Crake
2011-09-05, 04:04 PM
I recently made an arcane/psionic theurge and came across the hassle of having both a psicrystal and familiar to worry about. So I decided to somehow combine the two.
What I decided to do was, for roleplay purposes, say that the familiar-psicrystal was an experiment and essentially I have a weasel with a crystal growing in its chest.
To the mechanical side, I basically treated the resultant creature as a gestalt psicrystal/familiar, taking the best parts from both, using the familiar's listed base int, and adding the int adjustment of the psicrystal, adding both natural armor adjustments together and stacking wizard/psion levels to determine special abilities, since they're basically the same as eachother.
Also, I added the celestial template to it using the celestial familiar feat from BoED
I figured I might put this strange solution up here incase anyone else wanted something similar. I've searched this topic several times and only ever come up with familiar vs psicrystal threads and the like, nothing about actually combining the two.
If anyone has any balance advice, I'm totally open to it, but when you consider its just a familiar/psicrystal, I dont think its such a big deal
What I decided to do was, for roleplay purposes, say that the familiar-psicrystal was an experiment and essentially I have a weasel with a crystal growing in its chest.
To the mechanical side, I basically treated the resultant creature as a gestalt psicrystal/familiar, taking the best parts from both, using the familiar's listed base int, and adding the int adjustment of the psicrystal, adding both natural armor adjustments together and stacking wizard/psion levels to determine special abilities, since they're basically the same as eachother.
Also, I added the celestial template to it using the celestial familiar feat from BoED
I figured I might put this strange solution up here incase anyone else wanted something similar. I've searched this topic several times and only ever come up with familiar vs psicrystal threads and the like, nothing about actually combining the two.
If anyone has any balance advice, I'm totally open to it, but when you consider its just a familiar/psicrystal, I dont think its such a big deal