A medium can invite his allies to participate in his seance—shared seance and certain spirit powers affect other participants. A character counts as participating so long as she maintains physical contact with another participating character and willfully opens herself to the spirit; unlike the medium, other participating characters can take other actions during this time. Only creatures with an Intelligence score of at least 3 can participate in a seance.
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At 2nd level, a medium can share his channeled spirit's aid with his allies. All allies who participate in the medium's seance gain the channeled spirit's seance boon for 24 hours.
Can an animal companion (if it has an Int at least 3)? An eidolon (starting Int = 7)? A Spiritualist's phantom (ditto)? An NPC ally?
These are all allies, but the first section throws the term "characters" in, but then it also says "creatures" and calls out an intelligence score of 3, which makes it sound like they were thinking of such things. Any help?
Thanks!
As long as they can have physical contact (may be difficult with incorporeal creatures), willingly opens themselves to the spirit (not everyone would be willingly and it's generally hard to findout if a wolf is willing), and has int above 2, they can participate.
I agree with Milo. An eidolon can do it easily, a phantom could do it but would need to go ectoplasmic, and an animal companion would be hard to get willing (in my game, I'd probably rule that you need to either spend a trick on it or roll DC 25 Handle Animal a bunch of times to push without failing once to cover willingness for the whole period).