Eidolon Subtypes

[Avon Rekaes]

Hello everyone!

So, my players ran across an evil summoner with an eidolon modeled after a bearded devil. The party paladin used Smite Evil on the eidolon, and asked if it was an evil outsider so his smite could do double damage.

I allowed it during the game, but I got to thinking. The double-smite-damage only applies to outsiders with an evil subtype, not merely evil-aligned outsiders. I read and re-read the summoner description over and over, but it only says the eidolon has the same alignment as the summoner, not that it actually gains those subtypes. Is there a ruling on this somewhere?

Then I got to thinking even more. Do eidolons have ANY subtypes? If they don't, doesn't that make them immune to a ranger's Favored Enemy bonus too, since there's no subtype for them to pick?

[mplindustries]

You are correct, Eidolons have no subtypes and would not take the extra smite damage (though do still have alignments and would take the base smite damage).

[Kazaan]

The Eidolon may be modeled to look like a devil... but it isn't actually a devil, it just looks like one. If you have a weapon with Bane(Dragon) on it, it won't trigger the Bane effect against a Sorcerer with draconic bloodline dressed up in an elaborate and realistic costume of a dragon made from real dragonskin and fighting with Dragon Style... unless they also happened to actually be a Dragon. By contrast, a First Worlder gets an Eidolon with the Fey type rather than Outsider type.