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Something is bothering me a bit when I come across changes Owlcat made to the game mechanics compared to the pen and paper version of the game.

There are plenty of cases in which I can understand these changes and where any differences do not pose a problem when reporting a bug or some other oversight, but I have come across a few cases in which it left me wandering whether or not changes made were intentional.

For example, When you pick an animal companion and look at the Wrecker archetype you can see the abilities do not match the pen and paper version, though its mostly phrasing. But looking at level 9 you see in the companion progression table that it adds "Destructive Wrecker", but the box itself is empty. Does this mean the ability is a left over and has no meaning? (a cosmetic bug?) Or does it actually add the ability (which would according to the pen and paper version give your companion the ability to hit as if its attacks were made from adamantine versus objects and constructs).

Another example is the Disciple of the Pike; the archetype is supposed to support two weapon fighting groups (spears and polearms), requiring you to select one of those groups in the Weapon Training ability, but in the game only the spears group is selectable, while polearms is only supported in the Pike Charge ability.

Is there a way to find out whether or not differences are the result of design or oversight?

An efficient way to differentiate would be helpful when filling out bug reports.
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I thought it was first edition of the Pathfinder rules. But when I tried looking it up for you I got midway confused, because I am not familiar with the Pathfinder system to begin with. Maybe you can make more of the information

"Pathfinder 1.0 with Unchained classes and the Unchained Consolidated Skills alternate rules"

That was used for Kingmaker and assumingly it is used for Wrath of the Righteous as well.

Somewhat along the lines there was the explaination when Kingmaker was made the 2nd edition of Pathfinder was not released yet and still in beta.

What confuses me most: I checked the adventure module which came with the special edition of Kingmaker, and there they refer to paizo.com/prd , which clearly points at the 2nd edition.

So at the moment all I can guess it is a pseudo homebrew of the 1st edition with adaptions for digital gameplay and stuff tried to put in there from the 2nd? That is just speculation, since I do not know if and how there are any changes between the 1st and 2nd edition rules with the issues you mmentioned.

In doubt I would submit a bug report nevertheless. There is so much in WotR which seems copied and pasted from Kingmaker (like the camping supplies you do no longer need), and at launch there were indeed a bunch of animations missing which I recently got to see with new patches.

Ergo: if something seems off, I would report it.
At the time of that Kingmaker release, paizo.com/prd surely still pointed to v1.

But yeah, some things lack descriptions still. Eg. a certain angelic buff in the chapter 1 tower is also blank.
Just like the adventure path itself the system is pathfinder 1.

Guess I will just report anything questionable, but some of the changes or oversights still seem a bit baffling to me and I wish the developers can either fix or explain such choices.

They are already fixcing some empty or incomplete boxes though not all that have been reported.
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Dungeonfrog: Just like the adventure path itself the system is pathfinder 1.

Guess I will just report anything questionable, but some of the changes or oversights still seem a bit baffling to me and I wish the developers can either fix or explain such choices.

They are already fixcing some empty or incomplete boxes though not all that have been reported.
I wish there is a detailed roadmap or a bugtracker we could check. I started a new playthrough with the intention to report every bug I see. But with most cases I cannot believe those have not reported yet.
Yeah, such systems already exists (ttype of bug, its description, priority and whether or not it has been fixed).