The bandolier will only help with the action economy because otherwise you would need an action to remove your backpack to spend another action to retrieve the potion, then you would use another action to give it to someone else.
With the bandolier you take one action and the potion is already available for you to use or give it to someone else, as you described. This prospect is not exactly a wonder for a chirurgeon, but that doesn't mean that he can't just craft all the items preemptively and give out to the party so that they only need to expend their two actions to draw the potion from their bandoliers and drink them.
Since you're the one GM, you can simply rule it as one action to pick up the potion and one to "apply" to a adjacent ally regardless if the ally is downed. It's basically just extending the existent rules for giving potions for felled allies to functioning ones. I don't think it would be all that powerful, but that's just me.
It is a bit buried, but on page 562, you can only feed a potion to a creature in reach and is willing, or is so helpless they can’t resist (an interact action on the potion givers part.). So, as long as the ally is willing, the Alchemist should be good.
This makes the Familiar a bit more useful to the Alchemist as the can spend one action to command the familiar to draw a potion (Familiar’s 1st action) and feed it to him (Familiar’s 2nd action), instead of having to spend 2 actions himself. Just remember, ‘Interact’ as the ‘Manipulate’ trait, meaning the Familiar needs to have suitable appendages in order to use that action (ie. make sure it has the ‘Manual Dexterity’ Familiar ability. )
Awesome, good to know that there is no need for homebrew.
It is a bit buried, but on page 562, you can only feed a potion to a creature in reach and is willing, or is so helpless they can’t resist (an interact action on the potion givers part.). So, as long as the ally is willing, the Alchemist should be good.
This makes the Familiar a bit more useful to the Alchemist as the can spend one action to command the familiar to draw a potion (Familiar’s 1st action) and feed it to him (Familiar’s 2nd action), instead of having to spend 2 actions himself. Just remember, ‘Interact’ as the ‘Manipulate’ trait, meaning the Familiar needs to have suitable appendages in order to use that action (ie. make sure it has the ‘Manual Dexterity’ Familiar ability. )
This is what the Churgeon in my game does as well. After his prep he gives the familiar 2 potions to hold in each hand, then in combat he'll just use an action to have it run over to somebody and heal them.
But... can your familiar actually carry two potions? What's its carrying capacity? It's based on STR, so what's its STR score?
We don't know. Familiars have no statistics yet. Anything you have your familiar carry is by DM fiat. There are no rules to support them being able to carry stuff.
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So what's your argument Wheldrake? That familiars can't hold items? That when a familiar brews a potion with the Lab Assistant skill they instantly drop it?
That's definitely not supported by the rules.
Yeah, if the GM wants to keep your familiar from doing anything, they can. The GM can rule rocks fall on your familiar and they instantly die, if they want.
But... can your familiar actually carry two potions? What's its carrying capacity? It's based on STR, so what's its STR score?
We don't know. Familiars have no statistics yet. Anything you have your familiar carry is by DM fiat. There are no rules to support them being able to carry stuff.
Turns out I'm the GM and I don't need official rulings to run common sense things in game, imagine that.
I've ruled that Manual Dexterity which lets them
"use up to two of its limbs as if they were hands to use manipulate actions."
Also lets those hands hold things, it might break the game though we'll have to see.