In a few levels I had planned to have a character spend most of his life inside of a familiar via the Familiar Melding spell.
I am looking to up my survivability by keeping my normal body close at hand but protected. Does anyone have some suggestions about how to best accomplish this?
My first instinct was bag of holding, but I think the extra-dimensional space would count as out of range for me to pop back in on death. If I were to rig it to have the head sticking out, I think the body would be subject to AOEs.
Anyone else have any good ideas, or experiences with something along these line?
I am planning to take the Imp as my familiar the same level as I would get this spell. That bypasses all but your last concern. The last one is a big one, and one I am hoping to resolve with the help of some people here.
To my knowledge what you are looking for doesn't exist and you are off in homerules/create your own solution land, whether that's a new spell, item or something else. I certainly don't know of any spell or effect that will offer a total or a high degree of protection particularly anywhere near to (character) level 7 or 8.
*Wanders off still thinking about it*
I appreciate the thought.
My next thought was Shrink Item and then some type of protective box like a Familiar Satchel. But I don't think that will work either, because I don't think I am actually a dead body. It is just as far as anyone can tell a dead body; which I do believe has its up side. If I am reading this right, it would mean that I could keep my mental stat boost from items on my body.
At a somewhat higher level, you could Contingency something like Teleport Object on "Reaches 0 HP or below".
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Simple Solution:Wall of Ice>Hemisphere. You have a personal hemisphere of protection. Try to upgrade this to higher degrees of protection as your spells progress.
Other Simple Solution:Bag of Holding+Bottle of Air. You can strap the bottle to your face, shove yourself in the bag, have the familiar (or a PC) zip up the bag. You can just breathe forever and be harder to target with AOE's. You could ask your GM if you can get a bag of holding made of dragonhide to keep it from burning (because if it does you are SCREWED.
Crazyish Solution:Create a Demiplane and keep your body there.
Other Crazyish Solution:Rent a place in Elysium, plane shift yourself there, and then, in your familiar, plane shift back. Rinse, Repeat.
Craziest thought so far
Move around inside:
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Sort of changes the problem to one of how to protect the Crab, repair it (UMD and Wand of Make Whole?), find adventures for a party that can deal with the size of it issues.
A little outside of my budget, but it is a nice tank.
At a somewhat higher level, you could Contingency something like Teleport Object on "Reaches 0 HP or below".
That is nice. I would like something a little sooner, but after 11 that is a good call.
Now this might sound kind of creepy, but you could, I believe, buy a plain wooden coffin, then just cast shrink item on it after you body is in it. That would change the size of the box and its contents by four size categories, then allow you to carry it around.
as long as you cast the spell, then I think even if your familiar dies, you could revert it back to the normal size.
I don't think this will work. I don't think containers automatically get to shrink their contents with that spell.
Simple Solution:Wall of Ice>Hemisphere. You have a personal hemisphere of protection. Try to upgrade this to higher degrees of protection as your spells progress.
Other Simple Solution:Bag of Holding+Bottle of Air. You can strap the bottle to your face, shove yourself in the bag, have the familiar (or a PC) zip up the bag. You can just breathe forever and be harder to target with AOE's. You could ask your GM if you can get a bag of holding made of dragonhide to keep it from burning (because if it does you are SCREWED.
Crazyish Solution:Create a Demiplane and keep your body there.
Other Crazyish Solution:Rent a place in Elysium, plane shift yourself there, and then, in your familiar, plane shift back. Rinse, Repeat.
Wall of Ice has too short of a duration. But perhaps there is something that can be done with stoneshape along these lines. Shape some rock around the body with some bottled air, and have a BSF drag the stone.....maybe....ah damn it. I had a witch in mind. I just looked up this spell and saw it isn't on the list.
I don't really want a bag or spell that is going to send me to another dimension, I need to keep a close range to leap back into my body if it dies. If there are some normal containers that can provide high level protection though...
You could be a Samsaran Witch, pull some spells from the Wizard list (especially since Contingency and Teleport Object are both not on the Witch list either).
If you can wait two levels, you could have the Binding (Minimus Containment) cast upon you and then use Magic Jar to possess your Familiar. Magic Jar doesn't need a line of effect, so you can be safe inside a bottle or gemstone.
I should have given more background details up front. I am currently playing level 4 human witch in PFS. That limits the options quite a bit. I do appreciate the suggestions, it is just that some are out of reach.
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Play a small character. Have Reduce Person cast permanently on yourself. This makes you a tiny creature. Put your body in your imp's backpack. Your body weighs about 4 lbs. Done.
Along those lines, what about the Porter vanity? It is likely pushing it when looking at the exact letter of what he is supposed to carry, but I can't think of a rational reason to limit what type of thing he can carry. What do you guys think?
Porter (5 PP): You procure the services of a strong porter
to help you carry heavy or bulky spoils from your many
explorations. A porter can generally be used to carry up
to 100 pounds of gear without slowing down, or up to 300
pounds of gear at encumbered speed. The porter may not
assist with any other Strength-based checks.
Are they supposed to even really be part of the combat? I have only seen one person with one, and like all other vanities it was played out in a sort of abstracted sense.