Are there any spells that give a similar effect to simulcrum? Details inside

[Liam Warner]

I'm not planning to use this in any games however I do personally like the idea of having the ability to create a duplicate of yourself even a weaker one every now and then for specific circumstances. Help with a crops harvest, have someone to chat too and bounce ideas off, read a book your interested in while your busy that sort of thing. Normally I try to get a familiar for this but it occured to me if simulcrum creates a permanent copy of yourself could there be a spell in some third party suppliment that does the same only for a shorter period of time e.g. create a 1/2 level clone for 1 hour per 5 levels. So does anyone know of a spell that creates a duplicate of yourself (even if its X levels lower) for a short period of time preferably hours+ a level or a set period of a couple of hours other than simulcrum?

[Onyxlion]

Lesser simulacrum This what you want?

[Paulicus]

There's Unseen Servant, though that will only do simple tasks and they aren't much for conversation :P

I'm afraid I don't know of anything more concrete, offhand.

[Liam Warner]

Onyxlion wrote:

Lesser simulacrum This what you want?

Nope, I knew about the Simulcrum ones and lesser is a bit too expensive for what I'm after.

I'm just sort of musing about a wizard who 90% of the time likes to be alone in their tower on some forgotten mountaintop but every so often wants to create a companion they can chat too, have help with getting in a fruit harvest from their apple trees, play a game with or just alieviate being alone and then when they're done have it vanish back into the ether for another few decades.

The problem with the simulcrum spells is you either have a creature permanently created or with lesser its 50GP of powdered rubies per hit die and since I tend to like Kitsune it having no magical abilites is a mixture of worrying (shapechange and innate abilities) and reassuring (its not going to challenge a magic user when it can't use magic.

As for unseen servant like you said no good to chat with or play a game and pathfinder seems to have dropped the horde version so you can only get one.

Although since I'm not planning to actually use this in anything I suppose I could steal the 3.5 unseen servant horde and modify lesser simulcrum. Since if it weren't for the expense that one would have been good as with unseen servant horde for the harvest all I need is a 1st level being every few decades to alleviate the lonliness of immortality. Maybe up the level and restrictions for a reduction in cost hmmmm . . .

I miss grimalkins having a familar who's personality shifted to match the wizard made for a being you could associate with for millenia.

EDIT
Actually I forgot something else that could work with this. Lesser Simulcrum just became viable IF I can voluntarily make a creature of less HD. I.e take a 20th level wizard and make a 1st level version of them using it.

[Onyxlion]

vomit twin

I know the duration is short but it's all in good fun right.

[Liam Warner]

Onyxlion wrote:

vomit twin

I know the duration is short but it's all in good fun right.

Hmmm a number of problems for what I have in mind but an interesting spell.

[avr]

Twine Double seems like it might do for some of your purposes.

[Liam Warner]

avr wrote:

Twine Double seems like it might do for some of your purposes.

Aside from the 1 Min a level duration it would.