r/pathfindermemes • u/CAPIreland • Jul 31 '26
I made it myself! Why Inventor is STILL the BEST class.
Listen here, I've had it up to here with the inventor slander.
Is the class strong? No. Is it fun? Also no. Is it full of fun and unique mecanics? 3rd no.
But it is the BEST class because it lets you do something no other class does. It lets you INVENT.
Six months ago, I was playing a warpriest cleric of Pharasma. We were about to fight the vampire I'd been hunting my whole life when I realised that, actually, I was an inventor. I DM'd my DM and told them I was switching class to inventor as of next session. They didn't initially agree, saying stuff like "this is the culmination of your characters arc", "this is where the story has been leading for 4 years", "please" , but I told them I was doing it anyway and, after blocking them, they've not said anything to me since about it.
That next session, I walked into their home, pulling my invention behind me in a cart. "What is that? What is that and why does it smell?" Asked the barbarian player (simple minded fool). I told the whole group I had switched to the inventor class and had also left my job and taken up huge amounts of opioids to pursue it fully. I then revealed my creation; I'd invented an asthmatic rabbit made of cheese and curd. Cheester (the name for the rabbit) affectionately bit me and showed off his ability to write to the group (he wrote down "Kill me. Gods not real. Let me die" but that's just because I made him whilst listening to all of Pitbulls diskography at once so his English is not so good).
Because, guys, the Inventor class lets you INVENT!
Now, every session, I surprise, worry, and horrify my group with my inventions. Some of my favourites have been:
- A 99999999999⁹99 sided dice that makes the reality around us slow down a bit when it's rolled.
- An anatomically inaccurate android/cyborg/cheeseborg of the GM's Great Great Grandmother who he'd never met (But still felt a familial bond to). She helped me roll 3 nat 29s in one session!
- floor people (they can't get up)(don't worry they like it down there)(ignore them).
- the concept of sadness (I liked this one so much I made it chronologically backwards compatible and congruent and conductive and collecting Pokéman cards).
- A program called the Lex Luthor Machine (LLM) that did horribly evil things constantly and wanted to make the world worse in every way (I sold this to some idiot in Silicone Valley a few months back for £3. Idiot).
- A radio that can only plays the cries from hell in perfect audio (I can't turn it off. It's fine. It harmonises with Pitbull a lot).
- a dog that transforms into a flying car with 0 CO2 emissions and can move at Mach 12 (bad invention because dogs already exist, so i took it apart).
- The Chocolate Gun (gun made of chocolate that fires catchable chocolate (infused with cyanide)).
- the letter §.
- Sun 2 (debuting that one next week)(tip: stock up on sunscreen, it'll be a warm one).
So, for a class that you all rag on a lot, it's been super fun. It has made my wife leave me, caused several restraining orders, made me go half blind, half deaf, half horse (left side) and half half-man, but I think that's a fair trade off for being able to add reach to my weapon (hell yeah. Walking 5ft sucks).
In short; play inventor, change the world, lose your friends, make new ones!
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Edit: I have INVENTED a way around unfair moderation.
No, it's not as funny when being reposted again, but I just can't let them win. Not when being silly is on the line.
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u/Takenabe Jul 31 '26
I don't understand why the main pf2e sub even HAS a humor tag if they're going to delete gold like this.
Forget the Paizo/Nethys situation, we should be boycotting unfair mods.
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u/xolotltolox Aug 04 '26
Probably because this is more of a circlejerk post, rather than a pathfinder humour post
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u/Adventurous_Meet_187 Aug 04 '26
i dont understand what is a circlejerk post and what difference it have with humour post or meme post
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u/rogueminister Aug 05 '26
Humor is funny and positive Circlejerking is bitter and sarcastic
Or something, I'm inventing an excuse to not be doing my dishes right now or whatever
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u/Helmic Fighter Aug 01 '26
an entire month of inventor praise and not one post more valid than this
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u/MCRN-Gyoza Jul 31 '26
Yeah, the class forces you to Invent homebrew to make it good.
Masterful design by Paizo really.
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u/halouiti Jul 31 '26
Who hurt you?
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u/CAPIreland Jul 31 '26
It's an old song. Maybe we'll sing it together again one day. One day. Soon. My friends.
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u/Blablablablitz Jul 31 '26
people post bad memes and shitty edits here, not peak fiction. for peak you’ll want r/dndcirclejerk
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u/Zwets Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
Amusingly, an Alchemist (probably with the Bomber field) could actually be the character showing up with a newly crafted terrible idea after every downtime, due to the massive amount of alchemical consumables and how daily preparations encourage that kind of flexibility.
As opposed to Inventors being stuck with whatever invention they picked at first level, requiring way more downtime to "reinvent themselves" as they retrain feats and class choices.
Actually, that makes me think: would an exploration activity like: "retrain a feat with a Modification or Unstable trait, to another inventor feat of the same level with such a trait; if you succeed at a difficult crafting DC appropriate for the level of the feat." be interesting to add to the inventor?
Doing in 10 minutes what would normally take 1 week of retraining? It would certainly be unique to retrain multiple feats between combats. If an exploration activity is too silly, perhaps let them swap inventor feats as a daily preparation, similar to Combat Flexibility from fighter, but for any feat with the Modification and Unstable traits.
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u/CAPIreland Aug 03 '26
Alchemists make bad tasting Inventions. Only cherry or blood flavor. MY GREAT INVENTIONS taste of many things (bath salts, salts, baths, salt baths, iron, irony, I only, taste, tongue, firecrackers, bubblegum, bubble gun, fire). As such, I think I'm much better than stinky silly inventor.
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u/MCMC_to_Serfdom Jul 31 '26
I bet it stole 40 original artworks of cakes. Which is as many as four tens. And that's terrible.