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Is it at all possible to alter the flavor of shape you assume with Wild Shape without running afoul of rules?

To be more specific, I've been playing around with the notion of a grizzled old Druid whose animal companion is a grizzled old lion, and once he reaches 4th and starts Wild Shaping, he joins his friend in Liondom and they engage in glorious feline combat.

So this works out great until 8th level, at which point his Wild Shape allows for Huge animals. The complication of course being that there are no Huge lions. Which is a pretty big hit to the Lion-team flavor.

So, to the point, is it a foul to shift into, say, an Allosaurus (whose attack pattern follows that of the Large lions very nicely,) use all of the mechanics of said Allosaurus, and simply give it a once-over with a coat of Lion-colored paint? (Obviously assuming GMs are up for it, I'm throwing it out here to get an idea of whether or not it's permissible on an organizational level before I start asking if it's permissible on a table-by-table level.)

So, I've just been getting back into Pathfinder by way of PFS, and my first character in years is a Swashbuckler, a class which oozes cool and seems on spec to be mechanically capable.

But I find myself with a million ideas of how to take it, pulled in a lot of directions, and I feel as though I am doing it very wrong somehow. He's just acquired enough XP to hit level 2, and as soon as I next sit down at a table with him, my ability to change things goes away, so... Is this horrible? If yes, how can I fix it, and if no, what are some good ways to proceed from here?

So I've just gotten back into Pathfinder after an absence of a little over 2 years (College gaming group faded after graduation) and I was going through my old files and came across a Monk archetype I started messing around with while I was at the height of my Pathfinding. It's rough around the edges, but I wanted to get some thoughts on it before I look at possibly polishing it a bit more.

It's designed to capture the old trope of the blind old Kung Fu master who fells opponents with careful, impossible precision rather than flurries of blows.

The Blind Sage Monk