I have a married pair of npc's and I want to represent how close they are to each other. Felix is a Ranger and Giselle is a Wizard. Their dog is the special animal. I think it was mainly her dog, but Felix takes it hunting and such. We have a plot where Felix gets replaced by an antagonist double and the dog absolutely refuses to be around 'Felix', to the point of alerting the party to the switch.
Would Gestalting the animal work?
This is a brilliant idea! Do it and tell us how it turns out!
This idea makes me want to develop a system for a single party based companion. Whereas druids, rangers etc don't get htier own but can contribute powers to a single animal as the parties cohort.
Werewolf the Apocalypse / Forsaken has that with the pack totem.
I have a married pair of npc's and I want to represent how close they are to each other. Felix is a Ranger and Giselle is a Wizard. Their dog is the special animal. I think it was mainly her dog, but Felix takes it hunting and such. We have a plot where Felix gets replaced by an antagonist double and the dog absolutely refuses to be around 'Felix', to the point of alerting the party to the switch.
Would Gestalting the animal work?
Oh i love that idea. Give it the ability scores of whichever side of AC and Familiar is better, have the special abilities, like Link, Share Spells, Devotion etc. apply to the one of the two characters they apply to each and such. Should make for a great and very characterful critter.
Oh i love that idea. Give it the ability scores of whichever side of AC and Familiar is better, have the special abilities, like Link, Share Spells, Devotion etc. apply to the one of the two characters they apply to each and such. Should make for a great and very characterful critter.
That is exactly how I was going to do it.:-)
I'll post the sheet once its built.
Which is why I would not allow that version of it. These are NPCs. And the dog will probably never be involved in rounds.
