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You cannot take Major Spell Expertise. It requires the ability to cast 9th level spells. A magus could never cast 9th level spells, yet alone a 9th level magus.

Spell level and character level are completely different things. A 9th level magus can cast 3rd level spells.

Edit: In fact, you shouldn't even have Minor Spell Expertise as that requires the ability to cast 4th level spells.

Edit 2: These aren't very good feats for a magus, anyway. You cannot spell combat and spellstrike with spell-like abilities. The DC of these spell-like abilities are also based on Charisma, which is a dump stat for a magus.

A magus isn't always going to spell combat anyway. And he can still spellstrike with two hands. He's using a scimitar, so it's legit.

He just needs to understand that having a low Strength means he shouldn't be wading into combat. There's nothing wrong with how he built his character.

I know this isn't specific, but...

A bad adventure is one where the players aren't having fun.

Look at your adventure and picture yourself playing it. In fact, maybe you COULD playtest it by yourself. If you don't think you'll have fun, then likely neither will your players.

A large part of this is knowing your players. Some players are perfectly fine being railroaded if it's a good ride. Some players want to direct where the story goes. Some just want to dungeon crawl all the time. Some prefer roleplay while others prefer combat. Find out what your players like and design your adventure accordingly. Be flexible and ready to change your adventure towards directions that interest your players.

Snowball is better than Scorching Ray. At 5th level, Snowball does 5d6 while Scorching Ray only does 4d6. At 10th level, Intensified Snowball does 10d6 and Scorching Ray does 8d6, but requires two attack rolls. Of course, Snowball's cold damage is more useful and it staggers. A 1st level spell, doing more damage and having more utility than a benchmark 2nd-level spell.

My head hurts how this slipped through. I trust that Paizo erratas the heck out of this.