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I plan to give my paladin an improved familiar. (It takes three feats but I want to do it so I will.)
In PFS does the pseudodragon have to look like the standard tiny European dragon or can I have it be a serpentine Asian looking pseudodragon?
Does the paladin get in divine trouble if his familiar uses a natural poison attack? I don’t think using poison is an evil act as it’s just like using any other weapon. But because their manufacture, and distribution almost always supports evil people and acts a paladin can’t ethically posses them. But none of that is an issue here.
If I get my familiar at effective sorcerer level 7 that mean I get all the stuff off the familiar table that a level 7 caster gets, right?
Is my familiars int 10(base for pseudodragons), 9 (as listed on the familiar table), or something else?
Is the Harbinger Archon still not PFS legal?
as far as the PFS specific answers the impression i have is that redescing things is usually a no-no from what i understand. additionally, Pseudo dragons are a specific miniature dragon-like creature that has a specific look. something serpentine that was alot like a psuedodragon would probly be a different creature. even if its just Imperial Pseudo dragon :)
As far as the poison goes my guess is that as long as your not telling him 'hey little buddy go poison that guy' and he just does his natural thing on his own i doubt its an issue.'
You should have all the stuff the table says you should have.
His int is the better of his own or the table, so in this case 10. I dont know where that is actualy written int he rules though.
havent a clue, but i think theres a guide that lists everything that is legal or not legal. If it hasnt been changed then it is whatever is in the guide.
Could you specify how you're doing this so we could help better? I personally don't know of any feat that gives one an arcane caster level nor a familiar.
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You know, you can choose the fluff to be, within reason, whatever you feel like it is. You can say he looks like a European, Asian, etc. as long as you know that it is just as easy to identify, and the change is pure fluff. Using poison isn't necessarily EVIL, per se, but it is dishonerable, so you have to be careful about how you interpret that. As the Mojorat said, use the best INT. and tread carefully with this ability.
He's using Eldritch Heritage -> Arcane Bloodline. Since you're using Eldritch Heritage, remember that your effective Sorcerer level is your level -2, so you won't be able to use Improved Familiar for a pseudodragon until level 9. At that point he would have everything a level 7 familiar would have.
Could you specify how you're doing this so we could help better? I personally don't know of any feat that gives one an arcane caster level nor a familiar.
The feats required are Skill Focus (Knowledge Whatever) -> Eldritch Heritage (Arcane) -> Improved Familiar.
Incidentally, Eldritch Heritage is probably the best way of getting an initiative bonus. You get a not-that-useful Skill Focus feat, but then you get the Alertness feat, as much of a initiative bonus as the Improved Initiative feat, and a familiar to boot. They stack though, so you could have an initiative bonus of 10 +dexmod at level 3 for any human or half-elf (or level 1 for any sorcerer or wizard), which is quite a lot.
Ah, thanks. Well, seems fine to me then. =P
Oh, cool. So those races with SLAs would fulfill the CL requirements for Improved Familiar, huh? That's an awesome concept. I shall have to ponder the possibilities of this.
I hadn't even considered that application of the SLA as CL ruling. It would be nice not to have to wait until 9th for my Improved Familiar :D
Oh, cool. So those races with SLAs would fulfill the CL requirements for Improved Familiar, huh? That's an awesome concept. I shall have to ponder the possibilities of this.
No, SLAs do not help qualify at all.
When you get a Familiar via Eldritch Heritage, it says you use your total character level -2 as your effective wizard level.That is what determines Familiar abilities (communication, SR, etc) and Improved Familiar qualification, not having a certain "caster level" as SLAs have. Note the Feat Pre-Req of Improved Familiar: "sufficient level (see below)" NOT "caster level", and in the description ("below") the table refers to "arcane spellcaster level" which is only used when referring to actual class levels of casting classes (or at least their functional equivalent ala dragons casting as sorcerors). "Caster Level" is never referred to in this way. So if you just dip 1 level in Wizard, even if you have SLAs that scale with your total HD, those will not help you qualify for Improved Familiar or advance the abilities of your Familiar (albeit many stats ARE based on your total stats, e.g. HPs, Saves, Skills).
Isn't the pseudo a good creature? Lol, that uses poison.
Why should that be surprising?
A creature who sting puts it's enemies to sleep seems more good than one that butchers them.
Yeah, I think it is a good move.
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This housecat-sized miniature dragon has fine scales, sharp horns, wicked little teeth, and a tail tipped with a barbed stinger. A pseudodragon's body is about 1 foot long with a 2-foot tail, and weighs about 7 pounds.
That's what a Pseudodragon is described as looking like so if your little dragon is more Mystic East then European it shouldn't matter at all. Your just filling in the gaps that the actual description leaves out. Just so long as it is unmistakably (well without say a disguise check or whatever) a pseudodragon is the important part and nothing in its description states that it is a little red dragon like in the days of D&D.
So long as it's a little dragon falling in those descriptions that at the same time your fine.
Also it's poison is nonlethal so that isn't an issue either. It is a creatures natural defense and nothing in a paladin code cares about it just because of what it is. Actions are what are important.