
Arachnofiend |

Briefly considered the idea of Pet Shop as a kineticist but it's kinda hard to be specifically ice themed.

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On the utterly silly side, a zoophonia muse parrot bard with a saloon entertainer background and whose performance speciality is comedy. Think "bar mascot who got awakened after some druids partied really, really hard".
Bonus points of they're a real macaw! ;)
We can now have awakened animals and their plushy versions adventuring side by side.
We can have the whole Hundred-Acre Wood in a party!

steelhead |
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I'm bummed this is for Awakened Animals and not all of the Howl options! Surely including some Merfolk and Minotaurs wouldn't spoil the fun?
I don’t think they’d spoil the fun, and would definitely add to it!
My awakened animal character would be a wolverine monk who travels with his well-armored minotaur friend. Their favorite opening tactic, if his friend gets a higher initiative, is for the minotaur to use the Friendly Fling feat to get my character into melee range for a claw strike.

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keftiu wrote:I'm bummed this is for Awakened Animals and not all of the Howl options! Surely including some Merfolk and Minotaurs wouldn't spoil the fun?I don’t think they’d spoil the fun, and would definitely add to it!
My awakened animal character would be a wolverine monk who travels with his well-armored minotaur friend. Their favorite opening tactic, if his friend gets a higher initiative, is for the minotaur to use the Friendly Fling feat to get my character into melee range for a claw strike.
The minotaur might be interested in the Talos versatile heritage.

FreneticKineticAscetic |
Any domestic pet species as an Awakened Animal Psychic with Silent Whisper is very fun, lots of roleplay opportunities to convince people to give a treat to the nice doggy (any Pratchett fans out there can build themselves Gaspode the Wonder Dog.) You can also throw it on a frog for THE HYPNO-TOAD
Other things I like in no particular order
-Songbird bards, of course, but also any other animals with a complex mating display becoming bards of dance
-any fully aquatic species as a water kineticist that makes their own breathing supply
-real animals with mythological counterparts, like a salamander focused on fire magic, a tanuki wizard, or a monkey monk with a staff doing their best Sun Wukong impression
-once pc2 is out, awakened Dog Champion following the cause of Obedience
-any version of build-your-own-Pokemon
-Sponge. They're animals, and some druid out theres gotta be crazy enough to want to talk to them.

KoolKobold |

Not sure if it’s possible but I would LOVE to play an awakened dinosaur. Bear with me that I have little knowledge on how 2E works so these are just concepts that I have no idea if I can flesh out or not.
Either an awakened allosaurus (scaled down to be the size of Fang from Primal) as either a Barbarian or Fighter. rugged, stoic, cold warrior who feels like little has changed in his life from gaining sentience
alternatively, a Compsognathus who is some kind of Intelligence based caster (alchemist, investigator, wizard) who is incredibly smart but has an ego and one hell of a Napoleon complex.

Sibelius Eos Owm |
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Not sure if it’s possible but I would LOVE to play an awakened dinosaur. Bear with me that I have little knowledge on how 2E works so these are just concepts that I have no idea if I can flesh out or not.
Either an awakened allosaurus (scaled down to be the size of Fang from Primal) as either a Barbarian or Fighter. rugged, stoic, cold warrior who feels like little has changed in his life from gaining sentience
alternatively, a Compsognathus who is some kind of Intelligence based caster (alchemist, investigator, wizard) who is incredibly smart but has an ego and one hell of a Napoleon complex.
Hmm... provided you were willing to accept the limitations of only getting up to Large size, you absolutely could play an allosaurus with no meaningful difficulties beyond any other awakened animal would naturally face. Ditto the compsognathus, except without the size caveat because that dino is definitely either a Tiny or Small either way.

KoolKobold |

KoolKobold wrote:Hmm... provided you were willing to accept the limitations of only getting up to Large size, you absolutely could play an allosaurus with no meaningful difficulties beyond any other awakened animal would naturally face. Ditto the compsognathus, except without the size caveat because that dino is definitely either a Tiny or Small either way.Not sure if it’s possible but I would LOVE to play an awakened dinosaur. Bear with me that I have little knowledge on how 2E works so these are just concepts that I have no idea if I can flesh out or not.
Either an awakened allosaurus (scaled down to be the size of Fang from Primal) as either a Barbarian or Fighter. rugged, stoic, cold warrior who feels like little has changed in his life from gaining sentience
alternatively, a Compsognathus who is some kind of Intelligence based caster (alchemist, investigator, wizard) who is incredibly smart but has an ego and one hell of a Napoleon complex.
Yes, hence why I said I wouldn’t mind the allosaurus being scaled down to Fang’s size in Primal. idk if you’ve seen the show (would recommend), but despite being based on a T rex, the character of Fang is about the size of a large horse, which fits for the Large size.
My biggest problem after finding out how to get their crunch down would be finding a campaign where I can actually play them

KoolKobold |

...somewhere, there is probably a group where the party is composed entirely of awakened dinosaurs and they're running through the "Extinction Curse" AP.
Yeah I definitely need to learn how to play PF2 just to do Extinction’s Curse with a warrior Allosaurus, that’s just thematically perfect

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What you need is:
A ballerina troop of Awakened Ostriches...
Who rouse the Awakened Hippopotamus Princess...
Who is then courted by the Awakened Alligator Acrobat.

KoolKobold |

KoolKobold wrote:It takes some ACP so it can't be your first character but they're legal in PFS. I'm playing my awakened Leopard in PFS with no issues whatsoever
My biggest problem after finding out how to get their crunch down would be finding a campaign where I can actually play them
ACP? Armor Class Penalty?

Ravingdork |

pauljathome wrote:ACP? Armor Class Penalty?KoolKobold wrote:It takes some ACP so it can't be your first character but they're legal in PFS. I'm playing my awakened Leopard in PFS with no issues whatsoever
My biggest problem after finding out how to get their crunch down would be finding a campaign where I can actually play them
More properly abbreviated as AcP, it stands for "Achievement Points". You start with 80 AcP when first joining the Pathfinder Society organized play. You accumulate more AcP for playing (~4-7 per session) and can spend them for in-game benefits (such as hiring an NPC or getting a character resurrected) or to unlock Uncommon or Rare items, spells, ancestries, and other character options that have been sanctioned for Society play. To play an awakened animal in Pathfinder Society, you must spend 160 AcP to acquire that ancestry for a single character.
I hope that helps.

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...somewhere, there is probably a group where the party is composed entirely of awakened dinosaurs and they're running through the "Extinction Curse" AP.
My Triceratops Kineticist would love to chat about this intriguing topic.
I've also got waiting in the wings the mighty Moosemus Maximus, the Awakened Animal Exemplar. BEHOLD THE MIGHTY MOOSE OF DESTINY!

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I did actually consider "lion who is a tamer" after I wrote that.
But I was thinking Ranger with a Cat animal companion.
Of course, he was always afraid of cats of all kinds--even cute little house cats! But awakening equipped him with so many more tools to deal with them. Literally sometimes, once he learned to use weapons.
Rats have trouble with cats, but people usually don't. Now he's people. Problem solved. And for a while dealing with cats by using sharp things felt really good. They clearly had it coming. Vengeance!
But... cats are just animals, and he's really not any more. It started to feel cruel. How do people deal with dangerous animals, anyway? They do what?
...okay. That actually sounds awesome. He can learn to do that.