Question about wizards and their arcane familiars


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Grand Lodge

Last night was my first night playing a wizard, and I chose arcane familiar. As I needed a bump to my will save, I decided to go with a hedgehog. I use Hero Lab to take care of all my characters, and according to Hero Lab, my hedgehog only has 1 HP. Now, according to the the Familiars rules, he should have half my wizard's HP. My wizard has 11 HP, so I'm thinking he should have 5. Is this an issue with Hero Lab, or would he only have 1 HP?

Again, I'm new to a wizard, and any class that has a familiar, so I'm not too up on what things should be. Since Hero Lab is usually correct in most cases (I have found a couple here and there where it was wrong, but I was able to figure out what it should be) I'm not sure if I'm just not understanding something about how it works.


Hero Labs is wrong, your hedgehog has 5 hitpoints.

Grand Lodge

Ok, thanks VRMH. I figured that would be the case. Wanted to check here before I went to their forum to question if it was a bug or not, to see if I had it straight in my head!


How do you have 11 hp at 1st level?

Grand Lodge

6 from the hit die, +1 from my con, +1 from favored bonus, and then +3 from toughness feat.

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