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1. yes, as long as you receive the faerie dragon after the rules for animal archive was released you can get any changes for free. since the ruling is that you can only make animal archive options when you first receive the familiar, you have to pay to get a new familiar OR get the free upgrade from choosing the improved familiar feat in order to get them. so if you have received riddywipple since the animal archive rules became legal in pfs, you can choose feats and an archetype for free.
2. the chronicle sheet says
I cannot see why that would be the case, but this is very specific case, i cannot cite rules one way or the other. i would think that you can choose another faerie dragon (i gave this GM cert to a character i made whose storyline had him have a faerie dragon egg which will hatch when he is level 7 and can get it. i don't see why that would be disallowed since it obviously isn't riddywipple)
3.the only thing that increases are those things based on HD, which is just the improved invisibility SLA. it will increase in the number of rounds it lasts, but that's it. everything else stays the same.
4. none that i know of. but i have lots of cheese on my original character who received the boon. since he is actually a sorcerer you can buy things like a ring of wizardry 1 and/or pages of spell knowledge for him. my eyes of the ten group constantly jokes that i play a faerie dragon character who has an elven rogue familiar :)
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3. As far as I understand familiars do not progress in HD. So the special abilities do not get any better. The line relating to using the wizards class level as the familiars HD is only in relation to the purposes of effects (i.e. Does the familiar go unconcious or are they just stunned when it gets color sprayed?) There is a Quote from James Jacobs to this degree but I can't seem to find it.
So specifically about the Fairie Dragon....3 rounds and always will be 3 rounds.
Edit: Considering your first two answers were opposites in this regards should tell you that YMMV and to expect table variation.
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Hit Dice: For the purpose of effects related to number of Hit Dice, use the master's character level or the familiar's normal HD total, whichever is higher.
i take that to mean everything that hit dice effects, including spell like abilities it may have. i will try to find evidence if i can.
EDIT: all i could find is an old 3.5 article from 2005 that states exactly what you said lab rat. now i'm not sure, i thought it was clearly advancement in other abilities to help it stay alive, although it didn't help many. but it could use some clarification since they changed familiars somewhat since 3.5
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The intent of the boon is that it grants access to the same faerie dragon that you encounter in the scenario. If something happens to your improved familiar, you must have access to a replacement from a different source, as Riddywhipple is no more. Currently this is the only means of accessing a faerie dragon as an improved familiar, but we may provide one for Riddywhipple's cousin or whatever at a later time.
So currently, you're advised to take good care of your special friend!
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As for a familiar's abilities, they do not increase in duration or potency, as the creature's HD do not increase. For the purposes of determining whether or how a spell effects a familiar when the familiar is targeted (like sleep, color spray, or blasphemy), it treats the caster's level or it's own HD total as its HD (whichever is higher). A familiar scales by having half the caster's hit points, and using the base saves and base attack bonus of the caster if higher than the familiar's. But a familiar is not a cohort, nor an animal companion, and thus it advances only as outlined in the Familiars section of the wizard class description on page 82 of the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook.
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The intent of the boon is that it grants access to the same faerie dragon that you encounter in the scenario. If something happens to your improved familiar, you must have access to a replacement from a different source, as Riddywhipple is no more. Currently this is the only means of accessing a faerie dragon as an improved familiar, but we may provide one for Riddywhipple's cousin or whatever at a later time.
So currently, you're advised to take good care of your special friend!
Remember that the Raise Animal Companion spell, despite the name, can also be used on a familiar:
"This spell functions as raise dead, but it only affects an animal companion, familiar, or paladin’s bonded mount."You'll still have to take care of Riddywhipple's negative levels with a couple Restorations though...
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yea, i applied my gm cert to a character who was going to have a faerie dragon familiar, but entirely different background reasons for having one, it wasn't going to be riddywipple at all. but i like my background story too much to give it up. if he dies i will ress him instead of getting a new one to comply with the rules, but my story isn't going to change.
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actually mr moreland just stated that riddywhipple is a once only familiar...no getting rid of him to get a new faerie dragon.Actually, asthyril was suggesting dismissing Riddywhipple as your familiar, then "rehiring" Riddlewhipple as your new familiar.
That being said, common sense applies, asthyril. Firing/rehiring your familiar does not suddenly completely retrain the same creature. You could dismiss your fox familiar and then get a NEW fox familiar with a different feat/archetype, but you (logically) couldn't do it with Riddywhipple.
the fact that getting an animal to become sentient doesn't bother you, or the fact that it is suddenly as skilled as you at everything you know how to do, all because of a magical ritual, but somehow redoing the ritual in a 'new way' which alters the abilities the creature gets, that is what breaks common sense for you? how does that break logic? it's MAGIC in the first place, how can you apply logic to that?
I am just waiting for a cataclysmic effect to happen soon. When riddywhipple meets himself. If they touch will Golarian exist afterwards?
Will real Riddywhipple please stand up!
A fourth dimensional tear in the fabric of space will open up and from that tear will emerge Rovagug the Destroyer. Rovagug in the flesh will destroy all those who oppose him. Mostly because there will be no one of a level higher than 12. Sad face =(
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And here's a nice stupid question. What does Riddywhipple look like? It's been 6 months since I played the scenario & I finally qualified to convince him to be my familiar, so I no longer remember. And he is a 'he', isn't he? Or is he a she?
I want to make sure I have a good description of him.
Addendum: since I only just bonded with him, do I apply Animal Archives or not?
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I'd imagine that they're set within the scenario, if not already spelled out on the Chronicle.
Neither. The Chronicle Sheet simply says you may take a single faerie dragon as a familiar and the scenario refers to Bestiary 3 for the creature statblock.
Faerie Dragon Improved Familiar: A caster of at least 7th level with an alignment within one step of chaotic good may bond with the faerie dragon Riddywipple using the Improved Familiar feat. If you make this bond with the creature, you must provide a copy of the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 as if the improved familiar were available as an Additional Resource.
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Haven't looked at it in a while, but I'm pretty sure the version in the adventure has the same stats as the Bestiary 3, presumably for this very reason.
To answer the 2 year old question that never got answered, just google his name, and you'll find pictures of him out there on the internet.
Personally, I'm almost there. I GMed this and put the credit on my level 6 sorcerer a while ago, but now I'm finally playing her again, so she should (hopefully) hit level 7 in the not too distant future.
My big question (and really, this applies to anyone who takes Improved Familiar, not just with Riddywhipple) is what happens to the old familiar when you "upgrade"? Does it just fly away, go back to being a non-magical animal and forget its old life? That's kinda sad. I'm thinking Flowers for Algernon.
