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The Tattooed mystic (from the Races of Prestige book) is listed as legal for PFS play.
Two questions :
1) It is unclear how the Familiar Tattoo combines with an existing familiar or familiar Tattoo. I presume that the mystic ends up with one tattooed familiar with stats appropriate to the combined levels of the 2 familiars. Certainly how I'd rule as a GM
2) At 3rd level they gain Inscribe Mystical Tattoo as a bonus feat. But this feat isn't PFS legal. Its "obvious" to me that this feat should be changed into Spell Focus or a metamagic feat or something similar for PFS play. Losing the feat would seem excessive.
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1) You presume correctly. Levels in Tattooed mystic should be added to levels from other familiar-granting classes (including tattooed sorcerer) when determining your familiars abilities. You should end up with one good familiar, not two average ones.
2) No help on this one I'm afraid :) I tried to make the classes I wrote as PFS friendly as possible, but the Tattooed Mystic needed to fit in with the tattoo magic stuff from Inner Sea Magic.
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familiar tattoo does not allow you to have both a familiar and a bonded item.
that is what I'm thinking but you lose 2 abilities out for society play then. Familiar AND a creation feat you can never use. PFS play has adjusted other classes (such as substitution of scribe scroll with another feat)
Hence my query about the ability.
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familiar tattoo does not allow you to have both a familiar and a bonded item.Why not?Because it says so:
this ability does not allow her to have both a familiar and a bonded item.
Fair enough. I wonder how this interacts with certain class archetypes that specifically provide a bonded item. I am thinking of the Half-Elf Witch Archetype from ARG. I don't have any plans in that direction just thinking "out loud".
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I would say most likely, with the next update to the Additional Resources later this month.
I confess the idea of getting multiple Varisan tattoos has appeal but then I club down my inner munchkin and tell it a 'free Spell Focus' is quite good enough. Just not sure what second school to get. Thinking conjuration or transmutation IF that is what they offer in the update.
Of course I got a few levels yet to go before it becomes an issue BUT given my tiefling already has Varisian Tattoo (evocation) and a few emergency spell tattoos and I'm trying to figure when to get a resevior tattoo already, this seems a likely PRC for me.
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Great typo!
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I think you'll be disappointed, Cindrana. From what I read, it looks like all you do is seal the spell away temporarily so that it does not affect you yet. It buys you time to deal with the spell, but does not negate it.
So for example, if you get hit by an enervation spell, you could send it into the binding trine, then cast death ward. Once the timer runs out, the enervation spell would affect you normally, but since you now have death ward cast on yourself, the enervation spell has no effect.
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I think you'll be disappointed, Cindrana. From what I read, it looks like all you do is seal the spell away temporarily so that it does not affect you yet. It buys you time to deal with the spell, but does not negate it.
So for example, if you get hit by an enervation spell, you could send it into the binding trine, then cast death ward. Once the timer runs out, the enervation spell would affect you normally, but since you now have death ward cast on yourself, the enervation spell has no effect.
I don't know.. could make it helpful for those spot 'oh shit' moments. I'm thinking that it and a few of the other tattoos might be nice.. of course I could also just buy a few of the ones I want and stay with evocation wizard and enjoy the loud noises.
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Oh I don't doubt that it's useful, it's just that you can't cast the spell from the binding trine (I was disappointed by this when I read the description a little more closely).
If you're playing an evocation wizard, the blistering bands tattoo might pique your interest. =)
Oh yeah.. it does.. and given I'm looking forward to using it with a few wands of elemental spells (lesser) to really upset anyone close to me.