It is rather sad, but it seems that in order to play the character I want in PFS I must take an animal companion, then get him killed. So then, how would you go about doing so? What companion would you take? Just so that it is covered, I can not simply take the Feral Hunter archetype, because it does not stack with Scarab Stalker.
what power of scarab stalker are you wanting?
what power of scarab stalker are you wanting?
The alternative animal foci.
get a crab and keep it away from water, it dies soon enough on it's own that way.
what power of scarab stalker are you wanting?The alternative animal foci.
sorry, which animal foci are you interested in?
For PFS, just create the character and never bring the animal along. Say it died in your backstory.
sorry, which animal foci are you interested in?what power of scarab stalker are you wanting?The alternative animal foci.
Mainly Kite, which aids with healing, and Scarab Beatle, which grants a bonus to natural armor. There are also ones that grant a bonus to acrobatics and escape artist, but those I see as being of situational use.
Sacrifice it to Lamashtu?
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Devour it and claim its power.
Just say you dismissed it and never summoned another. Any hunter can do so, you don't need to kill your companion.
A dismissed companion, currently, doesn't let you have their animal focus, only killed companions do.
For PFS, just create the character and never bring the animal along. Say it died in your backstory.
Yeah. Might work well with a "heroic sacrifice" story. You could say that you never took another Companion in respect to your fallen comrade.
If I wanted it to die "naturally," I would probably take Bird and use it to attack in combat. A half dozen or so combats later, it should be dead.
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OR make an animal companion that you're really attached to that has a detailed backstory and try to keep it alive. It should be dead in one or two combats.
Convince the party that you min maxed the companion, and it can solo the first encounter. Send the companion in first. Hold the party back until the screams and cries of the dying stop.
Any animal companion can provoke a lot of attacks of opportunity in a fight just running around the battlefield...
Sounds like a good excuse for a big meal... Axe beak tastes like chicken right?
If you want one quickly dead animal, bring an Octopus. 20' land movement and aquatic so it cannot breathe air. Should be a quick death unless you're starting in/on the water.
Hire my DM.
My druid already lost 3 pets. I'm level 9.
The first one was a horse, killed defenslessly in his stable by people later attacking our Inn (we didn't even get to play that part, I just found out later about it).
Then a gorilla who couldn't manage to escape a collapsing tower.
Then a tiger, killed my invisible drows stabbing him with poisonous daggers and arrows in a staircase.
