Hey all! I am creating a Grippli Nature Oracle riding a Giant Frog mount for PFS. The concept is to buff the giant frog and make him as amazing as I possibly can. In doing so I am wondering if there is anyway I can treat myself as an Aasimar so that I can pick up the Celestial Servant feat. Just seems appropriate that an oracle might have some slightly divine animal companion and it boosts the companions survival/damage.
Yeah....The thing is that I actually want to play a Grippli but am trying to get the absolute most I can for my Giant Frog. I looked at Racial heritage but it requires a humanoid race. Too bad aasimars are not humanoids.
Keep in mind that the SR from the Celestial template will stop your buffs as well. So if you want to cast buffs on him, it might be best to do without anyway.
Forgot about that. I guess the best I can do is take mounted combat and improved shared spell.
Actually, it calls out that you can still target it with animal-only spells.
So, that buff thing, is not true.
That's not what it says.
Your animal companion, familiar, or mount gains the celestial template and becomes a magical beast, though you may still treat it as an animal when using Handle Animal, wild empathy, or any other spells or class abilities that specifically affect animals.
It doesn't say that the spells automatically work, only that it still counts as an animal if you try to target it. You should be able to push it to lower its SR as a standard action, which would let you cast longer buffs such as barkskin, but throwing up a divine favor or shield of faith in the middle of combat may just be a waste of spell slots.
Your animal companion, familiar, or mount gains the celestial template and becomes a magical beast, though you may still treat it as an animal when using Handle Animal, wild empathy, or any other spells or class abilities that specifically affect animals.
That is just talking about the creature type, that the change in creature type doesn't prevent spells and other stuff from working on it like it is an animal.
"you may still treat it as an animal when using... spells" doesn't change anything about SR, as SR can certainly apply to animals, and you are free to target an animal with SR. SR also doesn't necessarily stop spells from working, it just is a CHANCE that spell resistance will apply to 'spell resistance: yes' spells.
i can't quite remember, but there is something or anotherr that lets your mount/companion use your saves, which can be more convenient than SR (although if you're the type that loves superstitious, you probably wouldn't think there is much downside to SR).
there is also the route of multi-classing barbarian and going rage prophet, using the rage powers that apply rage bonuses and rage powers to your mount/companion.
The creature can lower it's SR as a standard action.
It can, but that will kill your action economy in the middle of combat.
as well as there not being an official trick for that, so it is always a "push" to command a companion to do that in PFS.
Any feats I should look at to make my frog better?
From the frogs standpoint I was thinking of going down the grapple chain and maybe get him a Anaconda's Coils belt for the constrict ability.
Well, Blood of Fiends states that a Tiefling is a Tiefling, no matter what their parent race is, with the only stat differences made in making them Small or Large (as their mortal parent(s)) and the stat changes inherent in that. I can assume the same holds for Assimars (Blood of Angels, I believe). So a Grippli-born Assimar is still an Assimar, stat/trait-wise.
This is PFS so:
Raisse- I have a boon that lets me take a giant frog as a mount if I am a Grippli (also have a boon for that).
SAMAS- Unfortunately only human born aasimars exist in pathfinder society.
SAMAS- Unfortunately only human born aasimars exist in pathfinder society.
They actually have that spelled out? That sucks.
Though actually, I thought they didn't allow Aasimars at all...