DracoDruid |
Hey again.
I don't know if this is the right sub-forum, but anyways:
My question is:
Is there a feat that lets you use other class levels as class levels relevant for your animal companion or familiar?
Something like:
"Use up to 4 other class levels as effective druid levels to determine the abilities of your animal companion.
This cannot increase your effective druid level above your character level (of course)."
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If there is none such feat, do you think it should?
How many levels should the feat give?
Should it be taken multiple times?
Maggiethecat |
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deuxhero |
Horse Master (UC) lets your effective druid level be based on character level. Cavalier (not even Samurai can qualify) only though.
It gets very cheesy very fast, but Eldritch Heritage: Arcane and (more questionably) Sylvian can give you a Familiar and Animal Companion (respectively) above your HD because multiple classes with those features stack and EH bases them on your "Sorcerer level" which is considered character level -2 for the feat.
deuxhero |
Good thing there aren't Epic rules for PF yet so it caps at 20.
Like I said, Sylvian is questionable, even if you take the Sage FAQ's comment about getting its first level power as a non-Sorcerer to mean Wildblooded lines are valid for EH, it is both the Bloodline and Arcana.
That said, outside of abusing the stacking rules like that, dropping 2/3 feats for an animal companion that is 5/1 level behind is not all that broken (spellcasters can do much worse).
Robbgobb |
How much money and feats is it going to take to get that level of companion and is it worth it? Seems like companion is better than player if using that many resources.
I think Boon Companion is enough as I think it is more to give the companion/familiar a better chance at survival plus maybe a perk or 2 to the owner.