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Getting ready to start a new PFS character, was interested in the Summoner class.
I am having problems though coming up with a solid storyline/idea/RP angle.
The one I did come up with was a guy who summons up the incredible hulk during combat...you wouldn't like him when he's angry.
So, please, give a solid concept if you have one that you like. I can't promise that I'll take it exactly, but maybe you can help inspire me. Thanks!
Me and my pet bunny.
My pet vorpal bunny, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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I have always liked the idea of a Sorcerer/Summoner with an appropriate bloodline who summons his/her father. They can have interesting father son/daughter conversations. Advice about boys. How to be a gentleman. The eidolon can be cleaning his shotgun, or er....... sword, at the kitchen table while wearing a tank top when the summoner brings her date home.
Tam
There is the classic "Dragon rider", but it takes a few levels to come in to it's own (more for medium characters).
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Purely flavorful, which is useless mostly in PFS, but I also came up with a guy that literally "vomits" forth his eidolon, and its like this slimey gooey mass that grows tentacles and things (the evolutions) as he goes.
no clue why he would do that, but thats what I got. The incredible hulk, and vomit.
More ideas please :)
Another concept is to make your Eidalon handsome/Beautiful and roleplay a romantic interest between summoner and eidalon.
I ended up having my Summoner look and act more like an Archery Ranger than anything (if you act like a Sorcerer, you run out of spells sooooo fast - but at least I had high Dex), so I made my Eidolon look like a wolf, bear, horse, etc. A horse can go anywhere and doesn't scare anyone... and no one expects a horse to shoot a web out of its mouth...
Something purely for fun: make up four completely different Eidolon builds that all specialize in something different or have a different theme with obvious advantages and disadvantages. Roll to see which one you summon each time. (Pending DM approval, of course)
I play a summoner who mistreats her eidolon (doesn't let it talk, yells at it when it misses, ect). Little does she know that it's bonded to her soul, so there's a level of self-hate there...
Not to mention my DM agreed to play out the eidolon 'misbehaving' once in a while, basically acting as my character's subconscious in a living, breathing form. My character doesn't want to risk her skin to do something with little reward? The eidolon uses emotional blackmail on her because subconsciously my character doesn't want her companions to get into trouble without her. Fun stuff.
How about a summoner who is a child, perhaps even of a small race, who is unaware of his/her own power, with an eidolon who started out as an imaginary friend, only to end up Not So Imaginary. perhaps the summoner has a doll or stuffed animal -- the doll isn't the eidolon, but the eidolon always resembles them in some way. With some help from your GM, play it that the summoner doesn't even realize when they're summoning, their friend just shows up. Make it sort of a Yacky & Chopper type relationship as well.
Did you ever read the book or see the movie, Fight Club?
I think that patterning the relationship between your quiet, nerdy summoner and your confident, pugilistic eidolon after the Norton-Pitt dynamic could be pretty cool.
"The first rule of being a summoner is don't talk about being a summoner."
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One of my Pathfinder Society OP characters is a summoner.
Qalaus the halfling was wracked with grief and bitter regrets when his beloved Marra died from an Xill incursion. He now summons up a monstrous Xill-like thing which he believes to be his wife's reincarnated soul. At his most lucid, he understands that her new body is different. On his worst days, he doesn't seem to notice.
Best exchange:
Other Player, never having met my PC: And what's that ... thing on the rooftop?
Me, in character: Fear not. That's my wife.
Other Player: Is it friend or foe?
Me, in character, upset now: It's my wife!
DM: Dude, you know, that doesn't really answer the question.
I recently changed on of the npc's in an adventure path from conjurer to specialist.
The party paladin had to face the summoned creatures of the npc in gladitorial combat I was playing the summoner as unbelievably cruel and arrogant, and kept on whispering taunts (via the message cantrip)into the luckless paladins ear throughout.
After testing the characters tactics with a few lemures (cut to pieces in about two rounds), he laughingly sent out... a Hound Archon!
Cursing the Summoner (and probably me as well) the paladin slew the Hound Archon, attempting to apologise as it was banished.
However the BBEG was barely started with his cruelty, and so he then summoned up a group of Lantern Archons whom he then commanded to speak like children and to ask the Paladin "Why are you hurting us" and other related comments as they were blasting him with their light rays.
These could have blasted him from above and there would not have been much he could do about it (another melee obsessed Pally that never picked up a bow!) but I wanted to play up to the arrogance of the guy and used up all his summon monster SLA uses this way letting the paladin slaughter his way through a veritable army of angels this way. Honestly, the Eidolon was an anticlimax after all that, and even went down in two rounds (smite evil vs an evil outsider!) As it went down, but not yet banished, the Summoner, arrogantly refusing to admit defeat, threw himself (via transposition) into the arena in an almost suicidal bid to take down his nemesis! After being brought down to exactly 0 hp by the PC he was offered mercy (charitable after what he'd done!), spitting a curse back in return he attacked, missed, and passed out from the effort.
This wasn't a particularly difficult encounter, but it is definately one the the PC's (particularly the Paladin) will not easily forget.
I recently changed on of the npc's in an adventure path from conjurer to specialist
Meant to say Summoner!
How about a summoner who is a child, perhaps even of a small race, who is unaware of his/her own power, with an eidolon who started out as an imaginary friend, only to end up Not So Imaginary. perhaps the summoner has a doll or stuffed animal -- the doll isn't the eidolon, but the eidolon always resembles them in some way. With some help from your GM, play it that the summoner doesn't even realize when they're summoning, their friend just shows up. Make it sort of a Yacky & Chopper type relationship as well.
Stole my idea! :)
Except I wasn't going to use an actual child, just a halfling with the Childlike and/or Pass for Human feats. Not necessarily optimal to be sure, but could be fun. :)