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What's the benefit of choosing Cartomancy over Metamagic Adept?

Pick a Spell that you don't know Cartomancer reads: When you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell from your class's spell list and imbue that spell into a card. Note that "your class's ...
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Is this verstatile fighting style and feat combination well balanced?

There is at least one Exploitable Edge Case There are several minor, but important differences in the wording of your fighting style and the accompanying feat compared to official options that seem ...
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Can battle medicine feat work together with the ward medic feat?

No, as you are not using Treat Wounds with Battle Medicine Ward Medic allows you to treat multiple targets when you use Treat Disease or Treat Wounds. Battle Medic allows you to Attempt a Medicine ...
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What if your character is both trained in category and group of a weapon, does your character get 2 bonuses because of its proficiency when attacking?

Proficiency is a bonus, which does not stack You either have Proficiency with a weapon (Trained, Expert, Master, or Legendary) or you do not. You could theoretically have Proficiency twice, but it is ...
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What instruments are wind instruments for purposes of being a Windsinger?

On page 48 of the Stormwrack rulebook in the section about bardic music it reads: wind instruments, pipes, accordions, bagpipes, and similar instruments do not function underwater. There are two ...
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What instruments are wind instruments for purposes of being a Windsinger?

There is just not much to go by The game doesn’t define “wind instrument,” it’s just up to the table/DM. As Peregrin’s great answer details, Stormwrack does use “wind instrument” elsewhere, in a way ...
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Is this verstatile fighting style and feat combination well balanced?

It seems a little strong, but not outright broken, but you won't really know without playtesting. Starting with the fighting style, the damage bonus is the same as dueling, disallows the use of a ...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace require you to expend a spell slot?

It doesn't matter whether or not the Ace is a magic item; it doesn't cost a slot. Hidden Ace. When you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell from your class's spell list and imbue that spell ...
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Possibility to gain magic items as feats, class features, or background

The "Inheritor" background from the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide is a variation on the Folk Hero background, but you get an item or similar thing as an inheritance. One of the options ...
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Possibility to gain magic items as feats, class features, or background

There are only very limited options As of today, as far as I can tell, there are no other backgrounds, feats or class features that allow you to create a magic item of choice, which I think is what ...
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Does the Leshy Ancestry Feat Grasping Reach reduce Deadly/Fatal damage dice?

Deadly, no Even though Deadly references adding 'weapon dice', is specifically exempt from changing its die size. An ability that changes the size of the weapon's normal damage dice doesn't change ...
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Can a psion with Metamorphosis and Assume Supernatural Ability create an army of Scythers of Thoon under his command?

Yes, but it's more complicated than the question makes it out to be Strictly speaking, a creature can take the feat Assume Supernatural Ability (launch spawn (Monster Manual V 115)) (Savage Species 30–...
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Does Psicrystal Containment prevent a Psicrystal with the Wild Talent feat from psionically focusing itself?

In the context of the general mode of the rules text, “No.” My answer is basically the same as Nobody’s fine answer, with the exception that I disagree that allowing this to work would be significant “...
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Does Psicrystal Containment prevent a Psicrystal with the Wild Talent feat from psionically focusing itself?

Yes, unless you have a generous-minded DM It may be implied by the rules that Psicrytals can gain feats, but that may be an unintended result, and you should check with your DM if they allow it. ...
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Can a Tumor Familiar become an Improved Familiar?

Answering a really old question with an FAQ written after the question, Paizo has ruled that tumor familiars cannot become Improved Familiars: Second, tumor familiars, as lumps of flesh in the shape ...
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Is this verstatile fighting style and feat combination well balanced?

At least the fighting style is certainly overpowered It confers basically the benefit of the Defensive Duelist feat (with the minor difference of holding a versatile instead of a finesse weapon) but ...
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Is it a standard action to obtain/replace a psicrystal?

Yes. As you correctly pointed out All Psionic Feats are supernatural abilities. All supernatural abilities are a standard action to use unless otherwise noted. p.21 of Expanded Psionics Handbook A ...
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