Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

[Aeshuura]

Has anyone tried making a Jojo's character with a Summoner? My friend thinks that the Synthesist is the way to go...

[TheAntiElite]

Which series/season/chapters?

TL;DR version

Phantom Blood is monks.
Battle Tendency is monks, bards, and freaky vampires.
Stardust Crusaders is where you're probably going to see myriad Summoners; the only Synthesists you're likely to see are Joseph and Hol Horse, possibly including Oingo and Boingo with their book or Anubis as the Stand sword.. Most of the others tend to have their Stands separate from them.
Diamond is Unbreakable similarly had a mix of types, as did Vento Aureo.
Stone Ocean maintains a comparable mix, but is the first out of the set where the main character might be considered some form of take on the Synthesist.

Haven't gotten around to Steel Ball Run yet, so couldn't tell you there.

[Aeshuura]

I would be shooting for Stardust Crusaders. Though I was thinking that both Dio and Jotaroh often used their stand like a synthesist, just separating for certain attacks.

[Irthos]

I'd say that the World and Star Platinum are more like spell thematics than actual creatures, based on the way they appear during battles. Both tend to show up for a panel or two as needed and then disappear, rather than sticking around. They're also invisible to mortals, but not to other Stand users - easily explained via detect magic.

Jotaro's Stand abilities and tactical thinking make him a good fit for a magus, possibly an unarmed kensai. He might have a monk dip for flurry of blows; if not, he has a custom monk's belt that occupies the head slot. (Why do you think he's so protective of that hat?)

His spell list favors force, speed, and perception-based buffs, along with a few telekinetic effects- for instance, the cell full of junk from Chapter 1 is the result of an unseen servant bringing things. "ORA ORA ORA" is Jotaro's player abusing flurry of blows, haste, and spellstrike/spell combat/critical strike arcana with arcane mark cheese. (For the record, his personal mark is a flattened face.)

I'm not entirely sure how to make his ability to stop time work within Pathinder rules- epic levels and the spell blending arcana will give you the time stop spell, but you can't attack during the effect. You could take the entire Dimensional Agility feat chain and reflavor it as a temporal effect. If you're willing to use 3.5 material, you could also use the Tome of Battle maneuvers Raging Mongoose and Time Stands Still to gain so many attacks that you might as well be stopping time. (Also a good "ORA ORA ORA" alternative.)

[Aeshuura]

Good ideas... It doesn't have to be a perfect conversion. I was looking for a character that I could build with that type of flavor. Thanks for your awesome input!

[Aeshuura]

Figured out how to do the principle flavor!

I decided on the Synthesist with the evolutions - slam and reach.

The fluff is that the eidolon emerges and strikes at the target. I can't wait to play it.

[SaladMuffin]

Aeshuura wrote:

Figured out how to do the principle flavor!

I decided on the Synthesist with the evolutions - slam and reach.

The fluff is that the eidolon emerges and strikes at the target. I can't wait to play it.

Did you do it? How was it?

[Aeshuura]

The sad part was that just after I created the character, PFS made synthesists illegal. >.<

So, in short, never got to play him.

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

...yare yare daze.