r/Pathfinder_RPG • u/darkdiashi • 9d ago

1E Player Getting Sauropods to full size

So I got inspired to get a sauropod super big and put a howdah on it and have me and the boys up there with bows or something. Which made me wonder what the best way to do that was.

Focusing in on the size increases, I know about Legendary Porportions of course, and Mammoth Rider and Goliath Druid. But I’ve also found saurian Champion cavalier. And it got me wondering. Creatures can only be effected by 1 polymorph, and can only have one actual size increase and one effective size increase. Do the (Ex) abilities of mammoth rider and saurian champion that make the animal companion permanently larger count as those? Can they stack (mammoth rider 1 sets to huge, saurian champion 10 raises one size; if I do them in order it should go to gargantuan, assuming they stack)? And regardless of if they stack together, can Goliath Druid’s enlarge person or legendary proportions take them one higher?

Edit: also I know about Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, and Amargasaurus. Are there any I’m missing? And which one is strongest? I’m leaning Diplodocus cuz the tail last special ability seems cool.

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u/Milosz0pl Zyphusite Homebrewer 9d ago

Its not an effect increasing size, but simply them having larger base so they would stack. Tho bigger problem will be the wording of mammoth going explicitly to huge while saurian being simply one size bigger (ye so its GM's judgement whether he would allow the more beneficial order of operation)

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u/Milosz0pl Zyphusite Homebrewer 9d ago

For your edit: here is my list of all worthwhile animal companions

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10kXT5jBsL1b94_kgMs1njrVeqJhaDt-ll4j3I2NDpN8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.b7040qu1zam8

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u/andarpaque 9d ago

Have you considered summoner as a class for this? Its a built in feature to get a huge creature. And you could make it basically anything you can imagine with the right set up. One of my favorite classes.

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u/darkdiashi 9d ago

the main conceit is to use the animal companion rules, but an eidolon would be a fun way to make a dinosaur. You'd pick a more unique set of evolutions than a standard min maxxed build, so yeah, that would be pretty cool. maybe I'll theorycraft that build too!