Furred Creatures

[allyncoon]

Are Creatures with fur more resistant to cold? Any type of bonuses covered anywhere in the rules I'm missing?

For instance: A fennec fox, dwells in the desert which typically have pretty decent extremes in temp. So should it get bonuses for environmental conditions? If so what kind?

Next an arctic fox, would it have a +5 as a cold weather outfit or effectively have endure elements?

The reason this has come up is I have a character in my Reign of winter campaign who is a Kitsune Rogue, at 5th level he'll be taking Fox shape and wants to do an arctic fox, would that preclude him from having to worry about cold weather outfits or endure elements?

Also there are familiars and animal companions in my party that aren't really adapted to cold and while they do get share spells at the moment, those players are playing classes the will eventually have cold resistance and most likely stop casting endure elements; if they do do I have their animals start freezing to death?

[HangarFlying]

Creatures are resistant to elements if the stat blocks say they are resistant to the elements.

[allyncoon]

HangarFlying wrote:

Creatures are resistant to elements if the stat blocks say they are resistant to the elements.

Guess I wasn't clear enough with my questions/ statement of facts...

The winter witch archtype says:
"Winter witches must choose a familiar that is native to the frozen north, even when they themselves operate in other regions. Traditionally, this limits winter witch familiar choices to bat, cat, fox, hawk, owl, rat, raven, or weasel."

However none of these creatures stat blocks SAY they are resistant to cold, so unless I'm missing something in the rules (refer to my first post), apparently every winter witches familiars have to make checks to not take environmental damage constantly... So either the winter witches are always down one first level spell to keep their familiars alive or they replace familiars quite often.

[Rathendar]

I'd consider a furred critter to not be 'unprotected' under the cold environmental rules, and thus only start making checks in the 'severe cold' category at the once per hour rate. (same as a cold weather outfit.)

Even animals seek shelter when there is a raging blizzard of sub-zero temperatures.