Is there a feat that increases the "power level" of your companion / familiar?


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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?


boon companion (look on the srd) for animal companion, for the familiar you are out of luck (aside from improved familiar).

Liberty's Edge

Actually boon companion applies to familiars too.


Can't find "Boon Companion" which book is it?


Boon Companion

It is from Seekers of Secrets.


Okay, got it.
I had another PRD I searched in.
It had only the new official rule books: http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/

Thanks again to everyone!


Just for reference, d20pfsrd.com is a fansite and not an official Paizo website (the one you linked to is the official Paizo SRD.) However, both sites are known to occasionally have outdated info or errors, so don't rely on them too heavily for something like Pathfinder Society. But they are good places to look stuff like this up, so then you can find and purchase the book you need.


if you're human you can also take "eye for talent" inliue of your human feat. lets you give a +2 bonus to one of the stats on your animal companion.


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.

The Exchange

Eldritch heritage on the arcane bloodline gives you a familiar equal to your total level-3.


Ok, there is no way eldritch heritage can work like that, that would be mean a 10th level druid, could have a 15th level animal companion...?


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).


Gotta mention Robes of Arcane heritage(+4 to sorcerer level concerning bloodlines) when getting familiars or animal companions from Eldrich Heritage.


As of right now it works ... hope they will clean it up it note what they envisioned when they made the feat. Personal OP.


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.

Scarab Sages

Forgottenprince wrote:
Actually boon companion applies to familiars too.

My Magus is grumbling that it doesn't work on his Black Blade as well...Hehehe

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