(PFS) Help me out with a silly build


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Scarab Sages

So in PFS I recently got a ratfolk boon and I kinda came to a silly character idea I wanted to try out.

I'll start off this thread the way I start off all threads: I don't need to make the most damaging or craziest build out there, just one that is 'solvent.' Able to carry his own weight.

See, I always saw the keyblade wielders from the kingdom hearts series as maguses. They have spells (usually), a special sword, and they are good at both, but not great. So, I was thinking of making King Mickey from the kingdom hearts series.

Yes, I like the series, no, I'm not some crazed superfan. I just thought it would be a silly, fun build.

Thing is, I can't decide which route I want to go. Obviously a finesse route, but I'm having trouble narrowing down my options.

Mindblade lets me summon my weapon ad-nauseum, and lets me get knock from the psychic spell list (for opening locked doors), but they have a hard time making those concentration checks what with that +10 DC

Blackblade nets me a unique weapon that eventually becomes unbreakable, but keyblades don't actually talk.

Kensai doesn't wear armor like Mickey doesn't, but looses spells/day

Currently I'm thinking blackblade/kensai, (scimitar/dervish dance and just call it a keyblade) but I am open to suggestions.


One idea is to wait until Psychic Anthology unlocks, then make a Phantom Blade. The main advantages for your idea is that you can summon and dismiss your weapon, and it would be easier justify the unusual appearance, to me at least.


I wouldn't use Kensai. Mickey is one of the most caster-focused keyblade wielders we've seen. (IMO, behind Xehanort alone). I would even argue for Sword Binder Wizard over a magus for him, likely going into Eldritch Knight.

Scarab Sages

Nohwear wrote:
One idea is to wait until Psychic Anthology unlocks, then make a Phantom Blade. The main advantages for your idea is that you can summon and dismiss your weapon, and it would be easier justify the unusual appearance, to me at least.

Downside of that is that ratfolk gain bonus dex and int, not dex and wisdom. Also, same problem as the mindblade, it's hard to spellcombat when all your concentration check DCs are +10. I have a lvl 6 mindblade in a campaign and even with a concentration trait and combat casting, and the concentration arcana, she still fails concentration checks all the time for defensive casting.

Great idea for another keyblade weilder like Sora though, who has the resources to devote to upping their concentration checks. I just won't have the feats because of the dex-based route.

Grand Lodge

I don't know anything about the source material, but Puppetmaster magus is a fun archetype for a more control/ caster/ buff magus.
I've had lots of fun with a small, Dex based pupptmaster.

Scarab Sages

Markov Spiked Chain wrote:

I don't know anything about the source material, but Puppetmaster magus is a fun archetype for a more control/ caster/ buff magus.

I've had lots of fun with a small, Dex based pupptmaster.

I've had a look at the puppet master and that isn't the direction I'm going. Fun archetype, (and it would net more more spells on my spell list) but it just isn't right for 'King Mickey.' I'm looking for a different approach.


Little bit different and I have no idea how it would work - just something that came up while a group of us were b!%!$+##ting around a pfs table.

Occultist using the transmutation implement (sword).

I think there's a archetype (or maybe just using the sword implement) that could also work for what you're trying to do.
Just something to be a bit different from all the magus floating around in PFS.

Scarab Sages

Matt2VK wrote:

Little bit different and I have no idea how it would work - just something that came up while a group of us were b!&*#&@#ting around a pfs table.

Occultist using the transmutation implement (sword).

I think there's a archetype (or maybe just using the sword implement) that could also work for what you're trying to do.
Just something to be a bit different from all the magus floating around in PFS.

That's actually a fair idea. Occultist can get heal spells as well, which works for Mickey since he can heal. Conjuration, Transmutation, and Evocation would take care of his healing, sword, and blasty bits.

Thing is I already have an occultist. To be fair I also have a magus, but he's . . . very different than a traditional magus.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of the Phantom Blade that Nohwhere suggested. I mean, I wouldn't cast with int, so that would hurt, but I get my own sword that I can summon or dismiss as I want. I wonder if it will be made legal. . .

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