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Essentially, your Heritage is giving you the Adopted Ancestry general feat right at first level.
So what do people think? It seems weaker than any previous list (other than the old elementalist one), but are there any tricks you can pull with it? Is it pure blaster? A Storm Oracle who could use spells off of the wind and water parts of the elemental list would be kind of neat.
Kobolds can make decent kineticists, I think. At low levels, their Kobold Breath feat can give an AoE attack to kineticists who want to use their Impulses on other options, an attack which scales with their Class DC. Cringe is a nice reaction to have since critical hits will eventually happen. There are also some impulses which create difficult terrain, which might be able to synergize with the Briar Battler feat. Also, they can get a fly speed even if the never get the air element.
Do you think with the additions of these spells, a wizard or sorcerer who takes the elementalist class archetype would feel like they have a good variety of magic to use?
Humans have brains made out of meat, while liches don't. So I'd say there's a lot of distortion going on.
I'd say it doesn't interact at all. The feat isn't modifying your fist unarmed attack, it is giving you a new type of unarmed attack, a clay fist attack.
Lizardfolk have some hice options. I also love their astronomy feats. "I observed the night sky last night. The stars told me that today you will be conquered by silver."
Why not have them specialize in Bows? Dueling Swords are finesse weapons, so you can start a fight with some shots with a longbow and then draw your curling sword when enemies close in, with both methods of attack being equally as accurate.
The Stag instinct is pretty strong, since their antlers attack has the grapple trait and will eventually get reach. Grappling will be a great way for you to control where your enemies move, so looking for Barbarian feats that can work with that is a good idea.
Starfinder Enhanced? When did that get announced?
A free-hand fighter might be worth considering. They can do the debuffing and controlling thing with athletics maneuvers, having a hand free means you can support allies with battle medicine, and you still have the ability to pile on damage when needed with the fighter's accuracy (using a two-hand weapon like a bastard sword or earth breaker in combination with the dual-handed assault feat lets you deal 2-handed weapon damage while keeping your hand free).
A few extra points of damage at low levels, a decent athletics skill, and a few extra bulk of carrying capacity are not bad things to have by any means.
Shouldn’t the Grimple also be on the level 1 list? At low levels, an AOE sickening effect sounds like it should be pretty good.
What about the Spell Trickster archetype? It includes some fun ways to modify fireball if you are so inclined.
Hypothetically the use of the Gunner's Bandolier is that it would let you use guns with different stats for different situations, but there's not a lot of variety among things that would qualify (I wouldn't let someone strap a jezail to a bandolier personally). Dueling Pistol/Clan Pistol as your main weapon. Dragon Pistol if you're dealing with swarms. Hand Cannon/Big Boom Gun if you're fighting an enemy with a slashing or bludgeoning weakness. Hand Crossbow if you're fighting in the rain/underwater. Four different kinds of one-handed guns/crossbows for different situations.
I mean, not to be THAT guy, but the Panabas has both forceful and sweep, which the bastard sword doesn’t have. YMMV whether that is worth the drop in damage die. The reason it is being nerfed is that it is just straight up better than the scimitar (d6 forceful sweep, no two-hand) and the falchion (d10 forceful sweep, no one handed option)Panabas has been marked for errata unfortunately. Since it invalidates the scimitar and falchion.It's wild that Paizo will look at a sword that's literally always worse than a bastard sword, and then announce they want to nerf it. Plus, Sweep is one of the few weapon traits to get dedicated feat support, from multiple classes even. Barbarians and Fighters can get Swipe, and Magi can get Spell Swipe.
A Thaumaturge whose esoterica are paper seals with different symbols that he attaches to his weapon and implements.
The Platypus is a Beastkin and I'd go with Monk or perhaps Investigator. Or a summoner with a beast eidolon.
Let's say I'm a Thaumaturge. At level 6, I get the Scroll Esoterica feat, allowing me to create one free scroll of a level 1 spell per day. Let's say I then decide to start wearing Scroll Robes, which have the Inscribed trait. Could I inscribe my free scroll from Scroll Esoterica onto my Scroll Robes?
The Sapling Shield makes the Tower Shield Champion or Fighter more viable. Before, you could raise your shield and take cover behind it, but not block with it at higher levels since it would just break. Plus, you can convert it into a buckler for easy storage when you're not in a fight.
Otherwise, Swashbucklers would miss out on some potentially thematic shields that won’t work with their buckler class feats.
Another fun use for the Barricade Buster is as a Starlit Span Magus. Finally, the Gunmage is a viable build! Also, Giant Barbarian wielding a Nodachi. You are the biggest boi, wielding the biggest sword. (Probably want to be a human for Unconventional Weaponry) Finally, the best way I can think of to properly use the Wrecker weapon is a Dwarven Ranger. Precision edge, running reload, and you should be fine, I think.
Neat guide! One ancestry that I think is also worth a look is the orc, specifically because their Iron Fists ancestry feat lets you add the shove trait to your fist attack, which I will note is already agile. It’s especially nice if you’re going the monk route and plan to get Handwraps of Mighty Blows already.
The “wielding a tree” part sounds fun. As for magic, I’d focus on taking Primal Spells that mainly help with exploration an investigation, like Detect Magic & Seashell of Stolen Sound.
In addition to Swashbucklers, the Silvertongue Mutagen is a nice buff for Bards, since some of their focus spells require a Performance Check.
I've theory crafted a Two-Handed Investigator before that takes the Mauler archetype which looked kind of fun.
I quite like both of the dwarven cultures in Garund and how they're tied to the sky rather than the earth.
There are a few interactions, like the Conduct Energy action you can use if you're wielding a Resonant Weapon, that need you to use an action with the Fire trait beforehand. So you could heal with one action while boosting the damage of the strike you'll be making with one of your later actions.
The Recycled Cogwheel feat from the Trapsmith Archetype is needed if you want to deconstruct and later redeploy a snare that you have already set up.
You die and are raised again, but as a ghoul who is a complete servant of their hunger and is unable to control it like a PC Ghoul could.
Well, if the monster the PC wants to become is Undead, there's archetypes for that.
... Polymath Bards who take the Esoteric Polymath feat also want to boost up their Occultism Skill, since it helps them learn spells to add to their Occult spell book.
Maybe after each mixed-color ranking, you could include a mixed-Star ranking? Like after a half-orange half-green option, you include (**/***).
Ranger is probably a decent multiclass archetype for an Infinite Eye Psychic. 14 Dexterity as a prerequisite for Ranger Dedication is pretty doable, Hunt Prey gives you a circumstance bonus to seek your Prey which combos nicely with Omnidirectional Scan (at least, if you're using that Cantrip to Seek for a hidden or undetected enemy to point it out to your allies), and they can also use the Master Spotter feat to boost their Perception up to Master proficiency which works nicely with Foresee the Path and just initiative in general.
One thing that could be useful for 2 handed firearms if you plan to use risky reload / flesh wound / dance of thunder or otherwise plan to make more than one attack on your turn is don't be ashamed of using a Harmona gun or like previously mentioned, the taw launcher, which has conveniently has been errata'd to count as a crossbow so you can get proficiency with it with advanced shooter at 6th level. Nothing wrong with going with some good consistency. The Taw Launcher was also errated to have the Conrasu trait, which means a Conrasu character can start with one at Level 1 with the Conrasu Weapon Expertise feat.
One idea I’ve had the is to use the Gunner’s Bandolier so that your Gunslinger can carry a bunch of different guns to deal with different situations. In most encounters a Dueling Pistol or Clan Pistol will do the job. However, if you run into a swarm, draw your Dragon Mouth Pistol instead. If you run into an enemy weak to slashing or bludgeoning damage, keep a Hand Cannon to deal with those. And you can use a Hand Crossbow or a Gun outfitted with an Air Cartridge modification if you’re fighting in the rain or underwater or any other location where your gunpowder could get soggy. And all these weapons will be kitted up with the Fundamental Runes you need to succeed because they’re also holstered in your Gunner’s Bandolier.
Automatons can integrate a Jezail into their arm at level 5, and 2-hand it for Fatal Aim, meaning you can play a PF2 version of Samus Aran. They can also be holstered in a Gunner’s Bandolier if you want to make use of that item.
I don’t know how it would work, but an evil campaign where the PCs are trying to supplant House Thrune to become the new diabolic overlords of Cheliax sounds like an interesting way to do another evil Cheliax-focused campaign.
It’s uncommon so you’d need to get your GM on board, but the Dueling Spear from Grand Bazaar is 2-handed Finesse spear, and hunting with spears sounds very outdoorsy. At least to me.
That’s the thing. Spell Trickster spell modification feats are not metamagic. They change the way a spell works without using any additional actions.I vaguely remember reading somewhere that amps don't work with metamagic feats as both are worded "If the next action is to cast a spell." Because the next action would be to do a free action metamagic feat, I don't think they stack, but I most certainly could be wrong. I'm far, far from 100% on that. I'll look it up and get back to you. I'd still say that Spell Trickster would be a good pick up for an Oscillating Wave Psychic since several Spell Trickster feats can add some targeting and control options to Fireball, a key spell that they get access too. Plus, since they won't be getting the Psi version of Mage Hand or Shield, they should get some more utility with their non-blasting cantrips from this archetype.
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that amps don't work with metamagic feats as both are worded "If the next action is to cast a spell." Because the next action would be to do a free action metamagic feat, I don't think they stack, but I most certainly could be wrong. I'm far, far from 100% on that. I'll look it up and get back to you. That’s the thing. Spell Trickster spell modification feats are not metamagic. They change the way a spell works without using any additional actions.
Another archetype that might be worth looking into for the Psychic is the Spell Trickster, which can modify several spells they can cast (depending on your Conscious Mind) without needing an action. Of course, there is also the question of how a spell mod feat would interact with an improved Psi Cantrip, even before it gets amped.
To play devil’s advocate, the two-hand trait does say that the damage die increase only happens when the weapon is held in two hands. Since a weapon that is being thrown is held in no hands as soon as you throw it, it probably reverts back to the one-handed damage die.
Weapon selection might not be a bad section. You know, once you get past the obligatory “just get a flickmace you doofus” disclaimer.
I like this idea.
Water Kineticists do have a lot of cold-themed impulses in the Playtest, but a simple “you can deal cold damage with your blast” would be good too.
Oh and Cryptic Spell [druid 4th level] feat from the new book lets you conceal manifestations in natural terrain with a Nature check. So Rogue’s Eldritch Trickster/multiclass druid might be the thing to go for for stealthy casting. Getting Wis as your casting stat isn't bad either [who says no to raising a save stat?]. “You guys, I think that tree just cast scorching ray at me!”
Fetchling Thaumaturge archetyped into Shadow Sorcerer?
So, the Tengu Feather Fan feats lets a Tengu cast cantrips & certain spells they get by activating a magic item. Doing so uses your Class DC, which means Tengu innate spells cast through a Feather Fan can benefit from the effect of the Cursed Effigy feat. Of course, the problem with this idea is that the Tengu Feather Fan isn't an implement, esoterica, or a weapon.
I'd like a Primal Elemental Eidolon and an Arcane Genie Eidolon.
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