Beast-Bonded Witch and Familiar Form


Rules Questions


What happens if you are a level 8 Witch and have a psuedodragon as your familiar, and want to use your ability to turn into a larger form? Would you turn into a young dragon maybe?


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Rogar Stonebow wrote:
What happens if you are a level 8 Witch and have a psuedodragon as your familiar, and want to use your ability to turn into a larger form? Would you turn into a young dragon maybe?
Familiar Form wrote:
At 8th level, a beast-bonded witch may take the shape of her familiar (or a giant version of her familiar or a similar kind of animal) as if using beast shape II.
Beast Shape wrote:

DESCRIPTION

When you cast this spell, you can assume the form of any Small or Medium creature of the animal type. If the form you assume has any of the following abilities, you gain the listed ability: climb 30 feet, fly 30 feet (average maneuverability), swim 30 feet, darkvision 60 feet, low-light vision, and scent.

Small animal: If the form you take is that of a Small animal, you gain a +2 size bonus to your Dexterity and a +1 natural armor bonus.

Medium animal: If the form you take is that of a Medium animal, you gain a +2 size bonus to your Strength and a +2 natural armor bonus.

The best you could hope for would be something like a crocodile, I would think.

As is, you can't turn into a dragon because dragons don't have the animal type.

Grand Lodge

Everything about the Beast-Bonded Witch, assumes that you always have a normal animal familiar.
It never assumes you have a Vermin familiar, or that you ever take the Improved Familiar feat, which seems odd, for a familiar focused archetype.

It would seem that by focusing on your familiar, and improving it, you lose the benefits of an archetype, that focuses on your familiar, and improving it.


blackbloodtroll wrote:


It would seem that by focusing on your familiar, and improving it, you lose the benefits of an archetype, that focuses on your familiar, and improving it.

Gold :p

Grand Lodge

I really want this archetype to work.
I want this archetype to at least work with all the base familiars.

As of now, it doesn't.


You could assume it is always based on your first familiar.

Grand Lodge

Some familiars are Vermin, and therefore do not work.

Even if your familiar is a Magical Beast, it doesn't work, because it's based off of Beast Shape II, and not Beast Shape III.


Thanks for your help all!

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