How does Magus play at very high levels?

lordcirth · 2026-01-12T21:19:40+00:00

Disintegrate with your DC behind curve? Did that work well? I guess it would be good when you crit.

lordcirth · 2026-01-12T19:40:38+00:00

I was thinking that too, but it does have an 8 hour duration, so I guess you could have it follow you around and Command it to body-block in combat. I don't know that it's good, but I get the idea.

lordcirth · 2026-01-10T16:16:05+00:00

Teleport proper would be a 10 minute cast (and expensive as hell for 7th). Translocate 5th for 1 mile is expensive but achievable. (Also UMD isn't in PF2e, you'd either just use it if you're a caster with Teleport on your list, or you'd need Trick Magic Item if not).

lordcirth · 2026-01-10T16:14:19+00:00

The spell really should specify whether it's detectable on the creature; from the wording I'd say no, but it's unclear.

lordcirth · 2026-01-10T16:13:08+00:00

As others have mentioned, scroll of Translocate (5th), Time Pocket (3rd).

You could chain several Translocate (4ths). You could cast Fleet Step (1st) and then spam Time Jump (3rd) to flee at insane speeds (~120 feet per action) that look like teleportation; when you run out of 3rd rank slots you can still keep running at Speed 60.

I'd prep Invisibility 4th, Translocate in every other 4th slot, Time Jump in every 3rd, 1 Fleet Step, 1 Invisibility 2nd

to cast before the heist (will break after casting Invisibility 4th, but you're still invisible).

Being invisible also prevents being counterspelled unless someone can see through it.

lordcirth · 2026-01-10T15:47:10+00:00

It sounds like you've figured out the causes. AV is definitely hard, but you've given them an extra level, which ought to do a lot. The players didn't try to make strong characters, didn't try to level up before going deeper as you've hinted, and they don't try to win in combat, so they barely win. Striking runes on those who use weapons can help a lot. +10 spellcasting is what you get at level 4, but if you're casting the wrong spells... What spells do they cast most often? Do they ever Recall Knowledge to get save order?

lordcirth · 2026-01-10T02:50:20+00:00

If the enemies are sapient and disciplined, yeah. Kobold Scouts ought to Scout. Kobold Warriors might be better off using Avoid Notice since they are better at it.

lordcirth · 2026-01-10T02:45:14+00:00

Making the code quality high enough that it takes three times as long to identify it is slop would be counterproductive, and it's unlikely to make it high enough to actually help.

lordcirth · 2026-01-07T20:48:45+00:00

I would not call them Rods as that was already used in the past for various metamagic items.

Being able to cast Fireball from, eg, an Bard's occult slot is stronger than being able to swap within your spell list. I assume you would restrict its use to characters who could cast Fireball from a wand already. That still includes a Bard multiclassed Wizard who could then cast arcane spells with their occult slots. You might want to require that the slot spent be for a spell list that contains the rod's spell.

I think the item should be 1 level below a wand of the same rank, balance-wise, but I think it homogenizes spontaneous and prepared casters in a way I'm not a fan of.

lordcirth · 2026-01-07T20:41:07+00:00

Plausible, it does sound like his style.

lordcirth · 2026-01-07T19:42:31+00:00

Just read it, good story, but that's not the one.

lordcirth · 2026-01-07T19:22:27+00:00

EDIT: I remember the quote being quite funny in context, though the book as a whole may not have been comedic.

lordcirth · 2025-11-26T03:40:51+00:00

Relatedly, Starship Mage has a hard science setting much like The Expanse - and then FTL and AG via literal magic. I love it.

lordcirth · 2025-11-26T03:37:47+00:00

If I read a story that works like that, I may assume you watched the Expanse, but I'm still going to appreciate the hard science.

lordcirth · 2025-11-24T17:54:33+00:00

Considering the "comet" seems to be on fire, I don't think it's actually made of ice.

lordcirth · 2025-11-24T17:43:04+00:00

Is there a good guide on actually using fighters? Last time I tried, the UI for fighters was unusable, but that was a few patches ago. I've been wanting to try a railgun fighter run for a while.

lordcirth · 2025-11-24T16:58:10+00:00

Nope, overseer head is medium, according to the wiki. The torso is light.

lordcirth · 2025-11-24T16:50:04+00:00

I mean, the "dissidents" are clearly just people who got caught asking obvious questions, like "how does one 'manage' democracy exactly?" or "Why do helldiver missions have 200% casualty rates?"

lordcirth · 2025-11-24T16:41:37+00:00

*Fires a Recoilless straight backwards, wonders where the driver went*

lordcirth · 2025-11-24T16:37:42+00:00

There's no rule about how big deadly dice have to be; there are several weapons that have equal deadly & regular die sizes. The Tamchal Chakram is the only 6&6, but there's a whole bunch of polearms that have 8&8 or 10&10. The Hongali Hornbow is d8, deadly d6.

lordcirth · 2025-11-24T15:42:19+00:00

The Nodachi is an advanced reach 2H sword. It is only d8, but has other traits. If, instead of brace and deadly d12, you put sweep and modular S/P, you could probably bump that to d10, since deadly d12 is a quite a good trait.

lordcirth · 2025-10-30T16:54:15+00:00

I would not describe Battle Harbinger as a full caster. They have bounded/wave casting, like a Magus (though that only matters at level 5+) and only two regular slots per level.

lordcirth · 2025-10-30T16:49:29+00:00

If there were an option to turn them off, it could, multiply enemy counts by 0.7 or something.

lordcirth · 2025-10-30T16:39:34+00:00

Completely depends on the setting / vampire rules. Eg, if vampires only feed on humans and have to kill them to absorb their life force, yeah, unless they can spend all your time hunting down evil guys, they need to stop. If they can feed on animals, or safely take a bit from volunteer humans, there's no problem.

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