restrictive for your character. 

Page 287: Add the following entry for an alchemist’s lab: 

Alchemist’s Lab: You need an alchemist’s lab to Craft alchemical items during downtime. An expanded alchemist’s lab gives a +1 item bonus to Crafting checks to create alchemical items. 

Page 287: Amend the Alchemist’s Tools entry to the following: 

Alchemist’s Tools: This mobile collection of vials and chemicals can be used for simple alchemical tasks. 

Page 287: In the Backpack description, add this sentence: “The first 2 Bulk of items in your backpack don’t count against your Bulk limits.” Similarly "The first 1 Bulk of items in each saddlebag doesn't count against your mount's Bulk limits."

Page 288: Make the following changes on Table 6–9: Adventuring Gear. 

• Change the Bulk of the adventurer’s pack from 2 to 1. 
• Change the Bulk of formula book (blank) and spellbook (blank) from 1 to L 
• Add “Alchemist’s Lab” (Price 5 gp, Bulk 6, Hands 2) 
• Change “Expanded Alchemist’s Tools (level 3)” to “Expanded Alchemist’s Lab” as a sub-entry to the new alchemist’s lab, and change the Bulk from 1 to 6 
• Change the alchemist’s tools Price from 5 gp to 3 gp, and the Bulk from 2 to 1 

Page 292: The waterskin is always light Bulk, whether full or empty. 

Page 300: The text on cantrips was confusing and implied that they might use spell slots, even though they don't. Change the second to last sentence in the first paragraph to "If you're a prepared spellcaster, you can prepare a specific number of cantrips each day. You can't prepare a cantrip in a spell slot."

Page 303: In the Component Substitutions sidebar, replace the second paragraph with the following to avoid implying changes to action traits. 

"If you’re a bard Casting a Spell from the occult tradition, you can usually play an instrument for spells requiring somatic or material components, as long as it takes at least one of your hands to do so. If you use an instrument, you don’t need a spell component pouch or another hand free. You can usually also play an instrument for spells requiring verbal components, instead of speaking."

Also add a final one-sentence paragraph covering innate spells "Any character casting an innate spell can replace any material component with a somatic component."

Pages 316–407: Remove the attack trait from the spells Abyssal plague, chill touch, death knell, ghoulish cravings, goblin pox, mariner’s curse, outcast’s curse, spider sting, spiritual guardian, spiritual weapon, savor the sting, touch of undeath (the cleric focus spell), and force bolt. 

Pages 316-407 and 573: Damaging spells and items meant to harm PCs do way too much damage for your gear to survive if it could be targeted, so such spells almost never are supposed to be able to damage objects. A few target lines slipped by with "creatures or objects." Remove the ability to target or damage objects from acid splash, acid arrow, eclipse burst, polar ray, sunburst, fire ray, moon beam, force bolt, and the horn of blasting. Limit hydraulic push to "creatures and unattended objects."

Page 318: In animal messenger, change the duration to “see text.” Change the spell description to state that the spell ends after 24 hours or when a creature removes the attached object, whichever happens first. 

Page 318 and 400: In antimagic field and storm lord, you can't exclude yourself from the emanation as you can for many other emanations, so change the area to explicitly states "which affects you."

Pages 322 and 390: In the success entries for charm (page 322) and charming touch (page 390), replace references to Identify Magic with a reference to the Identifying Spells section on page 305. 

Page 330, 358, 377: Add the attack trait to disintegrate, polar ray, and tanglefoot. 

Page 331: Add the cantrip trait to disrupt undead. 

Page 336: In enlarge, change the Heightened (6th) entry to read “Choose either the 2nd-level or 4th-level version of this spell and apply its effects to 10 willing creatures.” in case you want to make a large number of creatures Large but Huge would be too big for your circumstances.

Page 338, 346, 379, 400: Several sustained spells are meant to provide once per turn benefits when they are sustained, not be used multiple times per turn. In flaming sphere, implosion, unfathomable song, impaling briars, and storm lord add "the first time you Sustain this Spell each round" 

Page 339: Once flesh to stone has completely petrified you, the spell ends but you still remain petrified, meaning you can't remove the effects with dispel magic or similar abilities that counteract active spells; you need stone to flesh. Change the last two sentences of the failure condition to read "When a creature is unable to act due to the slowed condition from flesh to stone, the creature is permanently non-magically petrified. The spell ends if the creature is petrified or the slowed condition is removed."

Page 343: In harm, change the description of the 3-action version to read “you disperse negative energy” instead of positive energy. 

Page 343: Even if you aren't a humanoid, you too can be a hero. In heroism, remove "humanoid" from the targets line so it just reads "1 creature"

Page 345: Illusory disguise, a Perception check to disbelieve just happens, it isn't a free action, so change "attempt a Perception check to disbelieve the spell as a free action" to read "attempt an immediate Perception check to disbelieve the spell."

Page 348: In light, change the Targets entry to read “1 object of 1 Bulk or less, either unattended or possessed by you or a willing ally” 

Page 349: Some corner cases in magic fang and magic weapon. In magic fang, change the Targets entry to “1 willing creature.” Change the first sentence to “Choose one of the target’s unarmed attacks.” Change the last sentence to “The unarmed attack becomes a +1 striking unarmed attack, gaining a +1 item bonus to attack rolls and increasing the number of damage dice to two if it had only one.” This makes the spell less restrictive and more versatile. In magic weapon change the Targets entry to remove the word "nonmagical" so you can still cast it on a +1 weapon to get the extra striking die.

Page 358: Polar ray left out what happened on a critical hit with your spell attack roll. It should double the damage (but not the drained value) on a critical hit.

Page 362: Purple worm sting used to have both a spell attack roll and a Fortitude save, but in changing to only a save, some of the damage is now automatic and should be reduced. Reduce the piercing damage automatically taken from the spell to 3d6.

Page 363: The regenerate spell had an incorrect interaction with the doomed condition that would cause a doomed character to still die while regenerating. To handle that, instead of preventing a creature from progressing to dying 3, change it to "its dying condition can't increase to a value that would kill it (this stops most creatures from going beyond dying 3)."

Page 370: In sound burst, change the critical failure entry to read “The creature takes double damage, is deafened for 1 minute, and is stunned 1.” since stunned doesn't have a duration.

Page 373: In spiritual weapon, you might not have a deity, particularly if you're an occult caster, so change it to manifest a "a club, a dagger, or your deity's favored weapon."

Page 377: Telekinetic haul should work only on unattended objects, not objects in creatures' possessions.

Page 377: In telekinetic projectile, change the second sentence to read “Make a spell attack roll against the target.” It was accidentally missing the word "spell" before, meaning the attack roll wasn't explicitly classified as weapon, unarmed, or spell.

Page 377: In tangling creepers, instead of having the creepers make an unarmed attack using your spell attack modifier, change it to just say "Make a melee spell attack roll against the target."

Page 379: In true target, the way the spell used its targets was confusing, and it wasn't clear it applied to more attacks. There are several changes to make this clear; here is the final text with changes in bold:

TRUE TARGET SPELL 7

DIVINATION FORTUNE PREDICTION

Traditions arcane, occult

Cast [one-action] verbal

Range 60 feet; Targets 4 creatures

Duration until the start of your next turn

You delve into the possible futures of the next few seconds to understand all the ways your foe might avoid harm, then cast out a vision of that future to your allies. Designate a creature. The first time each target makes an attack roll against that creature during true target’s duration, the attacker rolls twice and uses the better result. The attacker also ignores circumstance penalties to the attack roll and any flat check required due to the designated creature being concealed or hidden.

Page 381: In visions of danger, there's no description of what the Will save does, other than the critical success allowing you to disbelieve. It should be a basic Will save against the mental damage.

Page 385: In zealous conviction, add the emotion and mental traits.

Page 390: In charming touch, remove "humanoid" from the target line so you can charm any kind of creature that could find you attractive.

Page 391: In death’s call, replace “your Wisdom modifier” with “your spellcasting ability modifier” so that champions aren't forced to use Wisdom.

Page 393: In healer's blessing, boost the additional healing from the base spell from 1 to 2.

Page 399: Replace the existing goodberry focus spell with the following. 

GOODBERRY FOCUS 1 

Uncommon, Druid, Healing, Necromancy

Cast [two-actions] somatic, verbal 

Range touch; Targets 1 ripe berry 

Duration 10 minutes 

You imbue the target berry with the bounty of nature, turning it into a goodberry that can heal and sustain far beyond its normal capacity. A creature can eat the goodberry with an Interact action to regain 1d6+4 Hit Points. A berry not consumed during the duration withers away. Every six goodberries consumed gives as much nourishment as one square meal for a typical human. 

Heightened (+1) You can target an additional berry. A creature can consume any number of goodberries from the same casting with a single Interact action. 

Page 403: Angelic halo should scale based on the level of the heal spell, not based on angelic halo's level. Remove the heightened entry and instead, replace the status bonus to healing from the spell with "Allies in your halo’s emanation who are healed by a heal spell gain a status bonus to Hit Points regained equal to double the heal spell’s level."

Page 409: In the atone ritual, change the Heightened entry to “Heightened (+1).” 

Page 438: Under Desna, change “3rd: dream message” to “4th: fly.” 

Page 438: Under Iomedae, change “2nd: see invisibility” to “2nd: enlarge.” 

Page 441: Add to the Whispering Way “Follower Alignments LE, NE, CE” 

Page 446: Attack Rolls. There was some confusion as to whether skill checks with the attack trait (such as Grapple or Trip) are also attack rolls at the same time. They are not. To make this clear,  add this sentence to the beginning of the definition of attack roll "When you use a Strike action or make a spell attack, you attempt a check called an attack roll." 

To clarify the different rules elements involved:

An attack is any check that has the attack trait. It applies and increases the multiple attack penalty.

An attack roll is one of the core types of checks in the game (along with saving throws, skill checks, and Perception checks). They are used for Strikes and spell attacks, and traditionally target Armor Class.

Some skill actions have the attack trait, specifically Athletics actions such as Grapple and Trip. You still make a skill check with these skills, not an attack roll.

The multiple attack penalty applies on those skill actions as well. As it says later on in the definition of attack roll "Striking multiple times in a turn has diminishing returns. The multiple attack penalty (detailed on page 446) applies to each attack after the first, whether those attacks are Strikes, special attacks like the Grapple action of the Athletics skill, or spell attack rolls." There is inaccurate language in the Multiple Attack Penalty section implying it applies only to attack rolls that will be receiving errata.

Page 451: Following the formulas for calculating damage rolls, add the sentence “If the combined penalties on an attack would reduce the damage to 0 or below, you still deal 1 damage.” Resistances and the like can still reduce the damage to 0.

Page 452: At the end of the description of bleed damage, add "Bleed damage ends automatically if you’re healed to your full Hit Points."

Page 453: Weaknesses like "salt" and "water" weren't fully explained. At the beginning of the second paragraph in weakness, add "If you have a weakness to something that doesn’t normally deal damage, such as water, you take damage equal to the weakness value when touched or affected by it."

Page 453 and 634: In Nonlethal Attacks, nonlethal effects other than Strikes weren't explained directly, so at the end add "Spells and other effects with the nonlethal trait that reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points knock the creature out instead of killing them" On page 634, add the nonlethal trait "An effect with this trait is nonlethal. Damage from a nonlethal effect knocks a creature out rather than killing it."

Page 457: In the Emanation section, add the following sentence to the end. “Unless the text states otherwise, the creature creating an emanation effect chooses whether the creature at its center is affected.” This means that you can cast spells like harm without damaging yourself.

Page 459: In the first bullet point under Knocked Out and Dying, change the sentence to “You immediately move your initiative position to directly before the turn in which you were reduced to 0 HP.” This was originally intended, and prevents weird situations where you are knocked out by a reaction and die without having a chance for your allies to help you.

Page 460: Under Heroic Recovery, replace the first sentence with the following to align with other places in the text that discuss spending Hero Points. “If you have at least 1 Hero Point (page 467), you can spend all of your remaining Hero Points at the start of your turn or when your dying value would increase. You lose the dying condition entirely and stabilize with 0 Hit Points. You don’t gain the wounded condition or increase its value from losing the dying condition in this way, but if you already had that condition, you don’t lose it or decrease its value.” 

Page 461: Add a new section after Temporary Hit Points: 

Fast Healing and Regeneration

Some abilities grant fast healing, and some creatures have regeneration. A creature with either ability regains the listed amount of Hit Points each round at the beginning of its turn. A creature with regeneration has additional benefits. Its dying condition can’t increase to a value that would kill it (this stops most creatures from going beyond dying 3) as long as its regeneration is active. If it takes damage of a type listed in the regeneration entry, its regeneration deactivates until the end of its next turn, including against the triggering damage.

Page 481: Retraining. It wasn't clear how long it took to retrain spells in a spell repertoire, but it should take just 1 week. Add ". Some, like changing a spell in your spell repertoire, take a week." to retraining class features.

Page 421: Disabling a Hazard. How to run disabling a hazard with skills other than Thievery wasn't completely clear. Add "Like using Disable a Device, using these skills to disable a trap is a 2-action activity with the same degrees of success, though the activity might have different traits determined by the GM."

Page 535: Craft Requirements. Add text about upgrading an item from a lower-level version into a higher-level version. "The GM might allow you to Craft a permanent item from a lower-level version of the same item as an upgrade. For example, you might upgrade a bag of holding from a type I to a type II bag, but you couldn’t upgrade a clear spindle aeon stone into an orange prism aeon stone. The cost for this upgrade is the full difference in Price between the items, and the Crafting check uses a DC for the item’s new level."

Page 537 and 583: Shadow and slick runes. Since a character can't actually use those runes unless they have a +1 armor first (a 5th level item), move the items from 3rd level to 5th level when they become usable (keeping the price from the original version, even though it's unusually low for a 5th level item).

Page 542 and 548: The true elixir of life's price is incorrect. Change it to 8,000 gp.

Page 544: The example in the splash trait is confusing. Replace it with this clearer version of the example "For example, if you throw a lesser acid flask and hit your target, that creature takes 1 acid damage, 1d6 persistent acid damage, and 1 acid splash damage. All other creatures within 5 feet of it take 1 acid splash damage. On a critical hit, the target takes 2 acid damage and 2d6 persistent acid damage, but the splash damage is still 1. If you miss, the target and all creatures within 5 feet take only 1 splash damage. If you critically fail, no one takes any damage."

Page 546: Under the Mutagens heading, to explain how to handle the counteracting between mutagens, add the following sentence to the end of the second paragraph. “Mutagens are polymorph effects (page 301), and a subsequent polymorph effect attempts to counteract an existing effect; the counteract check for a mutagen uses the item’s level and a modifier equal to the that level’s DC – 10, as found on Table 10–5: DCs by Level (page 503).” 

Page 548: To make it clearer that elixir of life only works on living creatures due to the healing trait, change the first sentence to "Elixirs of life accelerate a living creature’s natural healing processes and immune system."

Page 549: Quicksilver mutagen's "ranged attack rolls" was meant to apply to ranged weapon attack rolls and ranged unarmed attack rolls, but it makes sense to apply to Dexterity-based melee attack rolls using finesse. Change "ranged attack rolls" to "Dexterity-based attack rolls."

Page 550: Under Method of Exposure, in the Injury section, change the first sentence to read “An injury poison is activated by applying it to a weapon or ammunition, and it affects the target of the first Strike made using the poisoned item.” This explicitly allows you to poison ammunition as well as weapons. 

Pages 551–554: Injury poisons should require 2 actions to apply rather than 3, allowing you to draw a poison and apply it to a weapon on the same turn. Change the Activate entries for the following poisons from a [three-actions] glyph to a [two‑actions] glyph: belladonna, black adder venom, giant centipede venom, giant scorpion venom, giant wasp venom, graveroot, hunting spider venom, lethargy poison, purple worm venom, shadow essence, and wyvern poison. 

Page 551: Deathcap powder should be held in 1 hand, like other ingested poisons, not held in 2 hands.

Page 566: In dispelling sliver, add “(counteract modifier +29)” to the end of the first paragraph of the effect. 

Page 573: In the decanter of endless water, add a usage entry of 2 hands and a Bulk entry of L.

Page 574: Maestro's instrument should have DCs for the charm effects, DC 27 for  the moderate version and DC 38 for the greater version.

Page 584: In the grievous rune entry for a spear, change “enfeebled” to “clumsy” to match the spear’s critical specialization effect. 

Page 586–587: In mithral shield, change the Bulk entries for the standard-grade mithral shield and the high-grade mithral shield from “1” to “L.” 

Page 587: Arrow-catching shield. This shield had a built in usage frequency based on being fairly fragile that worked in the playtest rules for shields, but switching from dents to HP, the shield became too easily destroyed and needs to offer more protection. Increase the basic shield statistics to Hardness 10, HP 60, BT 30 and add a frequency of once per minute on the activation.

Page 588: Forge warden's durability is too low. Increase its basic shield statistics to Hardness 10, HP 40, BT 20. 

Page 592: Under Staves, change the fourth sentence to “Many staves can be found in multiple versions, with more powerful versions that contain more spells—such a staff always contains the spells of all lower-level versions, in addition to the spells listed in its own entry.”  This removes the erroneous mention of holding more charges. In preparing a staff, change the second sentence to "When you do so, that staff gains a number of charges equal to the level of your highest spell slot. You don’t need to expend any spells to add charges in this way." This makes it clear how many charges you gain if you have only a few low level spell slots but have a cantrip or focus spell. Finally, in attacking with a staff, add "Staves are also staff weapons (page 280). They can be etched with fundamental runes but not property runes. This doesn’t alter any of their spellcasting abilities." since staves are specific weapons, with the staff abilities as the additional abilities.

Page 594: Greater staff of necromancy has enervation, a spell that's in Advanced Player's Guide instead of this book. Replace it with a 4th level vampiric touch. 

Page 597: Wands become broken when you overcharge them and succeed at the flat check, and you need to know their statistics to Repair them. While they use the normal statistics for a thin item of their composition, it makes sense to call that out. At the end of Varying Statistics, add "A wand has the normal Hardness, BT, and HP of a thin item of its material (page 577)."

Page 602: In the entry for greater storm flash, add a spell DC of 38 to the end of the last sentence, as the greater form of an item should increase the DC to a competitive one for its level. 

Page 604: Under Companion Items, replace the third sentence with “Normally these are the only items a companion can use. Other items may qualify, at the GM’s discretion, but an animal can never Activate an Item.” This makes it clearer than before that companions can't normally use other items, and allows the GM to opt into adding more items. It also indicates that companions can't Activate an Item, though the errata says animal, the rule extends to the other types of animal companions and familiars that aren't animals.

Page 612: Healer's gloves' activation was unclear as to whether it was a healing effect. Change the activation effect to the following: "You can soothe the wounds of a willing, living, adjacent creature, restoring 2d6+7 Hit Points to that creature. This is a positive healing effect. You can’t harm undead with this healing."

Page 618: In the definition for the broken condition, change the second sentence to “An object is broken when damage has reduced its Hit Points to equal or less than its Broken Threshold.” This matches the definition of broken on page 272 (the inconsistency before was what happened when its HP were exactly equal to the Broken Threshold).  

Page 620, 631, and 454: In the definition of fatigued, the intention is that it prevents the exploration tactics you take while traveling or exploring an area, but you can still stop and Refocus, Treat Wounds, and so on. Change the last sentence to "You can’t use exploration activities performed while traveling, such as those on pages 479–480." 

Pages 620–623: In the definitions for the friendly, helpful, hostile, indifferent, and unfriendly conditions, change the first sentence to read “This condition reflects a creature’s disposition toward a particular character, and only supernatural effects (like a spell) can impose these conditions on player characters.” This continues to reflect the fact that mundane skills can't influence a PC's attitude (unless the player wishes to change it to reflect the other character's persuasive ability) while allowing magic like charm to do so.

Page 621: The prone condition said you could Take Cover to gain cover against ranged attacks, but it should say you gain Greater Cover. When combined with still being flat-footed, it allows you to hunker down for a net of 2 more AC against ranged attacks.

Page 621: Persistent damage sidebar. Clarifying Assisted Recovery, at the end of the first paragraph, change the last sentence to "This allows you to attempt an extra flat check immediately, but only once per round." and add the bullet point "• The action to help might require a skill check or another roll to determine its effectiveness." Remove Administer First Aid as an example of assisted recovery, as it's a separate action. 

Page 71: Alchemists should have proficiency in medium armor to make things easier for mutagenists who pursue higher Strength and lower Dexterity. Add training in medium armor to their initial proficiencies as well as to their 13th and 19th level armor expertise and mastery class features.

Page 72-79: Alchemist DC scaling is highly dependent on the feat Powerful Alchemy, so we decided to make it an automatic class feature instead to free up more feats. Add powerful alchemy to the class features at 5th level, and remove it from the list of alchemist class feats.

Page 73: Alchemists at low levels don't have enough reagents to make more than a very small number of items, whereas at higher levels they can make significantly more. To help make those reagents last longer at 1st through 4th levels, add a limited version of the Field Discovery class feature at 1st level. "Your research field adds a number of formulas to your formula book; these are your signature items. When using a batch of infused reagents to create your signature items using advanced alchemy, you create three items instead of two. Each time you gain a level, you can swap one of your signature items with another formula in your formula book. This new signature item must be on your research field’s list of possible signature items."

Page 75: Alchemical Alacrity lets you make three alchemical items, but you can't hold all three, so it's unclear what happens to the third one. Add to the end "and you automatically stow one of these new items as you create them."

Page 75: In perpetual infusions, "bullheaded mutagen" should say "serene mutagen."

Page 89: Raging Athlete. The wording has been adjusted to prevent unintended interactions with other abilities while keeping the same benefits. Change the text to "Physical obstacles can’t hold back your fury. While you are raging, you gain a climb Speed and swim Speed equal to your land Speed and the DC of High Jumps and Long Jumps decreases by 10. Your distance for a vertical Leap increases to 5 feet vertically, and your distance for a horizontal Leap increases to 15 feet if your Speed is at least 15 feet and to 20 feet if your Speed is at least 30 feet."

Page 91: Sudden Leap is missing the two-action icon from the fighter version, leaving the action cost unstated. Add in the two action icon.

Pages 99-103: Various bard feats shouldn't have the "focus pool" prerequisite. If you somehow take them without a focus pool (typically via multiclassing), you gain a focus pool, as normal for taking your first feat that grants a focus spell.

Pages 102, 201, 211: In Quickened Casting, change the restriction to "If your next action is to cast a <Classname> cantrip or a spell that is at least 2 levels lower than the highest-level <Classname> spell slot you have" inserting bard, sorcerer, or wizard as appropriate. This wording change makes it clear how to handle situations where you have a cantrip or focus spell at a different spell level than your highest spell slot.

Class Chapter (all spellcasting classes): Change the definition of cantrips to say "A cantrip is automatically heightened to half your level rounded up, which equals the highest-level of <Classname> spell slot you have." filling in the appropriate class name. This removes the ambiguities around the cantrip level of a non-spellcaster vs a multiclass spellcaster.

Pages 222-231: In the multiclass spellcaster Breadth feats, change "for each spell level other than your two highest spell levels" to "for each spell level other than your two highest <Classname> spell slots." inserting the appropriate class. This makes it clear what to do if you are a spellcaster multiclassing in another spellcasting class (or potentially multiclassing in multiple spellcasting classes).

Page 630: In curses, add "Effects with this trait can be removed only by effects that specifically target curses." This makes it clear that you need to use spells like remove curse to remove a curse, even one put in place by a spell, as opposed to dispel magic. 

Pages 337, 403, 405: In feeblemind, celestial brand, and jealous hex, make it clear that they are applying a curse.

Page 634: Add the olfactory trait from the Bestiary to the Glossary and Index "An olfactory effect can affect only creatures that can smell it. This applies only to olfactory parts of the effect, as determined by the GM." 

Pages 629–633: In the definitions of the chaotic, evil, good, and lawful traits, remove the last sentence. Creatures can use abilities of an alignment without matching that alignment, but they might be anathema or change a creature’s alignment over time with repeated use. 

Page 637: In the definition of the summoned trait, add this section to deal with summoned creatures creating more creatures without using summoning "A summoned creature can't control any spawn or other creatures generated from it, and such creatures return to their unaltered state (usually a corpse in the case of spawn) once the summoned creature is gone. If it's unclear what this state would be, the GM decides. "

Page 113: The champion's Quick Block feat accidentally had a different name than fighter Quick Shield Block. Change the name to Quick Shield Block to make it clear this is the same feat in two different classes, much like Blind Fight, Quick Draw, or Sudden Charge. 

Additionally, the errata for the 2nd Printing from Blade of Justice correctly removed the restriction making the feat paladin-only but should have still kept a prerequisites of tenets of good. Add that prerequisite back. 

Pages 118, 130, 204: In the wizard, change the spells you can select at 1st level to "You choose these from the common spells on the arcane spell list (page 307) or from other arcane spells you gain access to. " to match the witch.

The cleric and druid are slightly more complicated, as there was some confusion as to how clerics and druids learn new spells (they use Learn a Spell). Change cleric to say they prepare their spells "from the common spells on the divine spell list (page 309) or from other divine spells to which you gain access and learn via Learn a Spell." and druid to follow suit. This will cause clerics and druids to have an ever-expanding list of options, so if this becomes unmanageable compared to other prepared spellcasters, consider either restricting to a smaller and more manageable subset of spells like the other prepared spellcasters or implementing strategies like having a few default lists prepared in advance.

Pages 119-120: The 2nd printing errata accidentally missed the cleric when it came to giving expert proficiency in unarmed attacks. Add to both the cloistered cleric and warpriest doctrines that they gain expert proficiency in unarmed attacks in addition to their deity's favored weapon. They still only get the critical specialization effect for their deity's favored weapon.

Page 151: The Knockdown feat's wording made it ambiguous whether you were actually Tripping, which left it uncertain whether you apply any special effects and requirements related to the Trip action. To make it clear, change it to say "If you do and your Strike hits, instead of rolling a check for your Trip attempt, you automatically apply the critical success effect of a Trip."  

Page 153: Fighter's Boundless Reprisals should specify you use the reactions for fighter reactions. At the end, add that you can use the extra reactions "for any reaction from a fighter feat or class feature."

Page 164: Monk's Mountain Quake doesn't list which DC to use. While it's technically fine not to include, as class DC is the default for a class feat, given that monks might also have a spell DC, most monk feats indicate that they use class DC. Change to "with a basic Fortitude save against your class DC." 

Pages 165, 331, 391, 395, 402, 406, 407: Several auras were missing the aura trait. Add it to monk's Enlightened Presence feat and the divine aura, destructive aura, protector's sphere, angelic halo, dread aura, and protective ward spells

Page 174: The ranger camouflage feat's wording didn't explain what it was meant to do correctly and thus didn't work like camouflage and let you sneak around without any cover or concealment. Change the last sentence to "In natural terrain, you can Hide and Sneak even without cover or being concealed."

Page 177: Ranger's Impossible Volley was missing the flourish and open traits. Add them.

Page 181: Rogue's sneak attack accidentally left out ranged unarmed attacks, like leshy's seedpod. Change to "If you Strike a creature that has the flat-footed condition with an agile or finesse melee weapon, an agile or finesse unarmed attack, a ranged weapon attack, or a ranged unarmed attack, you deal an extra 1d6 precision damage. For a ranged attack with a thrown melee weapon, that weapon must also be agile or finesse."

Page 201: Sorcerer's Magic Sense should add the trait corresponding to the tradition of spells the sorcerer casts.

Page 205: The Drain Bonded Item is missing language indicating you need to have the item on your person, so add ", as long as the item is on your person." to the end of the first sentence.

Page 214, 217: Animal companions don't technically ever say they are animals, even though some later companions that aren't animals mention they have the "dragon trait instead of the animal trait" for instance. Therefore, change to say "Your animal companion has the animal and minion traits."

Secondly, the nimble animal companion had an error in converting from the playtest and should not have kept a higher proficiency with unarmored defense, which put it roughly 4 AC above other animal companions and in some cases higher than a PC can have. This is a carryover from when proficiency only gave +1 and the savage companion used to have higher proficiency in unarmed attacks while the nimble companion had higher in unarmored defense. Change it so it raises just Acrobatics to expert, putting it back in parallel with savage raising Athletics. This also adjusts Ambusher, Daredevil, and all similar specializations in other books that raise unarmored proficiency: in all those specializations, remove the part where it raises unarmored proficiency to master if the companion was nimble. 

Page 216: The Horse companion's support benefit mistakenly used the word attack when it meant to use Strike. NOTE: There were some other changes to the horse support benefit for the 4th printing. For convenience, we're replicating the full text of that printing here. 

Support Benefit Until the start of your next turn, if you’re mounted on your horse and moved 10 feet or more on the action before a melee Strike, add a circumstance bonus to damage for that Strike equal to twice the number of weapon damage dice. If your weapon already has the jousting weapon trait, increase the trait’s damage bonus by 2 per die instead.

Page 231: The wizard multiclass archetype didn't let you pick a school with the dedication, meaning you have to take Arcane School Spell to get some wizard feats, unlike for instance sorcerer, bard, and druid, who choose a bloodline, muse, or order but gain no abilities. Change wizard dedication so you can choose an arcane school but gain no abilities from it. Then in Arcane School Spell, you don't choose a school, and you gain the school spell from the school you already chose.

Page 247: The Lore skill was ambiguous when addressing inappropriate choices of Lore as to whether those subcategories were allowed. Change to make it clear they are not: "For instance, you couldn't choose Magic Lore to recall the breadth of knowledge about magic covered by Arcana, Nature, Occultism, and Religion, or Adventuring Lore to give you all the information an adventurer needs, or Planar Lore to gain all the information spread across various skills and subcategories such as Heaven Lore."

Page 266: Scare to Death's kill chances wound up being too high compared to its action cost and other abilities. Change the critical success to say "The target must attempt at a Fortitude save against your Intimidation DC. On a critical failure, it dies. On any other result, it becomes frightened 2 and is fleeing for 1 round. The critical failure effect has the death trait." Then remove the death trait from the feat itself, as creatures immune to death effects can still take the other consequences.

Pages 301, 634, 637: The minion and summoned traits are out of date. Change to match Secrets of Magic. 

Minions are creatures that directly serve another creature. A creature with this trait can use only 2 actions per turn, doesn’t have reactions, and can’t act when it’s not your turn. Your minion acts on your turn in combat, once per turn, when you spend an action to issue it commands. For an animal companion, you Command an Animal; for a minion that’s a spell or magic item effect, like a summoned minion, you Sustain a Spell or Sustain an Activation; if not otherwise specified, you issue a verbal command as a single action with the auditory and concentrate traits. If given no commands, minions use no actions except to defend themselves or to escape obvious harm. If left unattended for long enough, typically 1 minute, mindless minions usually don’t act, animals follow their instincts, and sapient minions act how they please. A minion can’t control other creatures. 

A creature called by a spell or effect gains the summoned trait. A summoned creature can’t summon other creatures, create things of value, or cast spells that require a cost. It has the minion trait. If it tries to Cast a Spell of equal or higher level than the spell that summoned it, it overpowers the summoning magic, causing its own spell to fail and the summon spell to end. Otherwise, the summoned creature uses the standard abilities for a creature of its kind. It generally attacks your enemies to the best of its ability. If you can communicate with it, you can attempt to command it, but the GM determines the degree to which it follows your commands.

Immediately when you finish Casting the Spell, the summoned creature uses its 2 actions for that turn. A spawn or other creature generated from a summoned creature returns to its unaltered state (usually a corpse in the case of spawn) once the summoned creature is gone. If it’s unclear what this state would be, the GM decides. Summoned creatures can be banished by various spells and effects. They are automatically banished if reduced to 0 Hit Points or if the spell that called them ends. 

Pages 316, 317, 318, 330, 332, 335, 347, 353, 354, 358: In aerial form, animal form, avatar, dinosaur form, dragon form, elemental form, insect form, monstrosity form, nature incarnate, plant form, change "only attacks you can use" to "only attacks you can Strike with." You can still use non-Strike attacks like Grapple and Trip as normal.

317, 352, 359, 385: In alter reality, miracle, primal phenomenon, and wish, the spells should be able to automatically duplicate spell slot spells (not rituals or focus spells), and only ones to which you have access in case your group was explicitly restricting access to certain spells for thematic reasons, difficulty of running the spells, or any other reason. Change the first two bullet points to read like the following, with wish as an example:

"• Duplicate any spell from the arcane list of 9th level or lower to which you have access.

• Duplicate any spell from another spell list of 7th level or lower to which you have access."

Page 324: Chromatic wall's blue wall stops sound and correctly indicated that it blocked auditory effects but failed to mention it blocked sonic effects too. Add sonic to the list of effects it blocks. This change also adjusts spells like prismatic wall that depend on chromatic wall.

Pages 326, 329, 333, 335, 348, 349, 360, 366, 369, 371, 373: A number of spells accidentally had a duration of 24 hours or 1 day instead of "until the next time you make your daily preparations." In general, nearly all beneficial spells should have the latter duration so you can check and keep them active each morning, so that for instance your awesome mansion doesn't vanish and spit out the guests once a day until you make another. These are contingency, dimensional lock, dream message, energy aegis, lock, magnificent mansion, private sanctum, sanctified ground, shrink item, spell immunity, and status.

Page 330: Disintegrate technically didn't mention what to do on a hit or miss with the spell attack roll. Add "On a hit" before "you deal 12d10 damage" to make it clear you need to hit.

Page 340, 369, 562, 574: In the last errata document, we removed some of the restrictions on spells like magic weapon requiring you cast them on a nonmagical weapon, but we missed a few. In ghostly weapon and shillelagh, change the target to remove the requirement that it's nonmagical. This requires an extra line in ghostly weapon to explain what happens if you already have the maximum number of property runes for a magical weapon. "If the weapon is magical and already has the maximum number of property runes, the wielder can choose one to suppress to gain ghost touch." Then change the items primeval mistletoe and oil of potency as well to remove the restriction, as they mimic effects of these kinds of spells.

Page 351: In meteor swarm, there is some ambiguity on how the multiple meteors work when dealing with larger creatures. To make it clear, change the text to say "The meteors’ central 10-foot bursts can’t overlap, and a creature attempts only one saving throw against the spell no matter how many overlapping explosions it's caught in, and they can take each type of damage once once."

Page 356: Pest form has a couple of errors. First, increase the land Speed it grants to 20 feet, as 10 feet is too slow to effectively scout while appearing to be a normal animal. Second, unlike other battle forms, it lacks the text directly explaining what to do about Strikes. Pest form is a 1st level scouting spell and is not meant for attacking, so explicitly change to "While in this form, you gain the animal trait, and you can’t make Strikes." 

Page 376: In synaptic pulse, remove the extraneous range listing, and change the second sentence to say "Each enemy in the area must attempt a Will save." to match the first sentence.

Page 387: Both inspire heroics and lingering composition should have the metamagic trait. Add it to both focus spells.

Page 405: Undeath's Blessing's Failure effect was inconsistent with the Success effect. The Failure effect (or effect for those who choose to forego the save) should be "For the duration, harm and heal spells treat the creature as undead. In addition, harm spells gain a +2 status bonus to the Hit Points restored to the target." 

Page 446: While there are numerous places in the Core Rulebook that indicate that non-Strike attack actions like Shove and Trip take a multiple attack penalty on their checks, in one spot in the definition of multiple attack penalty, it mentions that you take your multiple attack penalty on attack rolls. This caused some confusion as to whether it applies to skill checks or other rolls you might make as part of an attack action despite the other references, so to clear that up, change "attack roll" to "check" in both places.

Page 451, 621: There are a lot of questions about persistent damage. Check the CRB FAQ for more information, but the one thing that we're adding in errata is explicitly stating " Like normal damage, it can be doubled or halved based on the results of an attack roll or saving throw."

Page 476: Flanking was ambiguous on what happened if you made a ranged attack while within reach of a foe you are flanking. To make it clear that only melee attacks benefit from flanking, change the second sentence to read "A creature is flat-footed (taking a –2 circumstance penalty to AC) to melee attacks from creatures that are flanking it."

Page 500: Since people have been specifically asking about Assurance with respect to downtime, after "If something could apply constantly, or so often that it might as well be constant, it’s more likely to be used for downtime checks;" we added "for instance Assurance could apply." to show that it's something that could apply constantly.

Page 557: Electric eelskin armor accidentally listed a spell DC for shocking grasp and not a spell attack modifier. It should have a spell attack modifier of +19.

Page 557, 600: Specific magic armor and weapons say you can't etch a property rune, but you also can't remove a property rune or transfer a property rune to or from a specific armor or weapon. Explicitly add those restrictions to the definitions of each.

Page 565: The intro to Affixing a Talisman said you can't affix more than one talisman to the same item, which is slightly incorrect. Change it to match the Affix a Talisman action just below, which says you can, but you just deactivate them all so it's usually a bad idea. 

Pages 565, 597: You only need to learn a single 1st level formula to Craft any scroll or any magic wand (though specialty wands each require their own formulas as normal). Add "You only need to learn one 1st-level formula to Craft a magic wand." and parallel text for scrolls.

Page 585: In the wounding rune, given that persistent damage doubles on a critical hit, changing the 1d6 to 1d12 instead of doubling would actually make it deal less damage on average. Thus, remove the part about changing to 1d12 damage on a critical hit. Instead, the wounding rune's bleed damage doubles as normal for persistent damage.

Page 588: Reflecting shield's counteract modifier had a typo listing it at +40. It should be +30.

Page 614: The ring of lies was erroneously missing its frequency entry for the activation. It should be once per day, as per the usual guidelines for a spell activation in an item.

Page 614: The greater ring of maniacal devices has a price that is drastically incorrect for a level 18 item. It should be 21,000 gp. The incorrect price is also listed in the treasure tables.

Page 616: Replace robe of the archmagi's color scheme with a more in-world pattern using gold for good, red for evil, and light blue for neutral. This scheme is patterned after gold dragons (the strongest metallic dragon), red dragons (the strongest chromatic dragon), and cloud dragons (the strongest, and all true neutral primal dragon) respectively.

Page 26: We're making a significant change to how ancestry ability boosts work. The purpose of this is to better reflect diversity within each ancestry and to allow for greater freedom in creating characters. Though you can still choose the ability boosts listed in each ancestry, every character has a new alternative option.

Alternative Ability Boosts

The ability boosts and flaws listed in each ancestry represent general trends or help guide players to create the kinds of characters from that ancestry most likely to pursue the life of an adventurer. However, ancestries aren’t a monolith. You always have the option to replace your ancestry’s listed ability boosts and ability flaws entirely and instead select two free ability boosts when creating your character.

The text above is an alternative open to all characters, not an optional rule. Voluntary flaws remains an optional rule. Due to many of its advantages being supplanted by the rule above, we've made some adjustments to voluntary flaws to make them purely a roleplaying choice.

Optional: Voluntary Flaws

Sometimes, it’s fun to play a character with a major flaw regardless of your ancestry. You can elect to take additional ability flaws when applying the ability boosts and ability flaws from your ancestry. This is purely for roleplaying a highly flawed character, and you should consult with the rest of your group if you plan to do this! You can’t apply more than one flaw to any single ability score.

Pages 65, 131, 133, 135, 136, 336, 354, 370, 410, and 595: Multiple rules that should work with both plants and fungi currently work with only plants, and these changes make them work the way they’re intended. Note that this isn’t a universal change! Some rules, like plant form, plant growth, and blight, still apply only to plants. The following rules should work with both plants and fungi.

Sylvan (Page 65): The Sylvan language in the table should list plant and fungus creatures.

Leaf Order (Page 131): The anathema apply to fungi.

Leshy Familiar (Page 133): Your familiar is a fungus if you choose a fungus leshy.

Woodland Stride (Page 135): You get the same benefits moving through fungi.

Green Empathy (Page 136): You can communicate with fungi in the same way as with plants.

Entangle (Page 336): The area is “all squares in a 20-foot burst that contain plants or fungi”.

Nature’s Enmity (Page 354): Fungi hate them too!

Speak with Plants (Page 370): You can speak with fungi in the same way as plants.

Commune with Nature (Page 410): They know about fungi too.

Verdant Staff (Page 595): It helps you identify fungi too. We’ve also changed it from Nature checks to checks in general, so you can use it with relevant Lore skills, such as Herbalism Lore.

Page 72: Change Quick Alchemy’s text to say “You create a single alchemical consumable item…” instead of “You create a single alchemical item…” This wording is more precise, and works correctly with non-consumable alchemical items.

Page 73–76: The alchemist is getting multiple changes to allow for more choice and allow options from books outside the Core Rulebook. These boost all the fields in the books somewhat, with some additional spice for the chirurgeon.

Research Field (page 73): The chirurgeon can now choose two common 1st-level elixirs with the healing trait to add to their formula book. In addition, they can substitute Crafting for Medicine in a broader scope, as follows.

"You can use your proficiency rank in Crafting for anything that requires a proficiency rank in Medicine (such as prerequisites), and use your Crafting modifier in place of your Medicine modifier for all Medicine checks."

Field Discovery (page 74): The chirurgeon gets the three-elixir benefit to make any elixir with the healing trait, not just elixirs of life.

Perpetual Infusions (page 75): All of these have changed somewhat to offer a broader selection. In addition, due to changes to perpetual potency and perpetual perfection, there's a new sentence here: "Each time you gain a level, you can swap any number of your perpetual infusions with other eligible infusions." 

"Bomber: Choose two 1st-level bombs.

"Chirurgeon: Choose two 1st-level elixirs with the healing trait. If a creature heals Hit Points from a perpetual infusion, that creature is temporarily immune to healing Hit Points from subsequent perpetual infusions for 10 minutes (but not immune to any other effects of those infusions).

"Mutagenist: Choose two 1st-level mutagens."

The chirurgeon required a special rule for elixirs that heal HP to work correctly alongside healing resources across the game. Giving everyone in your party a perpetual infusion elixir of life when you stop for a rest will still work, but you don't get much benefit from doling out 300 of them in that 10 minutes. Note that can still choose to spend reagents when creating an elixir to heal a creature that has temporary immunity to perpetual infusions! 

Note that, unlike the toxicologist in Advanced Player's Guide, these don't restrict you to only common items, since those restrictions are already a part of adding formulas to your formula book. If you've gained access to an non-common alchemical item that fits the other restrictions, you can choose it for a perpetual infusion. We will consider changing the toxicologist when we next set our gaze on that book.

Since this is likely to become a FAQ given some of the perpetual infusions changes, remember that perpetual infusions remove only the reagent cost for Quick Alchemy. You would still need to spend extra batches of infused reagents to Combine Elixirs with a perpetual infusion, for example.

Perpetual Potency (page 75): The choices you can make are more broad, and you no longer need to upgrade your choices from perpetual infusions (hence the ability to swap out your perpetual infusions when you level up, so you can upgrade your favorite item if you like). The levels are different between research fields to maintain the intended balance while still allowing the options from previous printings of the Core Rulebook.

"Bomber: Choose two 3rd-level or lower bombs.

"Chirurgeon: Choose two 6th level or lower elixirs with the healing trait.

"Mutagenist: Choose two 3rd level or lower mutagens."

Perpetual Perfection (page 76): These changes are similar to perpetual potency's, but did not require the same level restrictions.

"Bomber: Choose two 11th-level or lower bombs.

"Chirurgeon: Choose two 11th-level or lower elixirs with the healing trait.

"Mutagenist: Choose two 11th-level or lower mutagens."

Page 113: The champion's Quick Shield Block feat received incomplete errata in the 3rd printing. Add "Prerequisites Shield Block". The fighter's Quick Shield Block feat has also been changed to have the same prerequisites.

Pages 119–120: The cleric’s original proficiency put their simple weapon proficiency behind spellcasters who aren’t good with weapons, like the sorcerer. Make the following changes.

Cloistered Cleric (Page 119): Fourth Doctrine grants expert proficiency with your deity’s favored weapon, simple weapons, and unarmed attacks.

Warpriest (Page 120): Third doctrine grants expert proficiency with your deity’s favored weapon, simple weapons, and unarmed attacks.

Page 120: The warpriest's first doctrine wasn't as clear as it could be that you do gain Deadly Simplicity if your deity's favored weapon is an unarmed attack, so the text has been updated.

Page 149: The fighter Quick Shield Block feat should match the champion's, so we've made the prerequisites less strenuous. The updated entry is "Prerequisites Shield Block".

Page 184: The rogue Minor Magic feat was unclear on whether the spells are innate spells or made you a spellcaster. We've amended the text to note that you gain the Cast a Spell activity. These spells work similarly to the ones you get from multiclass dedication feats for spellcasting classes. However, you don't gain a spell repertoire, spellbook, or similar, so your oddball rogue magic doesn't let you use abilities that require those.

Pages 198 and 209: The Counterspell feat used "disrupt" to describe generally what the feat is doing, but this has caused confusion with the rules for disrupting actions. Change the text to "counter" instead. The feat counteracts the spell; it doesn't disrupt it.

Page 216: The horse's support benefit had issues, even with the 3rd printing errata. It was meant to be for dealing more damage on a charge, but allowing for unintended maneuvers like getting the bonus while flanking with your horse or shooting a bow. Here's the new text of the horse's support benefit.

Support Benefit Until the start of your next turn, if you’re mounted on your horse and moved 10 feet or more on the action before a melee Strike, add a circumstance bonus to damage for that Strike equal to twice the number of weapon damage dice. If your weapon already has the jousting weapon trait, increase the trait’s damage bonus by 2 per die instead. 

Page 281: The gnome flickmace was too strong due to the inherent advantages of a one-handed reach weapon. It’s been changed to reduce its damage die and Bulk and add sweep so it functions more like a flail.

Gnome flickmace statistics are as follows.

Price 3 gp; Damage 1d6 B; Bulk 1; Hands 1; Group Flail; Weapon Traits Gnome, reach, sweep

Page 287 and 293: The formulas in a basic crafter’s book didn’t match in two different locations the book was described. Page 293 was correct: A basic crafter’s book includes all 0-level common items in the Equipment chapter, not all common items in the chapter.

Page 288: We’ve changed the Hands entries for sets of tools to in the Adventuring Gear table to “1 or 2” with a footnote, to indicate you can use them with 1 hand if you’re wearing them. The affected tool sets are, for reference: alchemist’s tools, artisan’s tools, sterling artisan’s tools, healer’s tools, expanded healer’s tools, thieves tools, and infiltrator thieves' tools.

Page 302: It was unclear how innate spells work with the Cast a Spell activity and whether they make you a spellcaster. They work much like non-spellcasters with focus spells. Here’s the adjusted text that now appears in the first paragraph, including the component info moved from a different paragraph.

“You gain the ability to Cast a Spell and use any spellcasting actions necessary to cast your innate spells; since this magic is innate, you can replace any material component with a somatic component (page 303). Innate spells don’t let you qualify for abilities that require you to be a spellcaster.”

Pages 317, 352, 359, and 385: The 3rd printing errata to alter reality, miracle, primal phenomenon, and wish inadvertently restricted spells you could choose from other spell lists too much. Because you typically don’t have any access to spells not on your spell list, the option to cast a spell “to which you have access” from another list was useless for most characters. The new text is as follows for all four spells: “• Duplicate any spell from another spell list of 7th level or lower. It must be common or you must have access.”

Page 319–320: In the avatar spell, change “bull rush” in Gozreh and Torag to “shove”.

Page 329–330: The tyrannosaurus battle form or dinosaur form didn’t list a die size for the deadly trait on its jaws Strike. It should be deadly d12.

Page 369: The description of silence erroneously mentioned “other senses,” which could suggest it prevents creatures from noticing the target using sight, tremorsense, or other senses. The spell should read, "The target makes no sound, preventing creatures from noticing it using hearing alone."

Page 370: The soothe spell can now target “1 willing creature” instead of “1 willing living creature”. It can be used to heal undead, constructs, and so on. (This change matches the rules noted in Book of the Dead and Blood Lords Player’s Guide.) Note that it has the mental trait, so it still doesn’t heal or otherwise benefit mindless creatures like zombies or animated objects.

Page 383: Wall of stone and wall of thorns have a mismatch with some other walls. Their walls can now be destroyed in 10-foot-by-10-foot sections instead of 5-foot-by-5-foot sections.

Page 399: The word of freedom domain spell can suppress the restrained condition in addition to the other conditions listed, and the sentence about suppressing the grabbed condition should include the restrained condition.

Page 460, 462, and 469: The text on Gaining and Losing actions on page 462 and for the last step of starting your turn on page 469 indicated that if you had a condition that said “you can’t act,” you wouldn’t regain any actions on your turn, rather than merely being unable to use them. This conflicted with the sidebar on page 622, which was correct. Conditions and other effects that cause you to change the number of actions you regain (such as quickened, slowed, or stunned) say so.

The text under Death on page 460 has been amended slightly to say you lose all your actions while dead so it works as intended.

Page 465: Many abilities use shorthand like “a creature you can see.” These abilities typically work just fine with other precise senses, so the Detecting with Other Senses sidebar was adjusted to note this. Examples include using a precise sense (like echolocation for precise hearing) for the Coerce activity of the Intimidation skill, an investigator’s Devise a Stratagem action, and the thaumaturge’s Exploit Vulnerability action.

Page 555: Elven chain didn’t include the adjustment to its Bulk from being made of mithral, and should be light Bulk instead of 1 Bulk. (It also repeated the +2 item bonus to AC unnecessarily; this is the same as any chain shirt.) To summarize, the differences between elven chain and a mithral chain shirt are that elven chain has no check penalty and no noisy trait.

Page 570: Dust of disappearance now has the uncommon trait, just like invisibility potion.

Page 571: Add the necromancy trait to holy water and unholy water.

Page 580: The runes section was not entirely clear that you do need to be able to craft magic items (with the Magical Crafting feat, typically) to etch or transfer runes.

Page 588: Spellguard shield should allow you to Shield Block in the way the a dragonslayer’s shield or the Reflexive Shield feat do. At the end of the description, add to the final sentence, “and you can Shield Block spells that target you if you have that action.”

Page 595: Verdant staff, as noted in another correction, now helps you identify fungi as well as plants. In case you skipped that entry because you don't care about fungi, note that we've also changed it from applying to only Nature checks to checks in general, so you get help identifying plants and fungi with relevant Lore skills, such as Herbalism Lore.

Page 264 (Clarification): When I use Natural Medicine, can I attempt the higher-DC checks even though I'm not using Medicine?

You absolutely can. Essentially, you replace any mention of “Medicine” in the activity with “Nature” if you’re using Natural Medicine. You do still need healer’s tools. 

Also, note that this feat applies only to using Treat Wounds. You would still need to be an expert in Medicine, not Nature, to select the Ward Medic feat. If you did qualify for and did select Ward Medic, you would be able to use Nature to Treat Wounds for two targets. You’d still need to become a master or legendary in Medicine to treat more targets than that.

Pages 266 (Clarification): Can I use Shield Block if I take physical damage that didn't come from an attack?

Shield Block can only be used against physical damage from attacks, since non-attack effects can't trigger the Shield Block. For instance, if you walk over a square of hazardous terrain that deals piercing damage to you, having your shield raised doesn't help you, nor does it help if you need to make a Reflex save against a spell that deals bludgeoning damage. Some abilities let you use Shield Block with other triggers, as seen in the shield spell and the fighter's Reflexive Shield feat, but these exceptions are noted. Also note the 4th printing errata to spellguard shield (page 588) allows it to apply in this way.

Pages 279–280 (Clarification): If I hold a weapon that requires 1 hand in 2 hands, is it a 2-handed weapon?

There are two answers to this.

For abilities that count the number of hands for a weapon while you're using it, such as an action with "Requirements You are wielding a one-handed melee weapon," count the actual number of hands you're using at the time. If you're holding a bastard sword in two hands, you couldn't use it with that ability. Weapons with the "1+" notation in their description, such as most bows, use both your hands when shooting, but leave you with a hand free for other actions the rest of the time.

Anything that's an intrinsic part of the weapon, such as a shifting rune, works differently. Reference the weapon's "Hands" entry in the weapons table—a bastard sword requires 1 hand, even though it gets a benefit in two hands from the two-hand trait. If you were holding a shifting bastard sword in two hands and activated it, you could turn it into a longsword (which you'd still be holding in two hands), but couldn't turn it into a greatsword (which requires 2 hands). For this purpose, "1" and "1+" are the same (though this doesn't matter for shifting since "1+" appears ranged weapons).

Page 283 (Clarification): What do I need to do to switch how many hands I'm using for a jousting weapon?

If you want to use a jousting weapon one-handed while on a mount, you can make this decision as part of taking your Mount action. After that, changing hands takes the same actions described on page 271 under Carrying and Using Items. If you dismount while wielding a jousting weapon one-handed, you can either switch to using two hands as part of that action if you have a hand free at that point. If not, you'll still be holding the weapon in one hand, but not able to wield it. You'll have to free up a hand and Interact to wield the jousting weapon while not mounted.

Pages 301 and 634 (Clarification): Can a minion be quickened or slowed? 

Yes. This can be a bit unclear because those conditions apply “at the start of your turn” and a minion can’t typically act until you use an action. Apply these conditions and any other effects that alter a minion’s number of actions when the minion gains its actions, using 2 actions and 0 reactions as the minion’s starting number. Though a minion can’t normally act when it’s not your turn, abilities that specifically grant a minion a reaction provide an exception to this (such as the Ferocious Beasts orc ancestry feat, Advanced Players Guide page 19).

Page 451 (Clarification): How do extra critical effects work on a creature immune to critical hits?

Immunity to critical hits reads “When a creature immune to critical hits is critically hit by a Strike or other attack that deals damage, it takes normal damage instead of double damage.” This means what it says: The attack deals normal damage instead of double damage. Other effects specific to a critical hit still occur, such as critical specialization effects and extra damage dice from traits like deadly and fatal. You also still have the option to use abilities that trigger on critical hits, like the vorpal rune’s reaction (though many creatures immune to crits also don’t need heads to live, lucky devils). Your GM can still say no to extremely strange consequences of this rule on a case-by-case basis.

Page 458 (Clarification): If an affliction makes me enfeebled 1 without listing a duration and the affliction ends, am I enfeebled forever? 

The rules on Conditions from Afflictions note that a condition can last for a longer duration that the affliction that caused it, using drained as an example. There are three categories of effects from afflictions here.

1. Immediate effects like damage happen as soon as you reach the stage.
2. Conditions that have a way to end them by default last for their normal duration. This includes conditions like drained, frightened, persistent damage, and sickened.
3. Conditions that always need to include a duration because they don’t have a normal way to recover from them—such as clumsy or paralyzed—last as long as the stage of the affliction on which they appear. This also applies to effects that are ongoing but specific to the affliction rather than being defined conditions, such as a penalty to certain rolls.

Page 475 (Clarification): How do I adjudicate forced movement if a creature makes another creature move with it?

Creatures like elephants and rocs can move while taking a grabbed creature with them. The rules on page 475 say “Usually the creature or effect forcing the movement chooses the path the victim takes. If you’re pushed or pulled, you can usually be moved through hazardous terrain, pushed off a ledge, or the like. Abilities that reposition you in some other way can’t put you in such dangerous places unless they specify otherwise. In all cases, the GM makes the final call if there’s doubt on where forced movement can move a creature.”

So can you summon an elephant and have it run alongside a wall of fire and drag a creature in its trunk through every square of the wall? Generally, no. The point is that the victim is being carried with the creature. However, the GM can make other calls within reason calls here. For instance, if the elephant moves through that wall of fire, it’s likely it and the creature both take the damage.

Page 585 (Clarification): What can a shifting rune change a weapon into?

This repeats some information from the clarification on one-handed versus two-handed weapons. 

Because a shifting rune is based on the attributes of the weapon it's etched to, reference the weapon's "Hands" entry in the weapons table to see what it can turn into. A bastard sword requires 1 hand, even though it gets a benefit in two hand from the two-hand trait. If you were holding a shifting bastard sword in two hands and activated it, you could turn it into a longsword (which you'd still be holding in two hands), but couldn't turn it into a greatsword (which requires 2 hands).

So what if the weapon has the jousting trait, normally requiring two hands, but you're wielding it in one hand because you're on a mount? You can activate shifting to turn it into a different weapon that requires 2 hands and has the jousting trait and continue as you are, or you can turn it into a weapon that requires 2 hands and doesn't have the jousting trait. If you do that, you're still holding it in one hand, but can't wield it unless you free up another hand and Interact to change how you're holding it.

One further note: The shifting rune can change the Bulk of the weapon, but you can't, for example, turn an adamantine shifting weapon of light Bulk into a weapon of 1 Bulk and sell the adamantine. You would use the base form, not the form magic has turned it into.

Page 592 (Clarification): How can I use a staff if I have high-level slots but not lower ones?

Classes like the magus and summoner lose their lower-level slots as they go up in level, but can still cast lower-level spells from staves. In other words, a spellcaster who has 2nd- and 3rd-level slots but not 1st-level slots can still cast a 1st-level spell from a staff. (A magus who prepares a staff still has to sacrifice a spell slot they actually have if they want to add extra charges, though.)

Page 621 (Clarification): How can I tell which multiple persistent damage value is higher when it's not obvious?

Multiple Persistent Damage Conditions notes that you keep only the highest amount of persistent damage. How do you choose between 3 persistent fire damage and 1d6 persistent fire damage (which is usually, but not always higher)? In these cases, the GM should quickly use their best guess to decide which applies. Don’t worry about doing all the math of average damage, just follow your heart to which seems most severe.

Page 19: In the ankou's skills, change Bluff to Deception.

Page 34: The basidirond’s hallucinogenic cloud is missing all its traits. These should be incapacitation, mental, and poison.

Page 57: The culdewen should be uncommon, and several abilities didn't work quite right, making it unnecessarily difficult for PCs to escape the culdewen's hook. Add the uncommon trait. In Hooked, change  “The fish hook can be removed only if a creature spends an Interact action and succeeds at a DC 25 Athletics check to pull it free.” to “The fish hook can be removed if a creature Escapes (DC 25), pulling it free. In Land the Fish, after “On a success, the creature is restrained by the culdewen.” add “Escaping from the restrained condition (DC 25) also allows a creature to remove the hook.

Page 61: Change the thanadaemon's Focus Gaze’s effect to say “The thanadaemon glares at a single creature they can see within 30 feet. If the target wasn’t already frightened, they must immediately attempt a DC 33 Will save against the thanadaemon's terrifying gaze. If the target was already frightened, they must attempt a DC 33 Will save or become fleeing for 1d4 rounds; this second effect has the incapacitation trait. After attempting its save, the creature is temporarily immune to this ability until the start of the thanadaemon's next turn.”

Page 70: Add the uncommon trait to the Denizen of Leng.

Page 93: The Giant Cockroach Swarm is listed as Small, but should be Large

Page 99: The drainberry bush should have been listed as uncommon. Add the uncommon trait.

Page 184: The followers of fate religion should have the 3rd level spell threefold aspect instead of the 2nd level spell web.

Page 241: The skaveling is missing its undead immunities. Add “Immunities death effects, disease, paralyzed, poison, unconscious.”

Page 248: The specter's Spectral Corruption ability, especially when combined with high attack and damage, make it an oversized threat for a level 7 monster. Replace it with 

Spectral Corruption [two-actions] (curse, divine, enchantment, incapacitation, mental) The specter makes a vile touch Strike. If it damages a living creature, the specter gains 5 temporary Hit Points and the target creature must attempt a DC 24 Will save to avoid becoming corrupted.

Critical Success The creature is unaffected and is temporarily immune to spectral corruption for 1 minute.

Success The creature is stupefied 2 for 1 hour.

Failure The creature succumbs to the corruption and becomes a spectral thrall temporarily. The creature is controlled by the specter, obeying the specter's telepathic or spoken orders, though a spectral thrall does not obey obviously self-destructive orders. This lasts until the end of the thrall’s next turn, at which point it is no longer controlled but becomes stupefied 2 for 1 hour.

Critical Failure As failure, but the duration is unlimited. The thrall can attempt a new Will save at the end of each of its turns; on a success, it is no longer controlled by the specter but becomes stupefied 2 for 1 hour.

Change the vile touch Strike to “vile touch +16 (finesse), Damage 2d8+8 negative.” Note that this also cuts "plus spectral corruption" from the Strike, since it needs to use the Spectral Corruption activity to get the full effect.

As a note for summoning specters, an upcoming erratum to the minion trait in the Core Rulebook will clarify that minions can't control other creatures, which means summoned specters can't control other creatures with Spectral Corruption.

Page 249: Both spiders' bite attacks should be "fangs" attacks. They are also missing their damage type, which should be piercing.

Page 255: Add the uncommon trait to the stygira.

Page 260: The giant tick has an enfeebled entry with no value. In tick fever, in the first stage, after enfeebled add “1”.

Page 266: The Two-Headed Troll's Reactive Chomp doesn't work quite right. Change it from a single action to a reaction. Replace its Requirements entry with “Trigger On one head's initiative, the troll hits the same enemy with two consecutive claw Strikes in the same round;” and change the effect to “While the prey is distracted with unrelenting claw attacks, the head that's not taking its turn makes a jaws Strike against the enemy.“

Page 267: Jotund troll’s jaws Strike should have the Grab ability, so it can use its other abilities that happen when it Grabs creatures with its jaws.

Page 281: Add the incapacitation trait to the ostiarius's Focus Gaze ability.

Page 286: Add the uncommon trait to the violet venom item.

Page 290-291: Moon Frenzy should say "jaws Strike (or a similar Strike)" so that wereboar can use it. Additionally, the curse DCs are slightly off. Change wereboar's DC to 15 and weretiger's DC to 18.

Page 300: The yellow musk creeper's Spray Pollen is missing some of its information. First, it should have the incapacitation trait.

Second, change the failure and critical failure entries to:

Failure The creature is fascinated. For as long as it is fascinated, it must spend each of its actions to move closer to the yellow musk creeper as expediently as possible, while avoiding obvious dangers. If the creature is adjacent to the yellow musk creeper, it stays still and doesn't act. If anyone takes a hostile action against the creature or its allies, the effect ends. Otherwise, the creature can attempt a new save at the end of each of its turns. On a success, the effects end.
Critical Failure As failure, but the condition doesn't end automatically if anyone takes a hostile action against the creature or its allies.

Page 301: Add the uncommon trait to the yellow musk vial.

Page 25: The ancient elf heritage is lacking guidance about an appropriate age for the heritage. After the heritage's first sentence, add "A typical ancient elf is at least 100 years old, though you might be younger at the GM’s discretion." As the heritage is based on an elf's biological lifespan, it is an example of the type of heritage that a half-elf can't take.

Page 33: Eclectic Obsession is missing an action/activity symbol. The feat requires one action.

Page 45: Cunning Climber is referencing a feat from the Pathfinder Playtest. Remove the final sentence from the Cunning Climber feat.

Page 45: The Incredible Luck feat is referencing the incorrect feat. In the feat's final sentence, change "Helpful Halfling" to "Shared Luck."

Page 50: The Hobgoblin Weapon Familiarity feat was granting training in too many weapons for a single feat. Change the feat's first sentence to "You are trained with composite longbows, composite shortbows, glaives, longbows, longswords, and shortbows."

Page 50: The sidebar is referring to a non-existent feat. In the final sentence of the sidebar, change "Legion Recruit" to "Leech-Clipper."

Page 51: Add the auditory trait to the Pride in Arms feat, as it only works if your ally hears the shout.

Page 53: Leshys that take the fungus leshy heritage should be fungi in more than just name! After the heritage's final sentence, add "You lose the plant trait and gain the fungus trait."

Page 54: The Seedpod feat was missing a range. Change the feat's second sentence to "You gain a seedpod ranged unarmed attack with a range increment of 10 feet that deals 1d4 bludgeoning damage; these Strikes have the manipulate trait."

Page 57: Lizardfolk and catfolk are from nearby regions and we want to represent their relationship as neighbors, of a sort. Add Amurrun to the list in the lizardfolk base statistics sidebar of additional languages you can choose if you have a positive Intelligence modifier.

Page 59: Due to changes with how proficiency in unarmed strikes is determined, the Iruxi Unarmed Expertise feat is no longer needed. Replace it with the following feat.

Primal Rampage Feat 13
Lizardfolk
You tap into the unstoppable, primeval strength of your ancient kin. You gain freedom of movement and stoneskin as 4th-level primal innate spells that you can cast once per day. As a 3-action activity, you can Cast a Spell twice to cast both of these innate spells, as long as they are both still available for the day.

Page 74: Add the mental trait to the Boaster's Challenge feat.

Page 80: Hellknight plate is missing an armor trait. In the armor's statistics, after the group classification, add "Armor Traits Bulwark."

Page 90: Add the stance trait to the Impassable Wall Stance feat.

Page 91: The sun blade focus spell incorrectly lists a failure entry, rather than a success. Change the second degree of success line to "Success The ray deals full damage."

Page 95: Invoke the Crimson Oath lacked information on a key spellcasting ability score. After the final sentence of the feat, add "Your key spellcasting ability for these spells is Charisma."

Page 104: The language in the Halcyon Speaker Dedication was causing confusion as it referenced gaining access to spells. Change the second sentence of the feat to "You gain two common Halcyon cantrips and two common 1st-level halcyon spells (see Halcyon Spells on page 100)."

Page 112: The Pathfinder Agent Feats are incorrectly noted as uncommon. Only the dedication itself is uncommon, but once you have the dedication, the feats don't have any further restrictions. Remove the uncommon trait from the Forced Entry, Recognize Threat, Everyone Duck!, and Educated Assessment feats.

Page 15: Asmodeus incorrectly lists two major curses. The second curse on the list (Asmodeus forces your compliance.) is a moderate curse.

Page 48: Urgathoa is missing the thematically appropriate plague domain in her entry. Add "plague" to her list of Alternate Domains.

Page 107: The agitate spell is meant to allow creatures to use their regular forms of movement, but not to Step. change the requirement to Stride to "Stride, Fly, or Swim" and add "The GM might decide to add additional move actions to the list for creatures who possess only a more unusual form of movement." 

Page 107: The animus mine spell should only the deal the mental damage on magical mental effects that send their magic into your mind, not if a creature tries to do something mundane like talk to you.

Page 107: The befuddle spell is missing a saving throw entry. Before the spell's duration, add "Saving Throw Will."

Page 107: The chilling spray spell has the incorrect saving throw listed. Change the saving throw from "Will" to "Reflex."

Page 110: The movement of the shifting sand spell should only occur once per round. Change the spell's third sentence to "The first time each round you Sustain the Spell, you can move the churning area up to 10 feet in any direction."

Page 111: After you come back to your time beacon, the spell has had its effect and it's over. To make that clear, explicitly add "After returning to the time beacon, the spell ends."

Page 112: The winter bolt focus spell has the incorrect targets listed. Change the spell's targets to "1 creature."

Page 115: Add the attack trait to the charged javelin focus spell.

Page 116: The share burden focus spell is missing a targets entry. Add "Targets you and the triggering ally."

Page 118: The stasis focus spell has the incorrect saving throw listed. Change the saving throw from "Reflex" to "Will."

Page 120: The bladed scarf is intended to be a weapon that includes the finesse trait and deals a little less damage. Change bladed scarf damage from "1d8" to "1d6" and add the "finesse" trait to weapon's traits.

Page 130: Apsu is the god of all good dragons, not just lawful ones. Change Apsu's alignment entry to "LG (LG, NG, CG)."

Page 132: Change Sun Wukong's favored weapon from "staff" to "bo staff."

Page 132–133: Change Qi Zhong's anathema entry to "Deal lethal damage to another living creature (unless as part of a necessary medical treatment)."

This allows followers of Qi Zhong to attack non-living creatures such as constructs and undead without worry about Qi Zhong's anathema.

Page 103: The Anadi Change Shape ability should allow a different set of actions in spider form to allow more manipulate actions than it currently does. Change it to say "You change into your human or spider shape. Each shape has a specific, persistent appearance. In your human shape, you can’t use unarmed attacks granted by your ancestry. You aren’t flat footed when climbing in your spider shape. However, in your spider shape you can’t use weapons, shields, or other held items of any sort, and you are limited in what actions you can take that have the manipulate trait. The only manipulate actions you can take are to Cast a Spell with somatic components, weave silk or webbing, or simple Interact actions such as opening an unlocked door. Your spider legs can't perform actions that require fingers or significant manual dexterity, including any action that would require a check to accomplish. The GM might determine other manipulate actions are appropriate for your spider legs"

Page 119: The grippli ancestry ability modifiers are missing one of the ability scores that should have a +2 bonus. In total they should have +2 Dexterity, +2 Wisdom, -2 Strength, and one free ability boost.

Updated Backgrounds

A number of backgrounds are granting training in the incorrect skills or inappropriate skill feats that didn't correspond with each other. Make the changes as noted below.
Page(s) and location, followed by change
22, Grand Council Bureaucrat: Change "Society" to "Diplomacy"
46, Nirmathi Guerilla: Change "Survival" to "Stealth" 

Page 17: The archaic wayfinder requires investment, just like all other wayfinders. Add the invested trait to the archaic wayfinder.

Page 23: The Wayfinder Resonance Tinkerer feat is missing language about heightening the cantrip it grants you. After the feat's third sentence, add "As normal, this cantrip is heightened to a spell level equal to half your level rounded up."

Page 28: The aldori dueling sword mistakenly cost too much due to a lack of conversion to the silver piece standard for starting gear. Change the Aldori dueling sword's price to 2 gp.

Page 71: Crimson Shroud is a magical ability and should have a school and a tradition or the magical trait. Add the healing, magical, and necromancy traits to the Crimson Shroud feat.

Page 95: The Magic Warrior archetype should be uncommon, just like the other archetypes in the book. Add the uncommon trait to the Magic Warrior Dedication feat.

Page 95: The Nameless Anonymity feat is missing a tradition for its nondetection spell. After the final sentence, add "The spell is of the same tradition as your focus spells."

Page 117: The exact nature of a megafauna animal companion is unclear. Any animal companion can be a megafauna animal companion, which changes how the animal companion can progress at a later time, allowing the animal companion to become a savage or indomitable animal companion instead. The GM has ultimate say on which animal companions can be megafauna animal companions, though most animal companions based on animals and beasts can be megafauna.

Before the first sentence of the Megafauna Minions sidebar, add "When you pick your animal companion, you can choose to have it be a megafauna animal companion."

What actions qualify for the requirements of the resonant weapon trait's Conduct Energy action?

You can only use Conduct Energy with actions that have one of the required energy traits. Using an action other than a spell that causes damage with the listed trait does not necessarily qualify unless the action also has the trait.

For example, if you used the ifrit's Scorching Disarm action, you could channel fire energy into your weapon via Conduct Energy, as Scorching Disarm itself has the fire trait.

However, if you made a Strike with a flaming weapon, the Strike action does not have the fire trait, so you couldn't use Conduct Energy. 

Pages 6–7: Fixed several uncomon mistakes.

Page 11: Add the "healing" trait to the Purge Sins feat.

Page 38: In the Winglets feat, on the second to last line, change "10 feet higher" to "10 feet longer".

Page 42: Change the last sentence of the fruit leshy to read, "This effect has the healing, necromancy, positive, and primal traits."

Page 51: In the Special line for the Mask of Fear feat, change all instances of "reaction" to "free action".

Page 79: It was unclear which of the beastkin's shape was the natural shape for the purposes of Change Shape. Before the last sentence of the beastkin's heritage entry, add: "A beastkin’s hybrid form is their natural shape."

Page 81: The beastkin's Animal Shape feat was missing options for beastkin with insects as their inherent animal. Make the following changes to the Animal Shape feat:

Change the third sentence to read, "When you gain this feat, choose either aerial form, animal form, dinosaur form, or insect form; after you choose a form, you can’t change the form."

Change the fifth sentence to read, "If your inherent animal isn’t among the animals listed in the form, you default to the statistics and abilities of the bird battle form, cat battle form, deinonychus battle form, or ant battle form for aerial form, animal form, dinosaur form, and insect form, respectively (at the GM’s discretion, you instead default to a different form that is closest to your inherent animal)."

Page 89: The fleshwarp statistics did not fully line up with the flavor presented in the fleshwarp entry. Change the Size entry from "Medium" to "Medium or Small" to allow for Small fleshwarps, which might have originated from existing Small ancestries.

Page 93: Add the following prerequisites to the Eerie Compression feat:

Prerequisites: Medium size

Page 123: The dark fields kitsune heritage did not note how long the temporary Hit Points you gain from Invigorating Fear last. Add the following after the last sentence of Invigorating Fear: "You lose any temporary Hit Points after 1 minute."

Page 124: Kitsune's foxfire should be magical. Change the fifth line of the Foxfire feat to read, "Your foxfire is in the sling weapon group and has the magical trait."

Page 124: Change the last line of the Star Orb feat to read, "It always has the innate surge master ability (Advanced Player’s Guide 147), which counts against your limit for familiar and master abilities. "

Page 137: In the Wing Step feat, change "You Step twice" to "You Step 5 feet twice."

Page 138: Rungus are real-world weapons and their original description ignored their cultural significance. We updated the description to better reflect the weapon's real-world origins and give it a better sense of place in the setting. Change the second sentence of the rungu's description to "Rungus were invented by Zenj humans of the Mwangi Expanse and are most common among their tribes, though gripplis have also adopted rungus for hunting creatures that hide high in treetops."

Page 138: It was unclear if the taw launcher was a crossbow or not and thus function with crossbow-related abilities and effects. The taw launcher is a crossbow. In the first sentence of the taw launcher description, change the word "resembles" to "is".

Page 139: Change the wish knife's versatile P trait to versatile S.

Page 139: Add the conrasu trait to the taw launcher entry in Table 1–2: Ranged Weapons.

Page 19: The oscillating wave psychic’s unique psi cantrips (thermal stasis, entropic wheel, and redistribute potential) are not intended to interact with their conservation of energy class feature, as they manipulate cold and fire at the same time. Similarly, psi cantrips from other conscious minds (for instance, ones gained through the Parallel Breakthrough feat) shouldn’t interact with conservation of energy. Modify the text in the Conservation of Energy section from “The first time in an encounter that you cast a granted spell from your conscious mind or a psi cantrip” to “The first time in an encounter that you cast a granted spell or standard psi cantrip from your conscious mind.”

Pages 34–35: The thaumaturge should increase in proficiency with unarmed attacks as they grow in level. The weapon expertise class feature should read “You’ve learned the secret ways your weapons work most effectively. Your proficiency ranks for unarmed attacks, simple weapons, and martial weapons increase to expert.” The weapon mastery class feature should read “You fully understand your weapons. Your proficiency ranks for unarmed attacks, simple weapons, and martial weapons increase to master.”

Page 48: The feats granting spellcasting benefits in the psychic multiclass archetype have some unintended discrepancies from corresponding feats in other multiclass archetypes. 

• First, Master Psychic Spellcasting should be an 18th-level feat, rather than a 12th-level feat. 
• Second, Expert Psychic Spellcasting should have a Prerequisite listing of “Basic Psychic Spellcasting, master in Occultism” and Master Psychic Spellcasting should have a Prerequisite listing of “Expert Psychic Spellcasting, legendary in Occultism.”

Page 19: Wasp guard- Replace “+1 item bonus to Reflex saving throws” with “+1 status bonus to Reflex saving throws”.

Page 34: Update both grounding spike and polarizing mace to level 10 and 950 gp each.

Page 36: Change dragontooth club level to 13th and price to 3,000 gp.

Page 38: Vine whip- Update third paragraph text to the following: "The weapon has a space of 5 feet, acts on your initiative, and gains two actions. It doesn’t block or impede enemies attempting to move though that space, nor does it benefit from or provide flanking. The weapon can’t use reactions, and it acts on your turn."

Page 41: Alchemical Gut update- Update text to the following: Alchemical Gut: Your familiar can act as a bomb coagulant alembic (page 63) by swallowing the bomb to be affected, which takes two Interact actions from it and one from you. Your familiar regurgitates the concentrated item 1 minute later. If your familiar tries to distill a bomb that’s level is higher than your own —1, it instead takes damage as though it were successfully struck with the bomb.

Page 43: Ooze ammunition- Remove “These Escape actions don’t need to be consecutive, and” from item text.

Page 50: Poison fizz- Remove the following words from the second sentence: “resistance to poison and”

Page 80: Update black tendril shot degrees of success to the following:
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target is slowed 1 but gains a +2 circumstance bonus to Escape the ammunition’s effect.
Failure The target is slowed 1.
Critical Failure The target is slowed 2.

Page 93-94: False death vial- Update the third sentence of the first paragraph to the following: “You and any items you’re wearing and holding are instantly transported from your current space to a clear space of your choice within 30 feet. “
Update the greater false death vial’s text to the following: “The talisman teleports you to a clear space of your choice that you can see within 120 feet. This also transports any items you’re wearing and holding with you, as well as up to one other creature currently in contact with you—including if you’re carrying it in an extradimensional container. This effect has the teleportation trait.”

Page 111: Change communion mat action symbol from one-action to free-action.

Page 120: Frostwalker pattern - Add the words "negates any" to the second sentence, immediately after "this tattoo".

Page 132: Update name of dragonscale staff to "dragonprism staff" instead.

Some areas of the Workshop Heights and Lower Guldrege maps do not match their descriptions in the text of the adventure. Make the following adjustments:

• The map labeled "Lower Guldredge" actually portrays Workshop Heights, and vice versa.
• F2 is the area in Lower Guldrege where the Workshop Heights are located.
• F3 is G3: The Stonemaker's Shrine.
• F4 is G2: Sacrifice Point.
• F5 is G4: Xulgath Camp.
• F6 is G1: The Hunger Stone.
• F7 has been cut.
• G1 is actually F1: Crumble Yard.
• The G2 areas are just empty spaces.
• G3 and G4 are actually F3: Coal Silo and F2: Ore Silo.
• G5 is actually F5: Living Quarters.
• G6 is actually F6: Workshop.
• G7 is actually F7: Annex.
• Toppled Entrance is supposed to be the door into Living Quarters. The PCs have to unearth the way into Thenur's home.