Abiogenesist (Apath)

	Unofficial rules compendium
	Contents 1 Class Information; 2 Class Features 2.1 Class Skills; 2.2 Alchemy; 2.3 Homunculus; 2.4 Discoveries; ; 3 Table: Animator; 4 Summary of Changed Class Abilities; 5 See Also; 6 External Links;
	Contents 1 Class Information; 2 Class Features 2.1 Class Skills; 2.2 Alchemy; 2.3 Homunculus; 2.4 Discoveries; ; 3 Table: Animator; 4 Summary of Changed Class Abilities; 5 See Also; 6 External Links;

Not all eidolons are summoned—some are created using alchemy. Carefully infusing inanimate substance with alchemical of life, the animator creates a powerful servant, a homunculus.

Class Information

This is a hybrid class, a combination of summoner and alchemist.

Hit Die: d8.

Class Features

The following are the class features of the animator.

Class Skills

The animator’s class skills are Appraise (Int), Craft (Int), Disable Device (Dex), Fly (Dex), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (arcana) (Int), Knowledge (nature) (Int), Linguistics (Int), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Sleight of Hand (Dex), Spellcraft (Int), and Use Magic Device (Cha).

Skill Ranks per Level: 4 + Int modifier.

Alchemy

The animator has the alchemist's alchemy ability, including the ability to create extracts. The animator's extracts take the form of oils, not potions, and are applied by anointing the user or an adjacent, willing target with the oil, a standard action. The animator can anoint his homunculus with an extract in oil form, and need not know the Infusion extract to do so. The homunculus cannot anoint itself with one of the animator's extracts, but can use infusions normally. This replaces spells.

Homunculus

An animator begins play with a powerful construct called a homunculus and has the ability to build new homunculi. Unlike the creature called a homunculus (which animators consider only half finished experiments), the homunculi animators create is alive, an outsider of the native subtype. The animator forms a link with his homunculus, and can only maintain such a link to one homunculus at a time. If a animator builds a new homunculus, any link to a previous homunculus is lost and that homunculus is destroyed. A homunculus has the same alignment as the animator that created it and knows all languages its creator knows. It is a wholly material creature and cannot be dismissed or summoned.

A animator can create a new homunculus in a ritual that takes a full day to perform. Such a new homunculus is identical in all ways to the previous homunculus. Only when advancing in level can a animator create a new homunculus that differs from the old one, reconstructing it from the ground up, including choosing a new base form. A homunculus is made from a brew of blood and dung, deposited in a bag made of an animal's intestines, gently heated over a slow fire while the animator stirs and exhales on it. At first the creature is very small (hence the name), but further work makes it grow in size and power.

An homunculus can access some unique evolutions, see the appendix. Other than described here it is identical to a summoner's eidolon.

Discoveries

At level 1 and every odd level thereafter, the animator gains a discovery, as the alchemist ability. He cannot select discoveries that enhances abilities he does not have, such as bombs or poison use. This replaces the summon monster and gate abilities.

Table: Animator

Class Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	Spells per Day
Class Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special	1	2	3	4	5	6
1st	+0	+2	+0	+2	Cantrips, discovery, eidolon, life link	1	—	—	—	—	—
2nd	+1	+3	+0	+3	Bond senses	2	—	—	—	—	—
3rd	+2	+3	+1	+3	Discovery	3	—	—	—	—	—
4th	+3	+4	+1	+4	Shield ally	3	1	—	—	—	—
5th	+3	+4	+1	+4	Discovery	4	2	—	—	—	—
6th	+4	+5	+2	+5	Maker’s call	4	3	—	—	—	—
7th	+5	+5	+2	+5	Discovery	4	3	1	—	—	—
8th	+6/+1	+6	+2	+6	Transposition	4	4	2	—	—	—
9th	+6/+1	+6	+3	+6	Discovery	5	4	3	—	—	—
10th	+7/+2	+7	+3	+7	Aspect	5	4	3	1	—	—
11th	+8/+3	+7	+3	+7	Discovery	5	4	4	2	—	—
12th	+9/+4	+8	+4	+8	Greater shield ally	5	5	4	3	—	—
13th	+9/+4	+8	+4	+8	Discovery	5	5	4	3	1	—
14th	+10/+5	+9	+4	+9	Life bond	5	5	4	4	2	—
15th	+11/+6/+1	+9	+5	+9	Discovery	5	5	5	4	3	—
16th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+10	Merge forms	5	5	5	4	3	1
17th	+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+10	Discovery	5	5	5	4	4	2
18th	+13/+8/+3	+11	+6	+11	Greater aspect	5	5	5	5	4	3
19th	+14/+9/+4	+11	+6	+11	Discovery	5	5	5	5	5	4
20th	+15/+10/+5	+12	+6	+12	Twin eidolon	5	5	5	5	5	5

Galem Evolutions

Summary of Changed Class Abilities

Class Skills
Eidolon
Spells
Cantrips
Summon Monster I - IX
Gate

External Links

Summoner class at d20pfsrd.com
Summoner spells at d20pfsrd.com
Eidolons at d20pfsrd.com

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