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This page outlines the rules for mementos for the trainer class.

Mementos

This section will outline, in general terms, how mementos work. Notable sections will be what it means for a creature to be a memento, translating creatures to mementos, memento roles, and rules specific to mementos regarding their function.

Memento Overview

Mementos are essentially very specific creatures. Like characters, mementos have classes; like creatures, they have different creature types and subtypes. However, mementos become divorced from their original stat block: once a creature becomes a memento, it follows its memento progression, and not its natural progression.

Memento Level

Mementos have levels independent of the trainer that controls them; a creature turned into a memento has a number of levels in its role equal to its HD.

Trainers can grow their mementos, giving them levels, to a maximum of the trainer's memeticist level. A memento with more levels than the trainer's memeticist level cannot be controlled by that trainer. A trainer can have any number of mementos in meme crystals, but can only have so many controlled at a time (see the trainer class for more details).

Memento Role

Rather than each creature having a unique progression - which, while appropriate, would be entirely too overwhelming to author, and would also preclude new creatures from being tamable and controllable right off the bat - mementos are instead divided into roles, which dictates their progressions.

Roles are effectively classes, though they carry more information: roles also dictate a memento's AC progression, and a memento's role can modify the effectiveness of some of their Technics.

 

Base Statistics By Role
	Skirmisher	Brute	Sentinel	Lurker	Controller	Ravager
HD	d8	d10	d10	d8	d6	d6
AC	Level + 13	Level + 11	Level + 15	Level + 13	Level + 11	Level + 13
Touch AC	-1	-3	-6	-1	-1	-2
Flat AC	-3	-1	-1	-2	-1	-1
Fort	Avg	Good	Good	Poor	Poor	Avg
Ref	Good	Poor	Poor	Good	Avg	Avg
Will	Poor	Poor	Avg	Avg	Good	Avg
BAB	Avg	Good	Good	Avg	Poor	Avg
TAB	Avg	Poor	Avg	Good	Good	Good