Fiend Flayer Magus is a weird one. On the one hand, you don't really lose anything for taking it. On the other hand, using its only ability deals constitution damage to you, that cannot be healed except over time. Now that's harsh and long-lasting enough that this is really something you should only do in a dire emergency... but if and when you are in a dire emergency, do you really want to take a standard action to reduce your own constitution?

Site-Bound Oracle is a curse rather than an archetype, but bears mentioning here. Curses are supposed to be substantial drawbacks (such as being blind, or lame, or haunted) but this one takes the cake. You pick one spot, as in one 10' square, and whenever you are more than 1500 feet (300 meters) away from there you take constitution damage and must save vs nausea every minute. Even in a city campaign this is ridiculously crippling.

Quote Originally Posted by Aldrakan View Post
Yeah scrollmaster is a decent archetype if you completely ignore what it gives you before 10th level and what is ostensibly the primary gimmick of the archetype.
Fair point about its L10 ability, but an archetype with a primary gimmick of destroying your own scrolls by swatting people in the face with them still belongs in this thread