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I don't want to go into too much detail, but I'm playing a summoner in a game. In-game, however, he doesn't think of himself as a summoner, he thinks of himself as a fighter descended from dragons. His eidolon is a dragon (and his closest confidant), and he has never, ever used one of his summon monster spell-like abilities, because they just don't fit the flavour of the character. Well, there's another player in the group who's playing a dread necromancer (the 3.5 class) and we (by "we," i mean, she, the GM, and I, collectively) recently decided to go ahead and update her summon undead spells to include CR-appropriate Pathfinder undead, since a lot of them are really cool. And while I was contributing to helping her with her summoning lists, it occurred to me that my summon monster ability could absolutely be in-character if we just re-flavoured it so it was a little more dragon-y. The GM consented, and now I'm off to work on authoring my own custom summons list. For low CRs, this is what I've been able to find in Pathfinder books:
CR 1: Pseudodragon (Bestiary)
CR 2: Crystal Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary 2), Faerie Dragon (Bonus Bestiary), White Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary)
CR 3: Black Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary), Brass Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary), Brine Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary 2)
CR 4: Copper Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary), Forest Drake (Bestiary 2), Green Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary), Magma Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary 2), Very Young Crystal Dragon (Bestiary 2), Very Young White Dragon (Bestiary)
C5 5: Blue Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary), Bronze Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary), Cloud Dragon Wyrmling (Bestiary 2), Flame Drake (Bestiary 2), Very Young Black Dragon (Bestiary), Very Young Brass Dragon (Bestiary), Very Young Brine Dragon (Bestiary 2)
The problem? Well, summon monster I tends toward CR 1/3 or 1/2 creatures, with summon monster II tending toward CR 1, III tending toward CR 2, and each spell level above that focusing on the next two CRs above the previous spell level (3 and 4 for IV, 5 and 6 for V, etc.). And there just aren't any dragons below CR 1, with only one dragon at CR 1.
So, what I'm asking is this: does anybody know of any templates (preferably Paizo-published, but third party is cool too) that might be appropriate for lowering the CR on some dragons to help me build summon dragon I and summon dragon II up a little? Or does anybody have any other ideas or stats that they think might be appropriate? I was thinking about stealing the celestial hawk stats and just dragonizing them a little bit if I could do so without affecting power level, etc. Any help would be appreciated, though! Thanks, guys!
You'll want to add the Tatzlwyrm from Kingmaker 1 (PF32?) I believe it is featured in the 3.5 module Hollow's Last Hope as well, but you'd have to update it. Trouble is, he is CR2.
Given the celebrated practice of draconic age categories, I would consider using the Young template, or other templates, to fill in the first level.
You'll want to add the Tatzlwyrm from Kingmaker 1 (PF32?) I believe it is featured in the 3.5 module Hollow's Last Hope as well, but you'd have to update it. Trouble is, he is CR2.
Given the celebrated practice of draconic age categories, I would consider using the Young template, or other templates, to fill in the first level.