Statting up a Faerie Dragon familiar

[GM Arkwright]

I'm building a wizard with a Faerie Dragon familiar and I'm having some difficulties statting it up. Help please?

-What class skills does it get? The class skills it gets as a Dragon, or the class skills as specified by the Familiars page?

-Does SR scale as I levelup?

-Does the familiar's hitdice increase as I levelup, giving it feats and ability increases and the like?

[Halfling Barbarian]

It seems to me that a Faerie Dragon would work just like the Tidepool Dragon and Psuedodragon and be an improved familiar, available at 7th level. That being said, they'd follow the same rules as all other familiars.

[austin138]

I just added a FD to my sorcerer, and looking over the skills, it gets all the dragon class skills. to reverse engineer their skill scores, all the ones listed on their page get 3 ranks. As for familiar class skills, I believe it says add them, so they should get both. Though, these would be untrained, so matters very little.

As for HD, yes he gets half the characters hp, and is considered to have the same HD, which my DM ruled means that his spells are considered to be cast by an sorcerer of my characters level. But he does not go up in level (no more spells, etc.). he decided it would help scale him up as we level up, but not overpower him.

[LazarX]

What he does not get are feats or level based attribute raises, since he does not get true hit die but shadows off of his master's hit dice.

[Just Big Boned]

LazarX wrote:

What he does not get are feats or level based attribute raises, since he does not get true hit die but shadows off of his master's hit dice.

But to be clear - does an Improved Familiar follows the exact same progression that regular familiars do on the Familiar chart? I had a GM who believed that all of that went out the window, and the Improved Familiar was what he was initially statted out as and that was it.

[LazarX]

Just Big Boned wrote:

LazarX wrote:

What he does not get are feats or level based attribute raises, since he does not get true hit die but shadows off of his master's hit dice.

But to be clear - does an Improved Familiar follows the exact same progression that regular familiars do on the Familiar chart? I had a GM who believed that all of that went out the window, and the Improved Familiar was what he was initially statted out as and that was it.

They follow the progression save where the Bestiary entry trumps it. The Faerie Dragon for instance, does not lose it's Bestiary Int by becoming a familliar.So things like the evasion, the mental link etc... continue to apply.