Roco |
So, the idea came about as a joke, but I'm curious now how one might homebrew a "reverse summoner" where basically you play an intelligent eidolon as the main player character, but can summon your spellcaster like a summoner could their eidolon.
Maybe it's due to some freak accident in the binding process, maybe one of the gods had some fun, whatever the reason, the Eidolon is the player, the summoner is the summoned companion.
How would you build this and make it balanced?
Summoner is already pretty busted (from what I've heard, never got to play one :< )
But I doubt one would just use the base rules for summoner or unchained summoner.
What are your thoughts? Like the concept? How would you make this class?
Melkiador |
Other than the direction of summoning, it just sounds like a role playing thing. The eidolon is no more compelled to do what the summoner asks than the summoner is to do what the eidolon asks.
I’m not sure how I’d handle the reversed summoning thing though. Eidolon’s weren’t built to be PCs, so there would be a lot of little changes to make.
avr |
As a concept it seems to open up a can of worms about the planes. If you're fine with that no problem I guess.
Eidolon + {summoned monsters xor spellcaster} doesn't seem inherently more broken than Spellcaster + {summoned monsters xor eidolon}. There'd be a bunch of weird things like what would happen if the summoner cast some of the eidolon specific spells - do those affect the eidolon, the summoner or both now? If you're willing to write something longer than the average archetype it seems possible though.
Quixote |
In a less serious game, one of my players ran a wizard with a toad familiar. But the toad was the source of all the magic; a once-great enchanter, transformed into a common toad by an evil witch.
Mechanically, it was a wizard with a familiar. But it was fairly easy to reskin it as something very strange and unique.
Bloodrealm |
The Haunted Spiritualist archetype is kind of what we're talking about here, flavour-wise, with the companion having a lot more influence over the classed character than usual.