Thunder, Thunder, Thunder...


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While reading through some archetypes I never bothered to look at, I came across the black blade magus.

"Gets an evil blade partner, eh."

"Wait, it's your alignment, cool, so it could be Good aligned."

"Whoa, you can call for the sword to come to your hand, and it does?"

"I can cast ray spells with it?"

Great, now I want to play a cat folk black blade magus. Sword if Omens, come to my hand!

So question, is there a way to get it to project an arcane mark into the sky, and buff allies while we're at it? Holy crap, magus does get mass buffs! Okay, how about ways to get it to go from a dagger to a longsword?

Thundercats, ho!

Grand Lodge

Well, for the dagger to longsword, there is Shrink Item.

This allows you to change the size by 4 categories. IE, Longsword to Tiny Sized Dagger (ie, small enough a halfling would call it a toothpick). The spell can also be made permanent, allowing you to change the size WITH A COMMAND WORD (THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDERCATS HO!!)

Arcane Mark in the sky, IDK (I feel like there should be a way with a reach arcane mark, probally with one of the metamagic reducing traits to keep in a cantrip)

Buff Allies, idk, Probably just do Haste as your first spell each combat (how else would the team get to you in time)


Transformative Weapon, turn any melee weapon into any other melee weapon of the same basic type (basically any 1h into any other 1h). Keep it as a dagger/shortsword normally, transform it into a longsword. It's kind of expensive, but it's a flat cost, no plus value.

Magus can cast Bull's Strength (mass) and Cat's Grace (mass), so good there. It's an intelligent weapon that can refuse to function for anyone else... can even cast Shield and have the sword come to your hand when called.

Literally the only thing missing is projecting a signal into the sky to alert the rest of the party.


Dotted for interests.


I suppose you could use Silent Image for the projection...and maybe use Glamered to get it to look like a dagger.

Scarab Sages

You may be able to convince your DM to allow you to learn the Light Lance spell. It's basically perfect. I could certainly see an arcane version, no problem.


That would be nearly perfect if it weren't for the +1 Holy Lance part.

Other things I missed earlier:

Mithril Buckler, not proficient but has 0 check penalty and 0% ASF, so Claw Shield is ready to go.

Sight Beyond Sight is harder, but at 19th level he gets Greater Spell Access which would let him learn Scry. There's a third party Arcana that would let him pick up a spell from the Witch list, which includes Scrying as well.

Scarab Sages

For the sky beacon, Deadeye's Arrow.


Technically, I don't think you can add enhancements (including tranformative) to a black blade. It's enhancement bonus grows as you level and cannot be enhanced separetely. You can use your arcana pool to grant abilities to it, but I'm pretty certain tranformative isn't on the list.

Outside of that, the blackblade can't be enhanced. It's a purposeful drawback.

Scarab Sages

I think it would be best to have it be a non-black blade Transformative, Called, weapon. It should probably be artifact level.

However, to actually play something without an artifact and be close to Liono, The black blade magus is close enough.


Imbicatus wrote:
For the sky beacon, Deadeye's Arrow.

Oh that is bloody perfect! Its even a Magus spell!


Claw Shield seems like more of a +1 Defending Bladed Gauntlet to me. Ooo, or maybe a Klar? Hm.


Lune wrote:
Claw Shield seems like more of a +1 Defending Bladed Gauntlet to me. Ooo, or maybe a Klar? Hm.

Well the trick to the claw shield is it has to leave the hand available for spellcasting, since technically the Magus is using his free hand for that.

I don't think the bladed gauntlet ever officially made it over to Pathfinder (plus it was an Exotic weapon, IIRC).

A Defending Spiked Gauntlet could work though. Still counts as a free hand, I believe, and as a Simple weapon the Magus is proficient in it.

I prefer the buckler though because it can be made Mirrored, and that came up a lot against Mumm-Ra. Him actually using the claws on the shield as an offensive weapon was very rare.


Spiked Gauntlet. Thats what I meant.


Don't forget that in both the old and new series, the Sword Of Omens could project cone and ray effects that would damage and/or impair enemies caught within it.


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jemstone wrote:
Don't forget that in both the old and new series, the Sword Of Omens could project cone and ray effects that would damage and/or impair enemies caught within it.

Yup, Magus gets plenty of ranged attack spells that can be described as coming from the sword though, so all good though.


Edymnion wrote:
jemstone wrote:
Don't forget that in both the old and new series, the Sword Of Omens could project cone and ray effects that would damage and/or impair enemies caught within it.
Yup, Magus gets plenty of ranged attack spells that can be described as coming from the sword though, so all good though.

Sweet! I did not know that (not all that familiar with the Magus).

Now hopefully you can change their SFX to be things like "Big red cone" and "bigger, angrier red cone."


jemstone wrote:

Sweet! I did not know that (not all that familiar with the Magus).

Now hopefully you can change their SFX to be things like "Big red cone" and "bigger, angrier red cone."

Yeah, picture Magus like most builds from Elder Scroll. Sword in one hand, spell in the other. It gets to basically dual weild, make a spell attack (touch attacks, rays, etc) with the spell hand, hit with the sword in the other hand.

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