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According to the Organized Play guide, for the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, "Feats: none of the feats are legal for play"
What if anything does a druid's animal companion gain at 9th level in place of Multiattack?
Feats granted as part of an animal companion's established progression are not eliminated, but you may not select Improved Natural Armor or Ability Focus when the creature receives new feats when it gains an odd Hit Die.
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Feats granted as part of an animal companion's established progression are not eliminated, but you may not select Improved Natural Armor or Ability Focus when the creature receives new feats when it gains an odd Hit Die.According to the Organized Play guide, for the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, "Feats: none of the feats are legal for play"
What if anything does a druid's animal companion gain at 9th level in place of Multiattack?
Thanks. I had hoped that would be the answer, but was not prepared to make that assumption.
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1. Can something be done to make clear what's being restricted here?
2. Why are things being restricted here?
For the time being, this post will have to suffice. Until we get the FAQ system up and running, this is it, I'm afraid.
They're being restricted because that's how the rules have been and, while we're open to changing things to make play simpler and more balanced, the messageboards aren't the place to change them. Rest assured that as we go through the campaign documentation to make things clearer, we will revisit the necessity of every allowed or restricted element of the campaign. Whether we provide explanations for each and every decision we make regarding those elements is a different story.
Mark and Hyrum,
I am bringing this thread back to life to see if this ruling applies to only animal companions or to all aspects of a character because of the thread about the Bestiary feats and certain APG alternate classes/archetypes.
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I am bringing this thread back to life to see if this ruling applies to only animal companions or to all aspects of a character because of the thread about the Bestiary feats and certain APG alternate classes/archetypes.
I had asked the same thing in a previous post, specifically Totem Shaman (Eagle) Druids and Natural Weapon Stlye Rangers.
Both classes have beastiary feats as options on a limited list.
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I had asked the same thing in a previous post, specifically Totem Shaman (Eagle) Druids and Natural Weapon Stlye Rangers.
Both classes have beastiary feats as options on a limited list.
I asked it in the PFS Society 3.0 FAQ thread and got a lot of readers (but no Paizo people) to reply "No because the general deny."
I am allowing the two players to use the features in my PFS games and of the 51 PFS games I've ran, it has rarely came up.
As far as I'm concerned the allow of "all APG" material overrides the deny of "all Bestiary" and coupled with the only thing they discussed when talking about it is character level feats and not the bonus feat selection, I suspect the end result is they will be allowed for these APG options.
If they are not allowed then they need to note this in the resources page of the APG allow line.
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WOOT! As of Monday, the Society legal additional resources page got an update.
Feats: none of the feats are legal for play for PCs, animal companions, or familiars unless specifically granted by another legal source.
So, if I am interpreting this correctly, Natural Weapon Rangers, Totem Shaman Druids, and other class variants that recieve feats as bonus feats can access them. They are still barred from being taken as "normal feats" however.
Thank you so much PFS crew for clearing the air on this issue and making these class options available to us! :D
Right. If the character class, prestige class, variant class, animal companion, familiar, eidolon, or whatever's description does not specifically say a particular Bestiary feat can be taken, then it still is not available for PFS play.
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Right. If the character class, prestige class, variant class, animal companion, familiar, eidolon, or whatever's description does not specifically say a particular Bestiary feat can be taken, then it still is not available for PFS play.
This is pretty consistent with all of Pathfinder and the way rules work. General rules are trumped by explicit rules but only in those specific areas covered by those explicit rules.