Ways to gain a Familiar or Animal Companion

[AsimTheAnubite]

mplindustries wrote:

asthyril wrote:

also bards and druids can get familiars, to add to bbt's list

How can a Bard or Druid (or for that matter an Inquisitor or Ranger) get a familiar outside of the Eldritch Heritage feat? I mean, Druids, Rangers and Inquisitors can get animal companions, of course, but a familiar?

I know Rogues can now with the Carnivalist archetype and Alchemists via a tumor, but that's it from those lists you two posted.

You can use the Arcane bloodline as well for Arcane bond.

[Scrapper]

I recall a Chelaxian Priest archetype that gained an imp familiar, but I can not recall the exact source.

[Name Violation]

Sacred huntmaster inquisitor
Possessed hand and hands autonomy lets your hand become a familiar

[David knott 242]

The Familiar Folio has archetypes for various classes to cause them to grant familiars. I recall Bard and Fighter being among them.

[djdust]

i'm not sure anyone's mentioned the Chosen One Paladin Archetype.

also, it's a stretch, but in terms of gaining a companion, the Shadowdancer Prestige Class gives you a Shadow companion.