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Maat Mons
2023-03-15, 08:17 PM
I’ve found two guides on the Unchained Summoner. One (https://rpgbot.net/pathfinder/characters/classes/unchained_summoner/) doesn’t talk about eidolon subtypes at all. And the other (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1flEJrpr3VIkc09cH_ZofizK_9Dy90YNR3VWC_rIRtJM/edit) only talks about the subtypes found in the Unchained book itself. Does anyone know of a guide that ranks all the subtypes? Or does anyone want to offer opinions on the more-recently-published subtypes?

Also, Is this a complete list of the subtypes released after the Unchained book?

Blood of Shadow (Shadow)
Blood of the Beast (Ancestor)
Blood of the Sea (Deepwater)
Curse of the Crimson Throne (Kyton)
Elemental Master's Handbook (Genie)
Horror Realms (Aberration)
Legacy of the First World (Twinned)
Plane Hopper's Handbook (Aeon, Astral, Radiant, Storykin, Void)
Ultimate Intrigue (Fey)
Ultimate Wilderness (Plant)
Wilderness Origins (Kami)



I’m especially interested in Ancestor, Fey, Kami, Plant, Shadow, Storykin, and Twinned. Those are the one’s available to all Summoners, regardless of alignment.



As an aside, the guide I linked only gives its highest rating (blue) to Azata (CG), Demon (CE), Elemental (N), and Psychopomp (N). None of those are available to LG or LE Summoners. Is that a big hinderance to Summoners of those alignments?

If we expand to look also at the second highest rating (green), every alignment has at least 1 “good” option. But while N and CN Summoners each have 5 “good” options available, LE has only 1, and LG and CE each only have 2. Does this make certain alignments disadvantageous to Summoners? Or do the newer subtypes from more recent books even things out? Or do you disagree with the ranking in that guide? Or are the differences in power of different subtypes just too small to worry about?