| Emparawr |
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My question is has there ever been an official ruling outside of Pathfinder Society concerning a character having multiple familiars or gaining the arcane bond ability from multiple sources?
There are multiple instances of this that I have seen discussed all over the place but have not found any kind of official ruling anywhere. Examples of differen't things that give familiars include:
Tatooed Sorcerer
Arcane Bloodline
Serpentine Bloodline
Eagle Domain
Souleater
Wizard
Witch
Eldritch Heritage (Any of the above bloodlines)
Magus Arcana (Familiar)
While some of these are pretty cut and clear like Eagle Domain, or Soul Eater, many of them are not, such as Tattooed Sorcerer with the Serpentine bloodline. There have primarily been four different arguments it would seem on this depending on what combination your looking at.
1) If you get a familiar from two different sources the levels stack, which poses the issue of how familiars progress past level 20 equivalent.
2) In some cases multiple familiars are allowed
3) You cannot ever have two abilities that provide a familiar
4) You can only have more then one ability that provides a familiar if they stack and if they do stack you cannot ever go past level 20 equivalent for familiar progression.
Anyways I know that in many threads this has been discussed to death in some rather overly heated debates already, so what I'm really curious about here is whether or not there has ever been any kind of an official ruling on this. If not maybe it would be possible to put together a completely comprehensive list of all the different ways that one can get a Familiar so that when they do FAQ we can get a comprehensive answer. Personally im interested because I'm making a character with a Trio of Imps that are important to his storyline (2 familiars and 1 diabolist imp companion) but if there is no current answer it would be good to have one.