I'm running a party through the Savage Tide adventure path and the 18th level Arcane Heirophant has been without an animal companion for some time and is looking to replace it. Unfortunately, they're on Gaping Maw, Demogorgon's level of the Abyss, and there are no regular animals to be found (they're all fiendish, making them magical beasts). The player has come up with a solution that looks good to me, but I wanted to check here to see if anybody knew a reason it didn't follow RAW.
His plan is to find some extremely weak inhabitant of the plane and cast baleful polymorph on it. Assuming it fails both saves, he's left with a normal dog, which he then intends to peform the ceremony
Like I said, it all looks clean to me, but with the heavy changes made to polymorph across 3.5 I thought I'd get some input. Thanks.
Anybody? Bueller?
I'm running a party through the Savage Tide adventure path and the 18th level Arcane Heirophant has been without an animal companion for some time and is looking to replace it. Unfortunately, they're on Gaping Maw, Demogorgon's level of the Abyss, and there are no regular animals to be found (they're all fiendish, making them magical beasts). The player has come up with a solution that looks good to me, but I wanted to check here to see if anybody knew a reason it didn't follow RAW.
His plan is to find some extremely weak inhabitant of the plane and cast baleful polymorph on it. Assuming it fails both saves, he's left with a normal dog, which he then intends to peform the ceremony ** spoiler omitted **on to make it his companion.
Like I said, it all looks clean to me, but with the heavy changes made to polymorph across 3.5 I thought I'd get some input. Thanks.
I think thats a good idea to get a companion, but why a dog? you can make it into a bird animal like an eagle. then later do the ceremony to advance it up.while I like dogs, I can see birds be more practical. you can make it so that he has a medium eagle or even a dire eagle.
dire eagle (races of stone,pg186)
HD:5d8
Hey, thanks for the response, but a bit too late. Getting a dog was his idea, and I'm not sure why. Sadly, fish-dog, as the rest of the party named him since he was originally a fiendish fish, is no longer with us. The arcane heirophant succumbed to a finger of death from a nightwing, turning fish-dog into a normal dog. He couldn't withstand the barrage of cone of colds that followed.
Hey, thanks for the response, but a bit too late. Getting a dog was his idea, and I'm not sure why. Sadly, fish-dog, as the rest of the party named him since he was originally a fiendish fish, is no longer with us. The arcane heirophant succumbed to a finger of death from a nightwing, turning fish-dog into a normal dog. He couldn't withstand the barrage of cone of colds that followed.
lol, hahah... Poor fish-dog and the player that played the arcane heirophant.
oh, and nop, sorry that it was to late. I like to see anything animal companion related. the rules of how to get an animal companion in 3.5 mades me dizzy with stupidity. they should just gave us a equation to turn regular animals into animal companions, instead of a list. After reading it for soooo many time I finally got the hidden equation >< just don't ask me to explain, I suck at that.XD
Starting animal companions are usually less than or equal to CR 1.
Animal companions obtained at level 4 are usually CR 2.
Animal companions obtained at level 7 are usually CR 3 or 4.
Animal companions obtained at level 10 are usually CR 5 or 6.
Animal companions obtained at level 13 are usually CR 7 or 8.
Animal companions obtained at level 16 are usually CR 8 or 9.