Quasit Familiar Learning Feats?

[toscrawford]

Is it possible for my Witch's Improved Familiar (Quasit) to learn a new feat? I'd like to do flyby touch attacks to get in and out of danger safely.

Is there some other way I could SAFELY have a Quasit use touch attacks to buff the party?

Can a Quasit read a scroll?

Can I read a scroll and have the Quasit deliver the spell?

I'm thinking Breath of Life scroll. If the Quasit had such a thing at hand, would it use it on it's master or take the master's soul down to the Abyss? How would you GM that?

Thanks

[David knott 242]

For a familiar to learn a feat, there is the Beast-Bonded archetype.

For the last item, the monster description for the quasit clearly mentions a Will save to enable it to take its dead master's soul to the Abyss. I assume that it would attempt the save and then use the Breath of Life scroll or similar magic only if it fails the save.

[Tik, Brevick's Familiar]

"Breath of LIFE?? You got us Quasits all wrong, buddy. Tim's my name, and Murder's my game!!"

But, in all seriousness, using a scroll is exactly like casting a spell, so you can designate any Familiar as your "toucher".

For the Quasit to use a scroll, it needs UMD.

The only way to give a Familiar more feats is to become a Beast Bonded Witch, though Animal Archive introduced rules for switching out Familiar feats, but not for the one you want.

Your Quasit can remain invisible when buffing the party with touch spells.

[Cleanthes]

I believe the valet archetype (in Animal Archive) allows a familiar to split its move before and after delivering a touch.

By the way, Fly-by Attack would allow the familiar to move, touch, and move again, but unlike, for instance, Spring Attack, it would not allow it to avoid attacks of opportunity if it attacked an enemy.

[Tik, Brevick's Familiar]

Tik, Brevick's Quasit Familiar wrote:

Tim's my name

"Stupid auto-correct!!"