Should never have let them take Augment Summoning...
Posted Sep 21, 2021, 1:32 PM UTC
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Just to be clear, is this a 1st edition meme?
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The title is, the meme's more widely applicable to TTRPGs. I mainly posted it here because it was inspired by my 1e game and the dndmemes sub gets upset about anything that isn't 5e.
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Yeah that's fair, I was moreso asking because the "Augment Summons" spell in 2e is much weaker than its 1e counterpart.
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Oh, you're a demon? Have you met my absolute cloud of lantern archons?
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I'll never forget the moment my synthesist summoner quippolith with grab crushed the BBEG of our one shot to death. Being a monster rocks haha
When one of my most munchkiny friends played a synthesist summoner in Carrion Crown, I had to adjust every battle so that he could be amazing but not be the only one being cool. From book 2 onward there was almost always 3+ additional monsters for him to mangle while the rest of the team took care of the encounter presented in the module.
Eventually he started recording kills made while both combatants were flying, in an attempt to become an "ace," so I had to add some flying heavy-hitters that would handily distract him from tanking for the rest of the team. Not that they needed the help...
That group really ran roughshod over that campaign.
Hahaha that's awesome. It sounds like you handled that well. I definitely let my munchkin out. Between improved grapple, Bull's Strength, and grab I ended up with a ridiculous bonus to grapple (+22 IIRC).
It's been about nine years, so I can't remember the details, but his eidolon was an insectoid creature that his synthesist would combine with like a biologically integrated exoskeleton, ID4 style. They each had their separate names, but as a synthesis they had a different name, which was more often used: "Shelwe." Shelwe was stronk AF, but mostly based around having many extra limbs and tails. They were a flying dervish of lighting claws, acid claws, fire bites, and poison tails, in ever-increasing amounts.
All the grappling was done by the cleric's summoned chains, and later, the druid's flying tiger.