cappadocius |
I've been going over the Summoning spells, collecting minis for everything summonable by the lists, and noticed that the basic animals summoned have the Celestial template - giving 'em Darkvision, a low-level DR, an okay SR, and smite evil 1/day. Then I checked the half-celestial template, and they get Darkvision, a slightly worse DR, a better SR, a FLYING SPEED, smite evil 1/day and a raft of spell-like abilities based on their HD. At the same CR modifier.
Any reason something with less Celestial blood is more awesome than an actual Celestial?
Senevri |
Celestial template... is badly named, but getting a better is tricky. It's the counterpart to fiendish template, so it's more of a celestial-ish template. There is no Celestial template, any more than there's a Fiend template.
Just nod and smile and keep in mind a celestial creature isn't a Celestial.
DitheringFool |
DitheringFool wrote:my search skills are lacking...where are the Pathfinder specs for Celestial/Fiendish?Pages 294 and 295 of the Beastiary. Appendix 2 in the Template section.
Thanks - it's hard to be thorough at work... Here is my take.
Creating a Half-Celestial
“Half-celestial” is an inherited or acquired template that can be added to any living, corporeal creature with an Intelligence score of 4 or more. A half-celestial creature retains the base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.
(emphasis mine).
A celestial dog is still just a dog - it's celestial by origination, not because it is a higher being.