B) he uses your ranks only, but his own stat (Cha for UMD) and only gets the +3 if its a skill for him, not you.
A) uses its own initiative, though most dm's just gloss that over and let master and familiar go on the same turn.
a/ It depends on how your GM play familiars. At my table, usually, familiars play at the initiative of their master.
b/ Just like the tiny golem said ...
Initiative and UMD? There are magic items to do either. Ioun stones stand out as cheap and quick. Cracked Dusty Rose and cracked Pink and Green sphere.
Quickest two I know of off the top of my head. Outside of raw their are prices for homebrew magic items, but thats GM territory.
B) he uses your ranks only, but his own stat (Cha for UMD) and only gets the +3 if its a skill for him, not you.
Are you sure about that? You get a +3 bonus to your class skill when you invest a point, not a +3 bonus to the skill checks. So once you put a point in UMD, you have four skill ranks in that skill. And since Familiars can use your skill ranks, they should also benefit from your class skill bonus.
B) he uses your ranks only, but his own stat (Cha for UMD) and only gets the +3 if its a skill for him, not you.Are you sure about that? You get a +3 bonus to your class skill when you invest a point, not a +3 bonus to the skill checks. So once you put a point in UMD, you have four skill ranks in that skill. And since Familiars can use your skill ranks, they should also benefit from your class skill bonus.
It works that way from my understanding, especially when I see animal archives archetypes. Class skill ranks are wierd?
B) he uses your ranks only, but his own stat (Cha for UMD) and only gets the +3 if its a skill for him, not you.Are you sure about that? You get a +3 bonus to your class skill when you invest a point, not a +3 bonus to the skill checks. So once you put a point in UMD, you have four skill ranks in that skill. And since Familiars can use your skill ranks, they should also benefit from your class skill bonus.
I don't think that untyped bonus actually counts as ranks. If it did, PrC entry just got a whole lot faster.
I don't think that untyped bonus actually counts as ranks. If it did, PrC entry just got a whole lot faster.B) he uses your ranks only, but his own stat (Cha for UMD) and only gets the +3 if its a skill for him, not you.Are you sure about that? You get a +3 bonus to your class skill when you invest a point, not a +3 bonus to the skill checks. So once you put a point in UMD, you have four skill ranks in that skill. And since Familiars can use your skill ranks, they should also benefit from your class skill bonus.
Also one point in linguistics could give an Asimar or Tengu 8 languages!
I don't think that untyped bonus actually counts as ranks. If it did, PrC entry just got a whole lot faster.B) he uses your ranks only, but his own stat (Cha for UMD) and only gets the +3 if its a skill for him, not you.Are you sure about that? You get a +3 bonus to your class skill when you invest a point, not a +3 bonus to the skill checks. So once you put a point in UMD, you have four skill ranks in that skill. And since Familiars can use your skill ranks, they should also benefit from your class skill bonus.
I'm relatively the +3 is just a bonus and not "ranks." Otherwise they'd be called that.
Each skill rank grants a +1 bonus on checks made using that skill. When you make a skill check, you roll 1d20 and then add your ranks and the appropriate ability score modifier to the result of this check. If the skill you're using is a class skill (and you have invested ranks into that skill), you gain a +3 bonus on the check. If you are not trained in the skill (and if the skill may be used untrained), you may still attempt the skill, but you use only the bonus (or penalty) provided by the associated ability score modifier to modify the check. Skills can be further modified by a wide variety of sources—by your race, by a class ability, by equipment, by spell effects or magic items, and so on. See Table: Skill Check Bonuses for a summary of skill check bonuses.
It is a +3 bonus on checks, not +3 ranks. There is a big difference.
Just as a cleric of Asmodaeus can be Lawful Nuetral and a cleric of a Demon Lord can be Chaotic Neutral, one step is in any direction of the 9.
So no, its not badly written that a Chaotic Neutral could take either an Azata or a Quasit. He's probably not getting both though if thats what your asking.
Doesn't say a Nuetral Good or Chaotic Nuetral character can't choose it... Huh, never noticed that before.
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The text of Improved Familiar trumps the flavor text of the familiars' bestiary listings. A wizard can take any familiar whose alignment is within one step of his own on each axis. So a LG wizard can take a LG, LN, NG, or N familiar, a CE wizard could take a CE, CN, NE, or N familiar, and a N wizard can take any improved familiar.