Has anyone played a Summoner for more than a couple of sessions?

[Set]

I seem to recall Eidolons getting 5.5 per hit die, on a d10, but that may have been with an evolution.

Yeah, my bad. Five hit points, not four. Still not a great load of hit points for a melee combatant.

The Druid's Companion gets 2 HD at 1st level, so it's not as painful that they aren't PCs and don't benefit from any 'max hp at 1st level' rules. (And the ability to wear leather barding (no ACP) or MW studded leather (still no ACP) or mithral chain shirt barding (look ma, no ACP!) without having to blow a feat on light armor proficiency, helps the Druid's companion offset some of it's AC woes.

 

[Nikmal]

I haven't, but the reason is that the eidolons are too much paperwork.

Hence the main reason I LOVE Hero Labs for something like this. No paperwork at all hehe. Just a few clicks here and there and done

 

[DumbPaladin]

I have no problems with doing "paperwork", and I'm more than good at it.

That's not a reason, for me, to determine whether to be a Summoner or not. I just want to hear from people who've played one whether it was fun, whether you were useful to the party, and so on.