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Yeah, there is no way they could ever put the entirety of Pathfinder into video game nor should it be expected. There are just too many things that act as bizarre corner cases that would absolutely take far too long for how little they would add. For instance, you can have your entire party polymorph into dragons, have them alter their size through spells, and then do what is equitably the most cursed form of "mount totem" as a way to do combat (bonus points if the player on top isn't polymorphed and is instead just a kobold that you've reduced the size of).

And yeah, Grease is just overpowered in general with Pathfinder. It's less powerful in tabletop not because of any particular mechanic, but because the DM can get around it if they so choose. With a video game they have to program in how enemies can get around stuff and for something like Grease it just wouldn't be worth it in the long run.

DrizztLink posted...

You can get an Amulet from one of the Crusade projects that turns Grease into a 5d6 acid fireball.

True, though I don't know if I would say that it would really end up making it not fall off in the way that I was talking about. And that's ignoring that unless you use a guide you really can't bank on Crusade Project items due to them not saying what you are getting until you pull the trigger. Part of what makes Grease so good if you toss in *everything* (ie. even Mythic levels) is that you can make the DC so absurd that even in the late game enemies that don't have immunity of some kind (usually flight) will still end up having a real chance of slipping forever. However, for obvious reasons this isn't super optimal as you would have to toss basically everything into making it work and while it would end up making all of your Conjuration stuffs have extreme DCs in the same line you can do a lot better with other things + the vast majority of Conjuration spells don't have relevant DCs and thus you wouldn't end up actually benefitting much. Certainly metamagic can get you places but it's more a bandage to you trying to end up with a goofy DC on Grease rather than something that actually helps.