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Animal Companion Racial skill bonus?
thelemonache,

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Hey, new to pathfinder and had an animal companion question. I plan on taking a tiger for my companion and in the beastiary they have a racial +4 acrobatics and +4 stealth (+8 in tall grass), so the question is do the animal companion versions get the racial bonus to skills?

mdt (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, GameMastery Maps Subscriber),

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thelemonache wrote:
Hey, new to pathfinder and had an animal companion question. I plan on taking a tiger for my companion and in the beastiary they have a racial +4 acrobatics and +4 stealth (+8 in tall grass), so the question is do the animal companion versions get the racial bonus to skills?

They should. An animal companion is a more powerful version of the normal wild animal, I can't see why the animal companion wouldn't have what the base animal has.

Paizo Employee James Jacobs (Editor-in-Chief, Pathfinder),

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Actually... animals don't get their bonuses to skills like this as written. An animal companion's stats are built off of different rules than those intended to be used as monsters.

That said, I don't think it'd hurt much to go ahead an apply the bonuses to skills as presented in the Bestiary if you want.

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