
Athos710 |

So when the hybrid classes were introduced in the ACG, the restriction on multi-classing the parent classes was lifted.
The new archetype for Alchemists from Occult Adventures trades out bombs and mutagen to get a special homunculus companion. The homunculus gains Sympathetic Alchemy and Telepathic Link at 1st level.
Say you have multiples levels in Investigator already and multi-class into Promethean Alchemist. As I understand it, you now have 2 totals of extracts available per day, with different "caster" levels for them, and 2 separate formulae books. So you'll need to track which class you prepare extracts for each day.
Can this new companion be affected by your Investigator extracts, and even prepare them for the PC? Please consider cases with and without having the Infusion discovery as an Investigator talent. My gut says probably not, but I couldn't find anything online one way or another. The "knows what its master knows" part is the curve ball.
2nd question, does that mean the homunculus understands all the languages the PC speaks?

Joesi |
1. Sure, doesn't seem too harmful in allowing it. I think it's very reasonable, and very logical for it to work.
2. This is a slippery slope, as that could also mean it would have other things like skills matched. I'd say no, since the telepathy is probably just concept communication, although if I were GM, I'd allow very basic and slow relaying of individual words to the homunculus, but not fluid speech nor understanding.

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Alchemist extracts only. The investigator extracts are not your alchemist extracts. The homonculus knows what you know, but it doesn't have the ability to create investigator extracts that your class levels in investigator grant you.
Infusion discovery from Investigator levels works, but the homonculus is still considered a construct for those extracts, so no Enlarge Person, etc.

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Alchemist extracts only. The investigator extracts are not your alchemist extracts. The homonculus knows what you know, but it doesn't have the ability to create investigator extracts that your class levels in investigator grant you.
Infusion discovery from Investigator levels works, but the homonculus is still considered a construct for those extracts, so no Enlarge Person, etc.
Except under Investigator, it states that the extracts are like the Alchemist's. and uses the same rules for governing them.