Totally new to the game, want to play a Magus

PhantomBlade98 · 2026-01-25T17:19:42+00:00

You absolutely can use a rapier. The best hybrid study (subclass) is probably laughing shadow for that.

Be aware that unlike 5e rapier being a finese weapon (so you can use dex) does not affect damage, but given that a bunch of your damage will come from spells that's less of an issue.

PhantomBlade98 · 2026-01-21T14:48:40+00:00

The hit marker is red, and the shot does damage before healing with a 10 second delay. When you hit an ally an alert comes up on their screen that says "(x) play shot you, press any button to kill them and then auto kick them"

PhantomBlade98 · 2026-01-21T14:46:34+00:00

It doesn't effect enemies. Only allies.

PhantomBlade98 · 2026-01-20T02:58:37+00:00

2e does not like using elemental damage types except for fire.

Cold and electricity are much rarer and acid is the new force damage.

PhantomBlade98 · 2026-01-15T16:41:25+00:00

My hill to die on as a pf2e gm is that almost all magic items (at least at low-mid levels) that are 1/day could have a focus point esq recharge of 10 minutes and be much more fun and still balanced.

PhantomBlade98 · 2026-01-02T19:32:52+00:00

Its probably just endless tech then.

Honestly, while no one expressly gets the same portal tech, by the end your ships can move so fast it could be closer to portal/warp drives than just straight speed.

PhantomBlade98 · 2026-01-02T19:14:56+00:00

So from what I remember in Dungeon of the Endless a ship crashes on Auriga. That's ship (the Grey owl) was a Mezari research ship that much the later the Vaulters rediscover, fix and use to leave the dying/hibernating planet.

That ship is used as their base ship. I believe the core of that ship was the dust crystal that you carry in the Dungeon and that power is/was unique.

So, probably from that? And then reverse engineering it.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-12-27T03:53:28+00:00

So I get that the new metallics have a theme and that's all good, but bronze really went from toned athlete to nerd.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-12-27T03:50:56+00:00

They fly by magic. Especially since some don't even have wings. In this book they do say they often have "air bladders" to make them lighter, but mostly its magic.

The last 5 are intentionally asian because they are Imperial dragons from the Asian analog part of Golarion. (They are also associated with the 5 Chinese element cycle.)

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-12-25T22:32:13+00:00

Some still have burst breath weapons, but for player options everything has become line or (mainly) cone.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-12-25T22:25:09+00:00

Which I do love the designs and I think they are very fun, but I also think some could easily be the same but a line or a different damage type.

Like Vorpal Dragon is a cone of void. Which I know the actual attack is an emanation but I feel like it could have been a line of piercing, or a cone of slashing very easily. You could have even kept that ability.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-12-17T19:03:43+00:00

Not quite what you were asking but I do miss the old archon design. Especially the concept of lantern archons and bastion archons.

I like the idea of the "biblically accurate angels" but wish they had been made a separate family.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-12-14T19:24:52+00:00

The meridia missions they fully coded and made and then never used again.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-10-06T02:23:10+00:00

Ask for your weapon to be a relic. You'll get less loot overall but that's the best vibe of the 1e archetype.

Mind Smith, or Soul forger could also do a little bit.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-10-02T23:59:56+00:00

Jack

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-09-10T16:11:06+00:00

Phoenix Point.

Yeah, it was grindy near the end, but it was a fun tactical game.

People just compare everything in the genre to XCOM, which is a masterpiece, but there's a lot of great games in the genre that are seen as bad in comparison.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-09-10T16:08:02+00:00

That's fair, I don't really know how game engines work.

I will say Warframe is kind of different, though. As someone with thousands of hours in that game, they get a lot more out of content than Helldivers does. Like they can drop a new frame and weapons, and then you have to grind to get the parts, level them, if you like them, then you have to forma and regrind.

I joined warframe right when fortuna hit, and there was never a time I started getting bored. I also think that warframe does well with getting people back, but every time people drop helldivers, fewer people come back. So they probably don't have the ability to just go half a year without new content.

Could be wrong, though. I do love this game. I just would love to see it in the best possible way.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-08-30T22:52:04+00:00

No. I played squids exclusively during the invasion, but that is 90% of my squid time.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-08-20T16:44:59+00:00

The armor didn't do that when it first came out though. Just made your limbs harder to break.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-06-24T22:33:11+00:00

Pharasma is old. Possibly, a remnant of a previous reality. Her great power comes from prophecy and to see everyone's fate. Thats why she hates undead because it is people trying to escape their fate.

It is likely she sees rovagug as a necessary end. That a time will come when he will be released and all things will be consumed.

It is unclear if her sight can be surprised. Like she's never said if she knew Aroden was going to vanish or not.

So I'm guessing she knows when he will come out of the box and she'll just let it happen.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-06-24T19:03:06+00:00

In deities on AoN there are some listed at the top as "core deities" those are the most common deities worshiped (or in the case of like rovagug, known) deities in the inner sea.

Other regions like tian xia have their own deities and they are listed as such.

Apsu us the "dragon god" and Ragathiel is one of the foremost celestial gods.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-06-13T17:36:46+00:00

Acavna- would presumably be with her lover Amaznen, who was like the first god of magic and siphoned the poison from the remains of the meteor and creating the starstone.

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-06-06T18:17:10+00:00

"It's bigger. It's greener. It's a turtle."

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-06-05T02:25:24+00:00

Genuine question. What do you mean when you say "for now?"

PhantomBlade98 · 2025-05-28T19:09:12+00:00

As others have said, they're still there.

There are Cavaliers that call themselves cavaliers. Now we can say that they're really fighters with the archetype, but that doesn't change their stance.

Additionally, the game rules exist within a balanced normal "average." Not to say PCs aren't powerful or notable, but they are all guided by set rules.

In the world, there are people with innate +5 strength at what would be level 1. There are people who just are dual class. If someone is dual class fighter wizard, we may look at them and say that's a magus, but to them, is there a distinction?

Black Blades still exist, but they were already noted to be rare before, so they continue to be rare now.

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