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Just about any creature fine size from Paizo is a component of a swarm. Go to Frog God Games and you can get a fine-size witchlight as a familiar, and this in turn lets you use the marionette possession or familiar melding spells on it.
Alternately and Paizo-compliant you could get a diminutive familiar (there are several), cast reduce person on it via share spells and then possess it as above. It'll only be fine-size for the duration of the reduce person spell obviously.
Arcane eye gets you a fine-size thing you control, but it's not you in any way.
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OBJECT POSESSION plus GLOVE OF STORING. I don't know how useful it is, but it should get you down to size.
Other than that I think Avr is right, you'll find more swarms than single creatures at that size.
(Actually would posession on an ant work?)
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Oh yeah, there's the earsend spell. Turns your ear into a flying fine-size construct. No appendages to speak of, and the spell desperately needs errata (what does 'functions like skinsend' mean in terms of the ear's capabilities or what the spell does to the rest of your body? Target: creature touched, whuh?), but the spell is there.
The smallest character I've seen played was an atomie magus, BTW.
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Hmm. You could play a character with the Young template and polymorph into a normally-Diminutive creature, but that might be a bit excessive (and subject to order of operations arguments).
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Just start as one of the aforementioned diminutive familiars with a permanency/reduce person cast on it BEFORE ITS MASTER DIED... now you are a free-spirited, masterless EX-familiar. Also Fine sized, Intelligent, and relatively functional.
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There is very little official content on EX-familiars. I think they are treated as their previous master's HD-2 for all of their abilities that rely on their virtual HD. The abilities would be stuck at this level, probably indefinitely, but at least until you had actual HD derived from class levels to surpass your virtual HD.
Other than that, it's all up to your imagination and what your GM allows.
As for balance issues. Well, you won't be participating in melee combat since your weapons don't do damage and you don't threaten anything. This leaves spellcasting. Which is what PF1 is all about, anyways.
The pocket blaster is to be feared and hated by all. I think this is the only way you can make an unbalanced mouse, actually. Don't be a blaster. Spells and spell damage do not care about your size. However, you are essentially impossible to target by the enemy, so it's just not fair or fun for either side.
A utility magic, buffer would be good. A debuffing focused caster would probably run into the same balance issues as the blaster, though. Battlefield control specialist would be hilarious, because a pit or wall is HUGE compared to the mouse that created it.
Be a mouse with a Raven familiar that you ride on to solve your mobility issues.
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Think about how powerful the mouse sees itself when it casts a 20' high wall of fire that extends 140'...
A mouse is, what, 4" tall if it were standing on its hind legs, wearing a robe and Wizard hat?
From his perspective, he is incapable of naturally seeing where his wall of fire ends. He has manifested a wall of flame out of thin air that literally goes as far as his eyes can see.
Epic.
For everyone else, it's just your average, inconvenient wall of fire. Seen it before. Got the t-shirt.
If magic was to scale with size, the same wall casted by a 6' tall medium creature would be 360' tall, and 2520' long... and that's the earliest you can cast Wall of Fire. We don't want magic scaling with size, at all. Too many things larger than the average character that cast spells.
A 4" tall character would cast a 1' tall wall that was 7' long... if we scaled it the other way around.
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'In addition, other spells that change size have no effect on you while you are under the effects of a polymorph spell.' - wild shape generally works as per polymorph spells.
The feat you're thinking of is in the Epic Level Handbook.
Fine Wild Shape
( Epic Level Handbook, p. 56)[Epic, Wild]
You can wild shape into animals of Fine size.
Prerequisite
Ability to wild shape into a Diminutive creature,Benefit
You can use your wild shape to take the shape of a Fine animal.Normal
Without this feat, you cannot wild shape into an animal smaller than Tiny size.
You need to take diminutive wild shape too implicitly, though it's not directly listed as a prereq that's common in D&D material.
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Everyman games have an excellent rules book about extremely small and large creatures and how spells are effected by size.
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I believe it's called Microsized adventures.
I believe it's called Microsized adventures.
This is something I've had in my favourites for a while, but haven't gotten round to playing yet. It looks amazing!
It has a 5 star average rating ... from 3 reviews. So I take that as a good sign but certainly not a guarantee.
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Has anybody played in any Microsized stories? with or without these supplemental rules
I have a campaign setting called The Great Wood, where everyone plays an anthropomorphic forest critter. The first time we had a mouse wizard, a quail cleric, an otter bard, a bluejay rogue, a redwing blackbird ranger-barbarian and a porcupine priest.
After that, there was a salamander sorcerer, a painted turtle druid with a dragonfly companion, a demolitionist mole and a swashbuckling hummingbird.All I did was shift the median of the size categories down; a mouse or finch is Small, squirrels and rabbits are Medium and the porcupine and the farmer's cat were Large. Humans were effectively titans, etc.
It amounted to a pretty successful--if rather over-the-top--
few games.
Oh, jeeze. A lot of from-the-gut judgement calls, honestly. Gave everyone equal ability score modifiers, except birds got way less and effectively Large animals had fairly steep penalties to hopefully make everyone more or less balanced. Kept special abilities scarce and as simple as possible; porcupines had armor spikes, moles had light blindness and tremorsense, rabbits got Run for free, etc.