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While I like having intelligent bonded items, I hate that you have to play a cheeseball to get anything out of being a Magus.

Ok Paizo people I need help.
>have friend playing PF
>he introduced me to 3.5e some 10 years ago, ive played other groups mainly as GM
>get back in touch
>"hey user how about you run a 1-shot for my pathfinder group? Just come up with an idea"
>teens steal a wizards spellbook, he hires the party to find it during in-universe Halloween
>turns out he was a Necromancer and its a Necronomicon thing
>Evil Dead shenannigans happen, possessions and animations

What monsters/things should I use on a 3rd level party to fit this?

Tl;dr- i need to run Evil Dead in pathfinder for a level 3 party. Wat do?

The quasit one has the secondary issue that you're creating an intelligent creature that will fall apart in like 30 seconds.

>What monsters/things should I use on a 3rd level party to fit this?
Lotsa zombies. You can easily up the difficulty for encounters by adding more of a given monster.

This is dumb but I need some ideas for this crazy 1pp build I am thinking about. To try and not sound weeby, there is this mech anime where this kid designs a mech but it has arms on it's back so it can be modular. It was the Knights and Magic anime. So to emulate the powers I was thinking a Synthesist with the Biped Eidolon. At the very least have these evolutions on it. Extra Limbs, Flight Plus, Increased Natural Armor, Increased Natural Attack. The idea is that I can fly around, attack in melee with the claws, and use my back up arms to pull what I need from my bag as needed. I first thought, hey I can use a shield in my 3rd limb. Then realized that sucked as I eventually get a shield bonus. But I could technically get a better shield that out do's my inherent shield bonuses I get. I could also use my extra limbs to hold a ranged weapon as an option. A crossbow or a wand for a ranged "shoulder mounted" weapon. I am basically trying to get ideas on what to use my extra back arm slots to hold.

what said, lotsa zombies

And to spice it up in small places, throw some weird things like a ghoul or something

Why not take inspiration from the anime itself and have the extra arms hold wands of either Magic Missile or Scorching Ray or something like that? Synthesists are naturally Cha based anyway so you should be able to meet the UMD checks fairly easily.

>Select one combat sphere you possess, you treat your base attack bonus as 1 higher for the purposes of its effects, but not for attacks made with talents from that sphere. At 5th level and every 4 levels afterwards, the chosen sphere’s base attack bonus is treated as an additional 1 higher, although the sphere’s effective base attack bonus cannot be higher than your character level.

If I take Combat Sphere Specialization for Barrage sphere, does that mean I can make the extra attacks for having a higher Base Attack Bonus?

Summoners also have Snowball as funny as it sounds. I was thinking of Magic Missile but when I need damage and there is a chance of failure, it might be not worth it? I am very hesitant on wands and having to do UMD checks. Sure you might have a good bonus but a chance of failure scares me. I rather have things be a sure thing. I know that that is a weird thought when you do attacks and there is a chance of a miss. In terms of shields,how do bonuses stack when you have a inherent shield bonus. Shielded Meld +2/Greater Shielded Meld+4. If I then wield a Shield +1/Arrow Catching, how does that work? I know I have the one with the most bonuses but how do you count enhancements? Do I have shield ac +2 or +2 shield and arrow catching?

Overall I think I got shields, wands/staffs. crossbow, what else?

What level are you building for?

Also you can always just get wands of spells you have and not need to even UMD.