
J-Spee Lovecraft |

Do the Beastmorph and Visionary Researcher Alchy archetypes go well together? Like, can a Researcher's friend get feral mutagen stuff and pounce/grab/constrict/etc. from Beasty? I wasn't sure because SRD says this: "If the researcher has discoveries or other abilities that alter or increase the benefits of the mutagen, these apply to the experimental mutagen (though the drinker only gets half the numerical bonus of the mutagen)." The part about only getting the numerical bonus confused me. HALP, I R DUM.

Claxon |

So it appears that you could indeed combine both and if I'm understanding it correctly could grant both you or an ally all of the bonuses (naturals attack, pounce, etc), except at half numerical bonuses.
The real problem that comes in is that you can only have 1 active mutagen at a time and that it requires 1 hour to brew another. I am no expert but I can't find something reduces the brewing time, but Infuse Mutagen will allow you to create multiples. However each extra costs 1000 gold and deals int damage.
So the problem becomes that it isn't actually very effective for you to try and buff others because you can only buff one person at a time, and you will be left without much to do since without mutagen yourself you're not particularly adept at combat.
My personal opinion is that it just doesn't work out very well because you can't give enough buffs to enough people to make it worthwhile.
It could be a very cool archetype to have on a companion (from leadership) but probably not very fun as your PC since you'll basically just buff one person and hang out in the back not doing much else. As a companion they could be the smart companion who helps the the main character buff himself to victory and uses smarts to help the main character bypass challenges they otherwise aren't capable of handling. It could be a whole Muscle Brother/Smart Brother duo.