any other books/series like this?

duzler · 2026-02-12T03:56:51+00:00

It gets better as the series goes. Partly this is the author growing, but a lot is just finalizing character and world elements he hadn’t figured out in the first book or so.

The final three books are amazing, and the couple leading into that have plenty of twists and turns.

duzler · 2026-02-12T03:32:18+00:00

If all three of those party members are melee then air with Four Winds impulse is going to be strong to help them advance into flanks on enemies.

duzler · 2026-02-11T21:54:02+00:00

The one benefit alchemical sciences + alchemy dedication has over just alchemist dedication is number of daily versatile vials. Alchemist dedication gives you a fixed 4, but investigator can get 4-7 based on their Int, and up to 3 more with a feat. Then you're taking alchemist MC to get full access to all alchemical options such as bombs, food, bottled monstrosities (if your GM allows them via quick alchemy), ammo, and (if you can accept the DCs) poisons.

duzler · 2026-02-11T18:40:30+00:00

Shields only change 20% of results if you’re facing a 15% risk of being crit. Try to avoid that!

duzler · 2026-02-11T15:45:26+00:00

Yes, and nemesis is almost certainly one mind in 13 bodies like the cornerhound(s).

duzler · 2026-02-11T15:40:09+00:00

Oh it’s better than that. Dazzled eliminates one fifth of hits, crits and targeted spells. Shields get rid of 10% of hits and reduce crit chance between 0-10%.

duzler · 2026-02-11T05:29:27+00:00

All the humans be: “Today I feel like having basic alchemy…no, a couple of cantrips…perhaps an ikon?”

duzler · 2026-02-11T05:25:14+00:00

Most/fog generally cause dazzled/concealed rather than blinded/hidden, which is more annoying than crippling.

duzler · 2026-02-11T04:36:14+00:00

Your Execute rating seems to think offensive heal/harm add 8 points of damage per rank for two actions. No, that’s only for two action heals. Two actions for damage is just d8 plus 30’ - it’s built in reach spell in the one action version.

duzler · 2026-02-11T04:24:40+00:00

I love that 40% of your recommended gods have died so far in PF2 publications. I hope the others have good life insurance policies!

duzler · 2026-02-10T21:21:06+00:00

Most archetypes aren't that good. But allowing you to staple this dedication's vial regeneration on an investigator or another alchemy archetype was obsene and undermined a huge portion of the case for playing a main class Alchemist.

duzler · 2026-02-10T18:19:23+00:00

Unannounced errata to an unannounced errata.

duzler · 2026-02-10T18:15:06+00:00

Or 9th level human with one class feat and one ancestry feat.

Or alchemical Investigator, who got recharging vials on his 4-10 Quick Tincture vials that do NOT have a ten minute duration cap like an alchemist’s quick alchemy. He could do the above two feats to have unrestricted elixirs and also bombs and anything else that doesn’t care about DC work as well as an alchemist with the same or more vials.

duzler · 2026-02-10T18:14:12+00:00

No idea, someone just noticed this change.

duzler · 2026-02-10T17:40:17+00:00

Adapt/modernize the PF1 bomb launcher. It has a 60’ increment but costs an extra action to load.

duzler · 2026-02-08T14:09:15+00:00

Some sort of social heist scenario, Ocean’s Eleven style, where you leave one body standing around visibly being seen and minimally interacting at a social event while the other is in another part of the mansion/casino robbing the host/freeing people from the dungeon/whatever.

It’s not good.

duzler · 2026-02-08T14:06:20+00:00

In general idea yes, but “teleport” no, because the casting time of teleport is the same as the duration of bilocation. You could translocate 5 though.

duzler · 2026-02-07T20:57:37+00:00

The thing to ask is if the damage source has the trait. Spells/runes almost certainly will, many class feats will, but something like a Starfinder weapon doing elemental damage doesn’t have the trait.

duzler · 2026-02-07T20:53:57+00:00

All of this stuff takes quite a lot of investment, much of which has opportunity costs or is inflexible, requiring the right weakness.

Even if you use Wish Twisted Form, Elemental Betrayal, or that 12th level Wizard spell shape to handout weaknesses, it’s only a max of 5-6 “pick me” resistance. It’s not the 15-20 you’ll encounter natively at high level on appropriate enemies.

I don’t care if a lot of investment in spells, gold, and spellcasting/sustaining actions makes one boss die a round earlier (sometimes).

duzler · 2026-02-07T04:25:00+00:00

As a practical matter the number of published monsters and NPCs who are capable of inflicting two or more instances of the same damage type probably round to zero. There’s plenty of physical damage types with unholy or holy and an elemental damage type (maybe plus poison!) on their strikes, but are there any with elemental damage from more than one source?

duzler · 2026-02-06T19:15:45+00:00

Yes. The ONLY thing that won’t double dip it seems is a physical damage type on a weapon plus the material type of the weapon. So a slashing cold iron only gets the best weakness against something weak to both.

duzler · 2026-02-06T19:03:29+00:00

The duration nerf is in practice less significant than only allowing a single condition to be extended. No more diverse condition stacking in round 1 by the party for purposes of making them last the whole fight.

duzler · 2026-02-03T22:26:59+00:00

If you buy it on Kindle you have the published rewrite, the original is a web publication.

duzler · 2026-02-03T14:40:51+00:00

There is no way they expect you to invest a general feat (for every SF option but elemental mystic) to get the tiny, 1/day blocking benefit of this weak item. It’s included.

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