| Reksew_Trebla |
I actually had an idea for Stitch. The Bestiary 3 Unfettered Eidolon, who takes levels of Synthesist Summoner, representing him having mild shapeshifting (turning on and off his Fused Eidolon form/his normal state vs his "dog" disguise).
But Lilo is the problem child.
She successfully befriends Stitch and turns him from Chaotic Neutral leaning Chaotic Evil to Chaotic Good (so something like Charm Monster could be at play), has a deity bring Stitch back to life for her (Cleric, Breath of Life spell could be the answer, but also Raise Dead since his body was fully intact), is very strong on music (Bard). Actually she can probably Inspire Courage considering sometimes she has to rally Stitch's cousins to save the day when for whatever reason Stitch can't.
Heck, she even made successful deals with her enemies to save Stitch before, at the cost of surrendering Stitch's newly activated cousin, so something that makes her exceptional at Diplomacy.
Also, she is way better at survival (not talking about the skill but the actual English word) than she should be. She clearly has a luck bonus of some sort on AC and maybe Reflex saves.
But she is 6 or 7. That puts her in the Young (Ultimate Campaign option, not the template) age group at best. While I could promote her to early adulthood per the guidelines in those rules, that just feels wrong. I guess I could mix the two states. Keep her in the Young age group, but allow her to have PC levels, and put a maximum number of ranks in a single skill equal to half her level (minimum 1). Also give her 2 traits instead of the suggested 1, because she has enough trauma life experience to have 2 traits.
Actually, I may give her a Drawback too, because she does have her flaws, but I haven't even begun to look at traits yet, so I don't know what I'd pick for her.
Anyways, I've rambled on enough. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for this. I'd take suggestions on Stitch too, but I'm really liking the idea of him being a double Eidolon.
I guess I could make Stitch a regular Eidolon, and have Lilo as a Summoner, which could work, but it just feels cheap. Like I didn't put enough effort into the build to actually make them. Stitch should be able to function independently from Lilo, which an Eidolon can't, so yeah. Plus I'm not sure off the top of my head if Summoner is a good spell list for Lilo's purposes. Because she should only have spells that could reasonably be explained away as "Disney Magic". Like how Snow White was loved by animals, which could be possible without magic, but the level they were friendly with her was still a little suspicious, and thus could be handled with certain spells that she just subconsciously casts on herself. Stuff like that. Because, yeah, Lilo could theoretically rally a group of unprepared monsters to fight a likely losing battle, but it is much more likely she did a Bardic Performance than simply used Diplomacy.
And there I go rambling again.
| Reksew_Trebla |
Yeah, I was way up past my normal bedtime last night. I know I'm an adult, but it's still good to maintain a bedtime, though unfortunately I haven't been doing so very well since my mom died in October.
Anyways, I bring this up, because I'm pretty sure I don't want to do this. At least not using Lilo, because as this is Pathfinder, she could die. Stitch on the other hand can take care of himself, and it doesn't literally have to be Stitch, but just a generic monster based off of him.
That said, since he can take care of himself there is no need for the PCs to really help him out, unless he chooses to stay with the group, and I don't feel like playing a super Eidolon as a GMPC. I mean, I'm fine playing GMPCs sometimes, because I know how to let the others shine, it's just I usually do so by making them a support character, but Stitch is definitely not support material, but rather the main attraction.
So both Lilo and Stitch wouldn't work well in this case.
Maybe I could repurpose the super Eidolon as the pure evil Experiment 627, or as a Leroy clone that escaped galactic capture. Actually, both of those could be fun encounters, but that's a different topic altogether.