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Animal companions come with the barding slot."An animal companion has access to the armor and neck magic item slots automatically, as long as its body shape is eligible for these slots."
Familiars do not.
By default, familiars do not have any magic item slots, but they can unlock magic item slots associated with their respective body shape.
I do not believe that they are going to make a distinction between magical and mundane slots.
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This seems to be saying that familiars with an armor slot can wear non magic armor
If you have a saddle or armor slot, you can definitely wear mundane saddles or armor without taking Extra Item Slot
... they are either making this incredibly weird or explaining it very poorly.
Full suit of plate armor on a weasel: no problem
Enchant it... ERKS! It won't go on....
???
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This seems to be saying that familiars with an armor slot can wear non magic armor
If you have a saddle or armor slot, you can definitely wear mundane saddles or armor without taking Extra Item Slot... they are either making this incredibly weird or explaining it very poorly.
Full suit of plate armor on a weasel: no problem
Enchant it... ERKS! It won't go on....
???
I agree, hence me asking if she meant to say that or if it was only taking about animal companions.
There seems to be a decent chance that she didn't mean it. I asked it along with the question of if animals without the saddle slot can wear mundane saddles and her response was that the leadership would need to discuss that part more. Maybe she meant both, maybe she was just talking about the saddle question needing more time.
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Which might be possible, but the point of magical item slots on critters was always that they lacked the anatomy for the thing to go on and thats why they couldn't wear them. Snakes can't just not inherently connect with the orthographical oneness of magical armor you just can't get armor on a snake.
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Michael - I think what you've experienced is a rarity. I've seen many animal companions at tables, and I've never seen a GM take control of them. Generally, the player is allowed to control them. More often than not, the GM doesn't even ask about whether or not the AC has the appropriate tricks to do what the player is having it do. That's changed a little bit in the last few years since the blog detailing how they work, but for the most part, they are treated like 2nd characters.
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That WAS the point, but PFS obviously has a different idea in mind with only letting ACs and familiars use magic items they have an item slot feat for. I don't like it either, but whatever, I'm just trying to understand what is and is not allowed now.
There's two totally different things going on here. Lets not combine them.
One is that they look like they're trying to change how slots work on animal companions for the new season. As with any time they change the rules they will change the rule, they will clarify the change, then clarify the clarification , and then clarify the clarification to the... you get the idea. This will bork a few things in the process.
So, right now, I don't think anyone has any idea how familiars are going to work with armor in a month. Its not deliberate its just what happens when there's a big rules change.
Hating AC's must be a local/regional thing. I don't think I've ever seen that
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Michael - I think what you've experienced is a rarity. I've seen many animal companions at tables, and I've never seen a GM take control of them. Generally, the player is allowed to control them. More often than not, the GM doesn't even ask about whether or not the AC has the appropriate tricks to do what the player is having it do. That's changed a little bit in the last few years since the blog detailing how they work, but for the most part, they are treated like 2nd characters.
I imagine that there is some pretty strong regional variation on this. My local meta absolutely pushes back on ACs being run as second characters tactically. I've never seen a GM force an AC to go out of its way to provoke attacks of opportunity, but the usual ruling is that that the companion will move in a straight line to the nearest point where it can attack the creature you designated, which may provoke, even if there was a more circuitous path that would not have provoked. And GMS definitely check what tricks you have trained.