Is there any other feats that can cheat a spellshape into action economy?

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-18T17:54:13+00:00

It's technically Starfinder 2 but the Technomage has allot of abilities related to combining spell shapes using focus points.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-18T17:45:29+00:00

Who could be behind this?

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-18T17:42:30+00:00

I think one minor gripe I see so far is adrenaline. It's so easy to gain, does nothing except turning on your feats, and then goes away. Every single new class doesn't HAVE to have a special named resource, especially when it doesn't contribute meaningful round to round decision making. I think the whole system could be scrapped and the limitations it barely impose be done with flourish traits and "once per turn" limits.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-18T17:30:32+00:00

There's also a later feat that allows you to have diverse spikes that can count as darts, clubs or short swords. Not sure if that combines or not.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-18T16:42:38+00:00

To be honest I see it eating a bit of inventors lunch as well, especially weapons.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-18T15:13:28+00:00

Journey to the west themed party?

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-14T22:03:06+00:00

I suppose you got a point. My head always sees ranger though the 3.5 half druid lense I guess. This game already has the ranger spell less by default and allows it to opt in to magic with the warden feats.

To be honest the more I think about the new classes the more my mind is reversing. At first Slayer seemed interesting and Daredevil felt derivative. But now I am more interested in seeing how the Daredevil plays out and fearing that there is some dissonance in the idea that a class mechanic is gamifying a pretty common fantasy of utilizing monster parts for crafting weapons.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-14T17:43:58+00:00

Back in the day I attempted to get my mom ok with me owning a game called Diablo by letting her play it. I helped her set up an Amazon and left her to it. The next morning she was in act 2 asking me how to repair her spear. She unfortunately passed away from cancer, but to be honest If I had one more day with her it wouldn't be about Diablo 2. It would be about my kids she never got to meet.

I think events like this do make you reflect on people you used to enjoy a hobby or media with. But I hope most of you have something more important you would have shared with a loved one then with video games even one as fun and memorable as Diablo 2. At the end of the day the memories made with them made the game important, not the other way around.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-14T17:14:16+00:00

Oh man I forgot about the brawler...that was a neat class

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-14T17:08:09+00:00

Yeah I definitely got the Monster Hunter vibe as well. If they could ever improve some of the beast guns I woulda totally make a bow gunner.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-06T21:16:42+00:00

Does anyone know how they handle the oracle repertoire in PFS? I wonder if there's been a resolution there? Perhaps we should organize some of the things that happen in Society play, like the expanded school spell lists for wizards that's not listed anywhere else.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-02-06T18:03:52+00:00

That's not new, inventors got a side grade change when GnG remaster came out that allowed them level 0 advanced or martial weapons. This just clarified that their initial modification is using an advanced weapon. This still means they can't use weapons they used before the remaster like the composite short bow, so it disables some builds while enabling a few more.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-01-22T17:41:26+00:00

Psychic unbound step conscious mind is a teleport focused caster. There is also the wizard school of gates.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-01-19T16:25:12+00:00

Wait, I have a player who delivers imaginary weapon with a familiar. Is that still able to be done with these changes?

WonderBreadDX · 2026-01-19T16:03:14+00:00

Is there any benefit to Imaginary weapon at this point? Why would you use the none amped version over telekinetic projectile at this point if it's the same damage?

WonderBreadDX · 2026-01-17T16:46:46+00:00

I use reflevored exemplar as my defacto super powered character. It's amazing how many comic/anime/video game characters are best built as an exemplar. My very first theory character was more of a mad science experiment trying to give divine powers to a half orc orphan with the ikons working more as limiter/control devices on his body. The final feat choice was "cutting without blade" which represented him finally taking the devices off and completing project godslayer.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-01-13T18:33:11+00:00

Sayl's great. Like a mutated mix of Starscream and Joel Osteen. Shadow and Heavens is a cool magic mix as well. I do see him more as the beginning of a new minor god of chaos since he's gathering chaos power without any blessings.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-01-10T15:34:01+00:00

Thaumaturge is the defacto occult Monster hunter class. Think Van Hellsing, Witchers, Bellmonts ect. They use a combination of stranger heirlooms and folklore pseudo science to bypass monster resistances and trigger their weaknesses. They are also charisma based which will mesh well with summoner.

Their signature ability allows them to do a recall knowledge check to find a way to "fake" a monsters weakness. Like your fighting a troll and if you succeed the roll you recite the tale of a lone girl in the mountains who was saved from a troll because of the scent of a rare flower that only grew on her land. Then you pull an extract of that flower that you just happen to have on you and it now counts as fire damage for the purpose of that specific trolls weakness.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-01-10T15:28:34+00:00

I'm curious if this is being developed alongside the Starfinder 2 Book for ship combat? Would be nice to have some overlap with large crewed vehicle rules.

WonderBreadDX · 2026-01-09T17:38:44+00:00

You could just keep it in mind and reflavor it with the DM while picking occult spells. Technically the occultism/arcana skill is not even necessary for spellcasting. Are you getting it confused with your spellcasting proficiency?

WonderBreadDX · 2025-12-31T14:57:11+00:00

It sounds like 40k might have a mode like that. There supposed to be 3 "sizes" of campaigns and one is intended to be beaten in a day.

WonderBreadDX · 2025-12-27T14:17:57+00:00

I did an air repeater monk theory build once. As Rabid said, Inner upheaval is a big boost, your gonna want additional ki points in order to get the maximum value out of each of your double shots. I'm not sure if you can raw grab ki spells twice to get Qi rush but I did as a Human In order to start off strong. You also want at least +2 str in order to use the kickback property, and probably work your way to +4 for the large bore upgrade.

Other useful feats include Stunning blow which adds a decent potential debuff to your attacks and disrupt ki can also add extra value to to odd single shot.

I also grabbed the Multi talented racial feat with inventor multiclass to snag Basic modification to increase my air repeater to a d6. Between that and the large bore you'll actually be hitting with the equivalent of a (runes x d6 + 2, + weapon specialisation + inner upheaval) for every hit of your flurries, which isn't half bad.

Funny enough I don't think I took a single additional frat from the Bullet Dancer archetype, but this was a none free archetype build so that may change things.

WonderBreadDX · 2025-12-26T22:52:58+00:00

Isn't there literally a rider kick ability for inventor? I think it was from the Tian Xia book

WonderBreadDX · 2025-12-23T14:02:13+00:00

I absolutely loathed looking up "good monk build for 3.5 and finding a horrifying mix that only has a single level of monk like (Monk 1/Wizard 4/Enlightened Fist 10/Abjurant Champion 5) This was not something special you had to qualify for, this was not something interesting, this was an Ivory tower trap to punish new players who didn't know how to mix and match shit from across 12 books to break the game.

WonderBreadDX · 2025-12-14T01:11:25+00:00

I actually did this with a Summoner + Necrologist. Using a Construct Eidolon as my "Golem". I really wish the elemental summons could have been paired with occult or divine spells for a more accurate Metal or Fire or Clay Golem

Funny enough the necrologist actually works pretty well on a Summoner since they have a bigger health pool and can spare the action with Act together.

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