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The question has come up on if you can have two familiars at a time.
I am looking at doing a Tattooed Sorcerer in a pathfinder game with a lizard and a fellow player suggested the Serpentine bloodline mostly so I can talk to it. Now looking over the Bloodline I noticed that you gain a Serpent Familiar at third level. Here's the text:

Serpentfriend (Ex): At 3rd level, you can use speak with animals at will with reptilian animals (including various forms of dinosaurs, lizards, and other cold-blooded creatures), and you gain a viper familiar using your sorcerer level –2 as your effective wizard level.

Now with the Tattooed Sorcerer you gain a Tattooed Familiar Here's the text:

Familiar Tattoo (Su)

A tattooed sorcerer gains a familiar as an arcane bond, as a wizard equal to her sorcerer level. Her sorcerer levels stack with any wizard or witch levels she possesses when determining the powers of her familiar—this ability does not allow her to have both a familiar and a bonded item.

Unlike most familiars, her familiar can transform itself into a tattoo that she carries in her flesh. Transforming into a tattoo or back to normal familiar form is a move action for her familiar. In tattoo form, the familiar looks like a stylized version of itself, but does not count as a creature separate from the tattooed sorcerer. In tattoo form it continues to grant its special familiar ability, but otherwise has no abilities and can take no actions except to transform from tattoo into creature. A familiar tattoo cannot be erased or dispelled.

This ability replaces her 1st-level bloodline power.

Having looked at feats like Familiar Bond they state if you would gain levels in the wizard class then your class and the wizard class stack. But in all of them you gain your familiar as an arcane Bond. This is not stated in this case. And I known the Witch class can gain a second familiar.
So could someone please help me figure this out. Has there been a ruling on this or can you end up with two familiars in this case.

Thanks

I'm trying to figure out if A Scrollmaster can take weapon focus for his scrolls as they count as short swords with out spending a feat to become proficient in short swords. The wording is a little off in archetype and I'm trying to get a clearer picture on if i can take the feat because I'm proficient in the scroll blade or if I need to take to take short sword proficiency first. Thanks

I wanted to thank everyone for their help on this question, the reason I asked it was do to the language used when they wrote the perk. The problem I had and still do is the why it equals a half a use. When I have asked other gamers in my area they all have taken it to mean something different . I was hoping to get the why as well as the ruling of the question. As in the grammar makes it work like this or the math makes it work like so. I will not be posting on this issue again. And will just play it as what ever the current GM decides to rule as for the game session. Thank you all again for your help.

It is 1/2=> One per two levels, or 1/6=> one per six levels.

PRD wrote:

Finally, some of these alternate favored class benefits only add +1/2, +1/3, +1/4, or +1/6 to a roll (rather than +1) each time the benefit is selected; when applying this result to the die roll, round down (minimum 0). For example, a dwarf with rogue as his favored class adds +1/2 to his trap sense ability regarding stone traps each time he selects the alternate rogue favored class benefit; though this means the net effect is +0 after selecting it once (because +1/2 rounds down to +0), after 20 levels this benefit gives the dwarf a +10 bonus to his trap sense (in addition to the base value from being a 20th-level rogue).

PRD link

In this example they use dwarves and the benefit to a roll for the rogue favored class, but uses works the same way.

I understand it is once every two levels or for the rouge it is every six levels.What i am trying to is how if I have 6 uses when i take this twice I then only have 7 uses. The way I broke the statement used in the APG works like this.

The first part tells me which powers can be taken " Select one domain power granted at 1st level that is normally usable for a number of times per day equal to 3 + the cleric's Wisdom modifier." So for the magic domain it would be Hand of the Acolyte.
The second part tells me how many times a day.:The cleric adds 1/2 to the number of uses per day of that domain power." So I went to the domain to see how many times I get to use it. "You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier." So if I took this twice shouldn't I get 6 more uses out the power for the day.
I please let me know If I am making any sense on this.

I have a question about how many uses you get for each level you take in your favored class for the cleric for example if I take a level and use this for the magic domain do I get 3+my wisdom modifier divided by 1/2

like 3+5=8 / 1/2= 4 or 3+5/ 1/2= 5 or a level to get a to get half a use of a power or 2 levels to get the full amount of uses. My friend and i Are debating this.

Fixing my math

3+5=8 *1/2= 4 or 3+5*1/2=5

I realized after I posted the way I wrote the math is wrong but I am trying to understand how the wording of : The cleric adds 1/2 to the number of uses per day of that domain power. = .5 of a single use for each time you take a level when using this perk because the domains state number of uses is = to 3+ wisdom modifier. So shouldn't be half of that number.
When a human rouge take a level they get 1/6 of a talent for every level they get to use any and all of the uses for the talent once they get it, for example like Minor Magic or Greater Magic 3 times a day. Or provided the 1/6 for a rouge talent works for the advanced talents skill mastery allows them to 3 + their intelligence modifier in skills.
I wished they would have worded this better, so I didn't sound like an idiot trying to figure this out.

I have a question about how many uses you get for each level you take in your favored class for the cleric for example if I take a level and use this for the magic domain do I get 3+my wisdom modifier divided by 1/2
like 3+5=8 / 1/2= 4 or 3+5/ 1/2= 5 or a level to get a to get half a use of a power or 2 levels to get the full amount of uses. My friend and i Are debating this.