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Permanency and Reduce/Enlarge Person/Animal/Etc

koesherbacon

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I'm making a Druid NPC for an upcoming campaign and wanted to run this by other DMs as well as anyone else who might know the answer.

The Druid has selected a Giant Chameleon as one of his animal companions (he's got the Pack Master archetype, so his other companion is a Roc). He's given the Chameleon 4 HD and the other 5 are going to the Roc (with Boon Companion to have the full 9 HD as per the character level).

The downside, is that with that amount of HD, the Chameleon is a Large animal. The Druid wishes to use this companion strictly for scouting, using it's natural stealth and camouflage to the group's benefit.

Having a Large animal do this kind of scouting could be a detriment to the party, so I want to reduce the creature to Small or smaller in size, so here's my question.

Can a creature have a Permanent Reduce Animal cast upon them, and then a second one? Or can only 1 Reduce spell be made permanent and then any other casting wouldn't work anymore.

Ideally, I'd like to reduce it by 4, from Large --> Medium --> Small --> Tiny.

I realize if this works it can be expensive, but in a dungeon or natural environment if an enemy were to see a Tiny Chameleon on the wall despite it's huge Stealth bonus, they probably wouldn't think very much of it. It's just a lizard on the wall, after all. A Large Chameleon, on the other hand, would probably be investigated by the bad guys at the very least, or killed.

So, can I cast 4 Permanent Reduce Animals on the creature to make it tiny?

Thanks a lot!
 

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There is an option in Pathfinder where you can gain an attribute increase instead of a size increase on an animal companion. So you can choose to not be Large (assuming the chameleon starts out at a size smaller than Large.

Edit: looked up the rule: " As you gain levels, your animal companion improves as well, usually at 4th or 7th level, in addition to the standard bonuses noted on Table: Animal Companion Base Statistics. Instead of taking the listed benefit at 4th or 7th level, you can instead choose to increase the companion's Dexterity and Constitution by 2."

From http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/druid/animal-companions
 
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