Just a place for "wait. Did you really mean that?" stuff about the kineticist.
Flame Eruption (lvl 1): it's described as a cylinder 5 feet in diameter. That's one square, right? At the same time, the rest of the description seems to be suggesting that it covers more area than that. It seems to be in error in some fashion.
You forgot the "and 30 feet high, and the bottom must be within 30 feet of you."
It's a meh Overflow Impulse that can be used against climbing and flying creatures. But due it's ridiculous damage and it's high number of required actions it's one of many usually ignored Impulse feat.
You forgot the "and 30 feet high, and the bottom must be within 30 feet of you."
It's a
mehOverflow Impulse that can be used against climbing and flying creatures. But due it's ridiculous damage and it's high number of required actions it's one of many usually ignored Impulse feat.
I didn't forget. It's just not pertinent to the nit in question. It's not that I'm calling it out for being weak or whatever. It's more that the way they wrote the thing suggests to me that they meant to write some other thing. If they were just taking about filling a single square, they could have said that more simply. They talk about entering more than one pertinent square at a time, but only in the context of large creatures, while it is quite possible for medium creatures to be above 5 feet in height. It's possible that they did mean it to cover a single square, and the wording is just a bit awkward, but it seemed odd enough that I thought it worth bringing up.
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Are looking for actual errors in the feats/features? I don't think I've ever read or heard the word nit being used lol.
Not sure if this qualifies but as much as I love the shattered mountain weeps, I don't like it's description. If we take it as (loose?) RAW then we have to have space for a 'enormous' sphere of rock above a 20 foot burst. So we need a ton of overhead space. It also only affects a 20 ft burst, and by the description of the spell it seems like the sphere of rock should be above this 20 ft burst - why not a cylinder? Lastly it's assumed the sphere stays floating in the air, slowly crumbling over the course of a minute to cause this debris to continue doing damage, but this enormous rock takes up no space, enemies can fly right through.
Like it's a great description, but there are so many holes when the actual effect is 'do this thing in a 20ft burst'. There's a reason fireball is described as a tiny bead that goes and makes a huge explosion lol, makes it much easier to actually describe how it works in a variety of situations.
I didn't forget. It's just not pertinent to the nit in question....
Of course is pertinent, if you thinking two-dimensionally the text does little sense but as I said this spell is a 30 feet cylinder. Specially during climbing with a creature one above the other this spell is an AoE spell vertically that affects 6 squares. Just imagine it being "casted" over a siege ladder.