I was looking through Alchemist Archetypes and came across the Promethean Archetype but there seems to be one big detail missing.
How does the Homunculus Companion heal? Positive energy wouldn't work because it's a construct, but the alchemist doesn't get anything like Make Whole. The only other way to heal it would be with the Craft Construct feat spending hundreds of gold.
Is there something I'm missing?
Sympathetic Alchemy (Su): The bond between a promethean alchemist and his homunculus is so close that the alchemist’s extracts function for the homunculus as if it were the alchemist, allowing the homunculus companion to benefit from extracts without the alchemist needing the infusion discovery. The homunculus is treated as a humanoid or a construct-whichever is more beneficial-for the purposes of what extracts can affect it. Additionally, the homunculus can prepare its master’s extracts from his formula book for him each day, as long as it’s within the range of its telepathic link.
This is a very different kind of character than the base alchemist. The homunculus makes for an amazing scout/guard. It has great senses and never needs to sleep. Being a construct, its starting hit points are pretty good, but that's balanced by it dying at 0, so it's not an amazing front liner. If you do want to bring it into melee anyway, it gets an extra +10 hit points from an enlarge person infusion.
You'll also have trouble finding good discoveries to pick at some levels, because you don't have bombs or mutagens.
And check with your GM if you can use Construct Modifications and how they work with the homunculus. Those rules were meant for regular constructs and don't completely match with the homunculus rules, but it opens up a lot of options.
It's a Construct, so by definition under constructs:
Constructs can also be healed through spells such as make whole. A construct with the fast healing special quality still benefits from that quality
It's a Construct, so by definition under constructs:
Constructs can also be healed through spells such as make whole. A construct with the fast healing special quality still benefits from that quality
Yes, I believe the original poster knows that. His issue was that the alchemist doesn't have make whole and the homunculus doesn't have fast healing.
As I said above, the class comes with a workaround in that the homunculus can benefit from extracts that benefit humanoids, unlike a regular construct. So cure light wounds does the job. And the homunculus can also benefit from other extracts like enlarge person.
see Sympathetic Alchemy (Su) at 1st level.
Use Magic Devices and get a wand of Make Whole
Sympathetic Alchemy will allow the alchemist to use his own cure extracts to heal the homunculus. But this only works on the alchemist own extracts. It does not work on spells or even another alchemist's extracts.
Might want to pick up Pragmatic Activator with the wand of Make Whole and UMD route.
Why not just use his own cure extracts?