Summoner Aspect ability


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I'm not familiar with the unchained Summoner, so this refers to the original Summoner class if the answer differs for them:

The Aspect ability lets you direct to your summoner up to 2 evolution points from your eidolon for his own evolutions. These evolutions must, by the class feature, be ones that your eidolon could take.

The question: If my eidolon has an evolution that can only be taken once (e.g., flight) can my summoner ALSO take that evolution via Aspect, or is that evolution denied to the summoner because the eidolon could not take the evolution (again)?


Anyone have an opinion on this? I know it's a quick bump, but game's in a couple of hours. Thanks!

Scarab Sages

The way it's intended to work is that you divert 2 points from your summon to yourself. So if you gave your summon wings, then divert it to yourself, Your Eidolon has basically gets summoned with wings, then you use your class ability to take the wings from them for yourself. So no, you can't take the wings feature twice, once for you, once for your eidolon. At least as far as I know.


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You divert the points, not the evolutions.


Quote:
Aspect (Su): At 10th level, a summoner can divert up to 2 points from his eidolon’s evolution pool to add evolutions to himself. He cannot select any evolution that the eidolon could not possess, and he must be able to meet the requirements as well. He cannot select the ability increase evolution through this ability. Any points spent in this way are taken from the eidolon’s evolution pool (reducing the total number available to the eidolon). The summoner can change the evolutions he receives from these points any time he can change the eidolon’s evolutions.

I'd say that the Summoner's Evolution pool is separate from the Eidolon. You don't take your evolutions from your Eidolon, instead you take points from their evolution pool, and then apply those points to yourself.


You and your eidolon can both have wings, or any other ability. It is the points that are diverted, not the evolution.

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