Mr. Friendly
2007-12-13, 01:22 PM
So I was looking at the Paragon Template and it dawned on me that since the Paragon template doesn't change the creatures type, a normal animal could be a paragon and still be a normal animal (as far as type is concerned anyway)... 'so what?' right? What if you were to then mix that Paragon Template into the Lycanthrope Template? As far as I can tell, they interact more or less fine.
The only real hitch is that the description of Animal traits says:
—Intelligence score of 1 or 2 (no creature with an Intelligence score of 3 or higher can be an animal).
However, that can be mitigated by the line that is just before it:
An animal possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature’s entry).
I am sure that RAI the paragon animal should not be an animal, RAW on the other hand....
So, onto the cheese!
Now, there are of course some obvious but muddy questions, such as whether or not the various Paragon abilities are applicable in animal form only, or if they work in all forms. Things like the Paragon +20 luck bonus to damage... it does say it applies to all attacks... SR, DR/Epic and so on...
I would say most of the abilities work in all forms, the exception being the SLAs which could only be used in Animal form, since the lycanthrope rules specify that special attacks stay compartmentalized to the forms. Special qualities however and the undefined special luck and insight bonuses are fair game.
Even if it were that all paragon powers are limited to animal form... what an animal form it is!
The only real hitch is that the description of Animal traits says:
—Intelligence score of 1 or 2 (no creature with an Intelligence score of 3 or higher can be an animal).
However, that can be mitigated by the line that is just before it:
An animal possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature’s entry).
I am sure that RAI the paragon animal should not be an animal, RAW on the other hand....
So, onto the cheese!
Now, there are of course some obvious but muddy questions, such as whether or not the various Paragon abilities are applicable in animal form only, or if they work in all forms. Things like the Paragon +20 luck bonus to damage... it does say it applies to all attacks... SR, DR/Epic and so on...
I would say most of the abilities work in all forms, the exception being the SLAs which could only be used in Animal form, since the lycanthrope rules specify that special attacks stay compartmentalized to the forms. Special qualities however and the undefined special luck and insight bonuses are fair game.
Even if it were that all paragon powers are limited to animal form... what an animal form it is!