Just don't try the "cast Shrink Item onto a boulder and use a sling to fire it at someone inside an anti-magic field" trick.
I was in a party that became rulers of a kingdom. They conscripted all the lower level alchemists of the land to craft all the alchemist's fires they could. They then had as many of the kingdom's wizards cast shrink item on them as possible. They then stuffed all these shrunken fires in a type four bag of holding. I don't remember exactly how many this was, but when the barbarian threw the bag at a vampiric titan with class levels and the ranger shot an arrow through the bag, instantly emptying it's entire contents...as we yelled the command word to expand the shrunken items...
Well, he didn't roll dice. The GM declared that the combined concussive force of the instant expansion with the tons of fire hitting him at once was an effective nuke bomb. Everyone not immune to fire within the blast radius...like a couple hundred feet...instant death. This includes a couple players, including the poor barbarian tossing the bomb.
We dropped a holy water bomb like that on the next one...from an airship. Caused a flash undead cleansing (and peasant cleansing) flood.
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I remember something in the Many Thing Mr Welch Is Not Allowed To Do In An RPG list about setting fires at the cave mouth to suck all the oxygen out and suffocate the orcs inside. To which the response from the GM was something along the lines of "No, you may not use the laws of thermodynamics to bypass the dungeon."
Another one my friend likes to mention is buying and training cats for attack purrposes, At 3cp a pop even a lower-mid level character can afford thousands of them.
Druid or Feral Hunter at high levels, turn into a bird and fly straight up. Turn into a huge animal and buttstomp your openent(s).
Druid or Feral Hunter at high levels, turn into a bird and fly straight up. Turn into a huge animal and buttstomp your openent(s).
That would do a lot of damage, yes, but the druid himself would take upwards of 20d6 fall damage, too.
It seems that I should once again tell the story of the PC who wanted to get his Escape Artist skill really high, cast Reduce Person, enter a political opponent's body through a rather inappropriate orifice, and then dismiss the spell on the assumption that this would cause the victim to explode. The player in question moved away a few years ago, but another longtime player recently had his goblin Witch use a Grease spell and a skyrocket firework to dispatch a human prisoner in a somewhat similar manner. That was ostensibly an interrogation tactic, but I don't think the Witch planned to extinguish the fuse regardless of what the prisoner told her.
The skyrocket incident inspired another goblin to create a new Goblin Game called Baby Bombs where we'd strap babies to skyrockets and then shoot them at each other. He's the only PC in the party with Evasion, so that game would be extra fun for him. Since human and gnome babies are kind of hard to come by maybe there could be an alternate version of the game using puppies. Man, that's sick...I kind of enjoy playing Evil goblins, but it kind of bothers me sometimes too...
In the first Pathfinder campaign I ever played in, the GM had it planned that we'd stroll up to a Hell Knight fort, basically do side quests for them and they'd allow us into what was essentially "end game" territory. My fiance instead decided to use her druid spells to turn the nearby trees into catapults, acorns into bombs, and proceeded to summon several T-Rex. By the time they had come out to fight, a third of their castle had fallen to bombs, rocks, and an adamantine golem.
This same person played a Merfolk Dragon Rider ((No legs? No problem!)) in another campaign. After much begging and pleading, the inn owner let her bring the (medium) dragon inside the inn. Well, people broke into our rooms in the middle of the night which resulted in my magus and the party alchemist pegging enemies with Snowballs and bombs from the bed, while the Dragon Rider suffocated an enemy by flipping the mattress on the rogue and sitting on it with her dragon and herself. He did not make the rolls to get out from that.