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For a campaign I'm working on I wanted to use an Aeon as the BBNG. As it was relatively low level, I was worried that a ranger could get a +4 bonus against it with Favored Enemy at level 5, when I realized a possible oversight in the rules.
As far as I know, you can only select Outsiders with (air), (chaos), (earth), (evil), (fire), (good), (law), (native) and (water) subtypes as your Favored Enemy. It isn't possible to have an Aeon as your Favored Enemy.
Now I might be wrong and this problem has been dealt with already. It might not even be that serious considering there are only 5 different kinds of Aeon. (For as far as I can tell.) I still like to hear someone's opinion about this, as I don't want to deprive my players of their options. I'd also like to find out if there are other creatures "immune" to Favored Enemy.
Technicall you seem to be correct.
I think the problem is really they shouldn't have made Aeons their own type of outsider. Of course, they don't fit with the aligned types of outsiders either. I guess the answer is that Aeon would be a subtype of outsider that should be added to the Ranger's available list. But unless you're playing a campaign focused on them, it's a big FU to ranger's to have to choose such a a FE. There are already 9 types of outsiders, and 12 types of humanoids.
Yes you are correct, it's easy for a home game to house rule aeons into the ranger's favored enemy list but don't expect an errata to the core rulebook in order to include them (i think that adding to the favored enemy table would wreck havoc with the layout).
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Technicall you seem to be correct.
I think the problem is really they shouldn't have made Aeons their own type of outsider. Of course, they don't fit with the aligned types of outsiders either. I guess the answer is that Aeon would be a subtype of outsider that should be added to the Ranger's available list. But unless you're playing a campaign focused on them, it's a big FU to ranger's to have to choose such a a FE. There are already 9 types of outsiders, and 12 types of humanoids.
That's what I thought.
I believe eidolons are also immune, as they are outsiders without subtypes.
That seems to be right, thanks.
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It seems like the only realistic way to "fix" this would be to just make "outsider (none of the above)" as an option for favored enemy, bane, etc.
Actually, the Bane property is technically possible for Outsider (pick one subtype). So I could add an Aeonbane weapon to my campaign. I don't see the campaign going above 6th level though, so it might not be a good idea to add such a weapon. Maybe an Aeonbane arrow.