Venture-Captain, Washington—Spokane
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Yes, ROW players guide is not a legal resource for PFS (Darn, I do wish that it and others were legal (without the obvious campaign traits of course). Although there is a specific list with the archetype, you may find table variation with the use of other legal familiars.
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Coincidentally, I was just coming to ask about familiars from the Reign of Winter Players Guide, too. My question isn't specifically about Winter Witches, though, just the familiar availability.
That guide isn't on the Additional Resources list at all.
However, the Additional Resources listing for the Familiar Folio says "the animal familiars on pages 24–27 and inside front cover, except the ioun wyrd and the petromin, are legal for play". Since the inside front cover of FF lists all of the RoWPG animals, they would seem to be allowed.
So the Additional Resources list seems to contradict itself in this case.
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Venture-Captain, Washington—Spokane
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Coincidentally, I was just coming to ask about familiars from the Reign of Winter Players Guide, too. My question isn't specifically about Winter Witches, though, just the familiar availability.
That guide isn't on the Additional Resources list at all.
However, the Additional Resources listing for the Familiar Folio says "the animal familiars on pages 24–27 and inside front cover, except the ioun wyrd and the petromin, are legal for play". Since the inside front cover of FF lists all of the RoWPG animals, they would seem to be allowed.
So the Additional Resources list seems to contradict itself in this case.
Good catch and I would concur that the Familiar Folio entry would make the ROW PG Familiars legal.
RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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a winter witch with the smaller familiar list is still a viable character .. Mine has done quite well in PFS over the years
So did mine, then I got the lyrakin. :-)
Funny Familiar story recently.
So to give the party a chance (seriously, who thought that fight was fair?) and remind the player that you live by the familiar, you die by the familiar, I had the <redacted> show up in the invisibility purge still radiating from the dead cleric and fire off their <redacted> at party members.
In the same square as his familiar. The look of panic on his face as he remembered all the close calls with my witch's familiar was worth it. (No I wasn't going to dump 4 <redacted> into a familiar, it was a learning expeience, not a Richard move. I would have taken the AoO's if he didn't full withdrawl though)
Lesson learned.
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Just got Familiar Folio last night, so I should be good, unless a GM wants to argue that an arctic hare is not native to the frozen north.
Heads up, you can expect a good but of variation on this. The problem is that the entry gives a list and says that other appropriate choices may be possible with the GM's permission. In Society play, you are limited to what the list says. Like Preston said some GM's may allow a familiar not on the list, but many other GMs won't allow it. expect table variation. If you go with an off-the-list choice and a GM vetoes it, just roll with it and have a different familiar for that session as opposed to eating up table time and arguing with the GM.
