Mark Seifter Designer |
You do need the feat. It won't be apparent if you're looking it up on d20pfsrd because of the way they laid out the information, but it's clear in Familiar Folio, where it says "the following feats enable characters with an arcane school to gain school-specific familiars". The feat benefit is "You can apply the school familiar archetype to your familiar". The school familiar archetype gains some of its benefits without trading them out for other familiar abilities.
Mark Seifter Designer |
RaizielDragon |
Thanks Mark; that was why I was wondering. It's listed along with all of the other archetypes, and nothing in the archetype itself seems to imply that you need a feat to use the archetype. But since that was the benefit of the feat, the implication seemed to be that you couldn't just take the archetype without taking the feat.
I guess my only follow-up question would be: can a VMC Wizard have a School Familiar? My guess is no because I believe the character needs the "Arcane School" class feature, and the VMC Wizard just gains "School", but doesn't hurt to check.
Mark Seifter Designer |
Thanks Mark; that was why I was wondering. It's listed along with all of the other archetypes, and nothing in the archetype itself seems to imply that you need a feat to use the archetype. But since that was the benefit of the feat, the implication seemed to be that you couldn't just take the archetype without taking the feat.
I guess my only follow-up question would be: can a VMC Wizard have a School Familiar? My guess is no because I believe the character needs the "Arcane School" class feature, and the VMC Wizard just gains "School", but doesn't hurt to check.
Where are you looking at it? In Familiar Folio, it's not listed with the other archetypes but is in its own section with the special rules and feats up front, and all the other familiar archetypes are in a different section.
Mark Seifter Designer |