-Ways to shrink an animal companion-

[halig feax]

Greeting, all.

Currently playing a RotRL campaign as an arcanist. One of the party is a silver champion paladin with a rift drake as his companion.

I've been looking into ways that he could transport his drake more inconspicuously -such as the hosteling enchantment on his heavy armor. He loves this idea since his drake will emblazon on his full plate every time it enters his armor.

But there is a problem down the road. Once the drake gets to level 15 with him, it will be more than one category size larger than him -too big to work with the enchantment.

My question is this: are there any paizo official magic items that can reduce the size of an animal companion while worn?

Thanks for your time

[avr]

None, I think. It's probably easier to enlarge the paladin with juggernaut's pauldrons or similar, though that wouldn't exactly be inconspicuous.

[Belafon]

Can't think of any items, but carry companion is a common spell. The Silver Champion has a weird spell list, but you could cast it for him.

There may be another option as well. If you read it literally it appears the Silver Champion completely replaces the Divine Bond ability (and others) with simply gaining a drake companion. Since the ability to magically call your mount is part of the Divine Bond ability, a strict reading says you wouldn't get that ability. But as a GM I would have no problem interpreting it as "your drake is your Divine Bond mount. Go ahead and call it." Ask your GM.

[Ryze Kuja]

Would Shrinking Berries work?

[avr]

No Ryze, they only work on animals. A drake's of the dragon type.

[Ryze Kuja]

Reduce Monster would work, but it's a 3rd party spell :/

[Ryze Kuja]

What about Polymorph, Greater Polymorph, and/or Polymorph Any Object to transform the Dragon into an animal, then feed him Shrinking Berries to reduce his size?

[666bender]

i play a druid , but also any hunter or ranger can do it.
i play a skinshaper druid human with a Roc.

whenever i want to ride my Roc ? i use the alter self to go small and i cast reduce animal (1 hour \ lvl...) on it.

also there is carry companion to "pocket" him.

a super handy solution.

[666bender]

halig feax wrote:

Greeting, all.

Currently playing a RotRL campaign as an arcanist. One of the party is a silver champion paladin with a rift drake as his companion.

I've been looking into ways that he could transport his drake more inconspicuously -such as the hosteling enchantment on his heavy armor. He loves this idea since his drake will emblazon on his full plate every time it enters his armor.

But there is a problem down the road. Once the drake gets to level 15 with him, it will be more than one category size larger than him -too big to work with the enchantment.

My question is this: are there any paizo official magic items that can reduce the size of an animal companion while worn?

Thanks for your time

Rift drakes are evil - how is he using him as a paly?

[LordKailas]

he could put the enchantment on a tower shield and carry the drake around that way. The shield its self could be dragged around using a floating disk spell.

[Genoin]

666bender wrote:

Rift drakes are evil - how is he using him as a paly?

Not only that, but the archetype specifically states that evil aligned dragons will go out of their way to attack and kill Silver Champions.

[Cavall]

Who else is in your group?
Carry companion doesn't have to be your own companion.

[halig feax]

avr wrote:

None, I think. It's probably easier to enlarge the paladin with juggernaut's pauldrons or similar, though that wouldn't exactly be inconspicuous.

Yeah. That's kind of what I'm thinking would be the most simple and cheap solution.

Ryze Kuja wrote:

What about Polymorph, Greater Polymorph, and/or Polymorph Any Object to transform the Dragon into an animal, then feed him Shrinking Berries to reduce his size?

Good options, thanks.

Belafon wrote:

Can't think of any items, but carry companion is a common spell. The Silver Champion has a weird spell list, but you could cast it for him.

I do really like the options that spell would provide. My PC is becoming more party-centric in his casting as time goes on, so it could be a nice role-play moment as well.

666bender wrote:

Rift drakes are evil - how is he using him as a paly?

This question is unrelated to the goal of this thread. However, I like it and appreciate the intention of sticking to the rules so I'll answer it. The player who is running the Silver Champion is a first time player and the archetype was his idea after he had delved into the complexity of Pathfinder character progression for the first time. His interpretation was not correct -as is common for first time players- but our GM decided to work with his excitement for the game rather than squashing it. In order to keep balance, however, the GM changed the stats of the drake to prevent it from being OP and continues to put heavy role-play constraints in the player -to be expected for bringing a usually evil drake into town. It's not strict to the rules, it's for the interest and fun of the player.

Cavall wrote:

Who else is in your group?

Carry companion doesn't have to be your own companion.

6th level human acranist (me)

6th level half-elf silver champion
6th level goblin mutagenic mauler

we also had a 5th level human druid, but that player has stepped out of the game due to scheduling.

LordKailas wrote:

he could put the enchantment on a tower shield and carry the drake around that way. The shield its self could be dragged around using a floating disk spell.

Great idea. Especially since he's considering changing to medium armor to lessen some of the penalties to his ride checks.

[Temperans]

The player could get a folding shield, if the GM allows to be enchanted. This lets him choose when to have the tower shield form. (better for long travel where dragon size doesn't really matter).

Also a reminder that there are ways to reduce or even remove heavy armor ride penalties. Ex: Equestrian Belt and Armored Rider just to name 2.

[Cevah]

Get a Greater Hat of Disguise. When worn, the drake can appear human.

Get a Ring of Invisibility and no one will see them, unless they are powerful enough to see invisible. If they are that powerful, they won't be bothered by seeing a drake.

/cevah

[Temperans]

the inivisibility made me think of a full plate warrior riding an invisible drake (or other creature)...

kind of defeats the purpose but would be so hilarious to watch the reaction of people.