Apex Companion

Rank 10FocusUncommonLegacy
Range30 feet
Target1 animal companion in your service
Duration1 minute

You focus on the energies of all members of your animal companion's species, transforming your animal companion into its apex battle form. Your animal companion gains the following statistics and abilities while in its apex form.

  • Your animal companion becomes Huge and its attacks have 15-foot reach. It must have enough space to expand into or the spell is lost.
  • 30 temporary Hit Points.
  • Your animal companion's attack's damage dice increase by one step, and its attack gains the deadly d12 trait.
  • +10-foot status bonus to its Speeds.
  • Ignores difficult terrain and greater difficult terrain.

Spell Effect: Apex Companion

Traits

Concentrate

An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.

Druid

This indicates abilities from the druid class.

Focus

Focus spells are a special type of spell attained directly from a branch of study, from a deity, or from another specific source. You can learn focus spells only through special class features or feats, rather than choosing them from a spell list. Furthermore, you cast focus spells using a special pool of Focus Points—you can't prepare a focus spell in a spell slot or use your spell slots to cast focus spells; similarly, you can't spend your Focus Points to cast spells that aren't focus spells.

Manipulate

You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can't perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.

Polymorph

These effects completely transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph at a time. If it comes under the effect of another, the second effect attempts to counteract the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes granted by a polymorph effect are magical. Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature. If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most manipulate actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items. You lose your Speeds and gain those of the battle form. If a polymorph effect causes you to increase in size, you must have space to expand into or the effect is disrupted.