was looking through the PF handbook and couldn't get any clarification on being diminutive or even tiny for that matter.
ok instead of making a big song and dance here's my idea. I need somone to poke holes in it where you see them so I can tidy it up and play it
I'll be diminutive as a druid using Beast Shape III in wildshape
I'll have the natural Spell Feat
I'll have a Domain power with a ranged touch attack e.g. air domain
The Idea
Go diminutive e.g. a bat (size of your palm) you then fly to the back of the head of say the rouge or ranger , even the helm of a fighter. with your little head just peeking above the medium sized humanoids head, a peusdo mount as it were.
Your diminiutive so you can share the same space and logically at your size can easy hold onto the head (either hair, a hat, grooves in a helm).
From this vantage you can see pretty much everything the char your riding can. Thus you can cast spells using natural spell feat either directly healing the char your riding while their in the thick of combat or casting ranged touch spell (lightning arc) or any ranged spell for that matter e.g. call lightning.
Now here's where I'm getting stuck
a) do you need to make ride checks as if your riding a normal mount ?
b) do you act simultaneously with the char your riding as you would a mount
c) would you provoke an AoO by casting a spell ? I'm very hazy here
Yes you are distracted casting a spell but for a monster to hit you they would need to strike the head of the character your riding thus the chars AC would come into play i.e. he'd move his head , but at the same time the char your riding didn't provoke the AoO so a monster shouldn't get a free swing at their head just because a diminutive bat is casting a spell at the back of their head.
The same way a wizards familiar can't be singled out as the target for an attack while its on the wizards body ??
d) pretty sure answer is no but could you channel a touch spell through the melee attack as the char your on lands his attack during the turn ?
e) if you can get singled out riding on the char do you get concealment ?
f) if the char is hit by a melee attack do you take a portion of that dmg ? or on a critical hit are you suceptible to some of that dmg.
and well the list goes on but you get the idea.
And if your interested post your ideas on race/stat combo to create such a druid. I was thinking a DEX/WIS finesse build so even before you can go diminutive your have a high AC and be able to lob spells with relative safety in combat. (and could you squeeze in a lv of rouge for the trapfinidng and disable device skills since you'll have high dex and although cant disable traps can defiantly find them or even study them internally and get a bonus to disabling them ?
and just way on left field that 1d6 sneak from rogue level would you be able to get a sneak attack from attacking while hidden on another character in their robes from behind their back.
Oh and is there any way to increase the power of the domain poser 1st ranged touch spell ? i.e. a feat to increase it to 1d8 or increase the range by 50% etc , seems 10d6+10 while a handy all day sucker spell could use a lil boost for the cost of some feats ?