Trisagon |
At 5th level, a dragon shaman may cast summon nature’s ally as a standard action when summoning lizards, and summoned lizards gain temporary hit points equal to her druid level. She can apply the young template to any lizard to reduce the level of the summoning spell required by one. She can also increase the level of summoning required by one in order to apply either the advanced or the giant template, or increase it by two to apply both the advanced and giant templates.
let's take the simple template
Quick Rules: +2 to all rolls based on Str or Con, +2 hp/HD, –1 penalty on all rolls based on Dex.
Rebuild Rules: Size increase by one category; AC increase natural armor by +3; Attacks increase dice rolled by 1 step; Ability Scores +4 size bonus to Str and Con, –2 Dex.
Do I have to use quick rules or rebuild rules?
If i rebuild I get that +3 NA which i dont get with quick rules :/
Trisagon |
Ok thanks, that's what i needed. There are few dinosaurs so building 3 or 4 of them shouldnt take too long! Just one more thing. Does applying giant template to summons effectively increase their size? Colossal tyrannosaurus are super cool, but are they legal? With animal growth they'd become something unstoppable!
Nefreet |
That's exactly what the Giant template does.
Damage dice increase, Space/Reach increase, STR/CON increase (which may increase the DCs of some special abilities), DEX decreases, -X Attack/AC (depending on the new size category), +X CMB/CMD (depending on the new size category), and +3 Natural AC.
Though, IIRC, it was actually the Young template I used most frequently. Summoning a Young Brachiosaurus at level 11 drew some attention (though maybe because I bought a bunch of Dollar Store toy dinosaurs to use as figurines!).